Mr Shikhmuradov told the nation that he was not an opposition figure, but a mafioso.

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Other noteworthy angel investors who have already profited off Zynga: LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and PayPal mafioso Peter Thiel.

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If you're one of those folks whose only party piece is a garish tie and an exaggerated husky "sleeping with the fishes" Mafioso impression, pay heed, for you may have a few mobster rivals at your next soiree.

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In recent decades, Jonathan Miller's controversial 1982 English National Opera production, filled with Mafioso in New York's Little Italy circa 1950, has been followed by concepts as goofy as relocating the action to "The Planet of the Apes" in a 2005 staging in Munich, Germany.

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