In 1931, following decades of turf warfare, Brooklyn bootlegger Salvatore Maranzano established the leaders of New York City’s five largest Italian-American criminal organizations and declared himself ...

Of all the five crime families of New York, some are more trustworthy than others, and the Godfather trilogy shows that the balance between them is delicate. There are six Corleone family Dons in ...

A New York jury on Wednesday convicted a former detective of lying to authorities in an effort to protect the mafia family whom he moonlighted for.

Aggressive federal prosecutions in the past three decades have decimated the ranks of New York’s once-powerful five Mafia families: Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese. Sign up for new ...

The Justice Department on Wednesday charged 10 men accused of being members of the Gambino crime family with racketeering conspiracy ... alleges they committed crimes in an effort to dominate New York ...

The Bonannos and Genoveses, two of New York City's five mafia families, generally kept to their separate spheres during the 1980s and into the early 2000s, said a long-time mob investigator.