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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 ]
Joseph "Big Joey" Massino (born 1943), first boss of one of the Five Families in New York City to turn state's evidence; Francesco Matrone (born 1947), serving two life sentences in prison; Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff (born 1960), serving life sentence in prison; Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino (born 1962), serving two-year prison sentence
Michael "The Nose" Mancuso (born July 18, 1955) is an American mobster.He is a member of the American Mafia and the boss of the Bonanno crime family, one of Five Families in New York City. [2]
The days of the Five Families ruling New York and sharp-suited John Gotti mingling with the stars appear to be long gone. But the RICO indictment and arrest of 10 accused Gambino mob members ...
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.
The son and grandson of a late Colombo crime family mob boss have been busted on federal weapons charges after a huge stash of ghost guns were found at their Staten Island home, law enforcement ...
Two women who worked for disgraced ex-NYPD honcho Jeffrey Maddrey are ensnared in the federal probe of a sex-for-overtime scandal involving another female employee, The Post has learned.
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.