1979 in organized crime information

Bonanno crime family boss Kihss, Peter. "John (Johnny Dio) Dioguardi, 64, A Leader In Organized Crime, Dies." New York Times. January 16, 1979. Capeci...

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

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...

path", IPA: [gokɯꜜdoː]), are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media, by request of the...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

to writers on organized crime, the Syndicate was an idea of Johnny Torrio, and was founded or established at a May 1929 conference in Atlantic City....

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

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...