La Cosa Nostra
| Click Me | Description | Partner ID | Partner Link |
|---|
| Group ID | 67436 |
| LittleSis.org ID | 266846 |
| Description | A highly organized Italian-American criminal society with origins in Sicily. |
| Parent org | Organized crime |
| State/Country | |
| website | |
| Reference URL | https://littlesis.org/entities/266846-La_Cosa_Nostra |
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Additional data from LittleSis.org
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| Related Party | Description | Detail | Start | End | Count | Sum | Currency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| link | Chicago Outfit and La Cosa Nostra have a hierarchical relationship | null | null | null | null | null | null |
| link | Trafficante Crime Family and La Cosa Nostra have a hierarchical relationship | null | null | null | null | null | null |
| link | Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan and La Cosa Nostra have/had a hierarchical relationship | clan | 1950-00-00 | 2000-00-00 | null | null | null |
| link | Bonanno Crime Family and La Cosa Nostra have a hierarchical relationship | null | null | null | null | null | null |
| link | Gambino Crime Family and La Cosa Nostra have a hierarchical relationship | null | null | null | null | null | null |
| link | Lucchese Crime Family and La Cosa Nostra have/had a hierarchical relationship | null | null | null | null | null | null |
| link | DeCavalcante crime family and La Cosa Nostra have/had a hierarchical relationship | null | null | null | null | null | null |
| link | Genovese crime family and La Cosa Nostra have a hierarchical relationship | family | 1931-00-00 | null | null | null | null |
| link | Salvatore Maranzano has/had a position (capo di tutti capi) at La Cosa Nostra | capo di tutti capi | 1931-04-15 | 1931-09-10 | null | null | null |
| link | Colombo Crime Family and La Cosa Nostra have a hierarchical relationship | family | null | null | null | null | null |
| link | Philadelphia Crime Family and La Cosa Nostra have/had a hierarchical relationship | null | null | null | null | null | null |
| link | Patriarca Crime Family and La Cosa Nostra have a hierarchical relationship | null | null | null | null | null | null |
| link | Detroit Partnership and La Cosa Nostra have a hierarchical relationship | null | null | null | null | null | null |
| link | Rochester crime family and La Cosa Nostra have/had a hierarchical relationship | null | null | null | null | null | null |
| link | Buffalo Crime Family and La Cosa Nostra have/had a hierarchical relationship | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Affiliated Individuals
Switch to tiled layout map| File | Photo | Name | Region | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Maranzano, Salvatore | capo di tutti capi | ||
| ID | Image | Name | Description | State/Country | Known members |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Five Families of New York | The Five Families is the organization of the five major New York City organized crime families of the Italian-American Mafia formed in 1931 by Salvatore Maranzano following his victory in the Castellammarese War. Maranzano reorganized the Italian American gangs in New York City into the Maranzano, Profaci, Mangano, Luciano, and Gagliano families, which are now known as the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese families. Each family had a demarcated territory and an organizationally structured hierarchy and reported up to the same overarching governing entity. Initially, Maranzano intended each family's boss to report to him as the capo di tutti i capi ("boss of all bosses"). However, this led to his assassination that September, and that role was abolished for The Commission, a ruling committee established by Lucky Luciano to oversee all Mafia activities in the United States and serve to mediate conflicts between families. It consisted of the bosses of the Five Families as well as the bosses of the Chicago Outfit and the Buffalo crime family. In 1963, Joseph Valachi publicly disclosed the existence of New York City's Five Families at the Valachi hearings. Since then, a few other crime families have been able to become powerful or notable enough to rise to a level comparable to that of the Five Families, holding or sharing the unofficial designation of Sixth Family. | NY | 0 | |
| DeCavalcante crime family | New Jersey-based family of La Cosa Nostra | 0 | ||
| Philadelphia Crime Family | Also known as the Bruno Crime Family, the Philadelphia Crime Family is the popular umbrella term for members of La Cosa Nostra in the Atlantic City/South Jersey area as well. | 0 | ||
| Chicago Outfit | Chicago-area affiliate of La Cosa Nostra; a criminal enterprise as defined by the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act | 5 | ||
| Trafficante Crime Family | Tampa-based affiliate of La Cosa Nostra | 2 | ||
| Patriarca Crime Family | New England-area affiliate of La Cosa Nostra | 0 | ||
| Detroit Partnership | Detroit-area affiliate of La Cosa Nostra | 0 | ||
| The Commission | Nickname for the ruling organization of the American Mafia composed of its regional bosses and their intermediaries acting as delegates. | 0 |
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