The Lucchese crime family is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia. Members refer to the organization as the Lucchese borgata; borgata is Mafia slang for criminal gang, which itself was derived from a Sicilian word meaning close-knit community. The members of other crime families sometimes refer to Lucchese family members as "Lukes".
Image: Gaetano Gagliano
Image: Tommy Lucchese 1958 by the Associated Press (cropped)
Image: Anthony.corallo (cropped)
Tommy Gagliano
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