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127 charged in Mafia crackdown

NEW YORK -- For nearly 30 years reputed gangster Bartolomeo Vernace got away with murder. Authorities say the bloodshed - a double slaying at the Shamrock Bar in Queens - was all over a spilled drink. Vernace's luck ran out Thursday when he was charged in the killings in one of the largest Mafia takedowns in FBI history. He was among 127 defendants named in 16 indictments in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

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