Carlo Gambino From Palermo to Brooklyn: The Rise of the Gambino Family, the Castellano Dynasty, John Gotti, and What Became of Carlo Gambino’s Descendants Of all the men who shaped the history of the American Mafia, Carlo Gambino may have understood power better than almost anyone. He was not Al Capone. He did not seek newspaper attention. He was not John Gotti. He did not turn the sidewalk outside his headquarters into a theater for television cameras. And he was not Lucky L

The history of the Mafia in Italy is not the story of romance, honor, or loyalty. That image belongs mostly to movies, novels, and mythology. The real history is much darker. It is a story of poverty, power, silence, corruption, violence, political weakness, and the long struggle of ordinary people, judges, police officers, journalists, entrepreneurs, and families who refused to live under fear. To understand the Mafia, one must first understand that Italy never had only one

Luciano 'Scarface' Lucky - Salvatore Lucania Power, Violence, the Commission, New York's Five Families and the Making of Modern Organized Crime Few figures in the history of American organized crime have accumulated as much mythology as Charles “Lucky” Luciano. His name has been attached to stories of gang wars, Prohibition fortunes, secret alliances, political influence, prostitution, narcotics, wartime intelligence, Sicily, Havana, and the restructuring of the American Mafi