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With the leadership of the Detroit Outfit over, & being 75 years old, Jackie Giacalone has emerged as the heir to the kingdom that was ran by Giacomo Tocco. The kid is the nephew of Anthony Giacalone, & the son of the late Vito Giacalone.

Many people are fascinated by the Mob but don’t know where to start—that’s where we come in.

On June 6, 1962, Italian-born New York City Cosa Nostra boss, who was the founder of what became the Colombo crime family, Giuseppe "Joe" Profaci died in South Side Hospital in Bay Shore, New York of liver cancer. In 1920, Profaci spent 1 year in prison in Palermo on theft charges. Released from prison in 1921, Profaci emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York City on September 4. Profaci settled in Chicago, where he opened a grocery store & bakery. But the busines

MOB TALK: Gambino Crime Family Paul "Big Paulie" Castellano Former Boss of the Gambino Family.

New York City’s mafia social clubs were once the epicenters of power, where decisions that shaped the underworld were made behind closed doors. These nondescript venues, often hidden in plain sight, were the meeting places for notorious mob bosses and their crews—serving as headquarters, planning rooms, and safe havens. While many of these clubs have faded into obscurity or been repurposed, their legacy remains embedded in the city’s history. Our Mob Talk Social Club brings b

One of the small details Alto Knights got right about Costello was a name some of his friends used to call him. It’s not written about much and I heard it from Diamond Jim Moran’s son who said his dad used to call Frank, Cheech. Both Anastasia and The Boot refer to Frank as Cheech in the film.

A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Civello had moved to Dallas as early as July 1928 when he was arrested for the murder of Joe DeCarlo at the St. Paul Drug Store in Dallas. Reportedly, DeCarlo's dying words were that the close-range shotgun blast to his abdomen was accidental. Based on this information, a grand jury did not issue an indictment against Civello. Civello was an expert marksman and regularly participated in skeet shooting competitions as a longtime member of th

DON SAVATORE came to Rome and said: “Not ‘head of the anonymous murderers’: alleged leader. Because many things have been said about my brother Albert, but no one has ever been able to prove them. So let me have my reasonable doubt. This is my recording of his last ‘confession’. Maybe naive, but ‘reasonably sincere’.”

I'd like to get some group opinions on my question here. Some people think Vic Amuso was Gaspipe's puppet when he was made boss and consequently think Vic wasn't a very strong leader.

Rosario, 83, is alleged to be a made-man in the Sicilian mafia. Gambino is one of three brothers who formed a crew known as the 'Cherry Hill Gambino's' named after Cherry Hill, NJ, the city that they once lived in and operated their heroin trafficking network from.

The most notorious power struggles in the history of organized crime as Vito Genovese and Frank Costello—two of the most powerful mafia bosses in America—battle for control of New York's underground. Starting with Frank Costello's glamorous rise as a “gentleman gangster” who transformed the Luciano family into a multi-million-dollar empire, this story takes a dark turn as his old ally Vito Genovese returns from exile with ruthless ambitions of his own.

The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the Dragna crime family, the Southern California crime family or the L.A. Mafia, and dubbed "the Mickey Mouse Mafia" by former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, is an Italian American Mafia crime family based in Los Angeles, California as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.

The modern Italian American mafia began in 1931 in the aftermath of the destructive Castellammarese War. While the official fighting began in 1931, the events leading up to it were a forty year process.

Russo and his brother John were a skilled cat burglar team during their youth, which is how he earned his nickname "Little Pussy", short for "Little Pussycat".

On May 29, 1984, the crime boss of the Milwaukee crime family from 1961 to 1993, Frank "Frankie Bal" Balistrieri was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment after being convicted of extortion under the Hobbs Act based on the testimony of an FBI undercover agent.

Teriaca was no one to trifle with. But Sinatra was in a fighting mood. When Ben Novack put Sinatra together with Patsy Erra, the gangland leader said he'd be willing to have Teriaca meet the singer, but he'd get his ass kicked. “If Terry threw you out, you had it coming,”

On May 28, 2018 former consigliere of the Lucchese crime family, Christopher "Christie Tick" Furnari, Sr. died at his home in Staten Island, New York. Furnari was born in New York City & served as consigliere until he was 1986 convicted on racketeering charges in the famous New York Mafia Commission case, where he was sentenced to 100 years in prison before being released in 2014, after serving almost 28 years.

Powerful captain of the old Luciano Family Giuseppe "Joe Adonis" Doto, pictured in his much later years following his deportation to Italy in 1956.

He was known for his custom-made, wiseguy-style long collar shirts & hawk-like features. Russo was once wanted for robbery in Cleveland, Ohio & by this time was already an ex-convict out on parole. He made his bid for Mob immortality, when he gunned down hitman-turned-FBI-informant, Joseph “The Animal” Barboza, in San Francisco in 1976.

June, 1988 - Theodore “Teddy” Persico, nephew of Colombo family boss Carmine “The Snake” Persico, is sentenced to 20-years-to-life for drug dealing. On three separate occasions, he had sold more than thirteen ounces of cocaine to undercover officers.