More than 120 busted in Northeast Mafia crackdown

Friday, January 21, 2011

NEW YORK -- Federal authorities orchestrated one of the biggest Mafia takedowns in FBI history Thursday, charging 127 suspected mobsters and associates in the Northeast with murders, extortion and other crimes spanning decades.

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