Mafia
A Mafia is an organized criminal syndicate. The term is derived from the Italian mafia.
Various Mafias
Italian Mafia
U.S. Influence
Five mafia families that operated in New York City remain extremely powerful and influential in American and Western society: The Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese mafia families are sometimes suggested to have close ties to and even control over the U.S. intelligence agencies and mlitary.1)