Sentence examples for high mafia from inspiring English sources

"Those are the typical things you say when you go in an area with high Mafia density," said Gianluca Nicoletti, a radio commentator.

Many of its members were "lieutenants in the high Mafia" and Vizzini was considered its leader.

Police reports described Cascioferro as notoriously associated with the "high" Mafia, leading a life of luxury, going to the theater, cafés, gambling high sums at the Circolo dei Civili, a club for gentlemen, reserved for those with pretensions to education and elite status.

It was also a time when tensions between the state and organised crime were running high with mafia mobsters attempting to pressure the government into being lenient with convicted bosses.

The two alleged high profile Mafia leaders had their charges of conspiracy to traffic cocaine and gangsterism tossed out of court after Quebec Superior Court Judge Eric Downs ruled that key evidence was inadmissible.

The upstate property in Apalachin, N.Y., where mob bosses Carlo Gambino Carlo Gambino, Bito Genovese Vito Genovese, Joe Bonanno Joe Bonanno and nearly 56 other high-ranking Mafia members met for a summit before one of the most high-profile raids in 1957, sold at an auction on Aug. 3 for $300,000.

He is the highest ranking Mafia figure in the United States to become a government informer.

Of a sample of ten high-profile Mafia cases registered between 2000 and 2007, only one had been concluded.

Salvatore Gravano achieved notoriety a decade ago as the high-level Mafia turncoat who brought his boss, John Gotti, down.

Massino is one of the most high-ranking mafia figures to co-operate with authorities and his evidence may further mollify the mafia's influence on New York life.

It was the testimony of the late Tommaso Buscetta, the first high-level Mafia pentito (supergrass), that implicated Mr Andreotti in Pecorelli's murder.