What is the name of the New York Italian-American mobster and was made the "new boss" of the Genovese crime family?
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Greenwich Village Crew The Greenwich Village Crew is a crew within the Genovese crime family, active in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. It was originally controlled by Don Vito Genovese from the early 1920s until his arrest in the late 1950s. In the early 1980s Capo Vincent Gigante, was made the "new boss" of the Genovese crime family. He continued to operate from and with the "Greenwich Village Crew" members. Today the crew is still active, but after the death of Dominick Canterino, it is uncertain who is controlling the crew.
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Vincent Gigante Vincent Louis Gigante ( ; March 29, 1928 – December 19, 2005), also known as "Chin", was a New York Italian-American mobster in the American Mafia who was boss of the Genovese crime family from 1981 to 2005. Gigante started out as a professional boxer who fought 25 bouts between 1944 and 1947. He then started working as a Mafia enforcer for what was then the Luciano crime family. Gigante was one of five brothers: Mario, Pasquale, Ralph and he all became mobsters in the Luciano family, forerunner of the Genovese family. Only one brother, Louis, stayed out of the crime family, instead becoming a priest. Gigante was the shooter in the failed assassination of longtime Luciano boss Frank Costello in 1957. After sharing a prison cell with Costello's rival, Vito Genovese, following Vito's conviction for heroin trafficking, Gigante became a caporegime, overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers and associates that operated out of Greenwich Village. Gigante was one of Genovese's most loyal supporters, siding with him throughout the struggle for power with Costello.
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Al Indelicato Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato (February 25, 1931 - May 5, 1981) was a caporegime in New York City's Bonanno crime family who was murdered with two other capos in an infamous gangland slaying.
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John DiFronzo John DiFronzo (born December 13, 1928), known as John "No Nose" DiFronzo is an American mobster and the reputed current boss of the Chicago Outfit.
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Carlos Marcello Carlos Marcello, also known as The Godfather and "The Little Man" Marcello (February 6, 1910 – March 2, 1993), was a Sicilian-American mafioso who became the boss of the New Orleans crime family during the 1940s and held this position for the next thirty years.
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Nicola Gentile Nicola Gentile (June 12, 1885 – November 6, 1966), also known as Nick Gentile, was a Sicilian mafioso and an organized crime figure in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. He was also known for publishing his memoirs which, violating the mafiosi code known as "omerta", revealed many details of the Sicilian and American underworld. Gentile was born in Siculiana, a small village on the south coast of Sicily in the province of Agrigento. He immigrated to the United States arriving in New York at age 18, in 1903. Gentile fled the country in 1937 while out on $15,000 bail after an arrest for heroin trafficking and returned to Sicily to become a boss in the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. In the US, he was known as "Nick" and in Sicily as "Zu Cola" (Uncle Cola).
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John Stanfa Giovanni "John" Stanfa (born December 7, 1940) is the former boss of the Philadelphia crime family from 1991 to 1995. Convicted of multiple charges in 1995, Stanfa is currently serving five consecutive life sentences.
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Anthony Trentacosta Anthony Trentacosta (September 12, 1940 - December 25, 2005), also known as "Tony Pep", was a New York mobster and Caporegime with the Gambino crime family who headed one of their factions in South Florida.
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Sammy Gravano Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano (born March 12, 1945) is a former underboss of the Gambino crime family. He is known as the man who helped bring down John Gotti, the family's boss, by agreeing to testify against him and other mobsters in a deal in which he confessed to involvement in 19 murders.
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Joseph Barbara (mobster) Joseph "Joe the Barber" Barbara (August 9, 1905 – June 17, 1959) was a New York state mobster who became the boss of the Bufalino crime family. Barbara is most notable for hosting the abortive Apalachin Conference in 1957. He was the father of mobster Joseph Barbara, Jr.
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Frank Coppa Anthony Coppa Sr. (born September 11, 1941) is a Sicilian-American gangster in the Bonanno crime family who was a close friend of Joseph Massino and Frank Lino and made large sums of money in stock fraud schemes. In 2002, Coppa became the first Bonanno made man to turn state's evidence.
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Marco Reginelli Marco "Small Man" Reginelli (1897 – May 26, 1956) was a New Jersey mobster who became underboss of the Bruno crime family and operated a famous nightclub in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Reginelli's nickname came from his short stature.
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Anthony Accetturo Anthony "Tumac" Accetturo (born 1938) is a former caporegime and leader of the New Jersey faction of the Lucchese crime family, The Jersey Crew.
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Gerlando Sciascia Gerlando "George from Canada" Sciascia (] ; 1934 – March 18, 1999), was a New York City mobster and a caporegime of the Bonanno crime family, who was also the Sixth Family's representative from New York and was a major narcotics trafficker in Canada and the United States.
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Joseph Corozzo Joseph "Jo Jo" Corozzo, Sr. (born in1942 on Pitkin Avenue in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn) is a New York mobster who was the reputed consigliere of the Gambino crime family.
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Frankie Carbo Paul John Carbo (born Paolo Giovanni Carbo on August 10, 1904 – died November 22, 1976), better known as "Frankie Carbo", was a New York City Mafia soldier in the Lucchese crime family, who operated as a boxing promoter and a gunman with Murder, Inc.
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Giovanni Inzerillo Giovanni Inzerillo (born in Brooklyn, New York, April 30, 1972), is a construction entrepreneur and son of Salvatore Inzerillo, a notorious Sicilian Mafia boss who was killed in May 1981 on the orders of Mafia boss Salvatore "Totò" Riina during the Second Mafia War.
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Alphonse Sisca Alphonse "Funzi" Sisca (Born in 1942 or 1946) is the head of the Gambino crime family New Jersey crew. Sisca was an ally of John Gotti and started a drug dealing operation with Angelo Ruggiero and Arnold Squitieri. Sisca was arrested along with other Gambino members for conspiracy. Sisca also pleaded guilty for racketeering charges on March 31, 2006. Sisca became New Jersey Faction Leader for the Gambino crime family in 2012.
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Rosario Gambino Rosario "Sal" Gambino is an Italian mobster in the Gambino crime family. He became nationally known when he and his brothers set up a multimillion dollar heroin cartel during the 1970s and 1980s. At the turn of the century he made headline news again when members of his family were suspected of trying to get him a presidential pardon through bribery.
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Leonard DiMaria Leonard "Lenny" DiMaria (born 1941), also known as "Prateek" and "the Conductor", is a New York mobster and Caporegime in the Gambino crime family. He is considered by law enforcement to be a close associate of Nicholas Corozzo and has served as his right-hand-man for almost 30 years.
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List of Cohen crime family members The Cohen crime family, or the Siegel-Cohen crime syndicate, was a Jewish-Italian crime family that was active from 1933 to 1961. The family was founded by New York Jewish mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel in the early 1930s. He had Los Angeles Mafia boss Jack Dragna and Jewish mobsters Mickey Cohen and Moe Sedway as his lieutenants. He created the biggest prostitution ring, gambling and protection rackets in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. He also expanded into drug trafficking and bookmaking.
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Rosario DeSimone Rosario DeSimone (December 11, 1873 – July 15, 1946), was the head of an Italian crime family during the 1920s to 1940s that was the predecessor to the Los Angeles crime family of the American Mafia. Rosario was the father of the future California mob boss, Frank DeSimone. Not to be confused with the Chicago Italian Timothy Rosario DeSimone.