There were about twenty-six known Cosa Nostra “Families” within the United States who generally operated in the large cities. But there were also many smaller cities, towns and villages where offshoots of these very same borgatas staked territory for their respective Families.

Good examples of this were in upstate Utica, New York where the “Falcone Regime” ruled the roost as an extension of the Buffalo Family.

Or in Youngstown, Ohio where both the Pittsburgh and Cleveland Families carved out territory.

So how about other towns and villages throughout the U.S.?

Some were formal "regimes" of a particular Family, or a small group consisting of one or two soldiers and a few associates. Sometimes it was a single soldier or associate operating in a given area who oversaw that territory for his Family....

Sometimes they ran a very small city or county. Sometimes they ran just one particular little neighborhood in a nondescript out-of-the-way area....

ButtonGuys packed a valise and decided to travel clear across the country, from coast to coast, north and south, digging these fellas up.
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