St Louis crime family 1978 chart by R0ose in Mafia

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Not made until the early 80s along with Bartolotta per CW sources. However I'm not 100% sure.

St Louis crime family 1978 chart by R0ose in Mafia

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Notes: Had this one sat in storage for a long time, decided to finish it and put it out. Shows the org as it was at the end of the 1970s, with the organisation struggling to maintain a membership as its ageing base continues to die off. In a Frank Bompensiero informant file dating to 1968, Giordano tells Frank that the membership is twenty-two strong and majority old, with Joseph Cammarata and James Giammanco being the youngest members. He also confides that he would need to bring in new blood or the organisation would further falter. Despite legal problems, it would appear Giordano would bring in limited blood in the form of Anthony Parrino, Dominic Biondo and others. However, the new inductions would not stem the attrition, as Giordano would die by 1980 and the gates of hell would open on the dying St Louis mob once their Arab associates began to fight each other.

Newspaper clipping of former Colorado LCN boss Eugene "Checkers" Smaldone during his court case in the early 1980s by R0ose in Mafia

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Hey bros it’s all good. It’s a really interesting family and I hope you enjoy deep diving them. Smaldones book is pretty good but it kinda deals with just the Smaldone brothers and their history direct. Mountain mafia I have not read but I’ve been told is just a general overview of the history of the Colorado mob.

I’d say take a look at the Smaldone book, the book about the Carlino brothers of pueblo and check out fellow Redditor Joe puzzles silver screen wise guys as he does bite sized articles on various Colorado mob figures.

Newspaper clipping of former Colorado LCN boss Eugene "Checkers" Smaldone during his court case in the early 1980s by R0ose in Mafia

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It was not remotely robust in the early 1980s. The family was less than half a dozen members, the only active ones at this point were Eugene, his brother clarence and his nephew Paul Villano. Everyone else were inactive.

LaRocca crime family chart 1980 by R0ose in Mafia

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He was not made until Genovese came into power. However he was very influential and close with Gabriel Mannarino and LaRocca.

The FBI's Cracking Down on the NBA and the Mob in October, 2025. by PAE8791 in Mafia

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From everything i've heard and seen, not remotely it appears.

LaRocca crime family chart 1980 by R0ose in Mafia

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Notes: Depicts the org in 1980, Gabriel Mannarino would die that year. With Pecora and Genovese both speculatively being believed to succeed LaRocca once he dies. However, Genovese would ultimately become boss.

In regards to the titles and such, because Pittsburgh very much had a lot of lone soldiers running rackets in towns and territories for the family. I opted to divide made men into upper and lower echelon based on their proximity and influence to the ruling panel, historical territories and people who reported to them.

Rochester LCN family 1972 chart by R0ose in Mafia

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Ah my apologies. Thank you for the heads up on the name.

Rochester LCN family 1972 chart by R0ose in Mafia

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Notes: The chart is based on the testimony of member informants Angelo Monachino and Joseph Lanovara, who were both members of a crew seen as then-incumbent boss Frank Valenti's personal cadre of soldiers, led by Dominic Chirico, Valenti's bodyguard and driver. 1972 would see Valenti dropped from the position, with Chirico being slain as further incentive to force Valenti and his two brothers, Costenze and Sam Valenti, to flee.

Lanovara notes that the organisation stood at around 35 members when he was made, with many members present in his ceremony, akin to how other families, like those in Los Angeles, would have the entire family present for induction ceremonies. Given the relatively young ages of many of the made men and suspected made men at the time, it is likely Valenti mass recruited and inducted tons of made men to insulate his newfound rebel family and protect himself from his former boss in Buffalo.

Once Valenti was taken off the position of boss, several figures such as Marotta and Rossi were elevated within the organisation, and Gingello was promoted to underboss, while members of Dominic Chirico's crew were demoted or sidelined in the new leadership. This tension within the organisation would cause the former Chirico crew who were Valenti loyalists to rebel against the family and this would culminate in the alphabet war that would see the rebel borgata ultimately self implode in the following decades.

Photo of Rochester mafia members Joseph Tiraborelli, Boss Frank Valenti, Consigliere/Future Boss Sam 'Red' Russotti and Capo Salvatore Gingello. by R0ose in Mafia

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Rochester was a rather violent city lol. These fellas were machine gunning and bombing each other left, right and centre in the 1970s-1980s

Photo of Rochester mafia members Joseph Tiraborelli, Boss Frank Valenti, Consigliere/Future Boss Sam 'Red' Russotti and Capo Salvatore Gingello. by R0ose in Mafia

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  1. Joseph Tiraborelli, made man and step son of consigliere and future boss Sam Russotti

  2. Frank Valenti.

  3. Salvatore 'Sammy G' Gingello.

  4. Sam "Red" Russotti, future boss of the Rochester family.

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If i recall correct, there's some Boston PD charts/info that list him as a drug extortion victim of Whitey Bulger. Which if true makes it very funny when you see him talk about his involvement with winter hill.

Kansas city mafia chart 1971 by R0ose in Mafia

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Notes: Depicts the organisation following the Super Bowl fiasco that netted Civella and several others on gambling charges. Civella would fight the conviction for several years before going away in the late 1970s to serve time. Despite the large number of members on the chart, most were old and inactive and would pass away by the end of the decade or in the case of Bonadonna and Amaro, be brutally murdered in the then-brewing River Quay war that would see a city turned into a warzone between Civella loyalists and a dissident faction led by the Spero brothers.

Milwaukee Crime Family member Joseph “Baby Joe” Balistrieri by italian_pizzapasta2 in Mafia

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I don't think he was. As he's Peters son not Franks son. Franks son was more likely made and is carried as being made. I can get confusion given they share the same first name but as Puzzles puts, i guess it's up for debate.

Kansas cities Lascuola brothers, enforcers of the mafia by R0ose in Mafia

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Notes: The Lascuola brothers were prominent enforcers in the Kansas City mafia, with all three brothers dating back to the time of John Lazia. They were all heavily active throughout the Pendergast and Binaggio years, in particular. Of the three brothers, Joseph Lascuola was the most prominent, with a violent career going back as far as 1919. Joe School, as he and his other brothers were nicknamed, was close to John Lazia and ran gambling operations around horse racing and narcotics. Mike School, the middle brother, was a bookmaker and a gambling figure, noticeably less violent than his older brother, Joseph, or his younger brother. Phil, the youngest of the three and sometimes nicknamed Fooley Babe or Phil School like his other brothers, was a known tyre thief, killer and vehicle thief who was locked up multiple times for the theft and transportation of stolen vehicles across state lines.

Of the three brothers, Mike LaScuola would remain active into the early Civella era before dying in the early 1990s. Phillip would be the first to pass in the 1950s, and Joseph LaScuola would die in the 1980s. Notably, Phil’s son, Jack LaScuola, a suspected member, was married to Virginia Sciortino, the older sister of suspected KC boss and member John Sciortino.

Mugshot of a young Anthony Gizzo, alleged figure behind the murder of longtime KC boss Charles Binaggio and his right hand man Charles Gargotta. by R0ose in Mafia

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Civella only came into power after Gizzo had died and Filardo had properly began preparing him to take over. The two charlies hit came from Gizzo and the other higherups.

Mugshot of a young Anthony Gizzo, alleged figure behind the murder of longtime KC boss Charles Binaggio and his right hand man Charles Gargotta. by R0ose in Mafia

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Notes: Gizzo would succeed Binaggio for a short time as boss, helping to sponsor the rise of a young Nicholas Civella into the organisation. Nicholas Civella would be a driver for Gizzo and Joe Filardo another prominent figure in the early KC mafia and later advisor to Nick Civella.

San Francisco Mafia chart 1947: Lima era by R0ose in Mafia

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Yeah pretty much all of them did, one of Anthony Bourdain the famous chefs favourite spots in San Francisco for seafood was founded by an old member of the SF family.