Joseph Bonanno Research Paper

Along with New York, he began to make plans for The Commission, a nation-wide governing body for organized crime. He also became one of the Big Six bootleggers, dealing drugs on a larger scale (“Lucky Luciano Biography.com.” Edited by Biography.com, The Biography.Com website, A&E Television Networks, 17 June 2015, www.biography.com/people/lucky-luciano-9388350). At some point in Luciano’s life, Masseria and Maranzano-- the top bosses-- were engaged in a turf war. After hiring Luciano to take out Masseria, Maranzano launched him to the top alongside him. However, Maranzano soon decided Luciano was a threat and attempted to take him out. Luciano heard of this plan and beat him to it, ensuring his power over the Genovese family of organized crime in New York

Luciano’s men shot, stabbed, and killed Maranzano before he showed up. With Luciano now in charge he wanted the business to be different. He didn’t care who was involved as long as they had skills and knowledge; no longer did it matter if you were Italian. He started working with Meyer Lansky to build his empire and make the most money

His name was on police records for running scams and he quickly rose to power by working with other mafia leaders in the country to build an empire and gain used his ties to other mafia leaders across the country to create a network of connections and to gain control in the American mafia organization. By 1910 D'Aquila was the official ringleader of his own New York–based Sicilian mafia group. In 1928 Salvatore was murdered by Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria murderer’s who was the boss of the Genovese family. Alfred “Al Mineo” Manfredi took over until he killed in the Castellammarese War in 1930. Then Frank Scalise became the new boss and remained in power for three years. Vincent Mangano stayed in power for twenty years until he was murdered and helped the family become more ruthless. Albert Anastasia was rumored to be responsible for Vincent Mangano’s death but denied it. However, he was named the new boss but his reign was short lived due to his murder in 1957. The Commission promoted Carlo Gambino as the new boss of the Anastasia family which turned into the Gambino crime family. Carlo Gambino is believed to have helped organize the hit to take over the

The Sicilian Mafia and the Camorra (mafia group located in Naples) were both created in the mid-1800’s (FBI 2010). These are the two mafia groups we will focus on. The Sicilian Mafia was originally an underground secret society formed to unite the peasants as resistance fighters and vigilante justice to protect their families and friends. In the 1920’s these chivalrous groups developed into what we know as the mafia. The Camorra was originally a prison gang that took controlled the prison and collected fees from the prisoners and guards for keeping order. They continued to meet after leaving prison and spread throughout Naples. They are currently Italy’s largest organized crime group with over 7,000 members (FBI 2010).

“It was during the troubled years of the 1860s that the Italian kingdom’s ruling class ruling class first heard talk of the mafia in Siciliy” (Dickie, s38, 2004). In this quote we find a potential reason to why the idea that the mafia was born during the making of the modern Italian state has become leading with scholars. Most likely this event shaped the mafia into what it has become because of the political influence that the Italian state bestowed upon Sicily. However, it is not unlikely that the mafia wasn’t already existing in Sicily during this time, and most definitely that criminal gangs of Sicily before this time had traits that were transferred into the mafia as it evolved under the new Italian kingdom. While the mafia is largely

The 1920s was a very eventful time period for the US crime scene. With the emergences of major crime bosses like Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Charles Luciano, and others there was much to be done in the crime world. Charles “Lucky” Luciano (born as Salvatore Lucania) would become a key player in the reshaping and modernization of the mafia and the crime world. Young Luciano would show signs of pursuing a criminal career. His parents and family however disapproved of their son’s action and career path and essentially exiled him, respecting his family’s wishes he would later change his name from Salvatore Lucania to Charles Luciano. He also by the age of 10 he involved extortion, and thievery. Upon his arrest for the distribution of drugs in 1915, the police would offered to release him if he would tell them what he knew about the mob, Luciano however refused to talk due to the Sicilian code of silence, this action would vastly considered pivotal in fast tracking his career in

During the 1920s in an effort to reduce crime and corruption the prohibition on alcohol was passed, little did these law makers know they were only worsening the situation. The streets started to run rampant with crime, and bootleggers rose to power as organized raised as well. As organized crime rose so did the Mafiosas. Throughout the 20th century the mafia has controlled the organized crime scene with an unwavering fist only for its rule to be challenged by other families. The mafia 's bosses give each family its own unique style whether they be a media persona like Al Capone, A brutal killer like Charles Luciano, or completely insane like George Moran.

Since it is known that the mafia is a criminal organization, but is also, and above all, for many, a way of understanding life, a kind of fundamentalism that cancels out the individuality of its members, whose identity is no longer belong to the member in order to be part of the new identity of the society in which the member will belong to. In fact, every member that was going to be part of that organization had to understand the term of family and had to live as a family. As brothers, the Flenory founded their organization of drug distribution in Detroit at the end of the 90s and gave it that name especially because of their family relationship.

Fannie and Joseph Gotti, parents of John, were immigrants from Italy. Their only source of income was his father’s day laboring career. Gotti was one of 13 kids. His family was constantly moving until they finally stayed in East New York. At the time, youth gangs were on the rise in the area. Naturally,

Around the month of April in 1847, Joseph Kello’s mother, Rachel Lindell, gets pregnant. Rachel faces the traumatic task of telling her parents that she, unmarried at the age of 19, is pregnant. For approximately six months, she endures the changes in her appearance indicating to friends and neighbors that she is pregnant. Finally, on Thursday, October 7, 1847, Joseph’s father, Charles H. Kello, marries Rachel at the Asbury Methodist Church in the city of Wilmington.* Three months later, on January 6, 1848, Joseph is born. (L7) 62) (L184)

Fannie, and J. Joseph Gotti gave life to a baby boy on October 27, in 1940, but who knew that on that day a new crime boss would be born? John Gotti, a native of the South Bronx, New York, would grow up in a life of crime. John Gotti became head of the Gambino family.

     Mafia business transactions were usually done face to face as a one to one communication. No one but the two parties talking knew what was said. Business was rarely discussed around a board table or in a group meeting. When an action needed to be taken to correct a problem with a family member or to settle a dispute with a different family's member, the bosses communicated directly. They were private conversation between the boss and the person involved.

The “Goodfellas” movie is a movie about the life of a gangster growing up in the New York Mafia. A young man name Henry, ever since he was a young boy always wanted to be in the Mafia. Henry grew up on the streets with the Mafia wanting to be like them because no would ever mess with them and they could park wherever they wanted and not get a ticket. The movie itselfs had showed the mafias subculture and shows all their norms, values, and also their deviant lifestyle throughout the movie. The people around and in the Mafia are part of a subculture where there are certain people who are considered criminals and can protect anyone that can’t or is not allowed to go to the cops to snitch.

The Mafia way of life may seem like a romantic updated version of the western movie played out on the streets of the big cities where the good guys and the wise guys who share the same instincts and values do battle before an enthralled public but it is actually very different. The Mafia is really just a group of uneducated thugs making money by victimizing the public. Initially, the Mafia was setup as a prominent supplier of bootlegged liquor, but it has spread into many different areas of crime. During this research paper I will discuss three aspects of the Mafia which are crime, structure and decline in leadership.