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Feds smack down the most powerful gangs you’ve never heard of

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The most powerful gangs you’ve never heard of.

That’s how LA’s top prosecutor, Bill Essayli, describes three India-based transnational crime syndicates now in the crosshairs of the formidable US government.

The feds led a series of raids this week spanning the United States, Canada and Europe, nabbing 24 alleged gangsters –– including 11 in California. 

It was a massive bust: In California alone, agents served 34 search warrants: 23 in the Sacramento region and 11 around LA.

Good; that’s nice work. 

Prosecutors say the thugs used California as a cash register for the sordid global operation –– and........

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