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The FBI estimates that the Mafia in the United States annually rakes in between $50 and $90 billion dollars, and in "Mob Money," an episode from the American Greed series to air on June 23, CNBC "takes viewers inside the inner-workings" of New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family: From loan-sharking and labor racketeering to illegal gambling and murder for hire to its recent invasion into Wall Street it’s all part of the life and death business of organized crime. * * * The hour profiles Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo, a soldier who, after a struggle for power, takes over the DeCavalcante...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.NEW YORK (AFP) - A New York gangster family said to be the inspiration for the hit TV mob drama "The Sopranos" used "double-decker" coffins to dispose of their murder victims, a Manhattan court has heard. According to the New York Post on Tuesday, mafia turncoat Anthony Rotondo told jurors that the DeCavalcante crime family had used the coffins to secretly bury the victims of mob "hits" along with the bodies of those who died more natural deaths. Rotondo said the double-decker coffins were being used as early as the 1920s and...