Episodes

  • The Trafficante Family in Florida - part 2°

    The Trafficante Family in Florida - part 2°
    Dec 11 2024
    Trafficante always wanted to make it big in the Cuban casinos and in 1946 sent his son, Santo Jr., to Havana to run the Mafia casinos. However, even in Cuba, Lansky was the ringleader, maintaining influence at the highest levels of the government, so much so that Trafficante was never more than a junior partner on the island.

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    6 mins
  • The Trafficante Family in Florida - part 1°

    The Trafficante Family in Florida - part 1°
    Dec 8 2024
    6 mins
  • John La Rocca

    John La Rocca
    Nov 24 2024
    In the Pittsburgh Mafia family, until 1956, the leader of the Mafia family was Frank Amato. He ran it until he was struck by a kidney disease and was forced to resign and become the underboss. His place was taken by Sebastian LaRocca known as "John" LaRocca. It is said that there were family relations between Franck Amato and La Rocca.

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    5 mins
  • The Pittsburgh Criminal Family

    The Pittsburgh Criminal Family
    Nov 24 2024
    In the city of Pittsburgh, Italian criminals were divided into two factions: the "Sicilians" and the "Neapolitans". The territory within the city was also divided as Sicilian Mafia clans controlled the north and south sides, while Neapolitan Camorra clans controlled the east end.

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    10 mins
  • SANTO SORGE

    SANTO SORGE
    Sep 28 2024
    Santo Sorge was a powerful Sicilian mafioso residing in the United States. His exact role was never very clear to investigators. For scholars he was one of the great 'unknowns' of the Sicilian and American mafia. He was one of the Sicilian mafia bosses at the top of his time. His opinion was sought and listened to even in important decisions that affected the American mafia. He shuttled between Italy and the United States

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    8 mins
  • THE APALACHIN SUMMIT

    THE APALACHIN SUMMIT
    Sep 26 2024
    After the summit held in 1956 at the Hotel delle Palme in Palermo, another important meeting took place in 1957. This was the one that will be remembered as the Apalachin summit in the state of New York. It was a milestone in the history of crime in America. Apalachin is an urban aggregate of the United States of America, located in the state of New York, in the county of Tioga.

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    8 mins
  • THE SUMMIT AT THE HOTEL DELLE PALME -PALERMO

    THE SUMMIT AT THE HOTEL DELLE PALME -PALERMO
    Sep 23 2024
    THE SUMMIR AT THE HOTEL DELLE PALME -PALERMO

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    11 mins
  • JOE PROFACI

    JOE PROFACI
    Sep 19 2024
    Joe Profaci, born Giuseppe Profaci, is considered the first mafia boss of the Colombo mafia family of New York. Giuseppe Profaci was born in Villabate in the province of Palermo on October 2, 1897. He soon became a man of honor of the local clan. Joe Profaci entered the United States in New York clandestinely in 1921 with Vincent Mangano. The two were childhood friends, both took refuge in America to escape the regime and the repression wanted by Mussolini in the twenties against the mafia in Sicily. Profaci had already served a year in prison in Italy for theft. In 1927, he assumed American citizenship. Joe Profaci had six children with his wife Ninfa. One of his granddaughters, in 1956, married Salvatore Vincent Bill Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonanno, while his two daughters married one the son of William Tocco and the other the son of Joseph Zerilli, mafia bosses of Detroit.

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    7 mins