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On November 14, 1957, the mafia bosses, their advisers and bodyguards, approximately one hundred men in all, met at Barbara's 53-acre (21 ha) estate in Apalachin, New York. Apalachin is a town located along the south shore of the Susquehanna River, near the Pennsylvania border and about 200 miles northwest of New York City. The purpose of the ...
New York mobster Thomas Gagliano, leader of the present day Lucchese crime family, goes into semi-retirement and leaves day-to-day activities of the Family to Acting Boss Thomas Lucchese. May 28 – Joe Adonis is convicted for gambling violations and sentenced to two years in New Jersey State Prison .
South Brooklyn Boys (abbreviated as SBB) was a famous New York City street gang.In the 1950s, various Italian-American gangs were formed in South Brooklyn, New York City, and came together under the moniker of "South Brooklyn Boys" sometime around the 1950s.
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 ]
Valachi disclosed that the Mafia was called Cosa Nostra ("our thing" or "this thing of ours" in Italian) among the members of the organization and that the term "Mafia" was an outsider term. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 9 ] At the time, Cosa Nostra was understood as a proper name, fostered by the FBI and disseminated by the media.
Decoy (also titled Policewoman Decoy) [1] is an American crime drama television series created for syndication and initially broadcast from October 14, 1957, to July 7, 1958, with 39 black-and-white 30-minute episodes.
New York mobster and enforcer for labor racketeer Joe Ryan [4] [8] [9] Mickey Spillane: No image available: 1934–1977 1959–1977 New York mobster and head of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen during the 1950s and 60s Joseph "Mad Dog" Sullivan No image available: 1939–2017 1955–1983 New York mobster and freelance assassin for the Genovese crime ...
During the 1950s, under family boss Vito Genovese, DiGilio became a made man, or full family member. He later worked for boss Frank Tieri and Benny Malangone. In 1968, DiGilio was indicted on extortion charges. DiGilio had made two $1,000 usurious loans in 1966 and 1967 to a New Jersey man who, after paying $7,400 interest, refused to pay ...