Although not as powerful as other families, the DeCavalcante family is noted for inspiring the fictional crime family portrayed in the most popular pop culture portrayal of the mob in recent years, the HBO TV series The Sopranos.
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In 1984, attorney Tyrone Jackson (Phil Morris), his brother Jazz Jackson (Jon St. Elwood) and private investigator Andy Richards (Steven Ford) gather enough evidence to dismantle the local organized crime family, headed by Joseph Anthony (Logan Ramsey).
November 23 - Cleveland crime family Boss James T. "Blackie" Licavoli dies of a heart attack at the age of 81 while serving a prison sentence at the Oxford Federal Correctional Institution in Oxford, Wisconsin.
At this time, mob associate and Florida gambling operator Meyer Lansky persuaded the Mafia Commission that both Miami and Miami Beach should be considered "open cities", places in which any crime family in the country could set up operation.
No longer in control of his crime family, longtime Luciano ally and supporter Meyer Lansky who had vast gambling interests across America, along with casino interests in Las Vegas and Cuba was in need of a new sponsor and ally within the former Luciano family.
Ettore Zappi (1904–1986), aka Tony Russo, Gambino crime family figure and nephew of mobster Andrew Russo
John Barbato (born May 15, 1934 is a New York City mobster and reputed captain in the Genovese crime family.
In the universe of the novels, he is the Don of the Tramonti crime family (inspired of New Orleans crime family) from 1931 to 1964.
During his imprisonment, still in control of the crime family, Damian and Derek Noonan were forging links with other notable Manchester gangs including the Cheetham Hill and Salford gangs.
Dominick started out as a boxer with future Genovese crime family boss Thomas Eboli ("Tommy Ryan") as his manager and world heavyweight champion Tommy Ryan worked as his trainer.
Los Angeles crime family, sometimes referred to as the Dragna crime family
Fabio Ochoa Restrepo (1923-2002), father, Colombian rancher and patriarch of a notorious crime family associated with the Medellín Cartel
During the 1980s, he emigrated to the United States, and in 1989, Guarraci was inducted into the crime family during a ceremony led by John Riggi himself, according to Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo, who turned state's evidence in 2000.
Raised in Canarsie, Brooklyn, Lastorino soon joined the Lucchese crime family under Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo in extortion, loansharking and illegal gambling operations during the 1970s, and was recognized as one of the most notorious hitmen from the Brooklyn faction of the crime family.
At the time, Scarabino's criminal activities were labor and construction racketeering, illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion and murder, as he reportedly conspired to murder Daniel Annunziatta and even former Acting boss and captain, Gaetano "Corky" Vastola, in the early 1990s on the orders of John D'Amato, who had been recruited by John Gotti into take over the DeCavalcante crime family after the imprisonment of Riggi in 1990.
Carmine Galante (1910-1979), a member of the Bonanno crime family
James Galante (born 1953), a member of the Bonanno crime family
Toward the mid 1970s, Giuseppe Schifilliti was inducted into the DeCavalcante crime family, under the leadership of Simone "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante and early Underboss, Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi.
Operating out of the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, Gotti quickly rose to prominence, becoming one of the crime family's biggest earners and a protégé of Gambino family underboss Aniello Dellacroce.
Anthony Indelicato (born 1947), a member of the Bonanno crime family and son of the above
Al Indelicato (1931-1981), a high-ranking member of New York City's Bonanno crime family
James McBratney (November 17, 1941, New York City, New York – May 22, 1973, Staten Island, New York) was an Irish American gangster, believed to have been involved in the 1972 kidnappings of Emanuel "Manny" Gambino (nephew of Carlo Gambino) and Lucchese crime family caporegime Francesco Manzo and Gambino crime family mafioso Vincent D'Amore.
On December 28, 1972, McBratney made arrangements to kidnap a Gambino crime family loanshark who Jerry Capeci and fellow investigative journalists only identify as "Junior".
Joseph Colombo (1914–1978), American gangster, boss of the Colombo crime family
In that film, Lucy is the mother of Sonny's illegitimate son, Vincent, who eventually succeeds Michael Corleone as the head of the Corleone crime family.
Both Goldstein and Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss were convicted of the murder of Irving "Puggy" Feinstein, a small time gambler whose death had been ordered by Albert Anastasia as a favor to the boss of the crime family Anastasia belonged to, Vincent Mangano.
Mikey Coppola (born 1946), Michael "Mikey Cigars" Coppola, member of the Genovese crime family
Michael James Genovese (1919–2006), allegedly a leader of the Pittsburgh crime family
Michele Miranda (1896–1973), longtime member and eventual consigliere of the Genovese crime family
In his biography The Valachi Papers, Mafia turncoat Joe Valachi insisted Murder, Inc. did not commit crimes for the Mafia, but this is contradicted by other sources, and Albert Anastasia was also head of a Mafia crime family.
In 2005, Gambino family capo Carmine Sciandra was shot outside of his Top Tomato supermarket store located in New Springville by a former NYPD officer who was in the presence of two Bonanno crime family gangsters.
Weiss was indicted, and out of fear that he would cooperate, Gambino crime family boss John Gotti ordered Weiss's murder, and delegated the work to the DeCavalcante crime family.
In 1981 the top members of the Los Angeles crime family, including boss Dominic Brooklier, were sentenced to jail time on RICO charges.
Pietro Inzarillo or Inzerillo (1858-1905), a New York underworld figure and a member of the Morello crime family
Raymond Patriarca, Jr., Providence mobster and former leader of the Patriarca crime family
Raymond L.S. Patriarca, Providence mobster and founder of the Patriarca crime family
The San Francisco crime family also known as the Lanza crime family was an American Mafia crime syndicate in San Francisco.
In the 1920s, Ferrigno was a mid-level leader in the Brooklyn crime family of Salvatore "Totò" D'Aquila, the self-proclaimed "Boss of Bosses" of the New York Mafia.
DeSimone's paternal grandfather, Rosario DeSimone became the boss of the Los Angeles crime family after Vito Di Giorgio was killed in Chicago in 1922.
Leslie Van Houten (born 1949), former member of Charles Manson's crime family
Paul Vario (1914-1988), a high-ranking member of the Lucchese crime family
The Iaccuzzo character was based on real-life Genovese Crime Family capo Matthew Ianniello, who was known to extort and own several nightclubs in New York City that catered to homosexual clientele.