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La Stella Restaurant was an Italian restaurant in Forest Hills, Queens. [1]La Stella was opened by Joe and Jack Taliercio in 1960. [2] It closed in 1992. [3]Tony Talierico later opened a location in Sunrise, Florida.
The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (Italian: [ˈkɔːza ˈnɔstra, ˈkɔːsa-], Sicilian: [ˈkɔːsa ˈnɔʂː(ɽ)a]; "our thing" [3]), also referred to as simply Mafia, is a criminal society and criminal organization originating on the island of Sicily and dates back to the mid-19th century. It is an association of gangs which sell their ...
The Five Families of New York have crews operating in South Florida Bonanno crime family – is operating in South Florida [7] Colombo crime family's Florida faction – is operating in South Florida; Gambino crime family's Florida faction – is operating in South Florida and the Tampa Bay Area. Genovese crime family – is operating in South ...
Salvatore Maranzano (Italian: [salvaˈtoːre maranˈtsaːno]; July 31, 1886 – September 10, 1931), nicknamed Little Caesar, [1] was an Italian-American mobster from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss who led what later would become the Bonanno crime family in New York City.
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 ]
Paciello had connections to the New York Cosa Nostra crime families. [1] On Staten Island, Paciello joined the New Springville Boys , a gang with affiliations to the Bonanno crime family. [6] In December 1992, he participated in a $300,000 bank robbery at a Chemical Bank in the Staten Island Mall. [9]
Colombo renamed the family as the Colombo family. At 41 years old, Colombo was the youngest boss in New York at the time. He was also the first New York Mafia boss to have been born and raised in the United States. Having risen to the top of the family at such a young age, Colombo knew that he had a potentially long reign ahead of him.
James "Jimmy Brown" Failla (January 22, 1919 – August 5, 1999) was an American mobster who was a high ranking caporegime with the Gambino crime family and a major power in the garbage-hauling industry in New York City.