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According the government reports, it is estimated there are 1,700 members of the "La Cosa Nostra" and thousands of associate members. Reports also are said to include the Italian-American Mafia as the largest organized crime group in the United States and continues to hold dominance over the National Crime Syndicate , despite the increasing numbers of street gangs and other organizations of non-Italian or Sicilian ethnicity.

February 20 - Michele Greco is arrested and charged in the 1986 Maxi Trial for the murder of Italian anti- Mafia Magistrate Rocco Chinnici .

July 7 - Kevin John Barlow and Brian Geoffrey Chambers executed by Hanging in Malaysia's Pudu Prison for Drug Trafficking .

ARTS AND LITERATURE

'' A Better Tomorrow '' (film) {Link without Title}

'' Mafia Princess '' (film) {Link without Title}

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DEATHS

June 14 - Anthony Spilotro , Las Vegas Boss and the Chicago Outfit 's overseer of the "skim" (embezzled money from the casinos).