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The American Mafia, [24] [25] [26] commonly referred to in North America as the Italian-American Mafia, the Mafia, or the Mob, [24] [25] [26] is a highly organized Italian-American criminal society and organized crime group.
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]
Matteo Messina Denaro (Italian pronunciation: [matˈtɛːo mesˈsiːna deˈnaːro]; Sicilian: Matteu Missina Dinaru; 26 April 1962 – 25 September 2023), also known as Diabolik (from the Italian comic book character), was a Sicilian Mafia boss from Castelvetrano.
Luppino crime family – a Calabrian mafia family, based in Hamilton, with strong connections to the Buffalo crime family [18] Siderno Group – is the name for the "'Ndrangheta" clans (crime families).
This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures by region and by American Mafia organization, both past and present. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
The Philadelphia crime family, also known as the Bruno–Scarfo crime family, [19] the Philadelphia–Atlantic City crime family, [20] the Philadelphia Mafia, [21] [22] the Philly Mafia, [23] [24] [25] or the Philadelphia–South Jersey Mafia, [26] [27] [28] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Lorenzo "Lore" Mannino (born July 27, 1959) is an American mobster, and according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a powerful caporegime in the Gambino crime family. Currently he holds the position of front boss for Domenico Cefalù in the family. [1] [2]
The DeCavalcante crime family is partly the inspiration for the fictional DiMeo crime family of the HBO television series The Sopranos. [116] [117] The family was the subject of the CNBC program Mob Money, which aired on June 23, 2010, [118] and The Real Sopranos TV documentary directed by Thomas Viner for the UK production company Class Films ...