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  2. Five Families - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Gambino crime family - Wikipedia

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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. [201] Brooklyn faction

  4. Lucchese crime family - Wikipedia

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    The Lucchese crime family (pronounced [lukˈkeːze;-eːse]) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.

  5. How one Brooklyn neighborhood became instrumental in the rise ...

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    The new Red Hook rulers called themselves la Mano Nera – the Black Hands – and it had no shortage of willing conscripts.. When local young men were sucked into the underworld, it was usually ...

  6. Genovese crime family - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. FBI digs for bodies at New York farms tied to Gambino crime ...

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    Two upstate New York properties connected to the notorious Gambino crime family are now being searched for human remains – days after 10 alleged mob members and associates were busted in a ...

  8. American Mafia - Wikipedia

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    In New York City, by the end of the 1920s, two factions of organized crime had emerged to fight for control of the criminal underworld — one led by Joe Masseria and the other by Salvatore Maranzano. [29] This caused the Castellammarese War, which led to Masseria's murder in 1931. Maranzano then divided New York City into five families. [29]

  9. Former Mafia member explains all the ways the New York mob ...

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    Former New York Mafia made member John Pennisi speaks to Insider about all the ways the mob make their money. John Pennisi was born and raised in an Italian New York neighborhood where the mob had ...