Auditore crime family

The Auditore crime family is a major organised crime group in the Pacific Northwest, with major operations on either side of the US–Canada border based in the urban agglomeration surrounding the cities of Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. The organisation has been led by Italian–Canadian Don Angelo Auditore since 1996. The Auditores maintain a virtual monopoly over drug trafficking in the Pacific Northwest, as well as major racketeering, money laundering and enforcement operations. The more powerful street gangs in and around Vancouver and Seattle distribute exclusively for the Auditore family, namely the Redd Alert (Vancouver) and West Side Street Mob (Seattle). The Auditores' primary international allies are the Sinaloa Cartel, the Russian Mob and the 'Ndrangheta, the last of which was a former competitor prior to the Auditore family's falling out with the Sicilian Mafia, their former main ally (of which the Auditores were originally a franchise) and a historical enemy of the 'Ndrangheta. The family is nonetheless true to its Sicilian roots, its members (made men) exclusively of Sicilian and/or Italian descent (though associates can be of any ethnic heritage); members and associates also refer to the organisation as Cosa Nostra (lit. "our thing") as per Sicilian Mafia tradition.