Detroit Partnership

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The Detroit Partnership, also known as the Zerilli crime family (Italian pronunciation: [dzeˈrilli]), the Tocco–Zerilli crime family, the Detroit crime family, the Detroit Mafia, or the Detroit Combination, is an Italian American Mafia crime family based in Detroit, Michigan. The family mainly operates throughout the Greater Detroit area, as well as in other locations, including Windsor, Ontario; Toledo, Ohio; and Las Vegas. Italian organized crime in Detroit originated in Black Hand extortion rings, which preyed upon the southern Italian and Sicilian immigrant communities in the city. After a series of gang wars between various Mafia factions for control of the Italian lottery and extortion rackets during the early 20th century, a period of stability followed under the control of Salvatore Catalanotte. During the Prohibition era, a gang of Detroit mafiosi known as the River Gang smuggled Canadian beer and liquor into the United States from Ontario and controlled most of the bootlegging...

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