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Massino was the first sitting boss of a New York crime family to turn state's evidence, and the second in the history of the American Mafia to do so. [75] Philadelphia crime family boss Ralph Natale had flipped in 1999 when facing drug charges, though Natale was mostly a "front" boss while the real boss of the Philadelphia Mafia used Natale as ...
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]
In the 2018 book, The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia, Alex Perry reports that the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta has, for the past decade, been replacing the Sicilian Cosa Nostra as the primary drug traffickers in North America. [17] Musitano crime family – a Calabrian mafia family, based in ...
As the Mafia was imported into the United States in the late 19th century, the English translation of the word cosca was more at clan or family. The term can be a point of confusion, especially in popular culture and Hollywood , because in the truest sense, crime families are not necessarily blood families who happen to be involved in criminal ...
The days of the Five Families ruling New York and sharp-suited John Gotti mingling with the stars appear to be long gone. But the RICO indictment and arrest of 10 accused Gambino mob members ...
The Gambino crime family (pronounced [ɡamˈbiːno]) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.
Today the 'Ndrangheta, originating in the southern Italian region of Calabria, is widely considered the richest and most powerful Mafia in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The 'Ndrangheta has been around for as long as the better-known Sicilian Cosa Nostra, but was only recently designated as a Mafia-type association in 2010, under Article 416 bis of the ...
“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 ...