Genovese crime family

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The Genovese crime family (Italian: [dʒenoˈveːze, -eːse]), also sometimes referred to as the Westside, is an Italian American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City and New Jersey as part of the American Mafia. The Genovese family is the oldest and the largest of New York's Five Families, and was the first of the New York families to expand into New Jersey. The Genovese family has also generally maintained a varying degree of influence over many of the smaller Mafia families outside New York, including ties with the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Patriarca, and Buffalo crime families. The modern family was founded by Charles "Lucky" Luciano and was known as the Luciano crime family from 1931 to 1957, when Vito Genovese became boss. Genovese was head of the family during the McClellan hearings in 1963, which gave the Five Families their current names. Originally in control of the waterfront on the West Side of Manhattan as well...

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