Italian mafia: How crime families went global

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Italian mafia: How crime families went global
By Laurence Peter BBC News       28 January 2018
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Today Cosa Nostra and the three other main Italian mafia groups - the Camorra, 'Ndrangheta and Sacra Corona Unita - have an estimated 25,000 members in total, with 250,000 affiliates worldwide, the FBI says.

Cosa Nostra was essentially at war with the Italian state during the reign of "godfather" Salvatore "Toto" Riina.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42794848