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crime syndicate

NOUN
  1. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

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  • There must be a solid hierarchy and system of protection safeguarded by organized crime syndicates or mafia.
  • Gomorrah, directed by Matteo Garrone, is an unflinching and unromantic look at the story of the Camorra - the crime syndicate, operative in Naples and Caserta, that is responsible for more murders than the IRA or Cosa Nostra. National Review Online
  • That’s a good one – only a member of the crime syndicate could project so well their own reality onto a scapegoat – a straw man – your name befits your amorality – say hi to your crime bosses Bush and Cheney next time you pay homage Think Progress » Santorum: ‘I Think The Focus Should Not Be Iraq, It Should Be Iran’
  • Investigators told the news conference an Asia-based crime syndicate is behind the fixing of the 380 matches.
  • Gomorrah takes its punning title-the Neapolitan crime syndicate is called the Camorra-from Roberto Saviano's 2006 bestseller, an impressive feat of first-person journalism by a 26-year-old writer, now under police protection. NashvilleScene.com
  • Moosa told journalists he believed the new policy, once implemented, would "stifle" the crime syndicates behind the poaching. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • On February 14, 1929, Al Capone dispatched his henchmen to dispose of his crime syndicate's rival, Moran and his North Side Gang.
  • Within a year of the passing of the Prostitution Control Act, it was revealed that Victorian sex industrialists were involved in the lucrative international sex trade run by crime syndicates, which is worth $A30 million in Australia Robinson, 1995. Legalization of Prostitution in Austrailia
  • Fears of violent power struggle in crime syndicate after Yamaguchi-gumi's second-in-command, Kiyoshi Takayama, is detained in Kobe Yakuza chief arrested in Japan
  • Trafficking is linked to international crime syndicates that peddle drugs, guns and false documents as well as people.
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