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

The American Mafia started in the 1920s when the mob bosses ran the bootlegging industry during Prohibition.; From there, the Mafia became a national organization dealing with prostitution ...

The Italian-American Mafia Sep 13, 2002 Roy ran the largest auto theft ring in the history of New York, and he murdered about 200 people as a Gambino hit man.

He was a mafia boss and the founder of the Italian American Civil Rights League. Why was that significant? FERRANTE: What happened was Joe Colombo, he felt that his son was unjustly targeted by ...

And yet, of course, the Italian American Mafia continues to be in the radar. Now, RICO, which you mentioned the law that has been passed in the U.S., is very effective.

Most of the old Italian-American neighborhoods no longer exist, so mafia members, like everybody else, are now living in the suburbs. And there’s money to be made there.

The Italian Mafia remains as carved into the American pop culture psyche as the westerns of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. While genre classics like “The Sopranos” and “Goodfellas” and ...

Before the Mafia captured the American crime spotlight in the 1920s, there was the Society of the Black Hand, which made ends meet by terrorizing and extorting fellow Italians, mainly, among them ...

But cuisines aside, it’s indicative of why Italian American Heritage and Culture Month is so important. Look no further than last year’s Italian American cultural moment, New York Giants ...

And indeed, when they were the big dogs in the game — from the late 1940s through the 1970s — Italian American Mafia organizations rarely interacted with other criminal groups.

While many films of this genre focus on the Italian American Mafia, the category has widened over time to include other international organized crime outfits such as the Russian/Odessa Mafia ...

NPR's A Martinez speaks with American writer Louis Ferrante about his latest book, "Borgata: Clash of Titans: a History of the American Mafia." LOUIS FERRANTE: I was a criminal from when I was 13 ...