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 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 ...

(Mafia crime families). This list does not include all Camorra, 'Ndrangheta or Sacra Corona Unita clans (''"crime families"'').

Italy

In Italy there are many different Mafia-like organizations.

Veneto

*In the ''Region of

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'' the Mala del Brenta operate in the area.

Lombardy

*In the ''Region of Lombardy'' the defunct Banda della Comasina operated in the area.

Lazio

*In the ''Region of

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'' the

Banda della Magliana The Banda della Magliana (, ''Magliana Gang'') is an Italian criminal organization based in Rome. It was founded in 1975. Given by the media, the name refers to the original neighborhood, the Magliana, of some of its members. The ''Banda dell ...

and the Mafia Capitale operate in the area.

Basilicata

*In the ''Region of Basilicata'' the defunct Basilischi operated in the area.

Apulia

*In the ''Region of Apulia'' the Sacra Corona Unita clans control the area.

Calabria

*In the ''Region of Calabria'' the 'Ndrangheta clans control the area.

Campania

*In the ''Region of

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'' the Camorra clans control the area.

Sicily

*In the ''Region of

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'' the Sicilian Mafia clans and the

Stidda The Stidda (; ) is a Sicilian & Maltese Mafia-type criminal organization and criminal society centered in the central-southern part of Sicily & Malta. Members are known as ''stiddari'' or ''stiddaroli''. It is most active in the rural parts o ...

control the area.

United States

According to the 2004 New Jersey State Commission of Investigation, there were 24 active

Mafia "Mafia" is an informal term that is used to describe criminal organizations that bear a strong similarity to the original “Mafia”, the Sicilian Mafia and Italian Mafia. The central activity of such an organization would be the arbitration of d ...

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 The Five Families refers to 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 ...

– operate in New York City, the

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, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida, California and Nevada. ** Bonanno **

Colombo Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo m ...

** Gambino ** Genovese ** Lucchese Western New York * Buffalo crime family (Magaddino family) * Rochester crime family – defunct

New Jersey

DeCavalcante crime family The DeCavalcante crime family, also known as the North Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia organized crime family that operates mainly in northern New Jersey, particularly in Elizabeth, Newark, West New York, and various other North Jer ...

(mostly

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and Central Jersey) *Five Families have crews operating in New Jersey ** Lucchese crime family New Jersey faction **

Genovese crime family New Jersey faction The Genovese crime family's New Jersey faction is a group of Italian-American mobsters within the Genovese crime family who control organized crime activities within the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey faction is divided into multiple crews e ...

** Cherry Hill Gambinos *

Philadelphia crime family The Philadelphia crime family, also known as the Philadelphia Mafia, the Philly Mob or Philly Mafia, the Philadelphia-South Jersey Mafia, or Bruno-Scarfo family is an Italian-American Mafia family based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formed and ...

operates in South Jersey, including Atlantic City, and Trenton

Pennsylvania

(Bruno-Scarfo family) * Bufalino crime family (

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, particularly Pittston,

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and the

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area) – defunct *

Pittsburgh crime family The Pittsburgh crime family,CapeciChapter 5 "Mafia Families Poison the Northeast"/ref> also known as the LaRocca crime family''Organized Crime in Pennsylvania: Traditional and Non-Traditional''. Pennsylvania Crime Concession. April 15, 1988 or P ...

(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 American Mafia, Mafia crime family, family in New England. It has two distinct factions, one based ...

(

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, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island), parts of

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. *Genovese family Springfield crew ( Springfield, Massachusetts) and New Haven crew (

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) and some action in

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Maryland

*Gambino family Baltimore Crew (

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) – defunct

Midwestern United States

Illinois

Chicago Outfit The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or The Organization) is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate or crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, ...

Michigan

Detroit Partnership The Detroit Partnership (also known as the Detroit crime family, Detroit Combination, Detroit Mafia, Zerilli crime family, and the Tocco–Zerilli crime family) () is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Detroit, Michigan, and ...

(Zerilli family)

Missouri

Kansas City crime family The Kansas City crime family, also known as the Civella crime family or Kansas City Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia family based in Kansas City, Missouri. History Early history The Italian-American organized crime family began when two Si ...

(Civella family) * St. Louis crime family (Giordano family)

Ohio

The city of Youngstown was at one point considered open territory, split between the Cleveland crime family (Porrello family) and the

(LaRocca family). * Cleveland crime family (Porrello family)

Wisconsin

* Milwaukee crime family (Balistrieri family)

Southern United States

*Birmingham crime family – defunct since 1938

Florida

* Trafficante crime family (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

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. **''Genovese crime family'' – is operating in South Florida. See soldier

Albert Facchiano Albert Joseph Facchiano (March 10, 1910 – August 16, 2011), also known as "Chinkie" and "the Old Man", was a Miami mobster with the New York Genovese crime family who was involved in loansharking and extortion in South Florida. Facchiano ach ...

**''Lucchese crime family'' – is operating in South Florida and Central Florida Counties of Pasco and Pinellas. *DeCavalcante crime family – Florida faction is operating in

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Louisiana

* New Orleans crime family (Marcello family) – defunct

Texas

* Dallas crime family (Civello family) – defunct * Maceo Organization (Galveston-Houston family) – defunct

Western United States

Arizona

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

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* Bonanno family Arizona crew - (defunct) under Salvatore Bonanno the family operated in

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California

Los Angeles crime family The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the L.A. Mafia or the Southern California crime family, is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Los Angeles as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia. Since its inception in the ea ...

(Los Angeles area) *

San Francisco crime family The San Francisco crime family, also known as the Lanza crime family or San Francisco Mafia, was an American Mafia crime syndicate in San Francisco. The syndicate was organized in the early 1930s by Francesco "Frank" Lanza. The San Francisco fami ...

(Lanza family) – defunct * San Jose crime family (Cerrito family) – defunct

Nevada

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is considered open territory allowing all crime families to operate in the city's

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s. 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 The Colorado crime family, also known as the Smaldone crime family, Denver crime family, Denver Mafia or the Mountain Mafia was an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Pueblo and Denver, Colorado. Pete and Sam Carlino’s bootle ...

(Smaldone family) – defunct

Washington

* Seattle crime family (Colacurcio family)

Canada

Ontario

In Southern Ontario there are two types of Italian organized crime

(Sicilian) and 'Ndrangheta (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 – a Calabrian mafia family, based in Hamilton * Papalia crime family – a Calabrian mafia family, based in Hamilton, with strong connections to the Buffalo crime family * Luppino crime family – 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 Greater Toronto Area, some on the Camera di Controllo, the "board of directors" – namely in

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. The Toronto-area Siderno group has included the Coluccio, Tavernese, DeMaria, Figliomeni, Ruso, and Commisso crime families; Carmine Verduci 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 The Commisso 'ndrina () is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organization in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina is based in Siderno, but also has a branch in the Greater Toronto Area in Canada as part of the Siderno Group. ...

a crime family based in Calabria, Italy. During a 2018 criminal trial, an Italian police expert testified that the 'Ndrangheta operated in the Greater Toronto Area and in

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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:

and 'Ndrangheta. 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 The Bonanno crime family (pronounced ) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the " Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, and in the United States, as part of the criminal phenomenon known as ...

's Montreal faction.Lamothe & Humphreys, ''The Sixth Family'', p.308 * Cotroni crime family – a "'Ndrangheta" family, the Calabrian faction *

Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan The Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan () was a Mafia clan of the Cosa Nostra and held a key position in the illicit drug trade and money laundering for Cosa Nostra in the 1980s and 1990s. The Italian press baptized the clan as "The Rothschilds of the ...

– a Canadian extension of the Sicilian family *

Rizzuto crime family The Rizzuto crime family () is an organized crime family based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, whose criminal activity covers most of southern Quebec and Ontario. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) considers the family a facti ...

– 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 Clerkenwell". 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, Italy is operating in

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, Scotland and was led by Antonio La Torre.

Australia

New South Wales

Barbaro 'ndrina The Barbaro 'ndrina is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina belongs to the '' locale'' of the town of Platì. According to the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (DIA - the Itali ...

Italian mafia laundering cocaine money Down Under
, news.com.au, April 11, 2008 – a Calabrian Clan based in

Platì Platì (; scn, label= Calabrian, Pratì) is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Reggio Calabria, in Calabria, southern Italy. It rises above sea level on the slope of the Aspromonte mountains and is located next to the Asprom ...

, Italy with operations in Griffith. * Robert Trimbole's Crew (defunct), once controlled the marijuana drug market in Griffith.

Victoria

* The Carlton Crew – a predominantly Sicilian group, operating in

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

. *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

Gangrule, American mafia history

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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

See also

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