This is a list of Italian organized crime groups around the world. This list does not include all groups, clans or families identified as Cosa Nostra (Mafia crime families). This list does not include all

Camorra The Camorra (; ) is an Italian Mafia-typeMafia and Mafia-type orga ...

'Ndrangheta The 'Ndrangheta (, , ) is a prominent Italian Mafia-type organized crime syndicate and secret society, criminal society based in the peninsular and mountainous region of Calabria and dating back to the late 18th century. It is considered one of ...

Sacra Corona Unita Sacra Corona Unita (, ; acronym: SCU) also known as fourth mafia is a Mafia-type criminal organization and criminal society from the Apulia region in Southern Italy, and it is especially active in the areas of Brindisi, Lecce, and Taranto. Ori ...

clans (''"crime families"'').

Italy

In Italy there are many different Mafia-like organizations.

Veneto

*In the ''Region of Veneto'' the Mala del Brenta operate in the area.

Lombardy

*In the ''Region of

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'' the defunct

Banda della Comasina La Banda della Comasina (; "Gang of the Comasina") is the name which the Italian media used to describe a criminal group active in the 1970s in robberies, kidnappings and weapons trafficking in the northern area of Milan: the Comasina. The area of ...

operated in the area.

Lazio

*In the ''Region of Lazio'' the Banda della Magliana and the

Mafia Capitale The Mafia Capitale is the name given to an organized crime organization and subsequent investigation involving the government of the city of Rome, in which members stole money destined for city services and carried out other criminal activities su ...

operate in the area.

Basilicata

*In the ''Region of

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'' the defunct

Basilischi The Basilischi () is an organized crime group based in Basilicata, Southern Italy, officially formed in 1994 by Giovanni Luigi Cosentino in Potenza. On 22 April 1999, 84 orders for pre-trial custody were issued by the Prosecutor's Office in Pote ...

operated in the area.

Apulia

*In the ''Region of

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clans control the area.

Calabria

*In the ''Region of

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clans control the area.

Campania

*In the ''Region of Campania'' the

Camorra The Camorra (; ) is an Italian Mafia-typeMafia and Mafia-type orga ...

clans control the area.

Sicily

*In the ''Region of Sicily'' the

Sicilian Mafia The Sicilian Mafia, also simply known as the Mafia and frequently referred to as Cosa nostra (, ; "our thing") by its members, is an Italian Mafia-terrorist-type organized crime syndicate and criminal society originating in the region of Sicily a ...

clans and the Stidda control the area.

United States

According to the 2004 New Jersey State Commission of Investigation, there were 24 active Mafia families in the United States.The Changing Face of Organized Crime in New Jersey
A Status Report. May 2004. (pp. 91–140) In 2004, author Thomas Milhorn reported that the Mafia was active in 26 cities across the United States.

Northeastern United States

New York

*The Five Families – operate in New York City, the New York Metropolitan area, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida, California and Nevada. ** Bonanno ** Colombo ** Gambino **

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** Lucchese Western New York *

Buffalo crime family The Buffalo crime family, also known as the Magaddino crime family, Buffalo Mafia, The Arm, the New York State crime family, the Upstate New York Mafia, and the Todaro crime family, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Buffalo, Ne ...

(Magaddino family) *

Rochester crime family The Rochester crime family or Rochester Mafia was a criminal organization based in Rochester, New York that was part of the American ''Cosa Nostra''. History The Rochester family's first well known official boss was Constenze "Stanley" Valent ...

– defunct

New Jersey

* DeCavalcante crime family (mostly North Jersey and

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) *Five Families have crews operating in New Jersey **

Lucchese crime family New Jersey faction The Lucchese crime family's New Jersey faction, also known as the Jersey Crew,Carlpg. 232-236/ref> is a powerful crew within the Lucchese crime family. The members operate throughout the Northern New Jersey area. During the 1970s into the late 198 ...

** Genovese crime family New Jersey faction ** Cherry Hill Gambinos * Philadelphia crime family operates in

South Jersey South Jersey comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey located between the lower Delaware River and the Atlantic Ocean. The designation of South Jersey with a distinct toponym is a colloquialism rather than an administrative ...

, including

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, and Trenton

Pennsylvania

* Philadelphia crime family (Bruno-Scarfo family) *

Bufalino crime family The Bufalino crime family,''Organized Crime in Pennsylvania: Traditional and Non-Traditional''. Pennsylvania Crime Concession. April 15, 1988 also known as the Pittston crime family,Devico, Peter J. ''The Mafia Made Easy: The Anatomy and Culture o ...

( Northeastern Pennsylvania, particularly

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, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and the Wyoming Valley area) – defunct * Pittsburgh crime family (LaRocca family) – semi-dufunct

New England

Patriarca crime family The Patriarca crime family (, ), also known as the New England Mafia, the Boston Mafia, the Providence Mafia, or The Office is an Italian-American Mafia family in New England. It has two distinct factions, one based in Providence, Rhode Island, ...

( Boston, Massachusetts and

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, Rhode Island), parts of Connecticut. *Genovese family Springfield crew (

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) and New Haven crew ( New Haven, Connecticut) and some action in Lewiston, Maine

Maryland

*Gambino family

Baltimore Crew The Baltimore Crew was an Italian American organized crime group that ultimately became a faction of the Gambino crime family operating in the port city of Baltimore, Maryland from about 1900 until the 1990s. It was originally an independent org ...

(

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) – defunct

Midwestern United States

Illinois

* Chicago Outfit

Michigan

* Detroit Partnership (Zerilli family)

Missouri

* Kansas City crime family (Civella family) *

St. Louis crime family The St. Louis crime family,Devicopp. 197-202/ref>Dietchepp.150/ref> also known as the Giordano crime family or St. Louis Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. History Early Italian gangs ...

(Giordano family)

Ohio

The city of

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was at one point considered open territory, split between the

Cleveland crime family The Cleveland crime family or Cleveland Mafia is the collective name given to a succession of Italian-American organized crime gangs based in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. A part of the Italian-American Mafia (or ''Cosa Nostra'') phenom ...

(Porrello family) and the Pittsburgh crime family (LaRocca family). *

(Porrello family)

Wisconsin

Milwaukee crime family The Milwaukee Crime Family, Balistrieri Crime Family, or Milwaukee Mafia is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Peter J. Devico ''The Mafia Made Easy: The Anatomy and Culture of La Cosa Nostra.'(pg.154-156)/ref> T ...

(Balistrieri family)

Southern United States

*Birmingham crime family – defunct since 1938

Florida

Trafficante crime family The Trafficante crime family, also known as the Tampa Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Tampa, Florida, United States. The most notable boss was Santo Trafficante, Jr. who ruled Tampa and the crime family with an iron fist. ...

(Tampa area) – possibly defunct, Florida is considered open territory with many families operating in the area. *The Chicago Outfit – is operating in South Florida *The ''Five Families'' of New York have crews operating in South Florida **''Bonanno crime family'' – is operating in South Florida **''Colombo crime family's'' Florida faction – is operating in South Florida **''Gambino crime family's'' Florida faction – is operating in South Florida and the Tampa Bay Area. **''Genovese crime family'' – is operating in South Florida. See soldier Albert Facchiano **''Lucchese crime family'' – is operating in South Florida and Central Florida Counties of Pasco and

Pinellas Pinellas is the name of a peninsula located roughly halfway down the west coast of Florida. It forms the western boundary of Tampa Bay and comprises the bulk of Pinellas County. There is a city named Pinellas Park in south Pinellas. The peninsula ...

. *DeCavalcante crime family – Florida faction is operating in Miami.

Louisiana

New Orleans crime family The New Orleans crime family or New Orlean Mafia was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in the city of New Orleans. The family had a history of criminal activity dating back to the late nineteenth century. The family reached its height ...

(Marcello family) – defunct

Texas

Dallas crime family The Dallas crime family or Dallas Mafia was an Italian-American Italian-American Mafia, Mafia American Mafia crime families, crime family based in Dallas, Texas. History Carlo Piranio Carlo Piranio, a native of Sicily, immigrated to the U.S. ...

(Civello family) – defunct *

Maceo Organization The Maceo Organization, also known as the Maceo Syndicate, was a criminal organization, that ran Galveston, Texas politically and criminally throughout most of Galveston's open era. The organization's bosses, Sam and Rosario Maceo, operated ...

(Galveston-Houston family) – defunct

Western United States

Arizona

* Chicago Outfit - (defunct) under Joseph "Papa Joe" Tocco the family operated in Phoenix * Bonanno family Arizona crew - (defunct) under

Salvatore Bonanno Salvatore Vincent "Bill" Bonanno (November 5, 1932 – January 1, 2008) was an American mobster who served as consigliere of the Bonanno crime family, and son of crime boss Joseph Bonanno. Later in life, he became a writer and produced films fo ...

the family operated in Tucson

California

* Los Angeles crime family (Los Angeles area) * San Francisco crime family (Lanza family) – defunct *

San Jose crime family The San Jose crime family, also known as the Cerrito crime family or San Jose Mafia, was one of the two families that controlled organized crime in San Jose, California, within the nationwide criminal organization known as the Mafia (or La Cosa ...

(Cerrito family) – defunct

Nevada

Las Vegas is considered open territory allowing all crime families to operate in the city's Casinos. Since the 1930s, the Los Angeles family, the ''Five Families'' of New York and the Midwest families have owned and operated in Casinos in the '' Las Vegas Strip''. *See: Mobsters in Las Vegas

Colorado

* Denver crime family (Smaldone family) – defunct

Washington

Seattle crime family The Seattle crime family, also known as the Colacurcio crime family
by Michael Ro ...

(Colacurcio family)

Canada

Ontario

In Southern Ontario there are two types of Italian organized crime Cosa Nostra (Sicilian) and

(Calabrian).Adrian Humphrey
"A New Mafia: Crime families ruling Toronto, Italy alleges"
(September 24, 2010) In the 2018 book, ''The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia'', Alex Perry reports that the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta has, for the past decade, been replacing the Sicilian Cosa Nostra as the primary drug traffickers in North America. *

Musitano crime family The Musitano crime family () is a 'Ndrangheta organized crime family based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as well as Platì in Southern Italy and Buccinasco and Bareggio in Northern Italy. The Musitano family was founded by Angelo Musitano in Ca ...

– a Calabrian mafia family, based in

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Papalia crime family The Papalia crime family () also known as Papalia 'ndrina, is a 'Ndrangheta organized crime family based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as well as Platì in Southern Italy and Buccinasco in Northern Italy. Another branch of the family is based in ...

– a Calabrian mafia family, based in Hamilton, with strong connections to the

Luppino crime family The Luppino crime family, () also known as the Luppino-Violi crime family, is a 'Ndrangheta organized crime family based and founded in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in the 1950s by Giacomo Luppino. The Luppino family is one of three centralized Mafi ...

– a Calabrian mafia family, based in Hamilton, with strong connections to the Buffalo crime family * Siderno Group – is the name for the "'Ndrangheta" clans (crime families). There have been seven senior 'Ndrangheta bosses in the

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, some on the

Camera di Controllo The ''Camera di Controllo'' (Board of Control), is a collegial body of the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organisation in Calabria. It is also known as ''La Provincia'' (the Province) or ''Camera di Compensazione'' (compensation board). It is composed o ...

, the "board of directors" – namely in Vaughan. The Toronto-area Siderno group has included the Coluccio, Tavernese, DeMaria, Figliomeni, Ruso, and Commisso crime families;

Carmine Verduci Carmine Verduci (; May 12, 1959 – April 24, 2014) was an Italian-Canadian mobster from Oppido Mamertina, Calabria, based in Woodbridge, Ontario linked to the Greater Toronto Area 'Ndrangheta group called the Siderno Group. He also had a seat on ...

was also linked with the 'Ndrangheta group. Leaders are based both in Calabria and Ontario.Man ordered deported over alleged mob ties
National Post, April 8, 2010 The Siderno clans are part of the Commisso 'ndrina a crime family based in

, Italy. During a 2018 criminal trial, an Italian police expert testified that the 'Ndrangheta operated in the

and in Thunder Bay particularly in drug trafficking, extortion, loan sharking, theft of public funds, robbery, fraud, electoral crimes and crimes of violence. After the trial, Tom Andreopoulos, deputy chief federal prosecutor, said that this was the first time in Canada that the 'Ndrangheta was targeted as an organized crime group since 1997, when the Criminal Code was amended to include the offence of criminal organization. He offered this comment about the organization:

"We’re talking about structured organized crime. We’re talking about a political entity, almost; a culture of crime that colonizes across the sea from Italy to Canada. This is one of the most sophisticated criminal organizations in the world."

Quebec

In Quebec there are two types of Italian organized crime: Cosa Nostra and

. While Canadian law enforcement agencies consider the Rizzuto and Cotroni crime families to be separate, the FBI considers them to be sub-units of the Bonanno crime family's Montreal faction.Lamothe & Humphreys, ''The Sixth Family'', p.308 * Cotroni crime family – a "'Ndrangheta" family, the Calabrian faction * Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan – a Canadian extension of the Sicilian family * Rizzuto crime family – a "Cosa Nostra" family, the Sicilian faction

United Kingdom

England

* The Italian mob - led by Charles 'Darby' Sabini during the interwar years. * Bert "Battles" Rossi – Also known as the "General of

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". He acted as the representative for the American mafia in London from the 1960s to the mid-1970s. * The Cortesi brothers – Rivals of the Sabini's. * The Rocca family - A group of enforcers that were based in Islington.

Scotland

*''La Torre clan'' – a ''Camorra clan'' from

Mondragone Mondragone (Neapolitan language, Campanian: ) is a ''comune'' or municipality in the Province of Caserta in the Italy, Italian region of Campania. It is located about northwest of Naples and about west of Caserta. History In the Middle Ages, it ...

, Italy is operating in Aberdeen, Scotland and was led by

Antonio La Torre Antonio La Torre is an Italian multi-billionaire real estate developer, restaurateur and member of the Camorra. He is the brother of Augusto La Torre, the former head of the powerful :it:clan La Torre, La Torre clan from Mondragone. In 1984 he mo ...

Australia

New South Wales

* Barbaro 'ndrinaItalian mafia laundering cocaine money Down Under
, news.com.au, April 11, 2008 – a Calabrian Clan based in Platì, Italy with operations in

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. *

Robert Trimbole Bruno Robert Trimbole (19 March 1931 – 12 May 1987) was an Australian businessman, drug baron and organised crime boss whose alleged involvement in drug trafficking in the Griffith, New South Wales, area, which according to popular loose fic ...

's Crew (defunct), once controlled the marijuana drug market in Griffith.

Victoria

The Carlton Crew The Carlton Crew is a criminal organisation based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, which was formed in the late 1970s and named after the Melbourne suburb in which it is based, Lygon Street, Carlton, commonly called "Little Italy". The orga ...

– a predominantly Sicilian group, operating in Melbourne. *The Honoured Society

Argentina

Santa Fe Province

The Rosario mafia - led by Juan Galiffi during the 1920s and 1930s.

Notes

Sources

*Capeci, Jerry. ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia''. Indianapolis: Alpha Books, 2002. *Milhorn, H. Thomas. ''Crime: Computer Viruses to Twin Towers''. Universal Publishers, 2005.

External links

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Italy

Veneto

Lombardy

Lazio

Basilicata

Apulia

Calabria

Campania

Sicily

United States

Northeastern United States

New York

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

New England

Maryland

Midwestern United States

Illinois

Michigan

Missouri

Ohio

Wisconsin

Southern United States

Florida

Louisiana

Texas

Western United States

Arizona

California

Nevada

Colorado

Washington

Canada

Ontario

Quebec

United Kingdom

England

Scotland

Australia

New South Wales

Victoria

Argentina

Santa Fe Province

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