The United States more than 110 mafia suspects arrested
NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (Xinhua Wei Wei Gu Zhenqiu) The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York police siege on the 20th morning in a joint operation, arrested more than 110 mafia suspects, including five New York Mafia family, the importance of members.
day, U.S. Attorney Eric Holder at a press conference in New York, said that the action is mainly concentrated in Brooklyn, New York, New Jersey and New England. More than 800 federal agents and local police involved in the action, which is the FBI history, one of the largest crackdown.
Holder said the action is the United States an important step in the fight against organized crime. He said that the Mafia members and their associates in the United States one of the most dangerous criminal groups in the United States struggle with the mafia organized crime will continue.
suspects were arrested about 30 people from New York, New Jersey and New England Mafia family, which includes the entire family of high-level 纽约科隆博.
According to "The New York Times" reported that about two thirds of the suspects have been charged, including several members of the family from the Mafia to murder prosecution, the other charges including fraud, extortion, loan sharking, arson, drug trafficking, money laundering and gambling.
