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The Five Families are also active in South Florida, Connecticut, Las Vegas, and Massachusetts. The Bonanno crime family operates mainly in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Long Island . The family also maintains influence in Manhattan , The Bronx , Westchester County, New Jersey, California , Florida , and Atlanta , and have ties to the ...
The FBI described the Genovese family as the largest and most powerful of the Five Families in December 2001. [9] The family is unique in today's Mafia, and has benefited greatly from members following omertà , a code of conduct emphasizing secrecy and non-cooperation with law enforcement and the justice system.
The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the Dragna crime family, the Southern California crime family [7] or the L.A. Mafia, and dubbed "the Mickey Mouse Mafia" by former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, [8] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Los Angeles, California as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
The Commission is the governing body of the American Mafia, formed in 1931 by Charles "Lucky" Luciano following the Castellammarese War. [1] The Commission replaced the title of capo di tutti i capi ("boss of all bosses"), held by Salvatore Maranzano before his murder, with a ruling committee that consists of the bosses of the Five Families of New York City, as well as the bosses of the ...
Luciano kept Maranzano's five families and added a Commission to mediate disputes and prevent more gang warfare. [27] Also in 1931, Luciano replaced Scalice with Vincent Mangano as head of the D'Aquila/Mineo gang, now the Mangano crime family. Mangano also received a seat on the new Commission. [28] The modern era of the Cosa Nostra had begun.
From the pulpit, speaker after speaker praised Carter's commitment to public service before and after his time in office. Steve Ford, son of former president Gerald Ford, read aloud a eulogy his ...
The Colombo crime family (/ k ə ˈ l ɒ m. b oʊ /, Italian pronunciation:) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and the youngest of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City within the criminal organization known as the American Mafia.
Wilfred "Willie Boy" Johnson (September 29, 1935 – August 29, 1988) was a reputed American mobster.According to court documents and pretrial testimony, Johnson was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant from 1966 to 1985, when he provided investigators with information relating to John Gotti and other members of the Gambino crime family.