Those roots? As Charles “Lucky” Luciano would later say, “Half the people I met in Sicily were in the mafia.” The New York Mafia’s Sicilian roots were evident in 1903 when on 11 th ...

The Lucchese Family is one of the notorious “five families” of the Italian-American Mafia, each with its own territory, set up to control criminal activities in New York City. Gioia became a ...

Businesses that remained open were frequently raided by the police. Already a strong presence in New York, members of the Mafia saw a business opportunity in catering to the otherwise shunned gay ...

This naturally attracts society’s underbelly, and as a youngster growing up there in the 60s, for Frank Dimatteo that meant ...

Former New York Mafia prince Michael Franzese witnessed it all - but believes a new silent breed of gangsters could be even more dangerous. The infamous 'Five Families' who once ruled the state by ...

Federal authorities say they have busted an organized crime racket reminiscent of the Mafia's heyday, involving illegal gambling parlors in New York City and Long Island and a police detective ...

A former police detective was convicted Wednesday of lying to the FBI in order to protect a Mafia family's illegal gambling operations in the New York City suburbs. Hector Rosario, a former ...