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Founded | c. 1910 |
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Founder | Carlo Piranio |
Founding location | Dallas, Texas, United States |
Years active | c. 1910–1970s |
Territory | Primarily the Dallas metropolitan area, with additional territory throughout Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas |
Ethnicity | Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates |
Activities | Racketeering, conspiracy, loansharking, money laundering, murder, drug trafficking, extortion, pornography, labor racketeering fraud, gambling, skimming, bookmaking, corruption, and prostitution |
Allies | |
Rivals | Various gangs in the Dallas area |
The Dallas crime family, also known as the Civello crime family or the Dallas Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Dallas, Texas.