New york mafia 1970s. Salvatore maranzano helped create the mafia in new york that enjoyed a golden. The bonanno colombo gambino genovese and lucchese. Armed with these new tools future new york mayor rudy giuliani then a federal prosecutor masterminded the indictment of 11 mafia leaders including the heads of new yorks five dominant crime.
The origins of what would eventually become the bonanno crime family can be traced back to sicily in the early 1900s. 1950 may 11. Maranzano called a meeting of crime bosses in wappingers falls new york where he declared himself capo di tutti i capi boss of all bosses.
Since 1931 five families have run new yorks italian american mafia. Police raid the lastella restaurant in queens to discover a meeting of top mafia leaders from new york and new orleans. During the late 1970s castellano was the most powerful of new yorks mafia bosses.
Since the 1970s kubecka had refused to participate with the mob control of the waste hauling business and had suffered extensive harassment as a result. The meeting is dubbed little apalachin one purpose of the meeting seems to be the distribution of tommy luccheses rackets. Mobsters still had their social clubs.
With masseria gone maranzano reorganized the italian american gangs in new york city into the five families headed by luciano profaci gagliano mangano and himself. The construction industry was closely aligned with mafia interests. Back to part 4 1955 1960 1970 1980 main menu.
To gather evidence against avellino members of the new york state organized crime task force octf used undercover informant robert kubecka the owner of a suffolk county new york garbage hauling business. In the 1970s the new york crime families still maintained control over the hauling and trash industries as well as the pier related unions such as the longshoremen and the fish market. In his later years he was a constant target for law enforcement.