The Krays were in with a couple of well-known MPs.

克赖一家与几个著名的国会议员有很好的交情。

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Groups such as the Richardsons, who were based in south London, and the Krays, in east London, mostly made their money extorting from local businesses and petty criminals.

像伦敦南部的Richardsons以及东部的Krays一样，这种团伙大部分都靠敲诈本土企业以及小规模犯罪谋利。

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Of course, this version of the Krays, and the East End, is a nostalgic delusion.

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But in the odd way that criminals sometimes are, the Krays are revered on moral, as well as aesthetic, grounds.

ECONOMIST: Wild wild East

But this theatrical pomp reveals less about the reality of the Krays than the Monty Python sketch about Dinsdale and Doug Piranha, criminal brothers with a penchant for nailing heads to the floor.

ECONOMIST: Wild wild East