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Old Mafia file sells at NY auction for nearly $11K (AP)

This undated photo provided by Bonhams auction house shows a page featuring Meyer Lansky, from a thick government file discovered during the early 1990s on the backseat of a New York City taxi containing the mug shots, criminal history and associates and favorite hangouts of 843 Mafia members during the 1950s and early 1960s. Nearly 20 years after its discovery, the three-ring telephone book-sized binder titled ‘Mafia” and stamped “United States Treasury Department Bureau of Narcotics” on the cover, is being offered for sale at Bonham’s New York on Wednesday, June 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Bonhams)AP - It was an unlikely — and coveted — find: a thick United States government file discovered on the backseat of a New York City taxi, its pages containing mug shots, criminal associates and favorite hangouts of over 800 Mafia members during the 1950s and early 1960s. Such notorious figures as Carlo "Don Carlo" Gambino, Meyer Lansky and Salvatore "Lucky Luciano" Lucania each had their own entries.

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