Gangsters Inc.'s Blog – April 2020 Archive (22)

Estimate members: Around twenty active members.

First Boss: Salvatore Sabella started the family in 1911.

Primary activities: Extortion, bookmaking, gambling, drug…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Former Philadelphia Mafia family underboss Phil Leonetti doesn't like the limelight. But he made an…

Estimate members: Between 50 and 90 made members

First Boss: James "Big Jim" Colosimo

Primary rackets: Gambling, extortion and loan sharking.…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

He was one of the last old school Chicago Mafia leaders to pass away, media wrote when Marco D’Amico died on April 22, 2020. It was a cliché that – between the lines - revealed the downfall of a once mighty criminal…

By David Amoruso

To survive in prison one has to be ruthless. Especially when one is severely outnumbered in a sea filled with thousands of sharks. The founders of the Aryan Brotherhood understood this when they formed their prison gang somewhere around 1964 in California’s San Quentin State Prison.

Established as a way to protect white convicts from black and…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.



Brian "The Milkman" Wright is one of Britain’s biggest drugs barons. His organization smuggled hundreds of millions of pounds (£) worth of cocaine into Britain. Wright was known as a heavy gambler. He would bet £50.000 or £100.000 a time on horse races. But it is said he had fixed some of those races. When former amateur…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

A member of the Aryan Brotherhood gang was sentenced to 163 months behind bars on Thursday after…

When it comes to organized crime, Gangsters Inc. prefers to get its information straight from the main source. Interviewing gangsters, Mafiosi, cops, FBI agents, journalists, and writers is the way to get to the bottom of the seedy underworld. Especially one on one.

Here are a few of our interviews:…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Underworlds evolve. In New York, various groups constantly vie for the city’s lucrative…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

On this day in 1976: On April 21, 1976, New York Mafia boss Joseph Colombo and dozens of his underlings were indicted and charged with illegal gambling.

For more read:…

By Niko Vorobyov for Gangsters Inc.

Ross Ulbricht, or Rossman to his pals, was born in 1984 in Austin, Texas, where he smoked plenty of dope before going to study physics at the University of Dallas, then science and engineering at Penn State where he met his on-off girlfriend…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

On this day in 1951: On April 16, 1951, Texas Mafia family underboss Salvatore "Sam" Maceo died of natural causes.

For more read:…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Much of infamous Chicago Mafia boss Al Capone’s life story has been told on Hollywood’s silver screen. However,…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

On this day in 1931: On April 15, 1931, New York Mafia boss Giuseppe Masseria was shot to death in a…

Organized crime spans the entire globe. Here at Gangsters Inc. we try to cover as much as we can. We have various sections about individual crime groups and regions. Every day we add new articles and profiles to these areas so you remain up to date about the global underworld.…

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.…

Canada enjoys a great reputation. It is known as a welcoming country to people of all colors and creeds. Its citizens are nice and diverse. Despite or maybe because of Canada's excellent reputation as a free and fair country, crime groups from around the world have settled in its cities. Canada's underworld is comprised…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

A Jamaican street legend. That’s who Wayne “Sandokhan” Smith was. He will forever be known as the man who – after police treated his girlfriend harshly - attacked a police station, killed three officers,…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Is Brooklyn in the house? Hell. Yes. The brand-new mob series Gravesend just premiered on Amazon Prime and is set to become the latest Mafia epic to mesmerize viewers. Gangsters Inc. sat down with…