THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MAFIA

From 1964 to about 1969, the last major war was fought in which a major Mafia crime family attempted to gain a position of supremacy over other organized crime families in America. If the plan had bee...

12 Sep 20249min

In 1962 Bonanno, after the death of Joseph Profaci, one of his most faithful friends and allies, from cancer, together with his successor Joe Magliocco, thought of getting rid of the two most powerful...

6 Sep 20248min

Joseph Bonanno, nicknamed "Joe Bananas" from a newspaper typo of the time, was a nickname he hated because it gave the idea that he was crazy. Bonanno was one of the most important Italian-American mo...

1 Aug 20248min

They called him "Jimmy Blue Eyes". Alo was a key figure in New York's post-Prohibition Genovese Mafia family. He served as a liaison between the Sicilian-Italian mafia and Meyer Lansky's criminal orga...

16 Jul 20247min

The Gambino mafia family was certainly among the most powerful of Cosa Nostra. The great success of the gang is due precisely to the charismatic Carlo Gambino who directed the criminal activity for al...

30 Jun 202410min

According to FBI files, Anthony Strollo, also known as Tony Bender, was Vito Genovese's right-hand man. Strollo was one of the great protagonists of the history of the Mafia in New York City and New J...

23 Jun 20248min

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9 Jun 20249min

Gaetano Lucchese known as Tommy Gunn or Tommy Three Fingers Brown was a leading exponent of the American mafia. It is no coincidence that one of the five New York mafia families still bears his surnam...

18 Mai 20246min