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Government statistics compiled and released by the nonprofit Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse indicate that Brooklyn saw a total of 64 defendants indicted in February, the most recent month in which numbers are available. Included in the data is the Gambino sweep and a couple of non-Mafia cases involving racketeering.
"The federal judicial district which showed the greatest growth in the rate of organized crime prosecutions compared to one year ago - 61.4 percent - was [the] Eastern District of New York. This was the same district that had the largest increase - 102.9 percent - when compared with five years ago," said the TRAC report.
TRAC noted that because of the Gambino cases, Garaufis, the Brooklyn federal judge, was No. 1 in the nation for mob indictments, far surpassing a judge in Philadelphia who picked up just three cases.
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