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My roommate says that Providence,Rhode Island(where he's from) there is a lot of Italian and mafia influence. The smallest state with the biggest crooks.
I lived in Mass for 15 years and had a lot of dealings with folks in RI as well. Both states are chock full of organized crime, and one of the recent Governors of RI, as well as the Mayor of Providence were forced from office by federal racketeering charges. The former Maryor of Providence Buddy Cianci was a well known associate....he was "a friend of theirs".
I don't know if this is suppose to be a joke but Montreal actually has a substantial amount of organized crime- or at least used to.
That being said....
Not much Italian mafia left in KC. The KC Star did a story about this a couple of years ago and it seems as though it has been slowly fading away because the older generations which participated have died off.
The word "Mafia" was created by the media. You should call it by it's rightful name, organized crime, and it accounts for more than 30% of this country's revenue today.
Don't forget about Pittsburgh. The reason Y-town was such a big mob city was the fact that the Cleveland and Pittsburgh families were fighting over control of Youngstown.
The RICO ACT, it all but rubbed them out. Thank or blame Rudy Giuliani for it. Not the ex-mayor, not the ex-presidential candidate, but way back when he was DA of NYC.
The Rico Act, which allows the government to go after assets not just perps, and up and down the line of a criminal organization if they can prove a conspiracy. This and the mandatory drug sentencing that turned alotta old school wise guys into rats, else they'd do a thousand years.
The mafia are no longer strongholds in American cities today, but back when it was a dominant machine the major American Mafia Familes were The NYC Familes, Buffalo,Boston, Providence, New Jersey, Philly, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St.louis, KC, Cleveland, Tampa, New Orleans(birth place of the Amercian Mafia) and L.A. I didn't put Las Vegas because Vegas was run by the eastcoast and midwest Families so I can't say it had a real Mafia that ruled over it. There are other smaller factions around the country like Pittsburgh, Toledo/Youngstown, Dallas and Denver , but the main families are the ones mentioned above. Today there are a few remaining wiseguys who are not like their older counterparts like the old glory days of the mob, these guys are just about the money and have no rules they live up to like Omerta that's why the Mafia in America is literally dead and not a threat like they once was. The New Crime groups that The FBI has their focus on are The ChineseTriads, The Russian Mob and the Albanian crime groups.
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