In 1931, following decades of turf warfare, Brooklyn bootlegger Salvatore Maranzano established the leaders of New York ...

At The Times and elsewhere, he wrote about wrongful convictions, fake methadone clinics and the five powerful Mafia families in New York.

While The Godfather is about the rise and fall of the powerful Corleone mafia family, the story is bigger than that, with five families at the center of the mafia war. The Godfather trilogy begins ...

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.

An associate is a term used to describe members of a mafia family who have ... an associate of the Bonanno crime family, one of New York’s infamous ‘Five Families’ (Facebook) Footage ...

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 ...

Reformed mobster Anthony Ruggiano Jr. rates scenes from "Goodfellas," "The Godfather," and "The Sopranos." ...