Corleone Family is one of the biggest and the most powerful crime family of America. They are also one of the five families in Mafia who operates in New York, America. This family was formed by Don Vito Corleone. And they had a great network in New York, Miami, Reno and Las Vegas. Later after [...]
Black Mafia Family – the BMF – is one of the crime families based in Detroit, Michigan. It was founded in the late 1980s, but the name ‘BMF’ was given in 2000. Its territory includes California, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri and Michigan. It has allies with the Crips and Campanella Park Piru. It is estimated [...]
Mexican Mafia is a Mexican-American organized crime organization. It is also known as La Eme. It is one of the most powerful gangs of America being run by prisoners serving in various penal institutions of California. Initially the members of the gang called themselves the Mexikanemi meaning ‘he who walks with God in his heart’. [...]
Licavoli Mob was a crime gang of Detroit. It was formulated by Peter Licavoli, also known as Pete and Thomas Yonnie Licavoli; they were real brothers. It all started when Purple Gang disintegrated in 1930. Peter Licavoli along with his brother Thomas Yonnie Licavoli completely took over this collapsing gang and started their criminal activities [...]
Denver mafia family was an organized crime family of Denver, Colorado. It was also known as the Smaldone crime family. Joe Roma was the first Italian gangster who came to Denver, Colorado. He laid the foundation of the Smaldone crime family by formulating a small gang with Clyde Smaldone and Eugene Checkers Smaldone, real brothers. [...]
Yakuza is the organized crime group of Japan. It is also known as bōryokudan meaning ‘violence group’. The Yakuza members call themselves ninkyō dantai meaning ‘chivalrous organizations’. Yakuza was founded in the 17th century. The Yakuza is involved in illegal gambling, smuggling, prostitution and blackmailing. It is estimated that there are around 87,000 members in [...]
Powerhouse of the Sicilian Mafia in America, the five biggest American Mafia families are discussed below: Lucchese Family Lucchese family was originally started by Gaetano Tommy Reina in the early 1920s and ended up in 1930 after his murder. Some of its illegal activities were money laundering, illegal gambling, drug trafficking, extortion, hijacking, and murder [...]
The Corleone family is a fictional Sicilian Mafia family settled in New York City. The family was created by Mario Puzo and appears in his 1969 novel The Godfather, as well as the acclaimed film trilogy of the same name directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The family was founded by Vito Corleone (born Vito Andolini), [...]