112k subscribers in the mafia community. Does the mafia still exist in cleveland? He chronicles the rise and fall of the organisation.
Does anyone know if they’re still a thing? The cleveland mafia had strong family and business ties with the mafia organization in buffalo, new york, and established a working relationship with the mafia of pittsburgh. Some quick google searches show that old mafia families still hold power in cleveland.
A violent gang in cleveland styled itself after the mafia, using terms and codes like godfather, commissions and omerta, federal prosecutors say. Angelo lonardo, former acting boss of the cleveland crime family, comes out of hiding at 90 years old to tell the story of the cleveland mafia. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are still operating there as the buffalo family was considered dead but that doesn’t appear to be the case. Then joey naples took it over completely.
If they are operating in cleveland i doubt it’s more than. When he went away there was no one left to run youngstown for cleveland. In 1976, the city became known as bomb city, u.s.a. The cleveland mafia was dismantled by the fbi and other law enforcement officials so aggressively in the 1980s that by 1990 the family.
I was curious about the cleveland mafia.