1985 in organized crime information

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

This is a list of organized crime in the 1900s, arranged chronologically. Monk Eastman claims New York's East Side for the Eastman Gang, now numbering...

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

Organized crime in France is primarily based in major cities like Marseille, Grenoble, Paris, and Lyon. It is often referred to as grand banditisme in...

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...

various organized crime related elements originating in the former Soviet Union (FSU). Any of the mafia's groups may be referred to as an "Organized Criminal...

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...

Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC, also called the Palermo Convention) is a 2000 United Nations-sponsored multilateral treaty against transnational organized crime...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

16 – Bonanno crime family boss Philip "Rusty" Rastelli is convicted of labor racketeering over a 20-year period between 1964 until 1985 and sentenced...

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...

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

Russotti’s 1984 conviction marked the downfall of the Rochester-based organized crime family. Russotti had been responsible for causing the ABC War, where...

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

Nicholas Milano) in the 1985 gangland murder of Bruno-Testa member Frank D'Afonso. Stephen Maltese, reportedly a member of the Genovese crime family, is charged...

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

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

Pittsburgh mobster involved in drug trafficking June 23 - Frank Salemme, Jr., Patriarca crime family soldier and son of crime boss "Cadillac" Frank Salemme...

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

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