Gambino crime family

The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that controlled some organized crime based in New York City, New York, USA within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known familiarly as the Mafia (also known as La Cosa Nostra).

Impact of the Gambino crime family

The impact of organized crime is generally regarded as a global phenomenon, and the Italian Mafia in the United States is seen as having connections to other ethnic criminal organizations operating within the United States (including the Asian Triad, Russian Mafia, Albanian Organized Crime, Biker Gangs, etc.), to their counterparts in Sicily and southern Italy, as well as to other international criminal organizations including stolen car rings and drug cartels abroad.

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Organized crime - Mafia - Triad - Russian Mafia - Albanian Organized Crime - Biker Gangs - Sicily - Italy - Drug cartels

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The Gambino Crime Family has been connected to narcotics trafficking, labor racketteering, counterfeiting, loansharking and extortion, gambling, and automobile theft among other criminal operations that bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in profit each year, in addition to many legitimate enterprises over which they exercise control.

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Narcotics trafficking - Labor - Counterfeiting - Loanshark - Gambling

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Law enforcement estimates that the Gambino family consists of approximately 200 members, and perhaps 800 associates, and operates in all five boroughs of New York City, and throughout the country especially in Hartford, Connecticut, Atlantic City and Newark, in New Jersey, Miami, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, San Francisco, California, Los Angeles, California, Las Vegas, Nevada, Baltimore, Maryland.

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New York City - Hartford, Connecticut - Atlantic City - Newark - New Jersey - Miami, Florida - Atlanta, Georgia - San Francisco, California - Los Angeles, California - Las Vegas, Nevada - Baltimore, Maryland

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