The Genovese crime family, also sometimes referred to as the Westside, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City and New Jersey as part of the American Mafia. They have generally maintained a varying degree of influence over many of the smaller mob families outside New York, including ties with the Philadelphia, Patriarca, and Buffalo crime families.
Image: Lucky Luciano mugshot 1931 (cropped)
Image: Vito Genovese NYWTS (cropped)
Image: Vincent Gigante NYWTS (cropped)
Lucky Luciano
The American Mafia, commonly referred 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.
Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli (also known as Paul Kelly), founder of the Five Points Gang
Al Capone's culturally publicized violent rise to power in Chicago made him an ever-lasting criminal figure of the Prohibition era.
FBI chart of American Mafia bosses across the country in 1963.
Charles "Lucky" Luciano in 1948