Since 1931, five families have run New York's Italian-American Mafia: the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese. Frank Cali was reputedly the head of the Gambino family.

The alleged route involved both the New York-based Sicilian Mafia, and the Italian 'ndrangheta crime ring. CBS's Allen Pizzey was invited by Italian police to tag along during the raid.

The new book “Borgata: Rise of an Empire: The History of the Italian Mafia” details the evolution of organized crime in both Italy and the US.

New York’s Gambino crime family and its cronies in the Italian Mafia got slammed during a series of coordinated, international police raids that were triggered by a trans-Atlantic WhatsApp ...

In the 1980s, New York City's Italian Mafia was spared by the Irish Mob after a few too many glasses of Irish whiskey got in the way.

The indictment of a former federal agent charged with pocketing $250,000 in bribes to protect the Mafia is rooted in a “racial animus” toward Italian Americans, his lawyer contends. Federal ...

A passing reference to the "Mulberry Street Crew" in a new mob indictment has revived questions about whether the Mafia still has at least a toehold in Manhattan's Little Italy.

Why Italian cinema is starting to glamorize the mafia In Italian films from the 1960s and 1970s, Italian gangsters were depicted as shady and charmless. But that has started to change.