This paper is about the five crime families of New York City which are Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and the Lucchese families. These families were from the Italian American Mafia also known as La Cosa Nostra and the first to be involved in organized crime. Salvatore Maranzano was the person that began the families in 1931. “The Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime. The Genovese family took advantage of lax due diligence by banks during the housing spike with a wave of mortgage frauds. Prosecutors say loan shark victims obtained home equity loans to pay off debts to their mob bankers. The family found ways to use new technology to improve on old reliable illegal gambling,
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In the article it stated “There is a boss who controls the family and makes executive decisions. There is an underboss who is second in command. There is a senior advisor or consigliere. And then there are a number of capos who supervise crews made up of soldiers, who are made members of Cosa Nostra. The capos and those above them receive shares of the proceeds from crimes committed by the soldiers and associates (Finckenauer, pg. 1)”. I think that from learning about criminal organizations this was structured in a well way where there are people at each level. The La Cosa Nostra had about “eighty percent of their members operate in the New York metropolitan area and also other cities (Finckenauer, pg. 1)”. There was La Cosa Nostra activity in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the Miami\South Florida area, but it wasn’t that much than in New York (Finckenauer, pg. 1)”. From reading this section about where members operated it showed how much activity the La Cosa Nostra had in the United …show more content…
There were examples from the Gambino family that showed the ways they used violence. There were two incidents that involved the head of the Gambino family John Gotti. There was a trial in 1997 when a Gambino family member “testified about a torture killing that had been ordered by Gotti. The victim had apparently fired a shot at Gotti (Finckenauer, pg. 2)”. He was tortured with lighted cigarettes and a knife, shot in the buttocks, carried in the trunk of a car, and ultimately killed with five shots to the head. In the second example, the same John Gotti, from his federal prison cell, contracted with two members of the white supremacist group the Aryan Brotherhood to kill the former consigliere of the Gambino crime family who had threatened to kill him (Finckenauer, pg 2).” This was something when I read that I learned for the first time because of the methods that were used. Usually from learning about other criminal groups they go after and just kill. In this situation it was the way the victim was treated that surprised me. This also showed that if someone went after one of the families they were going to come
In the article it stated “There is a boss who controls the family and makes executive decisions. There is an underboss who is second in command. There is a senior advisor or consigliere. And then there are a number of capos who supervise crews made up of soldiers, who are made members of Cosa Nostra. The capos and those above them receive shares of the proceeds from crimes committed by the soldiers and associates (Finckenauer, pg. 1)”. I think that from learning about criminal organizations this was structured in a well way where there are people at each level. The La Cosa Nostra had about “eighty percent of their members operate in the New York metropolitan area and also other cities (Finckenauer, pg. 1)”. There was La Cosa Nostra activity in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the Miami\South Florida area, but it wasn’t that much than in New York (Finckenauer, pg. 1)”. From reading this section about where members operated it showed how much activity the La Cosa Nostra had in the United …show more content…
There were examples from the Gambino family that showed the ways they used violence. There were two incidents that involved the head of the Gambino family John Gotti. There was a trial in 1997 when a Gambino family member “testified about a torture killing that had been ordered by Gotti. The victim had apparently fired a shot at Gotti (Finckenauer, pg. 2)”. He was tortured with lighted cigarettes and a knife, shot in the buttocks, carried in the trunk of a car, and ultimately killed with five shots to the head. In the second example, the same John Gotti, from his federal prison cell, contracted with two members of the white supremacist group the Aryan Brotherhood to kill the former consigliere of the Gambino crime family who had threatened to kill him (Finckenauer, pg 2).” This was something when I read that I learned for the first time because of the methods that were used. Usually from learning about other criminal groups they go after and just kill. In this situation it was the way the victim was treated that surprised me. This also showed that if someone went after one of the families they were going to come