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Rocky Balboa is a stumblebum club fighter making $65 a fight and working on the side as collection man for small-time mobsters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

But Morano, the councilman, is adamant that "this is not just a place that should be known for landfills and mobsters."

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

He drank tall glasses of orange juice in seedy dives as he infiltrated an underworld of bank-robbing clowns and bird-obsessed mobsters.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

After McCarthy was discredited, Roy Cohn came back to New York and he acquired all kinds of clients; mobsters, nightclub owners, businessmen.

From Slate • Sep. 4, 2024

It was silly for me to imagine mobsters lurking around, but still, I was happy we’d found seats against the airport wall . . . just in case.

From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez