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In the early 1940s, Nitti convinced Ricca and the rest of the Outfit's management to extort money fr
Paul Ricca whose real name was Felice De Lucia, of Italian descent, was born on November 14, 1897 in
Joe Valachi was the first “pentito” in the history of the Italian-American mafia, he was the first t
Between 1963 and 1965, chaired by Democratic Senator John McClellan, the Senate Federal Government o
Carlos Marcello is much less well known to the public than infamous gangsters like Al Capone, Lucky
Trafficante always wanted to make it big in the Cuban casinos and in 1946 sent his son, Santo Jr., t
In the Pittsburgh Mafia family, until 1956, the leader of the Mafia family was Frank Amato. He ran i
In the city of Pittsburgh, Italian criminals were divided into two factions: the "Sicilians" and the
Santo Sorge was a powerful Sicilian mafioso residing in the United States. His exact role was never
After the summit held in 1956 at the Hotel delle Palme in Palermo, another important meeting took pl
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Joe Profaci, born Giuseppe Profaci, is considered the first mafia boss of the Colombo mafia family o
From 1964 to about 1969, the last major war was fought in which a major Mafia crime family attempted
In 1962 Bonanno, after the death of Joseph Profaci, one of his most faithful friends and allies, fro
Joseph Bonanno, nicknamed "Joe Bananas" from a newspaper typo of the time, was a nickname he hated b
They called him "Jimmy Blue Eyes". Alo was a key figure in New York's post-Prohibition Genovese Mafi
The Gambino mafia family was certainly among the most powerful of Cosa Nostra. The great success of
