La Cosa Nostra

• The Salvatore Gravano
  
  In 1976, I became a made member of the Gambino Organized Crime Family, one of the five La Cosa Nostra families in New York. La Cosa Nostra LCN means our thing, and is the way in which the organized crime families of the Mafia refer to themselves and ...
  http://www.laborers.org/Gravano.html

• The Partnership
  
  This is the story of Detroits crime syndicate, referred to in print as La Cosa Nostra, the Mafia or more commonly, as the Mob. To its initiated members it is the Partnership, the Combination and the Outfit. ...
  http://www.geocities.com/jiggs2000_us/

• The Citymob
  
  Leonetti was inducted as a made member of the PhiladelphiaAtlantic City mob in a ceremony that resembled other La Cosa Nostra members. His finger was pricked by the local boss, in this case Scarfo, who then dripped the blood on a piece of tissue pape ...
  http://www.ipsn.org/scarfo.html

• The Testimony of Joseph
  
  In 1976, F.B.I. undercover agent Joseph D. Pistone successfully placed himself within a crew of New Yorks Bonanno Mafia family. The operation was much more productive than the F.B.I. first imagined. Pistone, known as Donnie Brasco, became very close ...
  http://www.americanmafia.com/pistone_testimony.html

• The Lacosa Nostra
  
  I would like to thank everyone for your great participation when I had the voting section here. It will be shut down as is the Mafia Opinions section, but the results will be posted. For now, I am going to have a questionare about future ideas for th ...
  http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/9880/index2.html

• Obituary Pittsburgh
  
  The son of a Pittsburgh Mafia godfather, he ran his own lucrative gambling empire in North Braddock for years, managing to avoid the lockup and, for the most part, staying out of the media spotlight.And shortly after the 1990 Pittsburgh mob trial tha ...
  http://www.post-gazette.org/obituaries/20031107amatoobit4p4.asp

• New Jersey Mafia
  
  The BrunoScarfo family of La Cosa Nostra came into existence along with most of the other LCN groups in 1931. With 55 members and 250 associates, the group is believed to have experienced little growth in membership since its inception. The majority ...
  http://www.mafianj.com/sci89/bruno.shtml

• Leadership Indicted
  
  The Indictment unsealed today charges that theDecavalcante Family is an organized criminal group based in New Jersey that operates several crews in New York. The Indictment charges that the Decavalcante family engaged in a widespread pattern of racke ...
  http://www.ipsn.org/indictments/loren-maltese_indictment/doj_pressrel_decav...

• The Sixtytwo Indicted
  
  An eightycount indictment charging sixtytwo defendants associated with the Gambino, Genovese, and Bonanno organized crime families of La Cosa Nostra, the construction industry, or its supporting unions – including each member of the Gambino family ad ...
  http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nye/pr/2008/2008feb07.html

• The Mafia Site
  
  The mafia originated in Sicily as a secret society to unite the Sicilian natives, who had fled to the hills in order to escape from Arab and French invaders. By the 19th century, the Sicilian mafia had grown larger, more powerful, and more criminally ...
  http://mafiasite.8m.com/