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Joseph Lombardo – boss (1993–present) James Marcello – front boss (2003–2007) John DiFronzo – official boss (1996-2018) Salvatore DeLaurentis – acting boss (2014–2018) official boss (2018–present)
This is an incomplete list of crime bosses. This list is arranged alphabetically by last name, and broken into categories by year that an individual is believed to have assumed leadership of a criminal organization
This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures that operate in the United States, both past and present. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( April 2017 )
The five Mafia families in New York City are still active, albeit less powerful. The peak of the Mafia in the United States was during the 1940s and 50s, until the year 1970 when the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) was enacted, which aimed to stop the Mafia and organized crime as a whole. [23]
A court handed down lengthy jail sentences on Monday at the end of one of Italy's largest-ever mafia trials which targeted the 'Ndrangheta crime group in its heartland in the southern region of ...
Massino thus stood to be the first Mafia boss to be executed for his crimes, and the first mob boss to face the death penalty since Lepke Buchalter was executed in 1944. [75] Massino was the first sitting boss of a New York crime family to turn state's evidence, and the second in the history of the American Mafia to do so. [76]
His arrest came 30 years and a day after the Jan. 15, 1993, capture of the Mafia’s “boss of bosses,’’ Salvatore “Toto” Riina in a Palermo apartment, also after decades in hiding.
This is a list of Italian organized crime groups around the world. This list does not include all groups, clans or families identified as Cosa Nostra (Mafia crime families). This list does not include all Camorra, 'Ndrangheta or Sacra Corona Unita clans ("crime families").