Mafia Informally or generally, a mafia is any of various criminal organizations that include, or bear a strong similarity to, the original Sicilian Mafia, the Italian-American Mafia, or other Italian organized …

The American Mafia, [24][25][26] commonly referred to in North America as the Italian-American Mafia, the Mafia, or the Mob, [24][25][26] is a highly organized Italian American criminal society and …

Jun 3, 2026 · Mafia, hierarchically structured society of criminals primarily of Italian or Sicilian birth or extraction.

Jun 22, 2026 · Get the latest news and breaking news reports about the mafia on the New York Post.

These criminal groups may have diminished in power, but they refuse to go away. For this list, we'll be looking at the most powerful mafias and mafia-type organizations that are still operative today.

From the Five Families of New York to the present day, this history of the Italian-American Mafia reveals the bloody story that few outside its ranks know.

Oct 29, 2009 · The Mafia, a network of organized-crime groups based in Italy and America, evolved over centuries in Sicily, an island ruled until the mid-19th century by a long line of foreign invaders ...

Nov 18, 2023 · Here’s what the modern-day mafia looks like — inside and out — of New York’s ‘five families’ after latest Gambino arrests

The Mafia has controlled everything from the street-corner drug trade to labor-union leadership to high-level politicians. How did it start and what's its status now?

La Cosa Nostra consists of different “families” or groups that are generally arranged geographically and engaged in significant and organized racketeering activity.