The Gambino mafia family was certainly among the most powerful of Cosa Nostra. The great success of the gang is due precisely to the charismatic Carlo Gambino who directed the criminal activity for almost twenty years, and exactly from the mid-1950s until his death, which occurred due to natural causes, in 1976.

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According to FBI files, Anthony Strollo, also known as Tony Bender, was Vito Genovese's right-hand man. Strollo was one of the great protagonists of the history of the Mafia in New York City and New Jersey in the late 1940s and early 1960s. He also pulled the strings in a lucrative drug trafficking and gambling operation for the Genovese crime family.

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Gaetano Lucchese known as Tommy Gunn or Tommy Three Fingers Brown was a leading exponent of the American mafia. It is no coincidence that one of the five New York mafia families still bears his surname.

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Vito Genovese was considered one of the most treacherous, double-dealing and ruthless mafia bosses of the American Mafia.

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Tommaso Gagliano was certainly the godfather of the Bronx. We can define him as an inconspicuous if not even reserved character. He was also little known outside mafia circles.

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Gaetano Reina, known as Tom or Tommy, is considered one of the most powerful Mafia Bosses in New York. He worked in the 1910s and 1920s. It can be said that he was the first boss of what is still remembered today as the Lucchese mafia family.

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Giuseppe A. "Socks" Lanza. He was a mobster who controlled New York's syndicate rackets and a member of the Genovese crime family. He controlled the general seafood market in Lower Manhattan through the United Seafood Worker's Union local 359 from 1923 to 1968.

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Lucky Luciano, the man who changed the mafia into the criminal organization we know today. This is part 5 of a 5 part series about Lucky, listen to all 5 and learn all about his story.

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Lucky Luciano, the man who changed the mafia into the criminal organization we know today. This is part 4 of a 5 part series about Lucky, listen to all 5 and learn all about his story.

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