Meanings of american mafia in English

The Gambinos are one of the five historic Italian- American Mafia families in New York.

He was never a factor again in the American Mafia.

Over the years, the death of the American Mafia has been solemnly pronounced many times.

Decades later, a millionaire, Bonanno was identified by U.S. government as one of top bosses in American Mafia.

The conventional wisdom about the American Mafia's stance on drugs has been that the bosses were against narcotics trafficking.

Joseph Bonanno's challenge to the Commission and Maggadino set the stage for one of the most bizarre episodes in American Mafia history.

Though it's probably premature to declare either the Italian or the American Mafia morto, both have been severely wounded, the latter perhaps permanently.

Mr Giuliani is the former US Associate Attorney-General, and is famed for his prosecution of major American Mafia crime bosses in the 1980s.

Concerning the latter, per American Mafia code, he could not be a boss because he hadn't been made a member of the American Mafia.

He was the secretive and elusive boss of the Bonanno crime family, the last American Mafia don of substance to be free on the streets.

Around the time Joseph Massino and Josephine Vitale were getting acquainted in working-class Maspeth, the American Mafia was on the verge of some big changes.

"Joe the Boss would run the American Mafia, with Lupo as an unofficial advisor, immune from reimprisonment by remaining in the shadows," Sciacca states.