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January 21, 2011

FBI Arrests Dozens for Alleged Ties to Organized Crime 
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Dozens of organized crime suspects have been arrested in a series of
raids in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island. U.S. Attorney General
Eric Holder called the operation one of the largest ever to target
alleged mafia members in the United States.

Attorney General Eric Holder: "Today more than 800 federal, state and
local law enforcement officials have arrested over 110 individuals,
including dozens of La Cosa Nostra individuals and associates, one in
Italy. In total, 127 people have been charged in 16 indictments unsealed
today in four districts in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island. This
is one of the largest single-day operations against the mafia in the
FBI's history, both in terms of the number of defendants arrested and
charged and the scope of the criminal activity that is alleged."



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