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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
Giuseppe "the Clutch Hand" Morello – boss (1890s–1909) Nicholas "Nick" Morello – boss (1909–1916) killed in 1916; Vincenzo "Vincent" Terranova – boss (1916–1920) Giuseppe "Joe the boss" Masseria – boss (1920–1931) Charlie "Lucky" Luciano – boss (1931–1946) Frank "The Prime Minister" Costello – acting boss (1936–1945 ...
Massino thus stood to be the first Mafia boss to be executed for his crimes, and the first mob boss to face the death penalty since Lepke Buchalter was executed in 1944. [74] Massino was the first sitting boss of a New York crime family to turn state's evidence, and the second in the history of the American Mafia to do so. [75]
Joe Masseria, "Joe the Boss" (1886–1931) Joseph Massino , "Big Joey", "The Ear" (1943–2023) Jack McGurn , "Machine Gun" (born Vincenzo Antonio Gibaldi , 1902–1936)
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]
A court handed down lengthy jail sentences on Monday at the end of one of Italy's largest-ever mafia trials which targeted the 'Ndrangheta crime group in its heartland in the southern region of ...
Bert "Battles" Rossi – also known as the "General of Clerkenwell". He acted as the representative for the American mafia in London from the 1960s to the mid-1970s. [26] The Cortesi brothers – rivals of the Sabinis. [27] The Rocca family – A group of enforcers that were based in Islington. [28]
His arrest came 30 years and a day after the Jan. 15, 1993, capture of the Mafia’s “boss of bosses,’’ Salvatore “Toto” Riina in a Palermo apartment, also after decades in hiding.