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Law enforcement authorities of the United States has listed more than 100 arrested suspected members of the Cosa Nostra in New York to arrests in the largest such operation on the Italian-American Mafia.
More than 800 officers participated in the early morning arrest in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Iceland, said Attorney General Eric Holder said at a press conference.
The operation, the cooperation between the FBI "that never happened," charged show local police and other authorities, had 127 suspected Mafia members and their peers, he said. One of the arrests occurred in Italy.
"The arrest and charges today marks an important step forward in the activities of La Cosa Nostra is not valid," said Holder, who has taken the unusual trip to Brooklyn to announce the arrests.
He claimed it was "the largest one-day operation" against organized crime family.
The suspects are members of the Junior, "Soldier," "captain" and a high-ranking superiors, wipe many leaders of Colombo and Gambino family - two of the "Five Families" are historical in New York.
His charges, including murder, perlintah country, arson, drugs, extortion, robbery, extortion and labor.
To the "Five Families" who have dominated organized crime in New York City since the 1930s it was the Genovese, Gambino, Lucchese, Colombo and Bonanno.
While the indictments describe the traditional Mafia money laundering, there are also echoes the casual cruelty in the circle of the Cosa Nostra. The spilled murders, including two murders after a dispute over the water on Cham Rock Bar in New York in 1981.
Cosa Nostra families have infiltrated and controlled large parts of the U.S. economy, with its headquarters in a long time in and around New York and the means to fish in the country.
This phenomenon has deep roots organizations and Italian-American crime remains an important factor. But the Five Families of New York, a rapid reduction in the wealth of condemnations of the last decade by many leaders have shown.
Holder said that the Italian Mafia "may not be nationwide in scope, as it never happens, but the reality is that there is a relentless threat, big threat is."
Holder acknowledges that the group "has been shown that tough."
move even with ethnic gangs Russia, Mexico and Asia to the landscape of organized crime in the U.S., more Italian-American family to emerging in the public imagination, thanks to great film classics as "The Godfather" and the award-winning series "Sopranos" on cable TV.
What is less known to the amount that the claimant will testify to the Mafia code of silence by the recruitment of senior members against their colleagues to destroy the rule in exchange for a reduced sentence.
In 1991 agreed the acting head of the Lucchese family, Alphonse D'Arco to testify against colleagues. Sun Salvataro Gravano told Gambino family, on the arrests of John J. Gotti led, formerly called "Teflon Don" because of its ability to escape from the persecution.
However, a marathon effort like Gotti, John "Junior" Gotti to punish, in 2009 in a spectacular jam.
Although one of his closest friends bersaski confidence in him to walk a descendant of the Mafia free after the court was wrong. It was the fourth time in five years, prosecutors failed him free.
Authorities later said they had concluded their case against Gotti.