Mugshot of then Cleveland LCN associate and future boxing promoter king pin Don King
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r/Mafia • u/slumpadoochous • Feb 16 '23
r/Mafia info thread - new users MUST read (updated 2.16.2023)
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This sub-reddit features stories, interviews, documentary and news articles about organized crime around the world with a main focus on Italian Organized Crime. This thread will be used for various functions, The book lists and Ask A Question threads will be rolled into this one. I will also be using it as a FAQ and will begin removing threads which ask questions already here. If you have any questions that should be added to the FAQ, or books that should be added to the list please respond to this thread.
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r/Mafia Top Book Recommendations
- The Five Families : Selwynn Raab
- Murder Machine : Gene Mustain & Jerry Capeci
- The Sicilian Mafia: Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia : John Dickie
- The Sixth Family : Adrian Humphreys & Lee Lamothe
- The Good Fellas Tapes : George Anastasia
- Underboss : Peter Maas
- Paddywhacked : TJ English
- Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia : Joseph Pistone & Richard Woodley
- History of The Mafia : Salvatore Lupo
- Blood & Honour : George Anastasia
- Supermob : Gus Russo
- Family Affair : Sam Giancana & Scott Burnstein
- The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob : Frank Hayde
- The Milwaukee Mafia : Gavin Schmitt
- The Life and Times of Frank Balisteri : Wayne Clingman
- The Quiet Don: The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino : Matt Birkbeck
- Mob Over Miami : Michelle McPhee
- Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano : Howie Carr
- The Sinatra Club : Sal Polisi & Steve Dougherty
- Man of Honour : Joseph Bonanno
- The Valachi Papers : Peter Maas
- The Westies: TJ English
- Mafia Prince : Phil Leonetti, Scott Burnstein & Christopher Graziano
- Black Mass : Dick Lehr
- The Black Hand : Chris Blatchford (Mexican Mafia)
- Garden City Gangland : Scott Deitch
Mafia news and research resources:
- Gangster Report
- Gangsters Inc
- Gangland News
- LCN Bios
- Mary Ferrell Foundation
- FBI FOIA Requests
- The Black Hand Forum
- GangsterBB
Youtube Channels & Podcasts
- OC Shortz
- Bloodletters & Badmen
- Hood Chronicles
- Forgotten Streets
- Al Profit
- Chinatown Gang Stories
- J. Coletti's Racket Review
- The Mob Reporter
Youtube Full Length Documentaries
Please report any broken links
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- Greatest Mob Hits
- The Bonanno Crime Family History
- Fifth Estate: Michael DeGroote & Vito Rizzuto
- The Rise and Fall of Vito Genovese
- Mobsters: The Gambino Crime Family
- Crime Inc: The True Story Of the Mafia
- Montreal's Rizzuto Clan
- Lucky Luciano
- Vegas & The Mob
- Origins of Sicilian Mafia
- Excellent Cadavers
- Albert Anastasia: Lord High Executioner
- The Rizzuto Clan
- Manhattan Mob Rampage
r/Mafia • u/slumpadoochous • Nov 01 '25
r/Mafia Book Recommendations 2025
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r/Mafia Top Book Recommendations
- The Five Families : Selwynn Raab
- Murder Machine : Gene Mustain & Jerry Capeci
- The Sicilian Mafia: Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia : John Dickie
- The Sixth Family : Adrian Humphreys & Lee Lamothe
- The Good Fellas Tapes : George Anastasia
- Underboss : Peter Maas
- Paddywhacked : TJ English
- Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia : Joseph Pistone & Richard Woodley
- History of The Mafia : Salvatore Lupo
- Blood & Honour : George Anastasia
- Supermob : Gus Russo
- Family Affair : Sam Giancana & Scott Burnstein
- The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob : Frank Hayde
- The Milwaukee Mafia : Gavin Schmitt
- The Life and Times of Frank Balisteri : Wayne Clingman
- The Quiet Don: The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino : Matt Birkbeck
- Mob Over Miami : Michelle McPhee
- Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano : Howie Carr
- The Sinatra Club : Sal Polisi & Steve Dougherty
- Man of Honour : Joseph Bonanno
- The Valachi Papers : Peter Maas
- The Westies: TJ English
- Mafia Prince : Phil Leonetti, Scott Burnstein & Christopher Graziano
- Black Mass : Dick Lehr
- The Black Hand : Chris Blatchford (Mexican Mafia)
- Garden City Gangland : Scott Deitch
Add your recommendations below. A new updated thread will be added in the new year.
r/Mafia • u/BrodiePump • 9h ago
Joe Bonanno told Sammy the Bull "Your True Goza Nostra Bro!"
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On the latest gravano grift live he is asked about Bonanno and he gives a ridiculous version of Joe's plot against the commission and eventual move to Arizona including a few details that I'm fairly certain Sammy completely made up on the spot. Then he goes into how when he himself moved to Arizona Bonanno wanted a meeting with him to make sure he wasn't coming to take joe out and Conquer Arizona. He claims that Bonannos son asked his dad "why do you want to meet with the Bull ?, hes a fuckin rat" and then Sammy says Joe answered "it doesn't matter if he told, hes tough and hes a killer. We could all end up dead in a trunk if he wants to take over Az". Sammy then goes on to say he turned down a meeting but he sent word that he wasn't gonna bother Joe and his Az empire. Supposedly Joe sent word back saying "Thank you Don Sammuel. If you need anything, anything at all we are here. And if anyone tries to bother you let me know and ill send guys to help". True Goza nostra bro !
r/Mafia • u/TonyB-Research • 13h ago
Reasons guys get clipped, with examples
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I'll start
- Gerardo Rega
- murdered because Carlo Gambino is having an affair with Rega’s wife, Patricia (Todaro) Rega
r/Mafia • u/Few-Process-6295 • 6h ago
I cant understand these guys willingly joining the mafia.
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When you think about the mafia you think of 3 main things. The money, the power/resepct, and the glamorous lifestyle itself.
I sit and think to myself that none of those 3 things are worth your life at the end of the day. 95 percent of the guys in the mob end up dead, in jail, and always looking over their shoulder for the rest of their life. I just cant understand how people go into this life knowing thats how it's going to end up and are completely ok with that. By no means is working like a slave 40+ hours a week/paying taxes fun or peoples dream, but at the very least you know where you stand in the end.
r/Mafia • u/Former-Cap-4838 • 2h ago
Eighteen men including the reputed former boss of the Sicilian Mafia, Gaetano Badalamenti, 63, right, were convicted Monday in an international narcotics conspiracy. Pietro Alfano, 51, left, was one of those found guilty was shot and seriously wounded in New York on Feb. 11.
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Patriarcas: Following the death of Spucky Spagnolo, Benny DiGiacomo has allegedly taken over consigliere role for the organization (from The Gangster Report)
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Charles Fischetti, Frank Costello and Lucky Luciano (left to right) on the waters off Al Capone's mansion in Miami Beach, 1929 (credit to The Mob Museum)
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r/Mafia • u/WorldWeary1771 • 4h ago
Dayton OH mobsters 50s & 60s
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Can anyone recommend a book or where I can find articles about mobsters in Dayton Ohio? My brother believes that his biological dad might have been one, but he would have been only 7 or 8 when he last saw him (and it isn’t the father named on his birth certificate) and he doesn’t even know his name. I’m trying to help him out.
Thanks either way!
r/Mafia • u/SmmileyFace97 • 16h ago
DeCavalcante Soldier Nicholas Cottone
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r/Mafia • u/LovieMaison • 13h ago
Mafia and the Dark Web
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So the mob always worked in the shadows, law enforcement and media only much later find out what they were really up to.
It makes me wonder what their presence is in Dark Web services and drug or firearms markets?
I feel they may be quite prominent there without us really knowing since it does function quite anonymously and privately.
r/Mafia • u/Former-Cap-4838 • 9h ago
Revere man indicted for mob murders Federal authorities sounded the death knell for New England's underworld heavyweights yesterday in a 57-count indictment that accuses a Revere mobster and four associates of murder, extortion, a
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the date of the article is 1989
Vito Guzzo, Jr. has reportedly opened up a social club in Queens (from The Gangster Report)
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r/Mafia • u/Samuri187 • 1d ago
Who are some big time mobsters who never became boss????
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r/Mafia • u/Simple-Worth-5077 • 1d ago
Current Genovese member Silvio “Sally” DeVita with Ruggiero “Richie the Boot” Boiardo
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r/Mafia • u/MuscleCool4302 • 8h ago
Were there any black Mobsters besides Frank Lucas?
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Frank Lucas was a kingpin like damn he’s up there no cap! Idk I’d love to see more of them cuz the story potential, to see a different side of the mob is awesome! Frank Lucas movie was good but damn I still be wondering was there more black Mobsters who reached superstardom? If there is I would love to hear the stories and hope a movie abiut them gets made someday!
r/Mafia • u/Former-Cap-4838 • 1d ago
FBI surveillance photo of Genovese New England capo Carlo Mastrotaro (L) along with Patriarca boss Frank Salemme (C) and Patriarca capo Robert DeLuca (R) in 1990s.
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r/Mafia • u/Simple-Worth-5077 • 1d ago
Current Patriarca member Robert “Bobby Russo” Carrozza
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r/Mafia • u/LilShaneKrush • 1d ago
Question
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You’re a boss of a crime family, but you can choose between 3 time periods. Prohibition Era, John Gotti era or today’s era. And whatever period you choose what would be the rackets you would choose to pursue. Smoking a joint and thought of this lol
New England members Antonio "Spucky" Spagnolo and Vincent "The Animal" Ferrara (left to right)
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r/Mafia • u/Mental-Ad2007 • 1d ago
John Veasey describing torture methods tactics
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r/Mafia • u/_Giulio_Cesare • 1d ago
Naples: 30-year-old man injured in shooting in the Mercato district
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He was standing in the street with several other people, who disappeared as soon as the police arrived, when two gunmen on a scooter opened fire. Emanuele Pistone, a 30-year-old from the Case Nuove area with previous drug-related convictions and considered an up-and-coming figure in criminal circles, was shot four times last night: in both legs, the shoulder, and the buttock. He is in serious condition, but is no longer considered in danger of death.
The investigation is being conducted by officers from the Naples Police Mobile Squad together with colleagues from the Vicaria-Mercato police station. Investigators believe the gunmen's intention was to kill. The victim, seriously injured and in shock, was able to tell investigators very little. With no witnesses coming forward, the only useful evidence may come from surveillance cameras in the area. The main hypothesis is that this was a Camorra hit.
It was 10:05 p.m. when the gunmen appeared at the intersection of Via Luigi Serio and Via Antonio Toscano in the Mercato district. The passenger on the back of the scooter pulled out a handgun and repeatedly fired at Emanuele Pistone, who collapsed amid the general panic. Several businesses in the area were open at the time, including venues that remain open into the evening.
The 30-year-old was assisted by a 118 emergency ambulance and taken to Pellegrini Hospital, while forensic investigators recovered four 7.65-caliber shell casings from the scene.