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FBI: Sex ring charges new for La Cosa Nostra

Published: April 20, 2010 11:42 PM
By BY ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO  anthony.destefano@newsday.com

Under the old code of La Cosa Nostra, prostitution was prohibited activity, recalled former FBI supervisory agent Bruce Mouw, who in 1990 arrested the late Gambino crime boss John J. Gotti.

But the indictment Tuesday of reputed Gambino crime family members and associates alleged that a number of them took part in sex trafficking, a new kind of crime dealing with coerced prostitution.

The...

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