Yes. See Howard Abadinsky's book, "The Criminal Elite" (1983), at p. 96.
Biography - 1987 Genovese Portrait of a Crime Family was released on: USA: 17 December 2001
Mobsters - 2007 Genovese Portrait of a Crime Family 1-4 was released on: USA: 24 April 2007
A lot. I'm one of them. But none of us are doing any crime. We promise.
Salvatore 'Lucky' Luciano was a memeber of the Cosa Nostra organized crime syndicate. He operated in New York, and was the boss of whats now called the Genovese crime family (renamed after Vito Genovese) one of the '5 Families' of Italian mob families that control the rackets in NYC.
Frank Lucas had ties with the Italian mafia family known as the Genovese crime family. He was able to work with them to establish a heroin smuggling operation from Southeast Asia to the United States during the 1960s and 1970s.
DiMeo Crime Family.
Tattaglia crime family was created in 1969.
Lucchese crime family was created in 1931.
Soprano crime family was created in 195#.
* New Jersey-based DiMeo crime family * New York-based Lupertazzi crime family
Thomas Gordon Plate has written: 'The Mafia at war' -- subject(s): History, Mafia, Organized crime 'Crime pays!' -- subject(s): Crime, Economic aspects of Crime
Gambino crime family