1961 in organized crime information

evidence of Kansas City, Missouri police officials cooperating with organized crime figures allowing criminal activity. June 29 – After serving nearly...

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...

to in North America as the Italian-American Mafia, the Mafia, or the Mob, is a highly organized Italian American criminal society and organized crime group...

state attorney general, says bluntly that organized crime has a strong network across the state, centered in Milwaukee, Kenosha and Fond du Lac. The district...

organized crime and was famously home to the American mafia figure Al Capone. This article contains a list of major events related to organized crime...

Racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the persons set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or...

"Sonny" Franzese, Colombo Crime Family Capo and father of Michael Franzese, is imprisoned until 1979. He had previously been involved in receiving kickback payments...

Ezio Galanzo (1932 - 1965), member of the Gambino Crime Family Talese, Gay. "Dio and Associate Guilty in Tax Plot." New York Times. April 8, 1960; Ranzal...

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...

testify under an offer of immunity before a Federal grand jury probing organized crime in the Chicago area. Released on May 31, 1966, he subsequently fled to...

veteran Bonanno Crime Family member, having defected to the DiGregorio Faction was killed by his own men for speaking cordially to Bill Bonanno in front of the...

member of the Colombo crime family, is murdered. New Jersey loan shark Harold "Kayo" Konigsburg in sent to prison. March – In a prelude to the Coonan–Spillane...

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

Former leader of the Philadelphia crime family, Salvatore Sabella dies. January 26 – Lucky Luciano dies of a heart attack in Naples, Italy, while meeting with...

crime family. November 10 – Frank "Frankie 500" Telleri is murdered along with Thomas (Smitty) and James D'Angelo at the Cypress Garden Restaurant in...

Facility in upstate New York, before his capture only five weeks later in Greenwich Village. Donato "Danny the Head" Fatico, brother of Gambino crime family...

touch Frank Balistrieri's control of local crime. January 19 – Santo Perrone, Capo-Faction Leader in Detroit crime family, is severely wounded by a car bomb...

of organized crime gangs are called geondal (건달) or jopok (Korean: 조폭; Hanja: 組暴; Abbreviation of 조직폭력배; 組織暴力輩). Criminal gangs have featured in South...

become an informant for the FBI after the Gambino crime family refused to support his wife while in prison. Fujinomiya, Shizuoka, Japan – Tadamasa Goto...

The Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 91–452, 84 Stat. 922 October 15, 1970), was an Act of Congress sponsored...

Organised crime in India refers to organised crime elements originating in India and active in many parts of the world. The purpose of organised crime in India...

using organized violence. These particular groups were the so-called “political gangs” or “henchmen”. Organized crime after the War started mainly in the...

organized crime groups are well established in Slovakia". Under Slovak law, the creation or support of an organized crime group constitutes a crime....

poisoning in children. Organized crime has long been associated with New York City, beginning with the Forty Thieves and the Roach Guards gangs in the Five...

boss 1953–1961: James Lanza—became boss 1961–unknown: Gaspare Orlando "Bill" Sciortino—stepped down North Beach, San Francisco Organized crime in California...

Crime in Toronto has been low in comparison to other major cities. In 2024, a ranking of 60 large cities by The Economist ranked Toronto as the 6th safest...

notorious for its organized crime groups, which are present worldwide and collectively referred to as the Mafia. Resultantly, financial crimes like corruption...

Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French: Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime) is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the...

of Internal Affairs”. In 2004, the Department on Combating Traffic in Human Beings was established with the Main Organized Crime Department. Responsibilities...