The Crescent City Mafia is an American Mafia; a crime cartel in the city of New Orleans.

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The Mafia's origins trace back to the Sicilian clan-families known as the Cosa Nostra. Because the Mafia was thought of as a myth for years, they were able to consolidate their power and adopt a cloak of secrecy. In the United States, the Mafia is the most powerful organized crime network. It makes the majority of its money via semi-illegal activites and is the least visible and expected.

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It is organized into Families, each of which owns a specific city. A family may have in its employment hundreds of "wiseguys". It's led by a Don (Godfather) who is always male, and his successor is either his oldest son or the closest and eldest of his male relatives. Ruling the families is a Commission of Dons, who try to put as much distance between itself and illegal dealings. It assigns the positions and cities within the Mafia and settle any major disputes between the families.

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The Mafia provides their community and others with a variety of services and goods such as desperately needed loans, "discounted" surplus "goods", settling domestic disputes, and so on. Which has bought them the support of their community. It's rackets consist of loansharking and gambling, money laundering and stock fraud, and of course labor unions. The drug trade is still frowned on in the Mafia.

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