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Gene Borrello (born June 6, 1984) is an American podcaster and convicted criminal who was a former associate of the Bonanno crime family. [1] [2] He later became a government witness, agreeing to testify against crime family members Vincent Asaro and Ronald Giallanzo in 2016.
Thomas Francis Gambino (Italian: [ɡamˈbiːno]; August 23, 1929 – October 3, 2023) was an Italian-American New York City mobster and a longtime caporegime of the Gambino crime family who successfully controlled lucrative trucking rackets in the New York City Garment District.
Russell Alfred Bufalino [2] (/ ˌ b ʌ f ə ˈ l iː n oʊ /; born Rosario Alfredo Bufalino, [3] Italian: [roˈzaːrjo alˈfreːdo bufaˈliːno]; October 29, 1903 – February 25, 1994) was an Italian-American mobster who became the crime boss of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Italian-American Mafia crime family known as the Bufalino crime family, which he ruled from 1959 to 1994.
The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (Italian: [ˈkɔːza ˈnɔstra, ˈkɔːsa-], Sicilian: [ˈkɔːsa ˈnɔʂː(ɽ)a]; "our thing" [3]), also referred to as simply Mafia, is a criminal society and criminal organization originating on the island of Sicily and dates back to the mid-19th century.
His brother-in-law Louis Consalvo has been a longtime member of his crew. [67] Abramo was a former associate of John Gotti . In June 1999, Abramo, Philip Gurian, Glen Vittor, Louis Consalvo and Barry Gesser were charged with mail fraud, wire fraud, securities fraud, interference with commerce by extortion, conspiracy to commit money laundering ...
Joseph Michael Valachi (September 22, 1904 [nb 1] – April 3, 1971) was an American mobster in the Genovese crime family who was the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to acknowledge its existence publicly in 1963. He is credited with the popularization of the term cosa nostra. [3]
In 2013, he published a book about his criminal life, Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and The Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra, [16] which details accounts of the Five Families, the American Mafia Commission and other crime families across the United States.
Chris Rosenberg grew up in Canarsie on a block dominated by Italian-Americans. He attended Samuel J. Tilden High School in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.Despite the Mafia rule that only full Italians could be "made", or officially inducted into the organization, Rosenberg reportedly believed that his earning abilities and willingness to murder might eventually lead to his becoming a member of Cosa ...