Gambino Crime Case Study
La Cosa Nostra and the Gambino Crime Family
Jodiann K Gleason
Southern New Hampshire University
La Cosa Nostra (LCN) is an Italian/Sicilian organized crime or mafia family that performed illegal and corrupt activities in New York from the 1920’s and onward. Their activities started with prohibition and moved to include money laundering, gambling, loan sharking, extortion, labor and construction racketeering and a poultry monopoly just to name some of the major ones. Some would state that LCN was “the most prominent criminal organizations in the US” (Finckenauer, 2007). The make up of LCN was Italian men who believed in the activities and ways of the family. The members or soldiers who did the dirty work for the boss and the capos had to prove they were worthy of being accepted into the family Often time the soldiers had to prove their worth and get voted in by the underboss, or capos in order for the boss or don (head honcho) to even get noticed. There were roughly 1100 LCN members nationwide during the peak time of the crime family’s days. The Gambino Crime family named after Carlo Gambino was one of the five LCN crime families. This family has heavily into loan sharking, money laundering, fraud, hijacking, and other …show more content…
According to NIJ .there has never been evidence the LCN had direct representation in the Congress of the US (Finckenauer, 2007). One of the more recent court cases was from 2011 where 91 members of seven organized crime families that make up LCN from different parts of the US. The charges ranged form racketeering, murder, extortion and money laundering. This was a big case for the numerous agencies involved. During my research I was unable to find in connections to LCN and bona fide terrorist
Jodiann K Gleason
Southern New Hampshire University
La Cosa Nostra (LCN) is an Italian/Sicilian organized crime or mafia family that performed illegal and corrupt activities in New York from the 1920’s and onward. Their activities started with prohibition and moved to include money laundering, gambling, loan sharking, extortion, labor and construction racketeering and a poultry monopoly just to name some of the major ones. Some would state that LCN was “the most prominent criminal organizations in the US” (Finckenauer, 2007). The make up of LCN was Italian men who believed in the activities and ways of the family. The members or soldiers who did the dirty work for the boss and the capos had to prove they were worthy of being accepted into the family Often time the soldiers had to prove their worth and get voted in by the underboss, or capos in order for the boss or don (head honcho) to even get noticed. There were roughly 1100 LCN members nationwide during the peak time of the crime family’s days. The Gambino Crime family named after Carlo Gambino was one of the five LCN crime families. This family has heavily into loan sharking, money laundering, fraud, hijacking, and other …show more content…
According to NIJ .there has never been evidence the LCN had direct representation in the Congress of the US (Finckenauer, 2007). One of the more recent court cases was from 2011 where 91 members of seven organized crime families that make up LCN from different parts of the US. The charges ranged form racketeering, murder, extortion and money laundering. This was a big case for the numerous agencies involved. During my research I was unable to find in connections to LCN and bona fide terrorist