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    (snip)"Mafia Is Biggest Business in Italy
    Oct 22 06:37 PM US/Eastern


    ROME (AP) - Revenue from organized crime amounts to an estimated $127 billion annually in Italy, making it the largest segment of the economy, a lobby group for small businesses said Monday.

    The figure, representing about 7 percent of the country's gross domestic product, is made from illicit activities such as extortion, drug trafficking, loansharking and prostitution rings, the Confesercenti lobby said in a report. "(snip)

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    Default Re: now here's a statistic that I'd really like to see US data on ...

    Well let's see. It's no where as bad as Italy and not 0. So somewhere between 0%-7%. The only organized crime (bends nose or whatever the appropriate gesture is) I know or hear about is in New York and northeast and chicago so I'll go less than 1%.

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    Some how this doesn't suprise me




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