Italian Mob

Extracted Attributes

• Type

  Criminal organization

• Primary Activities

  Dispute arbitration among criminals, enforcement of illicit agreements through violence

• Secondary Activities

  Gambling, loan sharking, drug trafficking, prostitution, fraud

• Origin of 'Ndrangheta

  Calabria, Italy

• Key Constituent Groups

  Sicilian Mafia (Cosa Nostra), Italian-American Mafia (Cosa Nostra), Camorra, 'Ndrangheta

• Legal Designation (Italy)

  Mafia-type association (under Article 416 bis of the Italian Penal Code)

• Most Powerful Group (as of 2020s)

  'Ndrangheta

• Self-designation (Sicilian/Italian-American Mafia)

  Cosa Nostra

Timeline

• Italy's highest court of last resort, the Supreme Court of Cassation, ruled to designate 'Ndrangheta as a Mafia-type association. (Source: wikipedia)

  2010-03-30

• The 'Ndrangheta was officially designated as a Mafia-type association under Article 416 bis of the Italian Penal Code. (Source: wikipedia)

  2010

• The Italian mob conducted a violent shakedown against Molly Bloom, threatening her family in Colorado during her high-stakes poker game operations in New York City. (Source: related_documents)

  Unknown

Mafia

Informally or generally, a mafia is any of various criminal organizations that include, or bear a strong similarity to, the original Sicilian Mafia, the Italian-American Mafia, or other Italian organized crime groups. The central activity of such an organization would be the arbitration of disputes between criminals, as well as the organization and enforcement of illicit agreements between criminals through violence. Mafias often engage in secondary activities such as gambling, loan sharking, drug trafficking, prostitution, and fraud. The term Mafia was originally applied to the Sicilian Mafia. Since then, the term has expanded to encompass other organizations of similar practices and objectives, e.g. "the Russian mafia" or "the Japanese mafia". The term was coined by the press and is informal; the criminal organizations themselves have their own names (e.g. the Sicilian Mafia and the related Italian-American mafia refer to their organizations as "Cosa nostra"; the "Japanese mafia" calls itself Ninkyō dantai but is more commonly known as "Yakuza" by the public; and "Russian mafia" groups often call themselves "Bratva"). When used alone and without any qualifier, "Mafia" or "the Mafia" typically refers to either the Sicilian Mafia or the Italian-American Mafia and sometimes Italian organized crime in general (e.g. Camorra and 'Ndrangheta). By the 2020s, the 'Ndrangheta, originating in the southern Italian region of Calabria, was widely considered the richest and most powerful Mafia in the world. The 'Ndrangheta has been around for as long as the better-known Sicilian Cosa Nostra but was only designated as a Mafia-type association in 2010 under Article 416 bis of the Italian Penal Code. Italy's highest court of last resort, the Supreme Court of Cassation, had ruled similarly on 30 March 2010.

Web Search Results

• American Mafia - Wikipedia

  The American Mafia, commonly referred to in North America as the Italian-American Mafia, the Mafia, or the Mob, is a highly organized Italian-American criminal society and organized crime group. The terms Italian Mafia and Italian Mob apply to these American-based organizations, as well as the separate yet related Sicilian Mafia or other organized crime groups in Italy, or ethnic Italian crime groups in other countries. These organizations are often referred to by its members as Cosa Nostra [...] Italian-American Mafia may be colloquially referred to as simply "The Mafia" or "The Mob"; however, without context, these two terms may cause confusion as "The Mafia" may also refer to the Sicilian Mafia specifically or Italian organized crime in general, while "The Mob" can refer to other similar organized crime groups (such as the Irish Mob) or organized crime in general. [...] ## List of Mafia families [edit] Main article: List of Italian Mafia crime families § United States See also: List of Italian American mobsters and List of American mobsters by organization

• Greatest Italian Mafiosos | Pantheon

  Salvatore Maranzano (Italian: [salvaˈtoːre maranˈtsaːno]; July 31, 1886 – September 10, 1931), nicknamed Little Caesar, was an Italian-American mobster from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss who led what later would become the Bonanno crime family in New York City. He instigated the Castellammarese War in 1930 to seize control of the American Mafia, winning the war after the murder of rival faction head Joe Masseria in April 1931. He then briefly became [...] Bernardo Provenzano (Italian pronunciation: [berˈnardo provenˈtsaːno]; 31 January 1933 – 13 July 2016) was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia clan known as the Corleonesi, a Mafia faction that originated in the town of Corleone, and de facto the boss of bosses ("il capo dei capi"). His nickname was Binnu u tratturi (Sicilian for "Bernie the tractor") because, in the words of one informant, "he mows people down". Another nickname was il ragioniere ("the accountant"), due to his [...] Russell Alfred Bufalino (; born Rosario Alfredo Bufalino, Italian: [roˈzaːrjo alˈfreːdo bufaˈliːno]; October 29, 1903 – February 25, 1994) was an Italian-American mobster who became the crime boss of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Italian-American Mafia crime family known as the Bufalino crime family, which he ruled from 1959 to 1994. He was a cousin of attorney William Bufalino, the longtime counsel for Jimmy Hoffa. ### 9.Giuseppe Morello (1867 - 1930)

• Mafia Secrets: Crime's Most Famous Godfathers & 'Families'

  Investigations by the FBI and other elite police units have shone light into the dark corners occupied by the real-life gangsters immortalized in The Godfather, Goodfellas and The Sopranos. The FBI has kept an eye on the five families that have run New York’s US-Italian mob since the 1930s - the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese families - and continue to do so today. [...] In the mafia hotbed of southwest Italy, mobsters are tracked by the Cacciatori di Calabria, literally 'the hunters' of the Calabria region, highly-trained police who track the ‘Ndrangheta syndicate, one of Europe's biggest drug cartels. During one raid, the hunters struck gold: they found notebooks of hieroglyphics and a cipher detailing how each hieroglyphic corresponded to the Latin alphabet. Italian media described the find as a mafia Rosetta Stone. Police have since cracked the code,

• Sicilian Mafia - Wikipedia

  ## Mafia-type organizations under Italian law [edit] [...] The basic group is known as a "family", "clan", or cosca. Each family claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town, village or neighborhood (borgata) of a larger city, in which it operates its rackets. Its members call themselves "men of honour", although the public often refers to them as mafiosi. By the 20th century, wide-scale emigration from Sicily led to the formation of mafiosi style gangs in other countries, in particular in the United States, where its offshoot, the American [...] Introduced in 1982 by Pio La Torre, article 416-bis of the Italian Penal Code defines a Mafia-type association (associazione di tipo mafioso) as one where "those belonging to the association exploit the potential for intimidation which their membership gives them, and the compliance and omertà which membership entails and which lead to the committing of crimes, the direct or indirect assumption of management or control of financial activities, concessions, permissions, enterprises and public

• Origins of the Mafia - Meaning, Location & Sicily - History.com

  The Mafia, a network of organized-crime groups based in Italy and America, evolved over centuries in Sicily, an island ruled until the mid-19th century by a long line of foreign invaders. Sicilians banded together in groups to protect themselves and carry out their own justice. In Sicily, the term “mafioso,” or Mafia member, initially had no criminal connotations and was used to refer to a person who was suspicious of central authority. By the 19th century, some of these groups emerged as [...] ## Did you know? The Sicilian Mafia is one of four major criminal networks currently based in Italy; the other three are the Camorra of Naples, the Ndrangheta of Calabria and the Sacra Corona Unita of Puglia. [...] Mafiusi della Vicaria” (“Heroes of the Penitentiary”), about a group of inmates at a Sicilian prison who maintained their own hierarchy and rituals, toured Italy and helped popularize the term Mafia in the Italian language.