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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 New York Mafia's intrusion in Philadelphia Mafia affairs was not well received by many of the younger Philadelphia-born mobsters in the Philadelphia crime family, including Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino, the son of former underboss Salvatore Merlino, who saw Stanfa as an outsider who had not worked his way up in the organization due to being ...
The Godfather Trilogy was released in 1992, in which the films are fundamentally in chronological order. [178] The Godfather Family: A Look Inside was a 73-minute documentary released in 1991. [179] Directed by Jeff Warner, the film featured some behind the scenes content from all three films, interviews with the actors, and screen tests. [179]
On March 1, 2011, retired FBI agent William Ouseley published his history of the KC crime family from 1950 to 2000 in a book titled Mobsters in Our Midst. On November 25, 2013, the documentary film Gangland Wire was released. This film uses audio clips from FBI wiretaps to tell the story of law enforcement uncovering a massive conspiracy to ...
Corozzo has an extensive history in the family that dates back to the reign of John Gotti. A stellar earner for the family, Corozzo became a captain in the family following Gotti's imprisonment in 1992. [202] In 1996, he was indicted in Miami and struck with racketeering charges including loansharking, attempted murder, and arson. He was ...
First broadcast in 1994 on FOX, the two-part mini-series charts the history of organized crime in America from Al Capone to John Gotti. [1] Interviews are given by relatives and others, such as Bee Sedway, widow of Moe Sedway , detailing life in a crime family and what the mobsters were like.
As fans await season two of 50 Cent’s scripted series about one of Detroit’s most notorious drug trafficking enterprises, a The post Black Mafia Family gets documentary treatment in 8-part ...
Soldier (Soldato in Italian) – A soldato or "soldier" is an inducted (or "made") member of the Mafia in general and an inducted member of a particular Mafia crime family, and traditionally they can only be of full Italian background (although today many families require men to be of only half-Italian descent, on their father's side). Once a ...