Describe the biggest Mafia takedown in New York City that occurred in January 2011

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In January 2011, nearly 130 members of the Mafia in New York City and other East Coast cities were charged and arrested in the largest nationally coordinated organized crime take-down in the Bureau's history. Members of New York's infamous Five Families—the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Luchese crime organizations—were rounded
up along with members of the New Jersey-based DeCavalcante family and New England Mafia to face charges including murder, drug trafficking, arson, loan-sharking, illegal gambling, witness tampering, labor racketeering, and extortion. In one case involving the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) at the Ports of New York and New Jersey, the alleged extortion has been going on for years.

More than 30 of the subjects indicted were "made" members of the Mafia, including several high-ranking family members. The notion that today's mob families are more refined and less violent than in the past is put to the lie by the charges contained in the indictments unsealed today. Even more of a myth is the notion that the mob is a thing of the past—that La Cosa Nostra is a shadow of its former self.