Episodes

  • VINCENT ALO

    VINCENT ALO
    Jul 16 2024
    They called him "Jimmy Blue Eyes". Alo was a key figure in New York's post-Prohibition Genovese Mafia family. He served as a liaison between the Sicilian-Italian mafia and Meyer Lansky's criminal organization. In fact, as we will say below, he was Meyer Lansky's partner in the construction of various casinos in Florida and Cuba.

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    8 mins
  • CARLO GAMBINO

    CARLO GAMBINO
    Jun 30 2024
    The Gambino mafia family was certainly among the most powerful of Cosa Nostra. The great success of the gang is due precisely to the charismatic Carlo Gambino who directed the criminal activity for almost twenty years, and exactly from the mid-1950s until his death, which occurred due to natural causes, in 1976.

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    10 mins
  • ANTHONY STROLLO

    ANTHONY STROLLO
    Jun 23 2024
    According to FBI files, Anthony Strollo, also known as Tony Bender, was Vito Genovese's right-hand man. Strollo was one of the great protagonists of the history of the Mafia in New York City and New Jersey in the late 1940s and early 1960s. He also pulled the strings in a lucrative drug trafficking and gambling operation for the Genovese crime family.

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    8 mins
  • FRANK CARBO

    FRANK CARBO
    Jun 9 2024
    10 mins
  • GAETANO LUCCHESE

    GAETANO LUCCHESE
    May 18 2024
    Gaetano Lucchese known as Tommy Gunn or Tommy Three Fingers Brown was a leading exponent of the American mafia. It is no coincidence that one of the five New York mafia families still bears his surname.

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    7 mins
  • VITO GENOVESE

    VITO GENOVESE
    May 13 2024
    Vito Genovese was considered one of the most treacherous, double-dealing and ruthless mafia bosses of the American Mafia.

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    8 mins
  • TOMMASO GAGLIANO

    TOMMASO GAGLIANO
    Mar 8 2024
    Tommaso Gagliano was certainly the godfather of the Bronx. We can define him as an inconspicuous if not even reserved character. He was also little known outside mafia circles.

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    6 mins
  • GAETANO REINA

    GAETANO REINA
    Mar 7 2024
    Gaetano Reina, known as Tom or Tommy, is considered one of the most powerful Mafia Bosses in New York. He worked in the 1910s and 1920s. It can be said that he was the first boss of what is still remembered today as the Lucchese mafia family.

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    5 mins