St. Louis crime family
Italian-American Mafia crime family in Missouri, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The St. Louis crime family,[1][2] also known as the Giordano crime family or the St. Louis Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in St. Louis, Missouri.[3][4]
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Founded | c. 1890s |
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Founding location | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
Years active | c.ā1890sā2014 |
Territory | Primarily Greater St. Louis, with additional territory throughout Missouri, as well as Las Vegas |
Ethnicity | Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates |
Activities | Racketeering, bribery, murder, loansharking, extortion, drug trafficking, bookmaking and illegal gambling |
Allies | |
Rivals | Various gangs in the St. Louis area |
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