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Gambino crime family  

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  • Worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the Gambino family is one of the richest and most powerful criminal organizations in the United States today. The family has a criminal workforce of at least 800 men, and its empire ranges from every borough of New York City to the green felt of Atlantic City and Las Vegas to the heroin plants of Sicily and Asia to stolen-car outlets in Kuwait. [Source: Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime; Gambino Crime Family]

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