Frank Gioia Jr. joined the powerful Lucchese Crime Family in 1991. During a ceremony in a Queens, New York, basement, Gioia took the blood oath of omertà, or silence, about criminal activity.

Members of the Lucchese crime family were among 39 people arrested last week for illegal gambling activity. The family is one of the Five Families of organized crime in the New York City area ...

A chart is shown as New Jersey State Police ... and other charges against 39 people including what said is a Lucchese crime family boss and a Prospect Park, N.J., council member on Friday, April ...