Organized Crime Goroup Analysis

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

He was known for not staying in jail long because people were scared to testify against him and because he knew the right people. He would put some much fear into people's heart by just being in his presence because that's how powerful he was.The FBI said that Gotti controlled just about every pimp, street gang, prostitute, drug dealer, and drug trafficker in Queens. He controlled 50% to 60% of every criminal and criminal gang in Queens during his time. It was discovered that he had 100,000 soldiers and 350,000 criminal associates in the Gambino Crime Family. The FBI found out that Gotti ordered the deaths of around 600 people. For 7 years, Gotti ruled New York City with an iron fist. Gotti had dozens of Police, Judges, District Attorneys, U.S. Attorneys, and Mayor's in his pocket. According to Sammy Gravano, an informat, Gotti had two NYPD Organized Crime Task Force Detectives, two FBI Agent's, two IRS Agents, two EPA Agents, and one DEA Agent in his pocket. And that's how powerful he was and that's why he was the most powerful crime boss in the world. Despite all those things, he still was a good father and provided for his family. He always put family first and that’s what's important in

After many mixtapes and nearing the edge of household name status, Maryland rapper Logic drops his first album. In this album is a song titled Gang Related. This song tells the story of what environment and household he grew up in. His brother is in a gang and sells cocaine to his father in front of him. Logic's mother is in an out of mental institutions, all the while logic is growing up and trying not to get shot when he walks outside. With drugs and gangs all around him, it is quite amazing that he got out and become a famous rapper. Gang Related also has a core message of stopping the violence, which leads to a question, is this song about his story or a message about ending the violence?

When we think of the mafia and gangs, one name comes to mind, Al Capone. Al Capone, also known as Scarface, was an infamous mafia leader who was active in Chicago during the Prohibition era. Having committed numerous criminal deeds and being the man behind countless murders, Capone was finally arrested for tax evasion . Now, you might ask, “How was he able to commit all these violent deeds without being imprisoned?” Well, we first have to go to the beginning of Capone’s life.

Gabriele and Teresina Capone, along with their three sons, were two of the 43,000 Italians who arrived in the U.S. in 1894. After five years in the United States, a forth son joined the family as Teresina gave birth to the family's Alphonse Capone. Since their arrival, nothing "about the Capone family was inherently disturbed, violent, or dishonest... They were a law-abiding, unremarkable Italian-American family with conventional patterns of behavior and frustrations; they displayed no special genius for crime, or anything else, for that matter," (Bardsley 2000).

When Torrio was released from jail he was to worried that Moran would try another assassination attempt and decided to give his whole operations to Al Capone. Al Capone was now the most infamous crime boss in Chicago, George Moran, who was jealous of Al Capone, wanted to control the south side of Chicago before Al Capone could.

He would later leave the Five Points gang (soon afterwards the gang would crumple after key players such as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano left the gang). He would join crime boss Joe Masseria as his chief lieutenant and oversee Masseria’s crime empire. By doing this Luciano would learn the internals of the crime world and how operations worked. He also profited greatly from the operations and would soon become a rich man, he was also running Manhattan’s sole prostitution ring using execution as a manor to keep things under control Along this time he would also be abducted, “beaten, stabbed repeatedly with an ice pick, had his throat slit from ear to ear and was left for dead on a Staten Island beach —but survived” (Encyclopædia

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,

In 1925, Torrio escaped the mobster business after rival gangs tried to kill him. This left Capone as the leader of the entire operation. After Torrio left, Capone came into the spotlight. He did not stay out of the public eye, and he moved his headquarters in to the Metropole Hotel in downtown Chicago. Capone spent an enormous amount of money, and his business was booming, with an estimation of generating $100 million annually. The press constantly followed Capone, and some of the public saw him as a hero working against the prohibition.(history.com, Al Capone). Although, the picture of Capone as a hero did not last forever, because the public learned his operations were connected with violence.

A few voters were even killed! Chicago sent ploce, and they brutally gunned down Capones brother Frank in the street. After an attempt on his life in 1925 by rival mobsters, Torrio decided to leave the business and return to Italy, turning over the entire operation to Capone. Capone, again ignored his mentors advice to maintain a low profile, and instead, moved his headquarters to a plush suite in the Metropole Hotel in downtown Chicago. From there, he began living a luxurious and public lifestyle, spending money lavishly, although always in cash to avoid a trail.

Born in 1899 to poor immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York, Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. At the height of Prohibition, in 1920, Capone’s multi-million dollar Chicago operation in bootlegging, prostitution and gambling amassed estimates of 100$ million a year (completely tax free). Capone along with gangster mentor Johnny Torrio, established levers of control throughout the government gaining them a leg up on the competition and anyone who could not be bought off, killed off. They were accredited with bribing officials, rigging elections, and many other nefarious actions they required. Responsible for many brutal acts of violence, Capone, ordered many hits on his opponent’s, and lawmen be damned if they got in his way. The most infamous being the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929, in Which he ordered the assassination of gangster rival “Bugs” Moran. Consequently, Capone, never brought to justice for his racketeering, or well-organized murder, until finally being indicted for federal tax evasion in 1931. Capone served six and a half years, and after being released, he died in 1947 in Miami. The gangster’s life captivated the public’s imagination, and his persona has been preserved in many movies and books inspired

Besides the crimes that were murder for hire the mafia also did many other crimes that would make not only Carlo Gambino a feared character but the whole organization financially stable. It was prohibition that brought rivalry between the mafia crime families. The rivalry was to determine who had more territory and control over the city; specifically

While Luciano was in jail and later deported to Italy, he entrusted the running of the crime syndicate to Lansky. By the 1960's, Lansky's gambling operations extended half way around the globe with departments all over South America and as far as Hong Kong. In 1970, the federal government was planning to charge Lansky with tax

Salvatore Maranzano: Organizer of the Families Salvatore Maranzono was born in 1868 Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy and died on September 10, 1931 in New York City. Maranzono was a “Moustache Pete” who immigrated to the United States and started up his own family-gang known as the Castellammare gang (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). A bloody conflict between the Castellammare gang and the Morello gang for power soon took place in 1930. After about a year of fighting the Morello gang was finally subdued with the assassination of their boss Joe Masseria. After Masseria’s death Maranzano established himself as the “Boss of all Bosses”.

The topic of this paper is gangsters in organized crime can either work alone or work with other gangsters. When people commit crimes with other criminals, their personal ties to each other become strong when there is especially trust or there could be no trust, however, those ties can become strong at some point.