San Jose crime family
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The San Jose crime family, also known as the Cerrito crime family or San Jose Mafia, was one of the two families that controlled organized crime in San Jose, California, within the nationwide criminal organization known as the Mafia (or La Cosa Nostra). The other family that ran organized crime in San Jose was the Bonanno crime family of New York.
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Founded | 1940s |
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Founding location | San Jose, California, United States |
Years active | 1940s-2000s[1] |
Territory | Primarily Silicon Valley, with additional territory throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and in Modesto |
Ethnicity | Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates |
Membership (est.) | 20 made members (1970s) |
Activities | Racketeering, loan sharking, extortion, prostitution, drug trafficking, illegal gambling and murder |
Allies | |
Rivals | Various gangs in the San Francisco Bay Area |
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