Chronicles of Events and Biographies Related to the American Mafia
Simone DeCavalcante The New Jersey Mafia is a shadow of what it once was. It fell victim to its own hubris, and to new law enforcement technologies that allowed police and FBI agents to maintain relentless pressure on it. However, in the 1960s the New Jersey mob was riding high. Long a “wild west” area…
The popular Sopranos television series may helped make New Jersey’s connections to the Mafia and organized crime a popular discussion topic at dinner tables across America. However, long before the Sopranos there was an actual mafia network running criminal activities across the Hudson River that divides New Jersey from New York (and the Five Families…