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During the 1980s and 90s, the Gambino crime family had 24 active crews operating in New York City, New Jersey, Long Island, South Florida, and Connecticut. By 2000, the family had approximately 20 crews. However, according to a 2004 New Jersey Organized Crime Report, the Gambino family had only ten active crews. [205] Brooklyn faction
Two of New York’s most storied Mafia families formed a secret gambling alliance — then suffered a whack to their profit streams with a round of arrests Tuesday morning.
New York Daily News article relating to the arrests, 2005. Transcript of the indictment against both men (Archived February 24, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, courtesy of ISPN.org, 2005). Report of conviction, BBC, 2006. "Mafia Cops Facing Life in Prison", AP, June 5, 2006. "Alleged Mafia Cop Speaks Out", 60 Minutes, 2006. Louis Eppolito at IMDb
In February 2003, John Petrucelli was sentenced to life in prison for the 1995 murder of Paul Cicero. [14] In 2005, the leader of the gang Michael "Chunk" Londonio opened fire on police officers searching his apartment, wounding two, before he was shot and killed. Five others were arrested. [13]
(The Mafia) truly formed in the 1930s but became unraveled in the 1990s for a range of reasons, including the decision by Rudy Giuliani (then U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York ...
Authorities staged the largest gang takedown in New York City history on Wednesday, arresting 120 reputed rival gang members and their associates.
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 ]
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 ...