Zynga used Texas HoldEm Poker to introduce players to future hits Mafia Wars and Farmville.
So yesterday I met-up with one of the members of the PayPal Mafia, David Sacks.
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This would have been after reports of Mexican Mafia anger over Olmos' antigang film American Me.
The anti-mafia agency said in a statement it was the biggest ever seizure of mafia-linked assets.
How did he think members of Mafia families still in Corleone would regard the state funeral?
Verizon, in U.S. Senate testimony, labeled MCI a criminal enterprise--akin to a mafia clan--and urged liquidation.
Piero Grasso, 68, an anti-mafia magistrate from Sicily, became the speaker of the Senate.
And at least the Mafia has lost its aura of invincibility among ordinary Sicilians.
Less popular games include Frontier-ville (11 million), Mafia wars (8 million), and Words with Friends.
As a US attorney he has taken on terrorists, the Mafia and Chicago's City Hall.
In the game, people can choose from one of the five mafia families to join.
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Mr Andreotti took a public anti-Mafia stance from 1980 onwards, the written ruling said.
Cuffaro was convicted for revealing to a mafia boss that his house had been bugged.
Perhaps to avoid the shame, many Venetians favour the theory that the Mafia did it.
It may prove to have been the work of a lone maniac, or the local mafia.
Now commanders in northern Iraq's largest city, Mosul, say they've uncovered a network of Mafia-style rackets.
Some Albanians worry that the Socialists are a bit too popular in mafia-run places like Vlore.
Guests can also swim with whale sharks, or observe hawksbill and green turtles hatching on the nearby Mafia Island.
Another is to finance the mafia's own business expansion plans in Russia and, increasingly, abroad.
But the anti-Mafia investigators found no evidence to support the allegation that had triggered their work.
Street Wars is a Mafia Wars-like title where players rise the mob ranks through missions and fights.
The anti-mafia movement in Sicily is heartening, but organised crime has spread to the north as well.
An anti-mafia group, however, says despite many studies into mafia money, it is "not easy to quantify".
She was campaigning as she died, in Italy, for the right to speak out against the Mafia.
Crime is on the rise too, and where there are black markets, mafia-type protection rackets probably follow.
Only this week it was reported that Mafia groups earned more than 16bn euros from environmental crimes.
To be fair, the Mafia would get the same treatment if they could legitimize their protection rackets.
Now the tunnels have been discovered, and left to the curiosity of rats and mafia historians like me.
Italy's parliamentary anti-mafia commission has described the group as the country's most dangerous - and richest - mafia.
Just to be precise, Mafia, or even Cosa Nostra, should in fact refer only to the Sicilian version.
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