Speaking of families the first for power are the Genoveses and the Luccheses
The Fiumara crew
Tino "the Greek" Fiumara was the leader of the crew and the entire New Jersey faction for the Genovese family. He controlled unions from Newark/Elizabeth Seaport and had been involved in loansharking, extortion, gambling, union and labor racketeering throughout New Jersey counties of Union, Essex and Bergen.[1] Fiumara was using Stephen Depiro as acting capo to control and handle all of the illegal operations in the New Jersey piers and docks.[15][21][22] On September 16, 2010, Fiumara died of natural causes [20] and it is unknown who is now controlling the crew.
The Prisco/LaScala crew
Angelo "The Horn" Prisco became a capo in the Genovese Jersey faction in the late 1980s after the murder of capo John "Johnny D." DiGilio. Prisco took control of the crew operating from Hudson county's Bayonne and Jersey City waterfronts, and maintained operations in New Jersey's Monmouth county and Florida.[1] In early 1990s Prisco was ordered by Genovese family boss Vincent Gigante to murder his cousin Angelo Sangiuolo. Prisco's cousin Sangiuolo, a Genovese family associate, was caught robbing from the Genovese family's gambling operations in the Bronx. In 1994 he was charged with racketeering and the murder of former capo John DiGilio. He pled guilty only to the arson charge in 1998 and sentenced to 12 years in prison. While Prisco was in prison Joseph N. LaScala supervised the crew.[1] In 2002 Prisco was released from prison after his appeal was denied because the New Jersey State Attorney General's office requested his early release.[23] Prisco was once again indicted in 2008 for the 1992 murder of Angelo Sangiuolo. In 2009 Prisco received life sentence,[24] and is currently located at the United States Penitentiary I in Coleman, in Central Florida.[25] In May 2012, capo Joseph N. LaScala was arrested and charged illegal gambling.[26][27]
The Gatto crew
The crew was led by capo Peter LaPlaca until the mid-1970s when Louis "Streaky" Gatto took over. Louis and his son Joseph Gatto Jr. led the crew operating in Bergen and Passaic counties in north New Jersey.[1] They controlled large illegal gambling, loansharking and bookmaking rackets. The father and son duo used violence and fear to collect on these rackets, esuring rivals would not take advantage of their illegal activities. In 1989, Gatto Sr. was indicted on two murder counts and received 65 years and his son Gatto Jr. was also indicted on racketeering charges and received 30 months.[1]
Joseph "The Eagle" Gatto Jr. was released in 1993 and assumed control of his father's crew. He would expanded the crew's illegal gambling operations by introducing the use of pagers and cell phones. By 1999, Gatto Jr. was convicted on illegal gambling charges and took a plea deal where he admitted that he was a capo with the Genovese family. Gatto Jr. was released in 2003, but he was indicted again in 2004 for running the Catalina Sports an offshore wire room in Costa Rica. The sports bar allegedly grossed $300,000 to $500,000 in profit per week. The conviction was overturned in 2005. The prosecutions tried again in 2008.[28] Gatto Jr. died in April 2010 of natural causes and a free man.[29][30] It is unknown who has taken over leading crew today.
The DeVita crew
After capo Andrew Gerardo retired in the 1990s the crew was taken over by Sicilian born Silvio P. DeVita.[1] The crew operates mainly in Essex county, where DeVita runs illegal operations from illegal gambling, loansharking to insurance fraud, extorting construction sites and union racketeering. DeVita, a Sicilian born mobster, keeps strong family and criminal ties to Sicily. The crew may increase in size by recruiting more Sicilians ("Zips") who share blood and marriage ties with him. DeVita was placed on the New Jersey State Casino Control Commission Exclusion List that bars him from any casino in that state.[1]
The Bruschi crew
Ludwig "Ninni" Bruschi was first identified by law enforcement as a bookmaker in the 1970s. He continued to operate gambling operations and by the 1990s had risen to the ranks of capo operating in South Jersey counties of Ocean, Monmouth, Middlesex and North Jersey counties of Hudson, Essex, Passaic and Union counties.[1] Bruschi rose to power with the New Jersey faction with the absence of Fiumara. Throughout the 1980s into the 1990s Tino Fiumara was imprisoned and Angelo Prisco became the top New Jersey faction leader. Prisco was later imprisoned from 1994 until 2002, allowing Bruschi to gain more power within the faction. In June 2003 Bruschi was indicted for running a racketeering enterprise engaged in illegal gambling, loansharking and drug distribution.[31] Bruschi was paroled from New Jersey State prison in April 2010.
