More than 120 busted in Northeast Mafia crackdown

Federal establishment arranged one of the biggest Mafia takedowns in FBI history Thursday, accusing 127 suspected mobsters and connections in the Northeast with murders, extortion and additional crimes with a leg on each side of decades.

Past inquiries have resulted in planned strikes aimed at crippling human being crime families. This time, authorities used a shotgun come up to, with some 800 federal agents and police bureaucrats making scores of concurrent arrests stemming from different mob inquiry in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

They and used fanfare: Attorney General Eric Holder ended a trip to New York to broadcast the process at a news consultation with the city's top law enforcement officials.

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Feds oppose Calif. Prop 19 to legalize marijuana

Attorney General Eric Holder says the centralized government will enforce its marijuana laws in California even if electorate next month makes the state the first in the nation to make lawful the drug.

The fairness Department strongly opposes California's proposal 19 and remains firmly loyal to enforcing the federal Controlled substance Act in all states, Holder wrote in a letter to former chiefs of the U.S. Drug Enforcement government. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter, dated Wednesday.

"We will energetically enforce the CSA against those individuals and organization that possess, produce or distribute marijuana for leisure use, even if such activities are permitted under state law," Holder wrote.