Nathan Fillion

You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That's the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.

Canadian Actor

Giuliana Rancic

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

American Journalist

Yulia Tymoshenko

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

Ukrainian Politician

Sophie Hannah

I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.

British Poet

David Remnick

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

James Gandolfini

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

American Actor

Jason Statham

People love stories about the mafia: 'The Godfather,' 'American Gangster.

British Actor

Davy Jones

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

English Musician

Johnny Kelly

Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.

American Musician

Hari Nef

American Actress

Refers to a structured group often involved in organized crime and illegal activities.

Crime Network

Commonly associated with Italian organized crime but also used for similar groups worldwide.

Cultural Associations

Often used in informal contexts to describe organized crime groups, not in formal/legal documents.

Colloquial Usage

Used metaphorically to describe groups in power behaving with bullying or corrupt tactics.

Metaphorical Use

Not limited to traditional crime; can refer to any dominating group in a sector.

Beyond Crime

Implies significant control or influence, potentially manipulating systems for self-benefit.

Power and Influence

 and we've got a network of receivers out here in the bay we started finding that actually the whale sharks don't leave they just move slightly further offshore and slightly deeper and they don't come to the surface quite as often one of my jobs while I'm here mafia is to take tissue biopsies of the whale sharks usually those bits of tissue that less

Investigating the...

 Shakespeare's language and characters have entered our cultural consciousness to a rare extent. Directors often use the story to shed light on abuses of power, ranging from the American mafia to dictators across the globe. The play has been adapted to film many times,

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 member of the Mafia controls Chicago's judges politicians and police force the feds think he must have a death wish they said you know are you okay are you sick and I said no I'm not sick but why do you want to do this and I said it's

Man vs. Mob PIPE National...

 Fervent proponents of this idea were referred to as the acid mafia. The biggest hole in this theory was that antiacids only provide temporary relief. We now know that some rare ulcers are indeed caused by too much hydrochloric acid.

The surprising cause of...

 true a way of communicating the more you do that even though you're not petting you're changing state of mind yeah okay we all have to help and so the participation of everybody can help mafia and definitely mafia is going to

Instinctual Communication...

 Mafia and Jersey Shore culture eventually I wrote a novel based on our family stories thousands of people have said that the book parallels their own immigrant family history and that it is open windows to their past I

A genealogical journey PIPE...

 where the mafia sometimes bury the garbage under the ground. In some ways, art can change the world. Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change

Use art to turn the...

 And as the black market water trade became more organized, the trucks got bigger, the people who were controlling it got richer. Now the water mafia behaves in a way that this water will last forever,

Who are the Water Mafia...

 so that's the bars part of which a the violence one of them is called mafia yes mafia and it's biggest city kill and uh D if I could go anywhere in the world it would be to the island of Thera or site

CA Finalist PIPE National...

 It is a marriage of convenience between Colombia's Cali cartel and the Italian mafia.

Mafia

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