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| - The Outfit is the only criminal organization that has a monopoly on traditional organized crime in the city of Chicago, where as the Five Families sometimes compete with each other for control of racketeering and Labor racketeering activities in New York, and all over the United States. however the "Five Families" are allies, and work together thru everything, and despite their occasional differences, The Five Families consider each other "the same La cosa nostra" The Outfit's control reportedly reaches throughout the western United States to places as far away as Las Vegas, Los Angeles, California and parts of Florida. The FBI has stated that "the Outfit has a massive and unbelievable amount of power, resources, influences, wealth, and reach", The FBI also stated that "The Chicago Outfit, and every Mafia family in America, has tremendous political power, economic power, legitimate power, illegitimate power, social power. The Italian-American Mafia has complete control of politics, industries, companies, legitimate businesses, illegal businesses, and all of organized crime in America, and all over the World, such as the Teamsters, and labor unions, construction, building trades, waste management, garbage hauling, housing urban development, carpentry companies, electrical companies, garment industry, cigarette smuggling, trucking companies, stock broking companies, stock market manipulation, vending machines, cement companies, casino's, hotels, bars, clubs, restaurants, boxing, sports, chemicals, banks, meat industry, gasoline tax rackets, pornography, prostitution, skimming, stock markets, gasoline bootlegging racket, numbers rackets, music recording, extortion, loan sharking, chop shops, car dealerships, legal gambling, illegal gambling, wildlife smuggling, weapons trafficking, horse racing, drug trafficking, real estate and many other criminal and legitimate businesses and activities. For nearly 100 years, The Italian-American Mafia controlled all of the United States of America, and all of Cuba with an iron fist, The Italian-American Mafia also ruled certain City's in the Bahamas, England, Canada, and Mexico with an iron fist. and the mafia has thousands of police officers, police detectives, Police Officials, Judges, Lawyers, District Attorneys, U.S. Attorney's, Government officials, Federal Agents, IRS Agents, EPA Agents, Politicians, Senators, and dozens of Mayors, and Governors on their payroll and in their pocket. in 100 years The Italian-American Mafia has killed roughly 510,000 people. According to the U.S. Government, and the FBI- "The Italian-American Mafia has always been, and always will be the most powerful, influential, wealthiest, sophisticated, efficient, intelligent, crafty, vicious, bloodiest, deadliest, dangerous, and feared criminal organization in the world, and in history." The Chicago Outfit, and the Five Families controls Chicago and Las vegas with an iron fist, and any street gang, biker gang, drug dealer, drug lord, prostitute, pimp and criminal that operates in Chicago or Las Vegas has to pay "street tax" at least 40% and on some cases 50% to the Chicago Outfit and the Five Families , if they refuse the Outfit and the Five Families either intimidates them by brutal beatings or death threats or takes extreme measure's by bombing's, torture, arson, drive-by shootings, and murder, and in some cases murdering their families as well to send a ruthless message. Like most mafia families, The Chicago Outfit is a Multi-Billion dollar vast criminal enterprise, making over $3-$5 Billion a year thru Extortion, Loan sharking, illegal gambling, prostitution, pornography, waste management, construction management, Labor unions, burglary, meat industry, Drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, truck hijacking, aircraft hijacking, armed robbery, gasoline bootlegging, bank robbery, skimming, skimming casino's, bookmaking, garment industry cigarette smuggling, wildlife smuggling, alcohol bootlegging, front running, stock fraud and more illegal and legitimate activities. Also like all mafia crime families, The Chicago Outfit will not hesitate to kill anyone, and go to war with anyone that stands in the way of their organization and threatens their livelihood. Unlike the "Five Families," the Outfit has had other ethnic groups besides Italian Americans, such as germans, polish, russians, japanese, in its upper echelons since its earliest days. A prime example of this was the "Greasy Thumb" Jake Guzik who was the top "bagman" and "accountant" for decades until his death. He was Jewish and either Polish or Russian depending on the source. To this day, the Outfit bears the influence of its best-known leader, Al Capone. In fact for decades after Capone had left the scene, the Outfit was known as "the Capone Gang" or "the Capones" to outsiders. The Outfit's membership is moderately estimated to be between 15,000-18,000 made members comprising the core group with a 55,000-70,000 associates. _The Chicago Outfit is regarded by the FBI as one of the most powerful, influential, efficient, vicious, dangerous, and feared crime syndicate to exist and to continue in America. The Federal Government consider's "The Chicago Outfit the most ruthless mafia crime family in America", in 100 years The Outfit has killed an estimated 40,000-50,000 people, such as rival gang members, cops, judges, jurors, witnesses, prosecutors, FBI informants, police informants, some government officials, and people who crossed them or wronged them or threatened their lively hood's. like most mafia families, the Chicago Outfit has just as much weapons and high-tech weapons as any Military in the world. Such as AK-47s, Carbine rifles, Sniper Rifles, RPG'S, Grenade Launchers, Hand Grenades, M60 Machine Guns, M50 Machine Guns, .50 Caliber Machine Guns, Mini-Guns, M16 Rifles, Automatic Sniper Rifles, Mini Uzi sub machine guns, Nail Bombs, Pipe Bombs, submachine guns, sawed-off shotguns, 12 gauge shotguns, Thompson machine guns, and other types of weapons such as stiletto knives, brass knuckles, baseball bats, ice picks, steel baton's, ball pein hammer's , and the outfit often uses Bombs to make a point and send a message.
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