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Philip Mangano (left) was best known as the consigliere or counselor to the Gambino crime family. Was this photo taken before Mangano was indicted for first degree murder in 1923? Dated circa 1920, the timing remains as elusive as Mangano’s conviction.
A man of domineering stature and personality, Al Capone’s brother, Ralph “Bottles” Capone stands out alongside fellow gang member Anthony Aresso in Chicago, ca 1920.
Jack “Machine Gun” McGurn is seen leaving a phone booth in Chicago, ca 1920. McGurn, a longtime henchman of Al Capone’s Chicago operation, was assassinated by assailants wielding—what else—machine guns, in 1936.
Prohibition-era gangster Joseph “Diamond Joe” Esposito shakes hands with a child in Chicago, 1925. Diamond Joe met his demise three years later when he was hit by a drive-by shooting while on his front stoop.
Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti was Al Capone’s second in command, overseeing the gang’s bootlegging activities in Chicago. Nitti took over Capone’s Chicago operation after the Mafia king’s imprisonment in 1932.
Frank Nitti
1930 mug shot of gangster and Chicago mob king Al Capone, whose crime syndicate remains one of the most notorious in American history. Capone was later imprisoned on federal income tax evasion charges.
Al Capone
Chicago mobster Al Capone enjoys a moment of tranquility on his yacht in this photo taken between 1925 and the gangster’s arrest in 1930.
Al Capone
Charles “Lucky” Luciano, organized crime boss of the Sicilian “La Cosa Nostra” Mafia, poses for an FBI photo in 1925.
Lucky Luciano
Mafia Boss George ‘Bugs’ Moran stands for a portrait in 1928. Bugs gained infamy during the Prohibition era as Al Capone’s chief rival in Chicago.
Joseph Saltis, known colloquially as “Polack Joe,” is shown leaving Chicago’s Bridewell police station in 1929.
George McManus, the well-known gambler, rejoices while leaving the Criminal Courts building in New York in 1929. He had just been acquitted of the murder of Arnold Rothstein, a wealthy American gambler killed at the Park central Hotel.
FBI agents attempt to force open Chicago mobster Al Capone’s safe in this 1930’s shot.
FBI agents lead away American gangster George Kelly Barnes, better known as “Machine Gun Kelly,” who was wanted for the kidnapping of oil tycoon Charles F. Urschel in 1933.
Machine Gun Kelly
The high-volume Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger is shown with a group of friends in 1935.
John Dillinger
1935 mug shot of “Don” Carlo Gambino, the head of the NYC-based Gambino crime family.
Jewish-American gangster Dutch Schultz awaits the verdict in his trial for income tax evasion in 1935. While the bootlegger avoided a conviction, he was assassinated later that year on orders from the Mafia’s ruling body, the Commission.
Dutch Schultz
A hard stare emotes from the characteristically stern visage of American gangster and boxing manager Frank Carbo in 1936.
The well-tailored, Brooklyn-born Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel lights a cigar in 1940. Bugsy was a gambler, bootlegger and known affiliate of the Genovese crime family.
Bugsy Siegel
Albert “Mad Hatter” Anastasia looks dead into the camera prior to giving testimony before the New York State Crime Commission in the 1940's.
Albert Anastasia
Jewish-American gangster and Hollywood playboy Mickey Cohen dons a hat at a Los Angeles office in 1949. Cohen spent nearly three decades living the mob life, running illegal gambling operations, a sexual extortion ring and at one point—even a jewelry store.
Mickey Cohen
American mob boss Frank Costello testifies before the Kefauver Committee investigation into organized crime in 1951.
Mob boss Vito “Don Vito” Genovese after his arrest in New York City in 1955. Don Vito went to prison in 1959 for conspiring to import and sell narcotics, specifically heroin.
1957 mug shot of Vincent “the Chin” Gigante, a former professional boxer who led the Genovese crime family from 1981 to 2005.
Vincent Gigante
Mafia member turned government informant Joseph Valachi testifies before the Senate Rackets Committee in Washington D.C., 1963.
Joseph Valachi
1965 mug shot of Brooklyn-native Joe “Crazy Joe” Gallo, taken four years after he was convicted on conspiracy and extortion charges in New York.
Joey Gallo
Chicago crime boss Sam Giancana leaves court after appearing before a federal grand jury in New York City in 1965. Giancana was under the protection of an FBI police detail when he was shot and killed in his Illinois home ten years later.
Sam Giancana
Members of the Sicilian mob are escorted to trial in 1967.
Russian-born Meyer Lansky, known as the “Mob’s Accountant,” is shown here at Mount Olive, Jerusalem in 1971. Lansky fled to Israel in 1970 to avoid tax evasion charges, but was deported two years later by the Israeli government.
Meyer Lansky
1984 mug shot of hardened mob head Paul “Big Paul” Castellano, who was indicted on federal racketeering charges following a year of surveillance by the FBI who planted audio recorders in Castellano’s house.
Paul Castellano
The inspiration for Ray Liotta's character in Goodfellas, Henry Hill began running errands for the Lucchese crime family in his early teens. In 1967 he helped pull off the famous Air France heist, but eventually would turn informant in the even bigger Lufthansa heist as he believed he was about to be killed by former associates.
(© Anthony Mandler/Corbis Outline)Henry Hill
John Gotti enters the Brooklyn Federal courthouse in 1986, the year he was tried—and acquitted—on racketeering charges. Gotti was sentenced to life in prison after a second racketeering trial in 1992. He died of throat cancer in prison ten years later.
John Gotti
Sammy "The Bull" Gravano
Ukranian-born Semion "Brainy Don" Mogilevich, the so-called "boss of bosses" of the Russian Mafia, is on the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitive list.
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