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One tends to think that Putin is this diabolical man who controls all the things inside and outside of the Kremlin. That’s kind of true. He definitely has a lot of power over state agencies. He has a lot of power over business enterprises throughout the country and therefore the wealth of the country, but there’s something deeper here. Russia’s oligarchy, its mafia class and its security class have started to fuse to the point where you cannot untangle them from each other and they need each other. – Candace Rondeaux	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Mafiosi do not operate in a vacuum. They are inside, intertwined with a system of relationships, of complicities, without which they could not carry out their criminal activities, without which they could not remain fugitives, they are in relationships that involve professionals, entrepreneurs, public administrators, politicians, individuals who flank their organization and form the so-called Mafia bourgeoisie, or gray zone. – Giancarlo Caselli	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is always said that the Mafia is the anti-state, that is a mistake. The Mafia is allied with one part of the state, while another part is fighting it, in this play of forces, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested. – Messina Denaro	Found on CNN 1 year ago
His network has been pruned over the years and the Mafia has been weakened by arrests, the Mafia was different 30 years ago, it was much stronger. – John Dickie	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They are in relationships that involve professionals, entrepreneurs, public administrators, politicians, individuals who flank their organization and form the so-called Mafia bourgeoisie, or gray zone. – Giancarlo Caselli	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The focus needs to be on Hunter Biden, this is not about Hunter Biden, any more than if you're going after the mafia and you catch some low-level enforcer, or you're going after a drug cartel and you catch some mule who swallowed balloons full of heroin. – Ted Cruz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think one analogy that you could look at here is the mafia, for many years, you could never arrest them. You knew they were throwing guys off roofs and stuff but all you could get them for was tax evasion and money laundering because you don't quite have the legal and investigative framework in place to catch them. – John Gibbs	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'd say the multiple gangs in the department are the single most powerful political entity in the department, they're running it like a mafia. – Alan Romero	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
One day your child will ask you- Why did you allow them to inject me with fake covid vaccine Why did you not understand that corona, zeka, omnicron, deltacron, IHU, and all others are fake and are pharma mafia created virus to make money? What will YOU DUFFER say ? – Awakened India	added by awakeneddramacovid430876 2 years ago
I was surprised Alpo was being that bold and brash – the dude is not bulletproof, a lot of these Mafia mobsters are on YouTube or the internet as well-known informants enjoying their notoriety and their infamy on social media but they’re even not going back to where they’re from. – Seth Ferranti	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What happened on the 4th of August here in Lebanon is that the corruption literally exploded in our faces, it( the port) is a microcosm of the whole Lebanese system. It is based on bribery. It is based on patronage. I consider this to be a place operated by a mafia. – Riad Kobaissi	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Asking government to report inflation is like asking mafia to report on crime. – Peter Schiff	added by anonymous 3 years ago
That is crazy, it's a lack of respect for people, magistrates, journalists, policemen and victims of the mafia. – Matteo Salvini	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Mafia is very powerful also in Germany, they shoot less, but they are very powerful. – Roberto Saviano	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Camorra,' Ndrangheta and Mafia are all there to offer services to those who are suffering, giving them what they need in order to demand to be paid back later with interest, we have seen this in other emergency situations, these criminal groups are there to exploit the situation. This will be no different. – De Raho	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This announcement is a major blow for Maduro who has been running Venezuela like a mafia state, with rampant corruption and widespread atrocities, and absolute impunity, with this indictment he may now lose his aura of invincibility, of being completely above the law, which is very welcome news. – Jose Miguel Vivanco	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It's clear it's mocking the President and just as clearly the President doesn't like being mocked, but it was a mafia kind of... organized crime shakedown, if the President wasn't attacking me about this, he'd be attacking about something else. – Shifty Schiff	Found on CNN 4 years ago
In many ways, the Mafia took over from the Western as the great American epic, it's about the settling of the urban frontier as opposed to the geographical frontier, and it's also a great immigration story. – Robert Thompson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If you were to make a really explicitly violent Mafia movie, that wouldn't be so popular with the audience, the audience would prefer to be carried away by the romance of the quintessentially immigrant narrative where a person goes from nothing to becoming a godfather. – David Schmid	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In the coal sector, the mining is underground and the Mafia is underground. In the education sector,it is the other way round. – Anil Swarup	added by yashwanthsakala 4 years ago
This is how a mafia boss talks, what have you done for us? Weve done so much for you. But theres not much reciprocity. I have a favor I want to ask you. And what is that favor? Of course, the favor is to investigate his political rival. A classic mafia-like shakedown a foreign leader. – Adam Schiff	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
What those notes reflect is a classic Mafia-like shakedown of a foreign leader. – House Democrats	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There is a huge tanker mafia problem, but it's the only way they get water. – Joydeep Gupta	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We were able to establish that this was part of a mafia clan that had planned the attack since 5 a.m.. – Patricia Bullrich	Found on FOX News 4 years ago

One tends to think that Putin is this diabolical man who controls all the things inside and outside of the Kremlin. That’s kind of true. He definitely has a lot of power over state agencies. He has a lot of power over business enterprises throughout the country and therefore the wealth of the country, but there’s something deeper here. Russia’s oligarchy, its mafia class and its security class have started to fuse to the point where you cannot untangle them from each other and they need each other.

– Candace Rondeaux

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mafiosi do not operate in a vacuum. They are inside, intertwined with a system of relationships, of complicities, without which they could not carry out their criminal activities, without which they could not remain fugitives, they are in relationships that involve professionals, entrepreneurs, public administrators, politicians, individuals who flank their organization and form the so-called Mafia bourgeoisie, or gray zone.

– Giancarlo Caselli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is always said that the Mafia is the anti-state, that is a mistake. The Mafia is allied with one part of the state, while another part is fighting it, in this play of forces, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested.

– Messina Denaro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

His network has been pruned over the years and the Mafia has been weakened by arrests, the Mafia was different 30 years ago, it was much stronger.

– John Dickie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are in relationships that involve professionals, entrepreneurs, public administrators, politicians, individuals who flank their organization and form the so-called Mafia bourgeoisie, or gray zone.

– Giancarlo Caselli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The focus needs to be on Hunter Biden, this is not about Hunter Biden, any more than if you're going after the mafia and you catch some low-level enforcer, or you're going after a drug cartel and you catch some mule who swallowed balloons full of heroin.

– Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think one analogy that you could look at here is the mafia, for many years, you could never arrest them. You knew they were throwing guys off roofs and stuff but all you could get them for was tax evasion and money laundering because you don't quite have the legal and investigative framework in place to catch them.

– John Gibbs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'd say the multiple gangs in the department are the single most powerful political entity in the department, they're running it like a mafia.

– Alan Romero

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One day your child will ask you- Why did you allow them to inject me with fake covid vaccine Why did you not understand that corona, zeka, omnicron, deltacron, IHU, and all others are fake and are pharma mafia created virus to make money? What will YOU DUFFER say ?

– Awakened India

added by awakeneddramacovid430876
2 years ago

I was surprised Alpo was being that bold and brash – the dude is not bulletproof, a lot of these Mafia mobsters are on YouTube or the internet as well-known informants enjoying their notoriety and their infamy on social media but they’re even not going back to where they’re from.

– Seth Ferranti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What happened on the 4th of August here in Lebanon is that the corruption literally exploded in our faces, it( the port) is a microcosm of the whole Lebanese system. It is based on bribery. It is based on patronage. I consider this to be a place operated by a mafia.

– Riad Kobaissi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Asking government to report inflation is like asking mafia to report on crime.

– Peter Schiff

added by anonymous
3 years ago

That is crazy, it's a lack of respect for people, magistrates, journalists, policemen and victims of the mafia.

– Matteo Salvini

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Mafia is very powerful also in Germany, they shoot less, but they are very powerful.

– Roberto Saviano

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Camorra,' Ndrangheta and Mafia are all there to offer services to those who are suffering, giving them what they need in order to demand to be paid back later with interest, we have seen this in other emergency situations, these criminal groups are there to exploit the situation. This will be no different.

– De Raho

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This announcement is a major blow for Maduro who has been running Venezuela like a mafia state, with rampant corruption and widespread atrocities, and absolute impunity, with this indictment he may now lose his aura of invincibility, of being completely above the law, which is very welcome news.

– Jose Miguel Vivanco

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's clear it's mocking the President and just as clearly the President doesn't like being mocked, but it was a mafia kind of... organized crime shakedown, if the President wasn't attacking me about this, he'd be attacking about something else.

– Shifty Schiff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In many ways, the Mafia took over from the Western as the great American epic, it's about the settling of the urban frontier as opposed to the geographical frontier, and it's also a great immigration story.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If you were to make a really explicitly violent Mafia movie, that wouldn't be so popular with the audience, the audience would prefer to be carried away by the romance of the quintessentially immigrant narrative where a person goes from nothing to becoming a godfather.

– David Schmid

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the coal sector, the mining is underground and the Mafia is underground. In the education sector,it is the other way round.

– Anil Swarup

added by yashwanthsakala
4 years ago

This is how a mafia boss talks, what have you done for us? Weve done so much for you. But theres not much reciprocity. I have a favor I want to ask you. And what is that favor? Of course, the favor is to investigate his political rival. A classic mafia-like shakedown a foreign leader.

– Adam Schiff

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

What those notes reflect is a classic Mafia-like shakedown of a foreign leader.

– House Democrats

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There is a huge tanker mafia problem, but it's the only way they get water.

– Joydeep Gupta

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We were able to establish that this was part of a mafia clan that had planned the attack since 5 a.m..

– Patricia Bullrich

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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