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In recent times, la cosa nostra have let other mafiosi such as the russian red mafia work on differnt rackets, but still
making the russians pay for the right to do this.
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La Cosa Nostra "Our Thing"
has its roots from Sicily
Italian-American Mafia, is a group of criminals
organized into "families," and operating primarily in North America. Also known as La Cosa Nostra, at one time there
were 26 families in the United States - roughly one for each major city. The Mafia "commission," composed of bosses
of numerous families, mostly New York, was the overseeing authority for all of the other La Cosa Nostra families.
Now
there are Five main LCN families running New York
these include;
-Bonnano
-Gambino
-Genovese
-Lucchese
-Colombo
GAMBINO FAMILY
,
Salvatore D'Aquila (murdered 1928)
,
Frank
Scalise (boss until 1931)
,
Vincent Mangano (through 1951)
,
Albert Anastasia (to 1957)
,
Carlo Gambino (to 1976)
,
Paul Castellano (murdered 1985)
,
John
Gotti (jail 1992)
,
John Gotti Jr. (Present)
GENOVESE FAMILY
Giuseppe "Joe the Boss"
Masseria (killed 1931)
,
Charlie "Lucky" Luciano (back to Italy 1936)
,
Frank
Costello
,
Vito Genovese (murdered 1959)
,
"Three Man Ruling Council"
Tommy
Eboli, Jerry Catena, Mike Miranda (to 1972)
,
Frank Funzi Tieri (died 1981)
,
Anthony
"Fat Tony" Salerno (jail 1987)
,
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante (to prison)
,
Liborio "Barney" Bellomo (jailed)
,
Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo (acting
boss for Gigante)
COLOMBO FAMILY
Joe Profaci (1930 - 1962)
,
Joseph Magliocco (died 1963)
,
Joe Colombo (killed 1978)
,
Joseph Yacovelli (to 1973)
,
Joseph Brancato
(jailed 1973)
,
Thomas DiBella (to 1978)
,
Split into 2 factions - Mid 80's
Carmine Persico Vic Orena
(Members of each faction started killing each other - "The Colombo War")
BONANNO FAMILY
Cola Schiro - to 1930
,
Salvatore Maranzano - murdered in 1931
,
Joe Bonanno -to 1964, broke Omerta
,
Frank LaBruzzo - 1966
,
Gaspare DiGregoria
- 1968
,
Paul Sciacca
,
Ruling Council of
"Rusty" Rastelli, Joe Zicarelli,
Joe DiFillippi, and Natale Evolia- 3 years
,
Natale Evola - sole boss, 1 year
,
"Rusty"
Rastelli - late 1973 to 1974, incarcerated
,
Carmine Galante - 1979 murdered
,
Bonavventre
- youngest boss at 24 years old
,
"Rusty" Rastelli - regained power, out of jail
{His aides
were "Sonny Black" and "Lefty Guns" (Donnie Brasco)}
,
Joey Massino - still in control
LUCHESE FAMILY
Gaetano Reina - 1930
,
Gaetano Gagliano - 1930-1953
,
Gaetano
"Thomas" Luchese - 1953-1967
{He worked closely with Gambino and his family. One of his capos was Paul Vario,
who is portrayed as the character, Paul Ciceroin the movie, Goodfellas}
,
Carmine Tramunti - 1967 - 7 years,
than prison
,
Anthony Corallo "Tony Ducks" - 1986 died
,
Vittorio Amuso -
1992, RICO
,
Alphonse "Little Al" D'Arco
,
Joe DeFrede
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