List of Italian Mafia crime families
This is a list of Italian organized crime groups around the world. This list does not include all groups, clans or families identified as Cosa Nostra (Mafia crime families). This list does not include all Camorra, 'Ndrangheta or Sacra Corona Unita clans ("crime families").
Italy
In Italy there are many different Mafia-like organizations.
Veneto
- In the Region of Veneto the Mala del Brenta operate in the area.
Lombardy
- In the Region of Lombardy the defunct Banda della Comasina operated in the area.
Lazio
- In the Region of Lazio the Banda della Magliana and the Mafia Capitale operate in the area.
Basilicata
- In the Region of Basilicata the defunct Basilischi operated in the area.
Apulia
- In the Region of Apulia the Sacra Corona Unita clans control the area.
Calabria
- In the Region of Calabria the 'Ndrangheta clans control the area.
Campania
Sicily
- In the Region of Sicily the Sicilian Mafia clans[a] and the Stidda control the area.
United States
According to the 2004 New Jersey State Commission of Investigation, there were 24 active Mafia families in the United States.[2] In 2004, author Thomas Milhorn reported that the Mafia was active in 26 cities across the United States.[3]
Northeastern United States
New York
- The Five Families – operate in New York City, the New York Metropolitan area, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida, California and Nevada.[2]
Western New York
- Buffalo crime family (Magaddino family)
- Rochester crime family – defunct
New Jersey
- DeCavalcante crime family (mostly North Jersey and Central Jersey)
- Five Families have crews operating in New Jersey
- Philadelphia crime family operates in South Jersey, including Atlantic City, and Trenton
Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia crime family (Bruno-Scarfo family)
- Bufalino crime family (Northeastern Pennsylvania, particularly Pittston, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and the Wyoming Valley area) – defunct
- Pittsburgh crime family (LaRocca family) – semi-dufunct
New England
- Patriarca crime family (Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island), parts of Connecticut.
- Genovese family Springfield crew (Springfield, Massachusetts) and New Haven crew (New Haven, Connecticut)
Maryland
- Gambino family Baltimore Crew (Baltimore) – defunct
Midwestern United States
Illinois
Michigan
- Detroit Partnership (Zerilli family)
Missouri
- Kansas City crime family (Civella family)
- St. Louis crime family (Giordano family)
Ohio
The city of Youngstown was at one point considered open territory, split between the Cleveland crime family (Porrello family) and the Pittsburgh crime family (LaRocca family).
- Cleveland crime family (Porrello family)
Wisconsin
- Milwaukee crime family (Balistrieri family)
Southern United States
Alabama
- Birmingham crime family – defunct since 1938[4]
Florida
- Trafficante crime family (Tampa area) – possibly defunct, Florida is considered open territory with many families operating in the area.
- The Chicago Outfit – is operating in South Florida
- The Five Families of New York have crews operating in South Florida
- Bonanno crime family – is operating in South Florida [5]
- Colombo crime family's Florida faction – is operating in South Florida
- Gambino crime family's Florida faction – is operating in South Florida and the Tampa Bay Area.
- Genovese crime family – is operating in South Florida. See soldier Albert Facchiano[6]
- Lucchese crime family – is operating in South Florida and Central Florida Counties of Pasco and Pinellas.[7]
- DeCavalcante crime family – Florida faction is operating in Miami.
Louisiana
- New Orleans crime family (Marcello family) – defunct
Texas
- Dallas crime family (Civello family) – defunct
- Maceo Organization (Galveston-Houston family) – defunct
Western United States
Arizona
- Chicago Outfit - (defunct) under Joseph "Papa Joe" Tocco the family operated in Phoenix[8]
- Bonanno family Arizona crew - (defunct) under Salvatore Bonanno the family operated in Tucson
California
- Los Angeles crime family (Los Angeles area)
- San Francisco crime family (Lanza family) – defunct[9]
- San Jose crime family (Cerrito family) – defunct [10]
Nevada
Las Vegas is considered open territory allowing all crime families to operate in the city's Casinos. Since the 1930s, the Los Angeles family, the Five Families of New York and the Midwest families have owned and operated in Casinos in the Las Vegas Strip.
Colorado
- Denver crime family (Smaldone family) – defunct
Washington
- Seattle crime family (Colacurcio family)[11]
Canada
Ontario
In Southern Ontario there are two types of Italian organized crime Cosa Nostra (Sicilian) and 'Ndrangheta (Calabrian).[12] 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.[13]
- Musitano crime family – a Calabrian mafia family, based in Hamilton[14]
- Papalia crime family – a Calabrian mafia family, based in Hamilton, with strong connections to the Buffalo crime family[14]
- Luppino crime family – a Calabrian mafia family, based in Hamilton, with strong connections to the Buffalo crime family[14]
- Siderno Group – is the name for the "'Ndrangheta" clans (crime families). There have been seven senior 'Ndrangheta bosses in the Greater Toronto Area, some on the Camera di Controllo, the "board of directors" – namely in Vaughan.[15] The Toronto-area Siderno group has included the Coluccio, Tavernese, DeMaria, Figliomeni, Ruso, and Commisso crime families; Carmine Verduci was also linked with the 'Ndrangheta group.[16] Leaders are based both in Calabria and Ontario.[17] The Siderno clans are part of the Commisso 'ndrina a crime family based in Calabria, Italy.[12]
During a 2018 criminal trial, an Italian police expert testified that the 'Ndrangheta operated in the Greater Toronto Area and in Thunder Bay particularly in drug trafficking, extortion, loan sharking, theft of public funds, robbery, fraud, electoral crimes and crimes of violence. After the trial, Tom Andreopoulos, deputy chief federal prosecutor, said that this was the first time in Canada that the 'Ndrangheta was targeted as an organized crime group since 1997, when the Criminal Code was amended to include the offence of criminal organization.[18] He offered this comment about the organization:[19]
"We’re talking about structured organized crime. We’re talking about a political entity, almost; a culture of crime that colonizes across the sea from Italy to Canada. This is one of the most sophisticated criminal organizations in the world."
Quebec
In Quebec there are two types of Italian organized crime: Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta. While Canadian law enforcement agencies consider the Rizzuto and Cotroni crime families to be separate, the FBI considers them to be sub-units of the Bonanno crime family's Montreal faction.[20]
- Cotroni crime family – a "'Ndrangheta" family, the Calabrian faction
- Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan – a Canadian extension of the Sicilian family
- Rizzuto crime family – a "Cosa Nostra" family, the Sicilian faction
United Kingdom
England
- The Italian mob - led by Charles 'Darby' Sabini during the interwar years.[21]
- Bert "Battles" Rossi – Also known as the "General of Clerkenwell". He acted as the representative for the American mafia in London from the 1960s to the mid-1970s.[22]
- The Cortesi brothers – Rivals of the Sabini's.[23]
- The Rocca family - A group of enforcers that were based in Islington.[24]
Scotland
- La Torre clan – a Camorra clan from Mondragone, Italy is operating in Aberdeen, Scotland and was led by Antonio La Torre.[25]
Australia
New South Wales
- Barbaro 'ndrina[26] – a Calabrian Clan based in Platì, Italy with operations in Griffith.
- Robert Trimbole's Crew [27] (defunct), once controlled the marijuana drug market in Griffith.
Victoria
- The Carlton Crew[28] – a predominantly Sicilian group, operating in Melbourne.
- The Honoured Society[29]
Argentina
Santa Fe Province
The Rosario mafia - led by Juan Galiffi during the 1920s and 1930s.[30]
See also
- Timeline of organized crime
- List of Italian-American mobsters
- List of Italian-American mobsters by organization
- Jewish-American organized crime
- List of Jewish American mobsters
- Irish organized crime
- List of American mobsters of Irish descent
- List of mobsters by city
- List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates
Notes
- ^ The clans are united under a Mandamento, led by a Capomadamento, that represents the clans' bosses to the Cupola. In Sicily, there are 94 Mafia families subject to 29 mandamenti.[1]
- ^ (in Italian) Radiografia della mafia di oggi; Cosa nostra influenza 300 mila voti, La Repubblica (Palermo edition), July 20, 2010
- ^ a b The Changing Face of Organized Crime in New Jersey A Status Report. May 2004. (pp. 91–140)
- ^ Milhorn, p.216
- ^ Bill Bonanno, and Gary B. Abromovitz The Last Testament of Bill Bonanno: The Final Secrets of a Life in the Mafia p.72-73
- ^ 6 Fla. members of Bonanno crime family admit guilt (October 14, 2009) New York Post
- ^ "Miami Mobster, 95, Arrested, Is Among 32 Under Indictment" By Sean Gardiner (February 24, 2006) Sun Sentinel.com
- ^ D. Lea Jacobs and Anthony Daniels. Friend of the family: An undercover Agent in the mafia. Pg. 97
- ^ "Phoenix 101: Underworld". Retrieved March 25, 2019.
- ^ Capeci p.92
- ^ Capeci p. 93
- ^ Feds bust Colacurcio crime family's four Puget Sound strip clubs by Michael Rollins (June 3, 2008) The Oregonian
- ^ a b Adrian Humphreys "A New Mafia: Crime families ruling Toronto, Italy alleges" Archived 2013-01-15 at archive.today (September 24, 2010)
- ^ "Canada is on the frontline of a new war against the rise of global organized crime". theglobeandmail.com. July 29, 2018.
- ^ a b c "Unease as mobsters set free". National Post. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
- ^ "WHEN COPS CAN'T CONVICT A 'TOP MAFIA BOSS,' THEY TURN TO DESPERATE MEASURES". nationalpost.com. 1 May 2018.
- ^ "Carmine Verduci — the man who exposed Mafia's 'Canadian cell' — was gunned down near Toronto yesterday". 25 April 2014.
- ^ Man ordered deported over alleged mob ties, National Post, April 8, 2010
- ^ "Toronto judge sentences 'Ndrangheta crime boss to 11 ½ years for cocaine conspiracy". Toronto Star. 28 February 2019.
- ^ "Membership in Mafia 'better than gold,' landmark trial of two mobsters hears". stratfordbeaconherald.com. November 8, 2018.
- ^ Lamothe & Humphreys, The Sixth Family, p.308
- ^ "Tracing gang members – the complicated case of Charles 'Darby' Sabini". ourcriminalancestors.org/. 14 May 2019.
- ^ "Farewell to Bert Rossi, gangland boss 'who was one of us'". islingtontribune.co.uk.
- ^ Britain's Godfather. True crime Library. 1993. pp. 78–90. ISBN 1-874358-03-6.
- ^ Britain's Godfather. True Crime Library. 1993. p. 11. ISBN 1-874358-03-6.
- ^ Marc Horne. Dons on the Don Archived 2012-07-16 at archive.today Scotland on Sunday. January 27, 2008
- ^ Italian mafia laundering cocaine money Down Under 2009-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, news.com.au, April 11, 2008
- ^ The Fixer: The Rise and Fall of Australian Drug Lord Robert Trimbole, Patrick Bellamy, The Crime Library
- ^ The Gangland War 2011-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, State Library of Victoria
- ^ , Time, Jan. 31, 1964
- ^ "ARGENTINA: The Flower of Rosario". Time. 29 May 1944.
Sources
- Capeci, Jerry. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia. Indianapolis: Alpha Books, 2002. ISBN 0-02-864225-2
- Milhorn, H. Thomas. Crime: Computer Viruses to Twin Towers. Universal Publishers, 2005. ISBN 1-58112-489-9
External links
- Gangrule, American mafia history
- The AmericanMafia.com