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Estimate members: Around 100

First Boss: Joseph Bonanno.

Primary activities: Involved in narcotics trafficking, home video pornography, robbery,…

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.

In January 1966, a civil war broke out. Not between different people in a country, but within a family. A family of…

Estimate members: Between 75 and 85 (according to Jerry Capeci)

First Boss: Joseph Profaci…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Colombo crime family underboss…

By David Amoruso

Read Franzese's obituary here.



John “Sonny” Franzese is an old school gangster walking around in a world that has changed significantly since when he first started committing crimes. Born in Naples, Italy on February 6, 1917, he started his…

By David Amoruso



Besides financial fraud, trafficking in narcotics is still the crime that pays the most. Groups and individuals from across the world have experienced the huge and seemingly easy profit drugs bring. Be it cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, or weed: it all translates to money. And lots of it.



With the huge amount of money come power and…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

It’s a sight to behold: Mexico’s most powerful man in a prison outfit, wiping ink from his hands, calmly answering questions about his personal details posed by an official. Rare…

As the sixth largest country in the world, Australia has a lot of room for people who are looking for new territory to commit crimes. Discovered by Dutch explorers, Australia eventually fell under British rule. The British used the far-away continent as an isolated prison in the sun after they lost control of the United States. Britain sent its most hated inmates to…

By Angelo Carmelo Gallitto



Italian organized crime, divided in Cosa Nostra, ‘Ndrangheta, Camorra and Sacra Corona Unita, is a rich and powerful criminal enterprise with a lot of connections and branches around the world.…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

The Sails of Scampia (Vele di Scampia) in…

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WATCH: Gangsters suspected of smuggling nuclear materials arrested in Austria…

Organized Crime has existed in Russia (former Soviet Union) for centuries. Under the communist regime corruption was as normal in Russia as snow falling during the winter. One of the big money makers for the Russian criminals was selling Western products on the black market, a market they controlled in the 1970s and 80s.



It was also during this time that there was…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Aleksey Tsvetkov (above, left) lived the good life for quite a while. As the leader of a violent,…

By Milko for Gangsters Inc.

Vassilis Stefanakos (photo above) was born in 1961 in a suburb of Athens,…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Gambino Mafia family underboss and consigliere Frank “Frankie Loc” Locascio (photo above, far…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

A fugitive Romanian crime boss was extradited Wednesday from the…