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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. Joe Masseria - Wikipedia

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   Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe masseˈriːa]; January 17, 1886 – April 15, 1931) was an Italian-American Mafia boss in New York City.He was boss of what is now called the Genovese crime family, one of the New York City Mafia's Five Families, from 1922 to 1931.

4. Camorra in New York City - Wikipedia

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   Following the downfall of the New York Camorra, Neapolitan or Campanian organized crime groups in New York were absorbed into or merged with the newly dominant Sicilian Mafia groups in New York, [9] creating the modern Italian-American Mafia, which would increasingly consist of not only Sicilians but Italian and Italian-American criminals from ...

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. List of criminal organizations in New York City - Wikipedia

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   Forty Thieves (1825-1860s) - Considered the first known street gang in New York City; Gas House Gang (1880s-1910) Ghost Shadows (1970s-1990s) Gopher Gang (1890s-1910s) Grady Gang (1860s) Honeymoon Gang (1850s) Hook Gang (1866-1876) Hudson Dusters (1890s-1917) Jheri Curls (1990s) Kerryonians (1825-1830s) Lenox Avenue Gang (early 1900s-1910s ...

7. Michael Cannell book delves into true story of New York cops ...

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   (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 ...