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Albert Anastasia
Albert Anastasia (born Umberto Anastasio, September 26, 1902 – October 25, 1957) was an Italian Cosa Nostra mobster, one of the most ruthless and feared organized crime figures in United States history.
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Aniello Dellacroce
Aniello John "Neil" Dellacroce (March 15, 1914 – December 2, 1985), also known as "Mr.
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Anthony Corallo
Antonio "Tony Ducks" Corallo (February 12, 1913 – August 23, 2000) was a New York City mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family.
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Anthony Indelicato
Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato (born 1947), also known as "Bruno" and "Whack-Whack", is a capo with the Bonanno crime family of New York City.
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Anthony Salerno
Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno (August 15, 1911 – July 27, 1992) was a New York mobster who served as underboss and front boss of the Genovese crime family from 1981 until his conviction in 1986.
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Bonanno crime family
The Bonanno crime family (pronounced) is one of the Five Families that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).
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Caporegime
A caporegime or capodecina, usually shortened to just a capo, is a rank used in the Mafia (both the Sicilian Mafia and Italian-American Mafia) for a made member of the crime family who heads a "crew" of soldiers and has major social status and influence in the organization.
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Carmine Galante
Carmine Galante (pronounced gah-LAN-tay), also known as "Lilo" and "Cigar" (February 21, 1910 – July 12, 1979), was a mobster and boss of the Bonanno crime family.
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Carmine Persico
Carmine John Persico, Jr. (born August 8, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) also known as "Junior", "The Snake", and "Immortal", has been the boss of the Colombo crime family since 1973.
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Christopher Furnari
Christopher "Christie Tick" Furnari, Sr. (1924 – May 28, 2018) was a Lucchese crime family mobster.
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Colombo crime family
The Colombo crime family (pronounced) is the youngest of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal organization known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).
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Contract killing
Contract killing is a form of murder in which one party hires another party to kill a target individual or group of people.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Five Families
The Five Families are the five major New York City organized crime families of the Italian American Mafia.
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Gambino crime family
The Gambino crime family (pronounced) is one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).
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Gennaro Langella
Gennaro Adriano Langella (December 30, 1938 – December 15, 2013) also known as "Gerry Lang",Gennaro Langella was a member of the Colombo crime family who eventually became underboss and acting boss.
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Genovese crime family
The Genovese crime family (pronounced) is one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City and New Jersey as part of the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). Often nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime, the Genovese crime family are rivaled in size only by the Gambino crime family, and are unmatched in terms of power. They have generally maintained a varying degree of influence over many of the smaller mob families outside New York, including ties with the Philadelphia, Patriarca, and Buffalo crime families. The current "family" was founded by Charles "Lucky" Luciano, and was known as the "Luciano crime family" from 1931 to 1957, when it was renamed after boss Vito Genovese. Originally in control of the waterfront on the West Side of Manhattan and the Fulton Fish Market, the family was run for years by "the Oddfather", Vincent "the Chin" Gigante, who feigned insanity by shuffling unshaven through New York's Greenwich Village wearing a tattered bath robe and muttering to himself incoherently to avoid prosecution. The Genovese family is the oldest and the largest of the "Five Families". Finding new ways to make money in the 21st century, the family took advantage of lax due diligence by banks during the housing bubble with a wave of mortgage frauds. Prosecutors say loan shark victims obtained home equity loans to pay off debts to their mob bankers. The family found ways to use new technology to improve on illegal gambling, with customers placing bets through offshore sites via the Internet. Although the leadership of the Genovese family seemed to have been in limbo after the death of Gigante in 2005, they appear to be the most organized family and remain powerful. - the wiretap network - wmob.com Unique in today's Mafia, the family has benefited greatly from members following the code of Omertà. While many mobsters from across the country have testified against their crime families since the 1980s, the Genovese family has only had 8 members turn state's evidence in its history.
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Giuseppe Calò
Giuseppe 'Pippo' Calò (born September 30, 1931) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia.
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Giuseppe Greco
Giuseppe "Pino" Greco (4 January 1952 – September 1985) was a hitman and high-ranking member of the Sicilian Mafia.
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Hobbs Act
The Hobbs Act, named after Congressman Sam Hobbs (D-AL) and codified at, is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1946 that provides: Section 1951 also proscribes conspiracy to commit robbery or extortion without reference to the conspiracy statute at.
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Jack Nicholson
John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker who has performed for over sixty years.
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James T. Licavoli
James T. "Blackie" Licavoli also known as "Jack White" (August 18, 1904 − November 23, 1985) was a Cleveland, Ohio mobster and one of the earliest organized crime figures to be convicted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act).
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John Gotti
John Joseph Gotti Jr. (October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002) was an Italian-American gangster who became boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City.
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Kuwait
Kuwait (الكويت, or), officially the State of Kuwait (دولة الكويت), is a country in Western Asia.
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Lucchese crime family
The Lucchese crime family (pronounced) is one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Michael Franzese
Michael "Yuppie Don" Franzese (born May 27, 1951) is a former New York mobster and caporegime of the Colombo crime family who was heavily involved in the gasoline tax rackets in the 1980s.
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Money laundering
Money laundering is the act of concealing the transformation of profits from illegal activities and corruption into ostensibly "legitimate" assets.
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Nicodemo Scarfo
Nicodemo Domenic "Little Nicky" Scarfo (March 8, 1929 – January 13, 2017) was a member of the American Mafia who eventually became the boss of the Philadelphia crime family after the death of Angelo Bruno and Phil Testa.
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Oxford, Wisconsin
Oxford is a village in Marquette County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Paul Castellano
Constantino Paul "Big Paul" Castellano (June 26, 1915 – December 16, 1985), also known as "The Howard Hughes of the Mob" and "Big Paulie" (or "PC" to his family), was an American mafia boss who succeeded Carlo Gambino as head of the Gambino crime family in New York, the nation's largest Cosa Nostra family at the time.
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Philadelphia crime family
The Philadelphia crime family, (pronounced) also known as the Philadelphia Mafia, the Philly Mob/Mafia, or the Philadelphia-South Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia family based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Philip Rastelli
Philip "Rusty" Rastelli (January 31, 1918 – June 24, 1991) was a New York mobster and former boss of the Bonanno crime family, though he spent all but two years of his reign in prison.
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Prizzi's Honor
Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 American comedy-drama film directed by John Huston.
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.
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Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.
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Ralph Scopo
Ralph "Little Ralphie" Scopo (1932 – March 1993) was a New York mobster with the Colombo crime family who became a powerful labor racketeer.
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Salvatore Riina
Salvatore "Totò" Riina (16 November 1930 in Corleone – 17 November 2017 in Parma), called Totò 'u Curtu (Totò the Short; Totò being the diminutive of "Salvatore"), was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s with the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, resulting in widespread public outcry and a major crackdown by the authorities.
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Salvatore Santoro
Salvatore T. "Tom Mix" Santoro, Sr. (November 18, 1915 Bureau of Narcotics, Sam Giancana, The United States Treasury Department. Mafia: The Government’s Secret File on Organized Crime. 2007. – January 2000)Capeci, Jerry.
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Sicilian Mafia
The Sicilian Mafia, also known as simply the Mafia and frequently referred to by members as Cosa Nostra (this thing of ours), is a criminal syndicate in Sicily, Italy.
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Sparks Steak House
The Sparks Steak House is a steakhouse restaurant located at 210 East 46th Street (between Second Avenue and Third Avenue) in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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The Commission (mafia)
The Commission is the governing body of the American Mafia,Capcei, Jerry.
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Thomas Bilotti
Thomas "Tommy" Bilotti (March 23, 1940 – December 16, 1985) was a New York mobster with the Gambino crime family who served as underboss for two weeks.
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Vincent M. Ferrara
Vincent M. Ferrara, also known as "The Animal", (born 1949) is a former Italian-American mobster and business entrepreneur from Boston, Massachusetts and former Capo of the New England-based Patriarca crime family of La Cosa Nostra.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_in_organized_crime
