A gang leader who built a powerful criminal enterprise, an ex-congressman from New York, and a Connecticut governor all ...

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 ...

Soldiers, captains, ranking members of the notorious Lucchese crime syndicate, one of the five ruling families of the New York Mafia ... The two mobsters, Carmine Variale and Frank Santora ...

On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to his involvement with a New York Mafia gambling ring that saw ... lucrative gambling operations. Carmelo 'Carmine' Polito, 64, a former acting captain pleaded ...

IN the 1970s the Big Apple was known as 'Fear City' for its lawless streets gripped by drugs, mob violence and gruesome murders. Former New York Mafia ... that was my boss Carmine Persico ...

Murray Kempton, the greatest newspaper columnist New York has ever known ... Kempton recalled an episode in which Persico, Carmine Galante, and others were playing cards, and Galante, a widely ...

He also described Shapiro as a “mob guy.” Moreover, after New Jersey regulators in 1982 ... for such mobsters as Fat Tony Salerno, Carmine Galante, and John Gotti.) Yes, the United States ...

New York Daily News front page July 13 ... The bodies of reputed mob godfather Carmine Galante (right) and associate Nino Coppolla are strewn where they fell after a rubout in the backyard ...

New York is not quite ready, however, to divvy up the commission’s authority as a key line of defense against organized crime. New York officials argue that New Jersey unilaterally withdrawing from ...

What need was there now for Carmine Galante and his grabbing, controlling demands?” Lamothe and Humphreys wrote. The Bonanno family in New York also had changed drastically ... the death knell for Joe ...

Many of America's most infamous gangsters were creatures of New York. I've been hearing ... of one of the city's most notorious mob killings. Carmine Galante, the leader of the Bonanno crime ...