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Families of the Mafia is an American reality television series that premiered on MTV on April 9, 2020. The show is a retooling of the short-lived Made in Staten Island.Its predecessor focused on the lives of seven young adults living in Staten Island trying to avoid the influence of local organized crime.
The Lucchese crime family's Brooklyn faction is a group of Italian-American mobsters within the Lucchese crime family that control organized crime activities in the New York metropolitan area but are predominantly based out of Brooklyn and Staten Island. The Brooklyn faction was created after two separate crews in the Lucchese family were ...
Lubrano's crew operates around the Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island and Westchester. In 1996, Lubrano was wrongfully sent to prison for beating a black police officer in 1994 and was released two years later. [161] During the trial, it was alleged that Lubrano was a member of the Lucchese recruitment gang, The Tanglewood Boys. [161]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (PIX11) – An NYPD detective is accused of producing ghost guns inside a Staten Island apartment, sources told PIX11 News. Anthony Sciortino, a 13-year veteran of the force ...
Staten Island faction Joseph "Joe" Amato – capo operating a loansharking operation on Staten Island. On October 3, 2019, Amato along with son Joseph Amato Jr., soldiers Daniel Capaldo and Thomas Scorcia and associate Anthony Silvestro were indicted on 2014, Staten Island extortion and loansharking charges. [ 66 ]
The Wu-Tang Clan, one of Staten Island's most famous exports, is considered a pillar of the genre. The group's 1998 album "Wu-Tang Forever" was nominated for a best rap album Grammy and their ...
Joseph E. "Joe Bikini" Brocchini (1933 – May 20, 1976) was a soldier under Joseph "Joe Brown" Lucchese in the Corona crew. Born and raised in Corona, Queens, he was arrested as a 17-year-old along with four other youths for carrying out a series of burglaries that robbed eight businesses in north Queens of $26,000 during a week-long spree in 1950.
17 members and associates of the Gambino family were charged in an 84-count indictment on June 5, 2024 in relation to the operation of Staten Island-based illegal sports gambling operation, which handled more than $22.7 million in illegal bets, and a loansharking operation that generated approximately $500,000 per week from loan payments. [174]