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This list includes gangsters and organized crime figures by area of operation/sphere of influence. Some names may be listed in more than one city. ... (1913–1980 ...
The Second Mafia War was a period of conflict involving the Sicilian Mafia, mostly taking place from 1981 to 1984 and involved thousands of homicides. [2] Sometimes referred to as The Great Mafia War or the Mattanza (Italian for 'Slaughter'), it involved the entire Mafia and radically altered the power balance within the organization.
January – Seven Rochester mobsters, including Frank D. Frassetto, are convicted in a federal court of racketeering crimes including several mob-related bombings. [1] March 7 – Joseph Coppolino is stabbed to death and then decapitated, his headless corpse left on the street to be discovered by authorities.
Salvatore T. "Tom Mix" Santoro, Sr. (November 18, 1915 [266] – January 2000) [267] served as underboss in the Lucchese crime family during the 1980s before being convicted in the Mafia Commission Trial and sentenced to 100 years in federal prison. He was born in Leonia, New Jersey, to Antonio and Teresa Bargio. He married Mary Zangaglia but ...
This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures by region and by American ... (1980–1981) John Stanfa – boss (1991–1994) Joseph Merlino ...
The East Harlem Purple Gang was a gang and organized crime group in New York City consisting of Italian-American hit-men and heroin dealers who were semi-independent from the Italian-American Mafia and, according to federal prosecutors, dominated heroin distribution in East Harlem, Italian Harlem, and the Bronx during the 1970s and early 1980s.
An early organized crime figure in Chicago associated with "Big Jim" Colosimo. Owned some of the city's most popular nightclubs, such as Midnight Frolics and Kreiberg's, during Prohibition. [6] Isadore "Kid Cann" Blumenfeld: No image available: 1900–1981 1900s–1980s
Marco Di Lauro (born 1980), serving life sentence in prison; Francesco Domingo (born 1956), currently awaiting sentencing; Servando "The Teacher" Gómez Martínez (born 1966), imprisoned; Peter "One-Eyed Pete" Gotti (1939–2021) natural causes while in prison; Mohamed Abdi "Big Mouth" Hassan, serving twenty-year prison sentence; Abdul-Malik al ...