Ruggiero, a heroin trafficker and brother of Gambino crime family capo Angelo Ruggiero, is killed in a plane crash. Salvatore Lamberti, a Sicilian mafiosi...

This is a list of organized crime in the 1920s, arranged chronologically. Jan. 17 - With National Prohibition having gone into effect at midnight, an army...

Organized crime in Miami encompasses the actions of several organized crime groups operating in Miami, Florida, and the Miami metropolitan area. Italian-American...

This is a timeline of the history of organized crime. 1860-1869: affirmation of the Sicilian mafia. 1870s: 1870 - 1871 - 1872 - 1873 - 1874 - 1875 - 1876...

Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local group of centralized enterprises run to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for...

Colombo crime family consigliere Alphonse Persico was sentenced to 2 months for contempt (although granted immunity, he refused to testify in a grand...

Adkins is shot dead in Amsterdam. December 11 – The FBI arrests Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano and...

The Bosnian mafia (or Bosnian organized crime) is the body of illegal gangs and criminal organisations operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina and within...

Detroit crime syndicate, dies of natural causes at the age of 84. April 19 – Dominick Ragucci, a 19-year-old college student with no organized crime ties...

Investigation as the result of a major prosecution into organized crime. June 25 – Colombo crime family leader Carmine "Junior" Persico is charged with...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, African American organized crime emerged following the first and second large-scale migrations of African Americans...

Italian-American Mafia as the largest organized crime group in the United States and continues to hold dominance over the National Crime Syndicate, despite the increasing...

partnership between the Gambino crime family and the Westies street gang of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. January 6 – Cleveland Crime Family boss James Licavoli...

appointed by President Ronald Reagan, officially merges the regional organized crime strike forces the office of the U.S. Attorney General. May 2 – Gerald...

Genovese crime family member Vincent "Vinnie" DiNapoli, then considered by federal authorities to be the tenth most influential U.S. mobster, is convicted...

The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) is a federal drug enforcement program in the United States, overseen by the Attorney General...

mobsters, including Frank D. Frassetto, are convicted in a federal court of racketeering crimes including several mob-related bombings. March 7 – Joseph...

9 – Susumu Kajiyama, a Japanese crime syndicate member dubbed the "loan shark king", was sentenced to seven years in prison for laundering money. April...

31 – John Stanfa, a Philadelphia crime family member and former driver of slain boss Angelo Bruno, is convicted in Federal District Court of lying to...

leadership of the Lucchese crime family. Tommaso Buscetta arrested in New York for the second time on a double murder conviction in Italy. This time he is...

discovered to have been involved in Operation Mongoose, in which both the CIA and the National Crime Syndicate cooperated in the planned assassination of...

April 13 – Gambino crime family soldier Bartholomew "Bobby" Boriello was gunned down outside his Bensonhurst, Brooklyn home. August 9 – Antonio Scopelliti...

the New Jersey crime family. February 12 – Joseph "The Animal" Barboza, an enforcer for the Patriarca crime family, is beaten to death in San Francisco...

the Patriarca crime family associate, is convicted of manslaughter. February 13 – New York mobster and former leader of the Luciano crime family, Frank...

June 1983 – August 1983. January 10 – Roy DeMeo, a member of the Gambino crime family and head of an elite execution squad for nearly a decade, is murdered...

years January 15 – Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, boss of the Philadelphia crime family, is arrested and charged with planning an extortion scheme with a...

was established in 1826, and has since grown into Canada's 11th largest municipality. The city has had a long history of organized crime, with several high-profile...

shot to death allegedly by Tommy Jones, a hitman and Los Angeles crime family associate, in the garage of a Brooklyn used car lot. The hit was allegedly ordered...

family and the youngest of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City within the criminal organization known as the...

concerning organized crime from the year 1977. Pittston-based Bufalino crime family leader Russell Bufalino, one of the three dominant organized crime syndicates...