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Street Boss – Albert "Albie the Falcon" Vena [69] – born in 1948. Part of the new administration following the retirement of John DiFronzo. [68] Vena was once a powerful capo of the Grand Avenue crew and replaced Joseph Lombardo after his 2007, conviction of a 1974 murder. [70] By 2000, Vena had been acquitted of 2 murders. [71]
Albert Tocco, "Caesar Tocco" (1929–2005) ... List of Mafia crime families; List of mobsters by city; List of crime bosses This page was last edited ...
Albert "The Lord High Executioner" Anastasia – boss (1951–1957), underboss (1931–1951) ... List of Mafia crime families; List of American mobsters by organization;
Allen Dorfman rose to prominence following World War II and by the late 1950s was a close cohort of IBT President Jimmy Hoffa.Dorfman's rise coincided with enormous expansion in Teamsters' ranks, along with spectacular growth in the union's pension funds, which eventually came largely under Dorfman's administration.
Anthony D'Andrea was a Sicilian Mafia boss in Chicago's Little Italy. His closest allies were the Genna brothers, who operated illegal gambling clubs and salons in his territory. [1] In 1919, D'Andrea became president of the Chicago chapter of the Unione Siciliana, an organization dedicated to helping poor Sicilian immigrants.
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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 ]
The Baltimore Crew was an Italian American organized crime group that ultimately became a faction of the Gambino crime family operating in the port city of Baltimore, Maryland, from about 1900 until the 1990s.