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| | 36 People Charged In Mexican-Mafia Probe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | A long-term probe targeting Latino street gangs with ties to the Mexican Mafia resulted in 36 people being charged in five federal indictments, which were unsealed Friday. |
 | | According to that indictment, the defendants engaged in multiple racketeering acts in furtherance of the Mexican Mafia criminal enterprise, including murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, robbery, extortion and conspiracy to import drugs into the United States. |
 | | The Mexican Mafia, the self-proclaimed "Gang of All Gangs," started in the 1950s in a prison in Northern California as a way for Mexican-American convicts to control Hispanic street-gang activity, said FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel R. wilewski. |
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