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  2. Genovese crime family New Jersey faction - Wikipedia

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    The Mafia Commission divided up D'Amico's territory among the Luciano (Boiardo crew), Gagliano (Jersey crew), Mangano, Bonanno, Badami family, Profaci and Philadelphia (North Jersey crew) families. [4] In 1937, family boss Luciano was arrested leaving Frank "the Prime Minister" Costello as the new acting boss of the family. Moretti, a cousin to ...

  3. DeCavalcante crime family - Wikipedia

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    Badami continued operating a small Mafia group while working alongside other Mafia families. Badami was unsuccessful in taking over the Elizabeth Ribera Mafia faction because he was born in Corleone, Sicily and they didn't trust him. [21] On March 31, 1955, Badami went to a restaurant in Newark and was murdered being stabbed 40 times. [21]

  4. Brothers for Life - Wikipedia

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    Brothers for Life, also Brothers 4 Life was [citation needed] a Middle Eastern crime gang, active in south-western suburbs of Sydney, Australia.They came to public prominence largely from internal disputes between the Bankstown chapter and the Blacktown chapter that resulted in a number of shootings in October 2012 to February 2014 that killed two members.

  5. Wiseguys Charged for Poker Parlor Alliance Linking ... - AOL

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    “Today’s arrests of members from two La Cosa Nostra crime families demonstrate that the mafia continues to pollute our communities with illegal gambling, extortion, and violence while using ...

  6. Seventeen arrested in joint Italo-U.S. raid against Sicilian ...

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    Seven people were arrested in Italy and 10 in the United States following a joint Italo-American police raid against suspected mafia members, Italian police said on Wednesday. The arrests followed ...

  7. Genovese crime family - Wikipedia

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    The Genovese crime family (pronounced [dʒenoˈveːze,-eːse]), also sometimes referred to as the Westside, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City and New Jersey as part of the American Mafia.

  8. Frank Polizzi - Wikipedia

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    In early 1985, Polizzi was picked up by US law enforcement and put on trial for major involvement in heroin and cocaine operations. A main defendant in the infamous Pizza Connection Trial, Polizzi was charged with distribution and transportation of narcotics, in which Mafia bosses of both New York City and Sicily had cooperated in and brought drugs worth an amount of $1.6 billion into the ...

  9. Lucchese crime family New Jersey faction - Wikipedia

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    The early members of the Lucchese family's New Jersey faction can be traced back to independent Italian criminal groups that operated in Newark, New Jersey.During the early 1900s, in city of Newark, the Italian criminals was divided into two ethnic factions: the "Sicilians" headed by Stefano "Don Steven" Badami and the "Neapolitans" led by Ruggiero "the Boot" Boiardo.