What is "mafias"

Usage examples of "mafias".

Rudy Rosen, the driver – a round man with soft hands fixed to the wheel – was a private banker to the mafias, a would-be Rothschild who catered to Moscow's most primitive capitalists.

Rudy Rosen, the driver - a round man with soft hands fixed to the wheel - was a private banker to the mafias, a would-be Rothschild who catered to Moscow's most primitive capitalists.

The most ferocious businessmen had killed one another off, and a truce between the Mafias seemed to be holding.

In this hologram would be the overlapping sediments of various group identities such as those of language and economic class, atop the two-dimensional color distinctions among city-states and the remaining nations, themselves confused in places by shadows overhead, indicating the power of drug cartels, mafias, and private security agencies that guard the wealthy in failing states and hunt down terrorists.

Mostly in the poorer areas, the ones where the mafias had more influence than the Party.

Many of the old time capo mafias chose to look as slovenly and as un-kempt as possible in society as if to emphasise their power and importance, but not Vito Barbaccia.