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This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures by region and by American Mafia organization, both past and present. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
List of Mafia crime families; List of mobsters by city; List of crime bosses This page was last edited on 17 January 2025, at 11:25 (UTC). Text is available under ...
James "Big Jim" Colosimo (1878–1920), assassinated; Salvatore "Toto" D'Aquila (1878–1928), assassinated; Sebastiano DiGaetano (1862–?), disappeared in 1912 ...
Sicilian Mafia members also fled to the United States, as Mussolini cracked down on Mafia activities in Italy. [41] Most Italian immigrants resided in tenement buildings. As a way to escape the poor lifestyle, some Italian immigrants chose to join the American Mafia. The Mafia took advantage of prohibition and began selling illegal alcohol.
But he won’t be the last leader of Italy’s most famous Mafia organization. Sicilian mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro, widely thought to be the last godfather of his kind, was buried Wednesday in ...
Mexican Mafia members held a 30-man conference call, dialing in from various state prisons on contraband cellphones, a witness testified. The consensus: Gonzales had to go.
The term Russian Mafia, 'mafiya' or mob is a blanket (and somewhat inaccurate) term for the various organized crime groups that emerged in this period from the 15 former republics of the USSR and unlike their Italian counterparts does not mean members are necessarily of Russian ethnicity or uphold any ancient criminal traditions, although this ...
In 1989, Ronaldo Ayala was sentenced to death for murdering three men in a San Diego auto repair shop. Instead of facing the gas chamber at San Quentin, the reputed Mexican Mafia member turned ...