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The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF, also known as the Black Gorilla Family, [6] [7] the Black Family, [8] the Black Vanguard, [9] and Jamaa [8]) is an African American black power prison gang, street gang, and political organization founded in 1966 by George Jackson, George "Big Jake" Lewis, and W.L. Nolen while they were incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California.
Founded in the 1960s, the gang's name stems from a street corner that intersects 10th Street and Oregon Avenue in South Philadelphia. [1] The 10th & Oregon Crew conducts drug trafficking, gambling, extortion and loan sharking rackets and operates from a series of taverns, bars, restaurants and social clubs in South Philadelphia and South Jersey. [1]
Romanian mafia; Russian mafia; Serbian mafia; Soldiers of Odin – An anti-immigrant group with 8 chapters in Canada; Solntsevskaya Bratva; Black Shirts Gang (BSG)– London, Ontario based Neo-Nazi group [2] The Base – International Neo-Nazi white supremacist group; The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan – A branch of the KKK operating ...
Kumi African Nation Organization, generally referred to as 415 or Kumi 415 is a predominantly African-American prison gang that was originally formed in Folsom State Prison in the mid-1980s, and the founding members were mainly from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Black Hand was a method of extortion practiced by Italian immigrant gangsters of the Camorra and the Mafia, especially in the United States in Italian-American ghettos or neighborhoods. American newspapers in the first half of the twentieth century sometimes made reference to an organized "Black Hand Society", a criminal enterprise composed of ...
Merlino was friends with Steve "Gorilla" Mondevergine, president of the Pagan's Motorcycle Club. [35] Merlino sometimes used the Pagans to help settle underworld disputes. [36] During the 1990s, Merlino was also aligned with members of the Junior Black Mafia.
The D.C. Blacks is an African-American prison gang in the United States whose members are from Washington D.C. They are allied with the Black Guerrilla Family and some other black prison gangs.
The Pittsburgh crime family, [4] also known as the LaRocca crime family [5] or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] The LaRocca family is one of the original twenty-six Mafia families in the United States. [ 7 ]