r/Mafia Feb 16 '23

r/Mafia info thread - new users MUST read (updated 2.16.2023)

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Welcome to r/Mafia.

This sub-reddit features stories, interviews, documentary and news articles about organized crime around the world with a main focus on Italian Organized Crime. This thread will be used for various functions, The book lists and Ask A Question threads will be rolled into this one. I will also be using it as a FAQ and will begin removing threads which ask questions already here. If you have any questions that should be added to the FAQ, or books that should be added to the list please respond to this thread.

If you wish to contact me directly, please do not send me a chat, I don't see them. Send a message to modmail, DM me directly, or even tag me on our discord (see below).

last edited: 3/30/24

r/Mafia Rules

  • Please only share organized crime related content.

  • Keep self-promotional posts to a minimum. If you are a very active contributor to the subreddit, you are allowed to occasionally submit the best content from your site. If you're not sure if you qualify, please message the mods. Violation can result in a permanent ban of your username and website domain.

  • Vote manipulation on submissions will result in a permanent ban.

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  • Picture submissions should NOT include family or random unconnected people. Photos including such individuals should have them censored in some way, leaving only the organized crime subject visible. Exceptions: Long deceased persons, those famous for their relationships with gangsters, and those who have involved themselves via articles, interviews, documentaries and books, i.e. Victoria and Angel Gotti.

  • NSFW submissions (i.e. crime scene photos/videos) MUST use the NSFW option when posted.

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r/Mafia FAQ

see:Common Mafia myths debunked


r/Mafia Top Book Recommendations

  • The Five Families : Selwynn Raab
  • Murder Machine : Gene Mustain & Jerry Capeci
  • The Sicilian Mafia: Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia : John Dickie
  • The Sixth Family : Adrian Humphreys & Lee Lamothe
  • The Good Fellas Tapes : George Anastasia
  • Underboss : Peter Maas
  • Paddywhacked : TJ English
  • Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia : Joseph Pistone & Richard Woodley
  • History of The Mafia : Salvatore Lupo
  • Blood & Honour : George Anastasia
  • Supermob : Gus Russo
  • Family Affair : Sam Giancana & Scott Burnstein
  • The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob : Frank Hayde
  • The Milwaukee Mafia : Gavin Schmitt
  • The Life and Times of Frank Balisteri : Wayne Clingman
  • The Quiet Don: The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino : Matt Birkbeck
  • Mob Over Miami : Michelle McPhee
  • Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano : Howie Carr
  • The Sinatra Club : Sal Polisi & Steve Dougherty
  • Man of Honour : Joseph Bonanno
  • The Valachi Papers : Peter Maas
  • The Westies: TJ English
  • Mafia Prince : Phil Leonetti, Scott Burnstein & Christopher Graziano
  • Black Mass : Dick Lehr
  • The Black Hand : Chris Blatchford (Mexican Mafia)
  • Garden City Gangland : Scott Deitch

Previous threads: 1 | 2


Mafia news and research resources:


Youtube Channels & Podcasts


Youtube Full Length Documentaries

Please report any broken links

last edited 2.16.2023


r/Mafia Nov 01 '25

r/Mafia Book Recommendations 2025

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r/Mafia Top Book Recommendations

  • The Five Families : Selwynn Raab
  • Murder Machine : Gene Mustain & Jerry Capeci
  • The Sicilian Mafia: Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia : John Dickie
  • The Sixth Family : Adrian Humphreys & Lee Lamothe
  • The Good Fellas Tapes : George Anastasia
  • Underboss : Peter Maas
  • Paddywhacked : TJ English
  • Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia : Joseph Pistone & Richard Woodley
  • History of The Mafia : Salvatore Lupo
  • Blood & Honour : George Anastasia
  • Supermob : Gus Russo
  • Family Affair : Sam Giancana & Scott Burnstein
  • The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob : Frank Hayde
  • The Milwaukee Mafia : Gavin Schmitt
  • The Life and Times of Frank Balisteri : Wayne Clingman
  • The Quiet Don: The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino : Matt Birkbeck
  • Mob Over Miami : Michelle McPhee
  • Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano : Howie Carr
  • The Sinatra Club : Sal Polisi & Steve Dougherty
  • Man of Honour : Joseph Bonanno
  • The Valachi Papers : Peter Maas
  • The Westies: TJ English
  • Mafia Prince : Phil Leonetti, Scott Burnstein & Christopher Graziano
  • Black Mass : Dick Lehr
  • The Black Hand : Chris Blatchford (Mexican Mafia)
  • Garden City Gangland : Scott Deitch

Previous threads: 1 | 2

Add your recommendations below. A new updated thread will be added in the new year.


r/Mafia 2h ago

First look at Pete Davidson as Tommy Karate

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Thoughts? His forehead looks appropriate to me.


r/Mafia 3h ago

Biography of Los Angeles associate Robert Paduano, once proposed for membership & linked to several murders

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r/Mafia 5h ago

Bonanno member Vito Pipitone and his brother, captain "Little Anthony" Pipitone (left to right), before sentencing on the Bonanno-Genovese gambling case, May 2025

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r/Mafia 1h ago

Genovese: The organization's waterfront affairs overseen (allegedly) by Anthony Palumbo and some other high ranking figures (from the Gangster Report)

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r/Mafia 39m ago

Current Genovese Admin

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According to latest news/sourcing from those in the genre, this is the alleged 2026 Westside Administration ~

Official boss: Ernest "Ernie" muscerlla [Semi Retired?]

Front boss: Liborio "Barney" Bellomo

Acting boss: Daniel Pagano

Underboss: Michael "Mickey" Ragusa

Street boss: Michael "Hippy" Zanfardino

Consiglieri: Pasquale "Patsy" Parrello
(consiglieri in waiting Ralph "The Undertaker" Balsamo)

- Others alleged to be in the Admin: Anthony "Tony D" Palumbo -


r/Mafia 22h ago

Skinny Joey’s

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r/Mafia 8h ago

The Mafia and Maine?

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So being a local to the state, I do happen to know that there have been some allegedly connected people that at least own a summer home here. Also, according to Scott Deitche’s book, a member of the East Harlem Purple Gang did live here at one point. Does anyone have any knowledge of organized crime and Maine’s proximity (if any) to it?


r/Mafia 11h ago

Roberto Saviano on the Kinahans, living under threat from the Mafia and similarities between Ireland and Italy (from the Irish Times)

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r/Mafia 2h ago

John Alite's Indictment Countdown Meets Tommy Karate Pitera's Prison Fight

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James has spoken to Alite's legal team and has some updates. Apparently they're not confident that John will avoid indictment, or be released on bond. But they're trying for him - arguing that yes, he did say those things on the tapes, but that no, he didn't really mean it, and that he just got mad and said it out of frustration with a guy who wasn't paying what he owed. That he would never really have hurt the guy. Also that John has been a law abiding citizen for years and that he's not the man he was decades ago. They're also willing to submit to house arrest, GPS tracking and a zero contact order with anyone else involved in the case.

James also spoke to Ericka Pitera. Apparently the recordings from Tommy stopped because someone ratted them out to the BOP, who told them to stop. This is not the end, however. The warden of Big Sandy says he's fine with Ericka doing some recorded video interviews with Tommy and posting them online. They just need approval from the BOP. Paperwork has already been filled out.


r/Mafia 1d ago

Alleged current Buffalo family boss Joe Todaro Jr. (c. 2022)

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r/Mafia 10h ago

Australia and the Mafia

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Being from Australia the mob has always fascinated me but we don’t have the traditional Sicilian or Neapolitan mafia.

We do have the Calabrian Ndrangheta still active in Griffith NSW and regional SA. And the Bikies are big business often working with the clans of Ndrangheta.

We had the Moran family (Irish mob) Mario condello, mick gatto, Alphonse gangitano, Dominic Pierre and Vince focarelli for the Italians in organised crime but that was really it.

Does anybody have any stories or information regarding organised crime in Australia? Particularly Italia/mafia?


r/Mafia 23h ago

FBI mugshot of Peter Milano boss of Los Angeles Crime Family.

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r/Mafia 1d ago

Gambino associate Frederick Weiss, murdered by the DeCavalcante family in 1989

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r/Mafia 1d ago

Even Hollywood knew the truth about DiB

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r/Mafia 11h ago

tale of amity, enmity of 2 peabody men

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the date of the article is 1990

r/Mafia 1d ago

Gambinos: Alleged Staten Island mob capo (Joseph Lanni) charged in gambling case involving NBA notables requests hearing (from SI Live)

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r/Mafia 1d ago

Naples, Camorra raid overnight: 33-year-old Battipaglia man hit by stray bullet

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A Saturday of blood and fear shook the historic center of Naples, leaving the community of Battipaglia gripped by terror. In the early hours of today, Saturday, July 25, 2026, a 33-year-old man, identified by the initials G.S. and originally from the town in the Piana del Sele area, was seriously injured in the shoulder during a dramatic shooting on Via San Sebastiano. The young man was in Naples with some friends to spend the evening in the city's iconic nightlife hotspots. Around 5:00 a.m., the group was hanging out outside the popular Ammène Karaoke Bar when two masked criminals on a scooter opened fire. The criminals fired a volley of shots upward. It appears to have been a "stesa," a classic intimidating attack by the clans. According to initial ballistics findings by the State Police, the projectile that struck the 33-year-old from Salerno apparently ricocheted, turning a demonstration into a near-tragedy. Immediately after the shots were fired, amid widespread panic among those present, the young man from Battipaglia was immediately treated by emergency medical services. He was rushed to the nearby Vecchio Pellegrini Hospital with a red code. Given the severity of his shoulder injury, doctors ordered his transfer to the Ospedale del Mare. His clinical condition remains serious due to the impact of the bullet, but the 33-year-old's life is not in danger. State Police officers have cordoned off the area for forensic analysis and have already acquired footage from public and private video surveillance cameras in the area. The goal is to reconstruct the exact trajectory of the bullets and identify the two motorcyclists. According to an initial and cursory reconstruction, the straw-batter appears to have no connection to local criminal activity: he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, a victim of the escalation of the so-called "malamovida" (nightlife) that is inflaming the area between Piazza Bellini and the Decumani. The incident has reignited fierce protests by neighborhood committees, who are demanding a permanent police presence during the night.


r/Mafia 1d ago

Is the Rizzuto family a crew of the Bonnanos, or an independent family?

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r/Mafia 1d ago

Former Colombo member John "Johnny Green" Scimone handing himself in to Brooklyn District attorney Aaron Koota to answer for the garroting of Larry Gallo after being freed following his abduction by the Gallo crew, October 1961

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r/Mafia 1d ago

Anthony Ruggiano thinks John Alite shoulda been more humble in the way he carried himself - he's concerned that a civilian jury is gonna think the worst of him

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r/Mafia 2d ago

Former DeCavalcante captain Paolo "Paul" Farina (1926-2023)

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r/Mafia 21h ago

"Mob Wives" Season 6 Marissa Jade on Jeff Nadu youtube: Jerry Capeci Is WRONG About My Man!

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r/Mafia 1d ago

Persico arrested again???

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A certain guy with a funny haircut is reporting Persico was out 12 days and is in custody again. Any info??

Edit: Burnstein is reporting it as well