Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini spoke at a press conference on Friday about nearly 100 MS-13 members and associates, including the leaders of nine area cliques, who have been charged in the largest state takedown of the dangerous street gang, which has terrorized parts of Long Island for years. 

 


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