Formed in 1931 after the Castellammarese War, the Five Families of New York became known as the backbone of the American ...

Millions of Italian immigrants settled in the US ... “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 Street ...

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 ...

The Westies were a bloodthirsty Irish American gang who ruled over the Hell's Kitchen area of New York in the 70s and ... the attention of the powerful Italian Mafia headed by the Gambino crime ...

While the charges reportedly had no impact on the mobster network, the documents did show a close relationship between the New York-based mafia, and its progenitor in Sicily. Italian officials ...

The 1970s were a time of power, excess, and bloodshed for the Mafia. The Five Families ruled New York with an iron fist, ...

“The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia” by veteran New York City journalist and historian Paul Moses explores the lives of the nationally ...

Federal prosecutors in New York on Wednesday ... operation with Italian law enforcement, who arrested the six defendants in Italy on charges that include mafia association and related offenses.

In 2020, Mr. Messina Denaro was convicted in absentia for his role in the high-profile murders of two of Italy’s top anti-Mafia prosecutors ... in Italy for The New York Times.