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Oct 12, 2021 · Immortalised in Hollywood films like The Godfather, mob bosses have long sparked the public’s imagination. However, behind these fictional depictions were real bosses at the helm of vast and violent smuggling, laundering, bootlegging, sex work, drug, kidnapping and murder operations.
A crime boss, also known as a crime lord, mafia don, big boss, gang lord, gang boss, mob boss, kingpin, godfather, crime mentor, criminal mastermind, or boss lady is the leader of a criminal organization.
This is an incomplete list of crime bosses. This list is arranged alphabetically by last name, and broken into categories by year that an individual is believed to have assumed leadership of a criminal organization.
Dec 20, 2023 · 13 Mafia Bosses Who Defined The History Of The Mob. By Kaleena Fraga | Edited By Maggie Donahue. Published December 20, 2023. Updated July 8, 2024. From the Five Families of the New York Mafia to organized crime kingpins in Chicago and beyond, these mob bosses ruthlessly ruled the underworld.
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- Al Capone. The first name that everyone thinks of when you say “mob boss” or “gangster” is Al Capone. So, obviously, our list begins with him. Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, NY, Capone came from an Italian immigrant family and grew up in the city’s rougher ports.
- Semion Mogilevich. Moving forward to the current time, Semion Mogilevich is a modern “mob boss” or organized crime leader who is currently on the FBI’s most wanted list.
- Shigeharu Shirai. Shigeharu Shirai is a former boss for the Yakuza – a Japanese organized crime circuit that’s believed to have been in existence for at least three centuries but has ties dating back as early as 1612, according to some sources.
- Matteo Messina Denaro. Yet another FBI’s most wanted member, Matteo Messina Denaro was born in Sicily to an already established mafia family. He was a killer by 18, and is accused of murdering at least 50 people.
John Joseph Gotti Jr. [1] [note 1] ( / ˈɡɒti / GOT-ee, Italian: [ˈɡɔtti]; October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002) was an American mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City.
Nov 12, 2018 · Still others are captured and jailed even before they reach infamy. The list below of the world’s Mob bosses centers on five countries that are major hotbeds of organized crime activity and attempts to identify the leaders of the most significant syndicates in each one.
