For much of the last century, the American mafia controlled industries, kept police, judges, and politicians on its payroll and literally got away with murder. But somewhere in between Don Corleone’s version of La Cosa Nostra and Tony Soprano’s, the once-powerful organized crime syndicate lost its grip on power. In a three-part investigation, The Daily Wire looks at what the mob once was, how it was brought down, and how it may soon be back on the rise.
In a quiet, affluent Staten Island neighborhood just a mile from Vito Corleone’s home in “The Godfather,” a horrifying scene was unfolding outside a mafia don‘s mansion. Gambino boss Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali had just been lured outside, gunned down, and run over in his own driveway, his wife and young children just feet away inside the house.
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