* Mafia Wars, a game on Facebook

* Mafia Wars, a social network game

In the popular Zynga game Mafia Wars, a car is available called the Hunter " Spy " XS.

* Washington's Chinese Mafia Wars

Pendleton wrote thirty-seven other novels featuring Bolan, often referred to as the " Mafia Wars ".

* Arab Mafia Wars

The prison is featured in the popular simulation game Mafia Wars: Bangkok, as one of the jobs under the Criminal tier ( Pay Off The Guards At Bangkwang Prison ) where one has to choose between the Triad and the Yakuza factions.

* Bang Kwang Central Prison as a location in Mafia Wars

In past cases, Zynga's clones have typically been from smaller developers without the monetary resources to pursue legal action ( as in the case of Tiny Tower by NimbleBit, which Zynga has cloned in their game, Dream Heights ) or that are willing to settle out of court ( as in the case of Zynga's Mafia Wars, which was accused of cloning David Maestri's Mob Wars ).

* In Mafia Wars, The Queen of Clubs card can be found in " Steal a Tanker Truck " in the Soldier Tier Jobs.

In the popular zynga games Mafia Wars this weapon is at the depot.

The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth ( 2004 ) is a book by former PayPal marketing executive Eric M. Jackson.

* The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth, World Ahead Publishing, ISBN 0-9746701-0-3

Supported by the Mafia Commission, DiGregorio revolt led to four years of strife in the Bonanno family, labeled by the media as the " Bananas Wars ".

In the same period, there were numerous Mafia shootings as a result of Prohibition, while Hoover continued to deny the very existence of organized crime.

Furthermore, in the most degraded areas, where people live on the borderline of legality or beyond, there is an induced subculture of hostility towards public institutions and of trust in the Mafia.

The defence had suggested that there were plenty of people with a motive for Calvi's murder, including Vatican officials and Mafia figures who wanted to ensure his silence.

In the late 70s and early 80s, there was a new sound emerging with up and coming groups like McAllen's Espejismo, led by songwriter / lead singer Rudy Valdez, and more notably Brownsville natives Joe Lopez, Jimmy Gonzalez y El Grupo Mazz introduced the keyboard sound to Tejano which was influenced by the Disco sound of the era, and during that period, La Mafia became the first Tejano band to put on Rock Style shows for their generation.

" At a 1999 press conference following the verdict, Coretta Scott King stated that " there is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr ... the conspiracy of the Mafia, local, state and federal government agencies, were deeply involved in the assassination of my husband.

While the Mexican Mafia had initially been created to protect Mexicans in prison, there was a perceived level of abuse by members of La Eme towards the imprisoned Latinos from rural farming areas of Northern California.

It also exists to a lesser extent in certain Italian-American neighborhoods where the Italian-American Mafia has influence and other Italian ethnic enclaves in countries where there is the presence of Italian organized crime ( e. g. Germany, Canada, and Australia ).

Whilst there, as chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association and later President of the Cambridge Union Society, he was a member of what became known as the Cambridge Mafia – a group of future Conservative Cabinet ministers, including Leon Brittan, Michael Howard, Kenneth Clarke, Norman Lamont, and Norman Fowler.

Genovese prospered in Italy, becoming a prominent Mafia leader there.

Bensonhurst was stereotyped as a haven for Mafia members ( Gus Farace, a reputed mob associate suspected of murdering a federal drug-enforcement agent, was found shot to death in a parked car there on November 17, 1989, and two years later the neighborhood provided the setting for the mob-themed film Out for Justice starring Steven Seagal & is known as the hometown of notorious soap opera Hospital mobster, Sonny Cortinthos.

At a 1999 press conference, Coretta Scott King stated that " there is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. ... the conspiracy of the Mafia, local, state and federal government agencies, were deeply involved in the assassination of my husband.

: While there was a time when people were reluctant to pronounce the word ' Mafia ' ... nowadays people have gone so far in the opposite direction that it has become an overused term ...

Today, according to the Chief Prosecutor of Palermo, Francesco Messineo, there are 94 Mafia clans in Sicily subject to 29 mandamenti, with a total of at least 3, 500 to 4, 000 full members.

Government officials state that there are currently 155 – 300 official members of the Mexican Mafia with around 990 associates who assist La eMe in carrying out its illegal activities in the hopes of becoming full members.

In early 2012 there was a federal indictment of 119 San Diego County gang members, including a Mexican Mafia boss that was arrested in a raid of his San Marcos home, portrays a sprawling, well-organized criminal network that ran drug dealing on the streets of North County and even extended inside the Vista jail.

While the Mexican Mafia had initially been created to protect Mexicans in prison, there was a perceived level of abuse by members of La Eme towards the imprisoned Latinos from rural farming areas of Northern California.

Problems came to a head when ABC's Nightline revealed that there was a distinct possibility of embezzlement of American finances by the Russian authorities in order to build a suite of new cosmonaut houses in Moscow, or else that the building projects were being funded by the Russian Mafia.

The Darkness is the story of Mafia hitman Jackie Estacado who was both blessed and cursed on his 21st birthday when he became the bearer of ' The Darkness ', an ancient elemental force of nearly limitless power that allows those who wield it access to an otherworldly dimension and control over the demons who dwell there.

He wrote in Ringolevio that he had traveled to Europe to escape the Mafia and lived there for several years ; in reality, after high school in Brooklyn, he attended Duke University for one year before moving to San Francisco.

In the episode " Jaws Wired Shut ", there is a float during the gay pride parade titled " The Velvet Mafia ", presenting them as a gay parody of a stereotypical Italian mafia.

Francis A. J. Ianni, in his book Black Mafia: Ethnic Succession in Organized Crime writes: " By 1925 there were thirty black policy banks in Harlem, several of them large enough to collect bets in an area of twenty city blocks and across three or four avenues.

" Buzz Cason even saw a fascinating " guest-bedroom with two-way mirrors, where the highly mischievous Memphis Mafia clowns could eavesdrop on visitors who might slip away there for a little romantic action.

From 1944-48, when he took over command of the Mafia in town, there had been 57 murders in Corleone.

Although there were already several hundred Presley books on the market, her 1995 book Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia provided what Entertainment Weekly called " stunning allegations.

* 1992 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.

* 1991 – Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.

in the 1990 telling of Macbeth in a New York Mafia crime family setting, " Men of Respect " the character of Banquo is named " Bankie Como " played by American actor Dennis Farina.

He has said that the decision to direct it was influenced by his having had to defer some of his salary on the low-budgeted Spider, but it is one of his most critically acclaimed films to date, along with Eastern Promises ( 2007 ) a film about the struggle of one man to gain power in the Russian Mafia.

In the real-life incidents upon which this film is based, it was the Mafia, not the Black Hand, who functioned as the villain.

* 1993 – Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as " The Beast ", is arrested in Sicily, Italy after three decades as a fugitive.

Charlie ( Harvey Keitel ) is a young Italian-American man who is trying to move up in the local New York Mafia but is hampered by his feeling of responsibility towards his reckless friend, Johnny Boy ( Robert De Niro ), a small-time gambler who owes money to many loan sharks.

Charlie is torn between his devout Catholicism and his Mafia ambitions.

* 1957 – The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.

* January 15 – Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as ' The Beast ', is arrested in Palermo, Sicily, after 23 years as a fugitive.

* October 25 – Mafia boss Albert Anastasia is assassinated in a barber shop, at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City, US.

* November 14 – Apalachin Meeting: American Mafia leaders meet in Apalachin, New York at the house of Joseph Barbara ; the meeting is broken up by a curious patrolman.

** The president of Sicily, Piersanti Mattarella, is killed by the Mafia.

* September 10 – Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is indicted for murder ( he is captured 43 years later, on April 11, 2006 ).

* September 26 – The trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, who is accused of Mafia connections, begins.

* September 3 – Italian general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa is killed in a Mafia ambush.

* The Solntsevskaya Bratva is formed in communist Ukraine in response to the uprising in Afghanistan presumably predicting the fall of the Soviet Union which would become the largest faction of the Russian Mafia.

The main topic of the modern age is the struggle against the Mafia and bandits like Salvatore Giuliano, who controlled the neighbouring area of Montelepre.

It is often used on posters and articles commemorating the fight against the Mafia.

In the major crackdown against the Mafia following Falcone and Borsellino's deaths, Riina was arrested on January 15, 1993, and is now serving a life sentence for sanctioning the murders of both magistrates as well as many other crimes.