The Albanian Mob is an Albanian-American organized crime syndicate that is based in New York City, New York, with its operations extending into neighboring New Jersey. The Albanian Mob was involved with extortion, stickups, loansharking, credit card fraud, and contract killing, and the mob grew powerful due to the American Mafia's use of Albanians as enforcers (especially on the part of the Ancelotti crime family). The Albanian Mob had a strong presence in the Pelham Bay neighborhood of The Bronx, while it occasionally made forays into Manhattan, Long Island, and New Jersey. The gang became powerful during the 1990s and 2000s, when tens of thousands of Albanians came to America as refugees of war from Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the gang had a strong presence in Eastern European areas of New York City, including Pelham Bay and Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. By 2009, the Albanian Mob had been severely weakened, and the Korean Midtown Gangsters took over Pelham Bay.
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