Famous Male Racketeers
List of famous male racketeerings, listed by their level of prominence with photos when available. This greatest male racketeerings list contains the most prominent and top males known for being racketeerings. There are thousand of males working as racketeerings in the world, but this list highlights only the most notable ones. Historic racketeerings have worked hard to become the best that they can be, so if you're a male aspiring to be a racketeering then the people below should give you inspiration.
This list features James Colosimo, Carlo Gambino and more.
While this isn't a list of all male racketeerings, it does answer the questions "Who are the most famous male racketeerings?" and "Who are the best male racketeerings?"- Photo: Chicago Bureau (Federal Bureau of Investigation) - Wide World Photos / Wikimedia Commons / Public domainAlphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (, Italian: [kaหpoหne]; born January 17, 1899 โ January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he went to prison at age 33. Capone was born in New York City in 1899 to Italian immigrant parents. He joined the Five Points Gang as a teenager, and became a bouncer in organized crime premises such as brothels. In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago and became a bodyguard and trusted factotum for Johnny Torrio, head of a criminal syndicate that illegally supplied alcoholโthe forerunner of the Outfitโand was politically protected through the Unione Siciliana. A conflict with the North Side Gang was instrumental in Capone's rise and fall. Torrio went into retirement after North Side gunmen almost killed him, handing control to Capone. Capone expanded the bootlegging business through increasingly violent means, but his mutually profitable relationships with mayor William Hale Thompson and the city's police meant he seemed safe from law enforcement. Capone apparently reveled in attention, such as the cheers from spectators when he appeared at ball games. He made donations to various charities and was viewed by many as "modern-day Robin Hood". However, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, in which seven gang rivals were murdered in broad daylight, damaged Chicago's and Capone's image, leading influential citizens to demand government action and newspapers to dub Capone "Public Enemy No. 1". The federal authorities became intent on jailing Capone and prosecuted him in 1931 for tax evasion. During a highly publicized case, the judge admitted as evidence Capone's admissions of his income and unpaid taxes during prior (and ultimately abortive) negotiations to pay the government taxes he owed. He was convicted and sentenced to 11 years in federal prison. After conviction, he replaced his defense team with experts in tax law, and his grounds for appeal were strengthened by a Supreme Court ruling, but his appeal ultimately failed. Capone showed signs of neurosyphilis early in his sentence and became increasingly debilitated before being released after almost eight years of incarceration. On January 25, 1947, Capone died of cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke.Moreย Al Capone
- Photo: Metaweb / CC-BYCharles Dean O'Banion (July 8, 1892 โ November 10, 1924) was an Irish-American mobster who was the main rival of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone during the brutal Chicago bootlegging wars of the 1920s. The newspapers of his day made him better known as Dion O'Banion, although he never went by that first name. He led the North Side Gang until 1924, when he was shot and killed, reportedly by Frankie Yale, John Scalise and Albert Anselmi.Moreย Dean O'Banion
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- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainJoseph Anthony "Joe" Colombo, Sr. (Italian: [koหlombo]; June 16, 1923 โ May 22, 1978) was the boss of the Colombo crime family, one of the "Five Families" of the Cosa Nostra in New York.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainCarlo "Don Carlo" Gambino (Italian: [หkarlo ษกamหbiหno]; August 24, 1902 โ October 15, 1976) was a Sicilian-American mobster and boss of the Gambino crime family, which is still named after him. After the 1957 Apalachin Convention, he unexpectedly seized control of the Commission of the American Mafia. Gambino was inconspicuous and secretive; he was convicted of tax evasion in 1937 but had his sentence suspended. He lived to the age of 74, when he died of a heart attack in bed.
- Photo: user uploaded imageVito Rizzuto (Italian: [หviหto ritหtsuหto]; February 21, 1946 โ December 23, 2013), also known as "Montreal's Teflon Don", was an Italian-Canadian crime boss alleged to be the leader of the Sicilian Mafia in Canada. He headed the notorious Rizzuto crime family based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, Italy in 1946 and immigrated to Montreal with his parents in 1954. His father Nicolo married into the mob, and later started his own crime syndicate in Montreal after overtaking the Cotroni crime family in the late 1970s. He had several run-ins with the law but was able to avoid conviction for any major offenses until 2004. In 1981, Rizzuto participated in the killing of three rival capos in New York City ordered by Joe Massino of the Bonanno crime family, and he was indicted by a Brooklyn federal grand jury in connection with these killings in 2004. He was extradited to the United States in 2006, and pled guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering charges in 2007. He was given a 10-year prison sentence, but was released in late 2012. The Rizzuto crime family was in the midst of a power struggle while Rizzuto was jailed; his son Nicolo Jr. was killed in 2009, and his father was killed in 2010. He died from pneumonia on December 23, 2013, shortly after his release in a complication of lung cancer.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainCarmine Galante (Italian: [หkarmine ษกaหlante]; February 21, 1910 โ July 12, 1979) was an American mobster and boss of the Bonanno crime family. Galante was rarely seen without a cigar, leading to the nickname "The Cigar" and "Lilo" (a Sicilian term for cigar).Moreย Carmine Galante
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- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainRoger Touhy (September 18, 1898 โ December 16, 1959) was an Irish-American mob boss and prohibition-era bootlegger from Chicago, Illinois. He is best remembered for having been framed for the 1933 faked kidnapping of gangster John "Jake the Barber" Factor, a brother of cosmetics manufacturer Max Factor Sr. Despite numerous appeals and at least one court ruling freeing him, Touhy spent 26 years in prison. Touhy was released in November 1959. He was murdered by the Chicago Outfit less than a month later.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainAngelo Bruno (born Angelo Annaloro; Italian: [หandสelo annaหlษหro]; (May 21, 1910 โ March 21, 1980) was a Sicilian-American mobster, notable for being boss of the Philadelphia crime family for two decades until his assassination. Bruno gained the epithets "the Gentle Don" or "the Docile Don" posthumously due to his preference for conciliation over violence in stark contrast to his successors.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainFrank "the Prime Minister" Costello (Italian: [koหstษllo]; born Francesco Castiglia [franหtสesko kaหstiสสa]; January 26, 1891 โ February 18, 1973) was an Italian-American Mafia gangster and crime boss. Costello rose to the top of American organized crime, controlled a vast gambling empire, and enjoyed political influence. Nicknamed "The Prime Minister of the Underworld," he became one of the most powerful and influential mafia bosses in American history, eventually leading the Luciano crime family (later called the Genovese crime family), one of the Five Families that operate in New York City.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainGiuseppe "Joe" Profaci (Italian: [dสuหzษppe proหfaหtสi]; October 2, 1897 โ June 6, 1962) was an Italian-born New York City La Cosa Nostra boss who was the founder of what is today known as the Colombo crime family. Established in 1928, this was the last of the Five Families to be organized. He was the family's boss for over three decades.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Fair useRaymond Loreda Salvatore Patriarca Sr. (March 18, 1908 โ July 11, 1984) was an Italian-American mobster from Providence, Rhode Island who became the longtime boss of the Patriarca crime family, whose control extended throughout New England for more than three decades. He was one of the most powerful crime bosses in the United States, and often mediated disputes between Cosa Nostra families outside the region. He was the father of Raymond Patriarca Jr.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB)Russell Bufalino (born Rosario Alberto Bufalino; Italian pronunciation: [roหzaหrjo alหbษrto bufaหliหno]; September 25, 1903 โ February 25, 1994) also known as "McGee" and "The Old Man", was a Sicilian-born American mafioso who became the boss of the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family known as the Bufalino crime family which he ruled from 1959 to 1989. Despite being the boss of a small crime family, Bufalino was a significant influence in the national Cosa Nostra criminal organization.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainSam Giancana, born Salvatore Giangana (June 15, 1908 โ June 18, 1975), was a Sicilian American mobster, notable as the boss of the criminal Chicago Outfit from 1957 to 1966.Moreย Sam Giancana
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- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainVincenzo Colosimo (Italian: [vinหtสษntso koหlษziหmo]; February 16, 1878 โ May 11, 1920), known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895, and built a criminal empire in Chicago based on prostitution, gambling, and racketeering. He gained power through petty crime and by heading a chain of brothels. From about 1902 until his death in 1920, he led a gang that became known after his death as the Chicago Outfit. Johnny Torrio was an enforcer whom Colosimo imported in 1909 from New York and who seized control after his death. Al Capone, a Torrio henchman, allegedly was directly involved in the murder.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Fair useThomas "Tommy" Lucchese (born Gaetano Lucchese; Italian pronunciation: [ษกaeหtaหno lukหkeหse]; December 1, 1899 โ July 13, 1967) was an Italian American gangster and founding member of the Mafia in the United States, an offshoot of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily. From 1951 until 1967, he was the boss of the Lucchese crime family, one of the Five Families that dominates organized crime in New York City.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainStefano "The Undertaker" Magaddino (Italian pronunciation: [หsteหfano maษกaหddiหno]; October 10, 1891 โ July 19, 1974) was an Italian-born crime boss of the Buffalo crime family in western New York. His underworld influence stretched from Ohio to Southern Ontario and as far east as Montreal, Quebec. Known as Don Stefano to his friends and The Undertaker to others, he was also a charter member of the American Mafia's ruling council, otherwise known as The Commission.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Fair useLouis "Little New York" Campagna (March 31, 1900 โ May 30, 1955) was an American gangster and mobster and a high-ranking member of the Chicago Outfit for over three decades.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainRafael Caro Quintero (born October 3, 1952) is a Mexican drug trafficker who co-founded the now-disintegrated Guadalajara Cartel with Miguel รngel Fรฉlix Gallardo and other drug traffickers in the 1970s. He is the brother of fellow drug trafficker Miguel Caro Quintero, the founder and former leader of the defunct Sonora Cartel. Having formed the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s, Caro Quintero worked with Gallardo, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, and Pedro Avilรฉs Pรฉrez by shipping large quantities of marijuana to the United States from Mexico. He was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, Camarena's pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar, the American writer John Clay Walker, and dentistry student Alberto Radelat in 1985. After the murders, Caro Quintero fled to Costa Rica but was later arrested and extradited back to Mexico, where he was sentenced to 40-years in prison for murder. Following his arrest, the Guadalajara Cartel disintegrated, and its leaders were incorporated into the Tijuana Cartel, Sinaloa Cartel, and Juรกrez Cartel. Caro Quintero was freed from jail on August 9, 2013, after a state court concluded that he had been tried improperly. However, amid pressure from the federal government of the United States to re-arrest him, a Mexican federal court issued an arrest warrant against Caro Quintero on August 14. He remains at large, as a wanted fugitive in Mexico, the United States, and several other countries. The United States is offering a $20 million bounty for his arrest.
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Joseph Glimco
Joseph Paul Glimco (January 14, 1909 โ April 28, 1991) was an Italian American labor leader and well-known organized crime figure based in Chicago, Illinois. He was considered "Chicago's top labor racketeer" in the 1950s. One high-ranking Chicago Teamsters leader noted in 1954, "He is the mob. When he opens his mouth, it's the syndicate talking." Glimco was active in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and a close associate of Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa. He was a capo in the Chicago Outfit, an organized crime syndicate, and oversaw the syndicate's labor racketeering efforts. He worked closely with Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo, who led the Chicago Outfit from 1943 to 1957, and Sam "Momo" Giancana, who led the syndicate from 1957 to 1966. A United States Senate committee once claimed that Glimco ran "the nation's most corrupt union."Among his numerous aliases were Joey Glimco, "Tough Guy" Glimco, Joseph Glinico, and Joseph Glielmi. He was also known as "Little Tim Murphy," a reference to Timothy "Big Tim" Murphy, a Chicago mobster and labor racketeer (also well known for his close ties to the Teamsters) whom the Chicago Outfit feared and subsequently murdered in 1928. Kristijan Goluboviฤ
Aleksandar "Kristijan" Goluboviฤ (Serbian Cyrillic: ะะปะตะบัะฐะฝะดะฐั "ะัะธััะธัะฐะฝ" ะะพะปัะฑะพะฒะธั; born 30 November 1969) is a Serbian public personality and Mixed martial artist. He was featured among several other Belgrade gangsters in the 1996 documentary about Serbia's underworld titled See You in the Obituary. Goluboviฤ is one of only a few individuals, out of dozens featured in the film, still alive today. After spending four and a half years in prison for activities related to drugs in Poลพarevac. He was released on January 9, 2009. As of 2016, he is imprisoned again for the same level of crime,again arrested for drug dealing and is now currently serving time for his penalty in Zabela Prison.- Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov (Russian: ะััะตัะปะฐฬะฒ ะะธัะธฬะปะปะพะฒะธั ะะฒะฐะฝัะบะพฬะฒ) (January 2, 1940 โ October 9, 2009) was a notorious Russian mafia boss and thief in law who was believed to have connections with Russian state intelligence organizations and their organized crime partners. He has operated in both the Soviet Union and the United States. His nickname, "Yaponchik" (ะฏะฟะพะฝัะธะบ) translates from Russian as "Little Japanese", due to his faintly Mongoloid facial features.
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