enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Los Angeles crime family - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_crime_family

    The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the Dragna crime family, the Southern California crime family [7] or the L.A. Mafia, and dubbed "the Mickey Mouse Mafia" by former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, [8] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Los Angeles, California as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.

  3. Joseph Dippolito - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dippolito

    Joseph Charles Dippolito (December 28, 1914 – January 14, 1974), also well known as Joe Dip, was an Italian American Mafia member in the Los Angeles crime family.The son of fellow Mafioso Salvatore Charles Dippolito (known as Charlie Dip), Joe Dip rose to become underboss of the Los Angeles crime family.

  4. List of Italian-American mobsters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian-American...

    Jack Dragna, "Capone of Los Angeles" (born Ignazio Dragna, 1891–1956) Tom Dragna (born Gaetano Dragna , 1889–1977) Louis Tom Dragna , "The Reluctant Prince" (1920–2012)

  5. List of Italian Mafia crime families - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_Mafia...

    According to the 2004 New Jersey State Commission of Investigation, there were 24 active Mafia families in the United States. [2] In 2004, author Thomas Milhorn reported that the Mafia was active in 26 cities across the United States.

  6. American Mafia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mafia

    The Mafia in the United States emerged in impoverished Italian immigrant neighborhoods in New York's East Harlem (or "Italian Harlem"), the Lower East Side, and Brooklyn; also emerging in other areas of the Northeastern United States and several other major metropolitan areas (such as Chicago and New Orleans) [26] during the late 19th century ...

  7. List of Italian-American mobsters by organization - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian-American...

    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 .

  8. Gambino crime family - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambino_crime_family

    The Gambino crime family (pronounced [ɡamˈbiːno]) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.

  9. Genovese crime family - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genovese_crime_family

    The Genovese crime family originated from the Morello gang of East Harlem, the first Mafia family in New York City. [12] In 1892, Giuseppe Morello arrived in New York from the village of Corleone, Sicily, Italy. Morello's half-brothers Nicholas, Vincenzo, Ciro, and the rest of his family joined him in New York the following year.