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Authorities in Florida indicated LaBruna left witness protection in the late 1980s, lived under his own name and was not worried about the mob finding him. [ 181 ] Jimmy Fasanella – hairdresser, degenerate gambler and associate of Frank "Chickie Botts" Grisanti [ 159 ] and David Petri in the Falzone crew [ 182 ] who became a reluctant ...
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Russell Alfred Bufalino [2] (/ ˌ b ʌ f ə ˈ l iː n oʊ /; born Rosario Alfredo Bufalino, [3] Italian: [roˈzaːrjo alˈfreːdo bufaˈliːno]; October 29, 1903 – February 25, 1994) was an Italian-American mobster who became the crime boss of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Italian-American Mafia crime family known as the Bufalino crime family, which he ruled from 1959 to 1994.
This list is arranged alphabetically by last name, ... Mob Life: Gangster Kings of Crime Archived 2011-11-19 at the Wayback Machine — slideshow by Life magazine
In the 2018 book, The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia, Alex Perry reports that the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta has, for the past decade, been replacing the Sicilian Cosa Nostra as the primary drug traffickers in North America. [17] Musitano crime family – a Calabrian mafia family, based in ...
Michael Torres, a Mexican Mafia member who oversaw gangs in the San Fernando Valley and controlled drug and extortion rackets in the Los Angeles County jail system, was stabbed to death in prison.
Rising through the ranks, D'Elia avoided scrutiny from law enforcement for many years. D'Elia was said to be a mediator among mob families, meeting frequently with gangsters from across the country including the Philadelphia crime family, Los Angeles and New York City. But his skill at avoiding the press and law enforcement left many unanswered ...
mob, the: a single organized crime family; or all organized crime families together. mobbed up: connected to the mob. mobster: one who is in the mob. oath: becoming inducted as a made man. Omertà: to take a vow of silence in the Mafia, punishable by death if not upheld. one-way ride or taking someone for a ride: underworld for an execution method