Former New York Mafia prince Michael Franzese witnessed it all - but believes a new silent breed of gangsters could be even more dangerous. The infamous 'Five Families' who once ruled the state by ...

The Lucchese Family is one of the notorious “five families” of the Italian-American Mafia, each with its own territory, set up to control criminal activities in New York City. Gioia became a ...

Soldiers, captains, ranking members of the notorious Lucchese crime syndicate, one of the five ruling families of the New York Mafia. Gioia was told to take a seat and put out his hand ...

Those roots? As Charles “Lucky” Luciano would later say, “Half the people I met in Sicily were in the mafia.” The New York Mafia’s Sicilian roots were evident in 1903 when on 11 th ...

rise and fall of New York City’s five mafia families. “American Godfather: The Five Families” will debut Sunday, Aug. 11, at 8 p.m. on the History Channel and is executive produced by Emmy ...

Federal authorities say they have busted an organized crime racket reminiscent of the Mafia's heyday, involving illegal gambling parlors in New York City and Long Island and a police detective ...

This naturally attracts society’s underbelly, and as a youngster growing up there in the 60s, for Frank Dimatteo that meant ...

Businesses that remained open were frequently raided by the police. Already a strong presence in New York, members of the Mafia saw a business opportunity in catering to the otherwise shunned gay ...

A former police detective was convicted Wednesday of lying to the FBI in order to protect a Mafia family's illegal gambling operations in the New York City suburbs. Hector Rosario, a former ...

(The Mafia) truly formed in the 1930s but became unraveled in the 1990s for a range of reasons, including the decision by Rudy Giuliani (then U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York ...