Originally Posted By: DanteMoltisanti
Here is a great article from 2006 that breaks down which families control bookmaking in which specific areas of New Jersey:

Mob wins big with gambling activity


By Tom Troncone
The (Hackensack N.J.) Record
Published: Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 12:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 12:00 a.m.
HACKENSACK, N.J. - A week or so before the Super Bowl, "Artie" from Wayne, N.J., called an 800 number his friend gave him when the football season started. He provided his user name and password.

The woman who answered the phone spoke with a thick Hispanic accent.

"Give me the Steelers 20 times," he said in the gambler’s parlance for a $100 bet.

On the Thursday after the game, Artie "settled up" with the friend, collecting $90 – his winnings minus a fee – and bought a few rounds of drinks for his buddies.

Artie made money on Pittsburgh’s victory. So did one of the Mafia families operating sports betting rings in New Jersey, authorities believe.

Win or lose, the mob – to no one’s surprise – is one of the biggest winners when it comes to sports wagering in the Garden State.

"It’s the bread and butter of organized crime," said New Jersey State Police Capt. Mark Doyle, who oversees mob investigations for the agency in North Jersey. "They use this money to finance everything else they do, from drug distribution to prostitution to payoffs to unions and elected officials. Bettors have no idea where the money goes."

Scores of people are arrested each year in New Jersey for taking part in million-dollar betting rings connected to the Mafia. Most offenders never see the inside of a prison.

But no sports betting operation has ever received international attention like the one police busted earlier this month.

Authorities say former Philadelphia Flyers star Rick Tocchet and New Jersey State Trooper James Harney ran a sports betting operation that took in more than $1.7 million in bets in a little more than a month leading up to the Super Bowl.

Janet Jones, wife of hockey great Wayne Gretzky, allegedly placed $500,000 in bets with the ring. The names of other famous athletes have popped up as possible bettors as well.

The ring, authorities said, was "affiliated" with the Bruno crime family, which is based in Philadelphia but controls gambling operations throughout South Jersey as well as in parts of Newark. But how would a ring such as the one the ex-hockey player and the trooper supposedly ran be connected to organized crime?

The state police wouldn’t divulge details of the alleged mob ties. A defense lawyer hired by one of those charged in the case insisted the ring had no ties to organized crime. To date, authorities have said only that some mobsters may have been bettors and that Harney associated with others.

According to mob and sports betting experts, the answer could lie in the unseen world of big-money gaming. Peel back the veneer of any large betting ring and a world of "hedging," "vigs," "tributes," "protection" and "wire rooms" emerges.

It’s a world where tens of millions of dollars are pumped into the coffers of the five mob families that control sports betting in New Jersey: the Genovese crime family in Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Morris and Somerset counties; the Lucchese family in Essex, Morris and Union counties; the DeCavalcante family in Union and Monmouth counties; the Bonanno family in Union, Monmouth, Middlesex and Essex counties; and the Bruno/Scarfo family in South Jersey and the Silver Lake section of Newark.

Here’s how it works:

A bookmaker and several associates grow a stable of regular bettors. They can choose to open their own office – known as a "wire room" – and receive incoming bets via an 800 number or through a password-protected Web site.

Such an operation is extremely risky and involves a large, detectable organization, mob investigators say.

In late January, the last of 19 people charged with operating a Genovese sports betting ring from a bar in Garwood pleaded guilty to gambling charges in Monmouth County. They included the street boss of one of the six Genovese crews that operate in the state, Ludwig "Ninny" Bruschi.


The Philly family is in Silver Lake, Newark? Really?

I've been up that way a few times. There isn't anything Italian left there. Plus, wouldn't that be the same exact area that the Andy Gerardo westside crew ran? Further up Bloomfield avenue maybe.