1978 in organized crime information

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...

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

active organized crime syndicates in Italy that were founded in the 20th century: the Sacra Corona Unita, the Società foggiana and the Bari crime groups...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

a member of the Gambino crime family, is photographed with First Lady Rosalynn Carter in recognition for his charity work in Manhattan. January 12 – Johnny...

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...

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

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

known as the Irish mafia or Irish organized crime) is a usually crime family–based ethnic collective of organized crime syndicates composed of primarily...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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