was smashed in the late 1940s, and took over his family in 1951-by all accounts, after murdering the family's founder Vincent Mangano-which was then recognized as the Anastasia crime family.
He remained in power even after Murder, Inc. Its most prominent member during this time was its underboss Albert Anastasia, who rose to infamy as the operating head of the underworld's enforcement arm, Murder, Inc. For most of the next quarter-century, it was a minor player in organized crime. The family was one of the five families that were founded in New York after the Castellammarese War of 1931. Its illicit activities include labor and construction racketeering, gambling, loansharking, extortion, money laundering, prostitution, fraud, hijacking, and fencing. The group's operations extend from New York and the eastern seaboard to California. The group, which went through five bosses between 19, is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963, when the structure of organized crime first gained public attention. The Gambino crime family (pronounced ) 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.
Various gangs in New York City, including their allies
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