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Pravda? Well they're wrong too but I expect no less from them. Here is a quote from the second site you listed to show you why "mafia" should not be used to describe Russian crime syndicates. It is...

None. The LAPD are a different breed these days, with a "new" set of problems. I think, though they (the Mafia) still are supposedly powerfull, they don't have the weight that they used to have....

No I don't. But that is my whole point. Russian criminals are not Mafia. They probably don't have the power to buy cops and politicians. But the real Mafia did (maybe still does) have that power and...

I think that the history of the corruption of the LAPD going back to prohibion times (i.e. real Mafia) is self evident and has been of lately the standard to which current allegations are measured....

Hmm...."experts in organiized crime" . I wonder what makes them experts. You don't suppose the fact that all those you mentioned have been known to have been "bought off" by the Mafia at one time or...

On the level of the average Local News broadcast in America.
Broadcasting their diet of Velveeta cheese and Big Macs for all the 300 lb heifers dragging their chublette kids through Wal-Mart on...

The American branch of Mafiosi call themselves La Cosa Nostra.

Sure, the cops and the press always get it wrong. Who cares what terminology they use. Everybody is "the Mafia" to them, now. I...

I'd like to see you tell that to the real Mafia.

Yes, finally a spark of truth has entered into this discussion. "MAFIA" is an Italian word describing certain Italiians. No one seems to agree on what the word means, some say that it means "honour"...

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