MAFIA

Mafia

•Also known as Sicilian Mafia (Cosa Nostra)

•Controlled from its historic home of Palermo
•Operate more than 40 countries
•Consist of approximately 180 families
•5,000 members
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•Mafia means “REFUGE” in Arabic

 Mafia 5 Basic Principle
•Omerta – Code of silence

•Total obedience to the ‘Don’ or Boss

•Assistance to any befriended Mafia faction, no

question asked

•To avenge any attack on members of the

Family

•To avoid any and all contact with law

enforcement authorities
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•$20 billion laundered criminal profitsreturn

each year to PALERMO
• Rank 80th Italian cities in Per-
capita Income
•5th in consumer spending
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•In United State known by the FBI as a

Italian Organize Crime
•Criminal alliance of 10 major families
“Brugards”
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•Late 1800’s – Mafia emigrated to the

United States and originally took hold in
New Orleans.

•Early 1900’s - Every major US city had a

mafia chapter and their activities limited
to extortion.
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•Early 1920’s – Local “dons “ or Boss moved
into Prostitution and Gambling

•Al Capone Chicago and Salvatore

“LUCKY” Luciano in New york
•Bottlegging
•Gambling
•Rackets
•Prostitution
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•1931- Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lanskey and

Bugsy Seigel worked out a system of
arbitration through a council and divided
the country into 10 regions.
•Each controlled by one of
the original 10 families.
-Lucky Luciano

-Nov.24,1897 –
Jan.26,1962

-1st Head of the modern

Genovese Families

-1st master of
laundering money
-Meyer Lansky

-July 4,1902 –
Jan.15,1983

-Mafia Associate
-Mafia Financer

-1st master of
laundering money
-Bugsy Siegel

-Feb. 28,1906 – June

20,1947

-1st To build major

casino in Las Vegas

-Infamous and Feared

Gangster on his Time
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10 major Families and 15 minor families

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5 Largest East Coast Families based in
New York

1st Vito Genovese

2nd Carlo Gambino

3rd Gaetano Lucchese

4th Guiseppe Magliocco

5th Joseph Bonanno

-Vito Genovese
-rose to power during
Prohibition as an
ENFORCER in the
American Mafia
-Carlo Gambino
-boss of the Gambino
crime family, which is
still named after him
-Gaetano
Lucchese
- founding member of
the Mafia in the United
States

-he was the boss of

the Lucchese crime Family
-Guisepi
Magliocco
- the boss of the Profaci
crime family

-unsuccessful attempt to
kill other family bosses
and take over the Mafia
Commission
-Joseph Bonanno
- who became the boss of
the Bonanno crime Family
-Peter Savino
- who became Informant of the Gambino crime Family in
Mid’s 1980’s
-Sammy the Bull
Gravano
- 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.
-Mario Fabbrocino
- Most Senior Dons in Italian
Mafia

-is a powerful Italian crime

boss of the Camorra

-Italy’s 10 most wanted

-Was Arrested on Argentina

on August 27, 1997
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*Sept. 26, 1997 – 31 of the Highest ranking

members of the Mafia were convicted of
Murder in the 1992 highway bombing of
Italy’s Top anti-Mafia Prosecutor.
-Salvatore “toto” Riina
- Mafia reputed “Boss of Bosses”

-Chief of the Sicilian Mafia

-known for a ruthless murder

campaign that reached a peak in the
early 1990s with the assassinations
of Anti-Mafia Commission.
MAJOR ACTIVITIES
-Drug Trafficking -Fraud
Money Laundering Counterfeiting
Labor Racketeering Infiltration of
Illegal Gambling legitimate businesses
Political Corruption Murder
Extortion Bombing
Kidnapping Weapon trafficking
 Size and Structure

* Chicago * NewY
* San Francisco * Atlan

* Las Vegas
* Los Angeles
The American Mafia
Operates on a strict
hierarchical
structure with 25,000
members total and
250,000 affiliates
worldwide