With Ardizzone gone, the Matrangas fulfilled their promise of revenge. Ardizzone then fled authorities and became a wanted fugitive. In response, Ardizzone shot and killed Maisano on July 2, 1906. Cuccia was a relative of Ardizzone's and ruled in Ardizzone's favor, causing the Matrangas to threaten Cuccia. This made him a well liked man in the Italian community. Cuccia was a well-respected criminal amongst the underworld, who served as a translator in court for Italians who didn't speak English. When prominent Black Hand leader Joseph Ardizzone was involved in a dispute with George Maisano, a member of the Matranga gang, they both went to Joseph Cuccia to mediate the dispute. Sam's relatives Salvatore Matranga, Pietro "Peter" Matranga, and Antonio "Tony" Matranga were other members of the gang. Its first leader was Rosario "Sam" Matranga (often misreported as "Orsario," due to a typo on his death record), who started leading the family around 1905. Otherwise they used threats, violence, arson, and extortion to control the Plaza area, which was the heart of the Italian American community of Los Angeles at the time. Their legitimate business was fruit vending. Which were a family of Arbereshe origin from a Albanian noble family which settled in south Italy hundreds of years ago. The most prominent of these was the Matranga family. The early years of organized crime in California were marked by the division of various Italian street gangs such as the Black Hand organizations in the early 20th century. The drawing is a depiction of the murder of Pietro Matranga. Pictured in the top right corner are Sam Matranga and Tony Buccola. The Los Angeles crime family is the last Mafia family left in the state of California.
Not having a strong concentration of Italian-Americans in the region leaves the family to contend with the many street gangs of other ethnicities in the city. Mafia now only holds a fraction of its former power. Since the 1980s, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) has been effective in convicting mobsters and shrinking the American Mafia like all families in the United States, the L.A. The sources for much of the current information on the history of the Los Angeles Cosa Nostra family is the courtroom testimony and the published biographies of Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno, who in the late 1970s became the second member – and the first acting boss – in American Mafia history to testify against Mafia members, and The Last Mafioso (1981), a biography of Fratianno by Ovid Demaris. The Los Angeles crime family itself has been on a gradual decline, with the Chicago Outfit representing them on The Commission since the death of boss Jack Dragna in 1956.
family reached its peak strength in the 1940s and early 1950s under Jack Dragna, although the family was never larger than the New York or Chicago families. Like most Mafia families in the United States, the Los Angeles crime family gained power bootlegging alcohol during the Prohibition era. Since its inception in the early 20th century, it has spread throughout Southern California. Mafia or the Southern California crime family, is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Los Angeles as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia. The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the L.A. Racketeering, loansharking, money laundering, murder, extortion, gambling, drug trafficking, fencing, and fraud Italians as " made men" Arbereshe and other ethnicities as associates Joseph Ardizzone, the first boss of the Los Angeles family
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