According to investigators, a Mexican Mafia member referred to as "The Elegant One" placed rapper Swifty Blue on the ...

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

It took nearly 100 years, but the Pucciano family finally got to say a proper goodbye to NYPD Detective Joseph Pucciano, ...

He spoke four languages including Italian ... gangsters in Brooklyn. His family said he was a prolific detective back in the day. "His big achievement, there was an earlier mafia gang called ...

The Lucchese Family is one of the notorious “five families” of the Italian-American Mafia, each with its own ... s territory includes the boroughs of Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan.

The mafia had insinuated itself into other top teams. In 2018, Italian investigators found ... Its members have been arrested in Brooklyn and Guyana and Ivory Coast. Corrupting the fan base ...

“The coordinated investigation lasted more than two years and revealed criminal activity spanning the United States and Canada,” the Brooklyn ... at Italian-Americans. “The ‘Bills Mafia ...

He had such good relations with all the different ethnicities around Brooklyn and Queens ... He was a mafia boss and the founder of the Italian American Civil Rights League.

In their latest book, Red Hook: Brooklyn Mafia Ground Zero ... and the Black Hand (Italian mob), and the geographic and psychological reasons why the isolated Brooklyn neighborhood was a hotbed ...