not endorsing mafia in any way but what would hypothetically be the best mafia famiily if u could choose whos in what ranks. im curious to know and why. sorry if this is done before

Boss - Giovanni Falcone
Underboss - Paolo Borsellino
Consigliere - Joseph Pistone
Capo - Joaquin Garcia
Capo - Giuseppe Petrosino

All mobsters should rot in jail!!!

boss: totò riina
underboss: carlo gambino
consigliere: bernardo provenzano

capos:

tony accardo
matteo messina denaro
salvatore maranzano
lucky luciano
tommy lucchese
frank costello
michele greco
ciccio madonia
nitto santapaola
joe profaci

killers: pino greco, roy de meo, albert anastasia

Don : Vito Corleone
Underboss : Vito Genovese
Consigliere : Charles Luciano

Caporegimes : Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia, Paul Castellano, Meyer Lansky, Vincent Gigante, Joe Bonanno, Carlo Gambino.

This has been done before but what the hell...

Boss - Carlo Gambino

Underboss - Lucky Luciano

Consigliere - Tony Accardo

Capos - Lucchesse,Castellano,Genovese,Gigante,Giancana,Casso

I bet they will with that badass crew of lawbringers lol.

Nice list Dwalin2011....its like the Avengers

Knowing Toto' Riina's mentality, he and the other Sicilian bosses would probably try to kill the American bosses you listed, because they are too charismatic and wouldn't obey him.
Who would have won?

Boss: Carlos Marcello
Underboss: Carlo Gambino
Consigliere: Charly Luciano

Capos:
Tony Accardo
Joey Doves
Salvatore Maranzano
Vito Genovese
Vincent Gigante
Frank Castello
Joe Bonanno
Paul Castellano
Niel Dellacroce

Enforcers,
Anthony Spilotro, Albert Anastasia, Roy DeMeo, Benjamin Ruggiero,

Theres probably alot more, especially if i took the time to name soldiers and more enforcers... but this is a strong leadership base i have here.

My bet's on the Sicilians. They are even more ruthless than their American counterparts

As evil/twisted as they were, if I'm a mob boss then I want guys like Spilotro, Demeo and Mirra as soldiers to enforce my authority

Interesting phenomenon is(even in some older post like this one)that every one places Accardo as a capo...i mean he was the boss of the second largest city in the USA and he was on the spot for a while among very powerful gangsters like Rica and Giancana

Hello Toodoped,

I agree accardo was a huge power head in the outfit and Cosa Nostra all together as a whole.. So very good observation. I however think he was a great leader who was in there forever..Evaded most law enforcement..I personally had to fight with my own mind to put luciano as conslierge because i thought accardo should be in that seat.. however Luciano pretty much is the face of the young turks of the mafia.. the wise guys we seen in the 80's and today..however luciano did make bad descions like ratting on other made guys to up his position in power, and try to whack people ahead of him basically not how mafia protocol works, however i put gambino and marcello as the heads because of how they ran there families without scrutiny from law enforcement and pretty much with a iron hand.. very good observation though thanks

Boss - Vincent Gigante
Consigliere - Joe Zerilli

Capo - Tony Salerno
Capo - Phillip Medico
Capo - Stefano Magaddino
Capo - Anthony Scotto
Capo - Sal Catalano
Capo - Anthony Carfano
Capo - Dominick Napolitano
Capo - Angelo Prisco
Capo - Ettore Coco
Capo - John Riggi
Capo - Johnny Roselli

Soldier - Matthew Madonna
Soldier - Bill Cutolo
Soldier - Chuckie Nicoletti
Soldier - Robert DiBernardo
Soldier - John Stallupi
Soldier - Jimmy Plumeri
Soldier - Danny Marino
Soldier - Sam Battaglia
Soldier - Frankie Carbo
Soldier - Ernie Muscarella
Soldier - Salvatore Gingello
Soldier - Tino Fiumara

Modern era (1990-) only….

Boss)Uncle Joe Ligambi
Underboss)Matthew Madonna
Consigliere)Jimmy Brown Failla

Capos)John DiFronzo, Steven Crea, Rudy Fratto, Tony Graziano & Liborio Billomo (Zip crew)

Boss: The Chin (but Accardo really runs the show)
Underboss: Neil Dellacroce
Consig: Accardo

here's top 5 capos

1. Ange LaPietra (sorry, biased)
2. Difronzo (cunning, GREAT earner)
3. Ciro Perrone (great earner, throwback kinda guy)
4. Crea (outstanding earner, looks like Phil Leotardo now LOL)
5. Anthony Spero (hey this guy was able to keep Pitera in check, that says something)

*EDIT: I would FORCE gotti to be the Chin's driver, just so everyone would laugh at him and call him a lackey. ha

Thats a tough one man. Those sicilians love bombing, so our guys in the states would pretty much have to walk everywhere to be safe lol. On the other hand, the American guys had more cash, more power (dare I say because sicily is the size of what, Massachusetts?) I think if Chicago teamed up with any of the "big three" in NY (genovese, gambino, lucchese) they could wipe sicily off the map. And I mean Palermo, Corleone, etc.)

maybe, and i'm not sure, that was true in years past but today its not even close. the sicilians have around 5,000 made men with close to 50,000 associates while lcn has maybe 1,000 made men with maybe 6,000-8,000 associates so they are severly outmatched both in terms of manpower and sheer brutality.

nobody seems off limits in italy as police and politicians are fair game to be murdered and that is almost unheard of in america. its hard to get an exact figure when it comes to money, but my guess would be that the sicilians make alot more. they are heavily involved in wholesale narcotics distribution, while lcn just seem to dabble as middlemen. also, the sicilians seem to be alot more of a global criminal syndicate with operations all over europe, north and south america while lcn doesnt seem to do much outside america than a few offshore wire rooms.

And be as tight fisted as Nino Gaggi was with his Nephew and only pay Gotti $275 a week!
LOL

Well yeah today it would be no contest, but during the Riina days (late 70s/80s) I think we'd take them. Think about it, the outfit literally controlled Chicago (a town of roughly 3 million), and any one of the five families could pretty much shut down NY (what, 7 million or something?) with work stoppages, crooked politicians, corrupt cops, etc.. That's power. I'll say that Riina was probably more ruthless, but the same could be said about douche bags like al qaeda. Doesn't mean we don't kick their dicks into the dirt a lot more than they do to us. Who knows? I'd pay to see a war between American LCN and Sicily. I bet N'Drangheta wouldn't mind seeing that either lol.

Not even a question at any point in time, Sicily takes it. Machine guns, mass executions, and they rarely miss.

American La Cosa Nostra never made more money than Sicilian Mafia.

^^^not in the 40's-70's after that for sure cuz they took over the drug business,the american mob couldnt do shit with out the zips

Well u can be right,since i really don't know.But after 70's and till today Sicilian Mafia making much more money than American Cosa Nostra.

Sicilian Cosa Nostra are better than any Family in America. America's organised crime is a mess..

Boss: Vincent ''The Oddfather'' Gigante
Consigliere: Giulio ''the man who was rejected by Satan'' Andreotti
Underboss: Carlo Gambino

Capos

Paolo di Lauro (drug and weapons trafficking) chief of the Neapolitan Faction;
Gennaro "Jerry" Angiulo (gambling and loan sharking);
Matthew Madonna;
Rosario Gambino head of the Cherry Hills Gambinos;
Joseph ''Crazy Joe'' Gallo;
Carmine Persico;
Thomas ''Tommy'' Vercetti Chief of Miami Faction;
Tony D'Amico chief of Springfield Faction
Frank Calì
Anthony ''The Ant'' Spilotro Las Vegas Faction (casinò skimming,loansharking,gambling,prostitution,murder);
Domenico Cefalù chief of the Sicilian Faction;
Dominick ''Sonny Black'' Napolitano;
Tommy Karateka Pitera;
Joel Cacace;
Jack di Norscio;
Liborio "Barney" Bellomo;
Other unknown Capos

Soldiers:
Cosimo, Vincenzo, Ciro, Marco, Nunzio, Salvatore Di Lauro,Furio Giunta,Pasquale ''the Animal'' Barra,Gennaro Marino,Raffaele Cutolo,Joey Leone,Luigi Goterelli,Vincenzo Cilli,
Giorgio Forelli,Mike Forelli,Marco Forelli,Arthur Zepulla
Mario Venturella,Vito Menotti, Vincent Lupisella,Sonny Onorato,Sammy Bottino,Rosario Zito,Mark Volpe,Salvatore Brusca,
Totò Riina, Charles Matteo,Anthony Spoleto,Frank Garone,Rocco Pelosi,Vincenzo Pelosi, Ray Boccino,Anthony Corrado,Tommaso Buscetta other unknown soldiers

Associates


Niko Bellic,Heidi Fleiss, Candice "Candy Suxxx" Shand,Steve Scott,Mercedes Cortez,Walter White,Jesse Pinkman,Gustavo Frink,
Mike Ehrmantraut,Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal,Herbert "Fat Herbie" Blitzstein,Michael Spilotro,Peanuts Pancsko, Butch Pancsko and Pops Pancsko, Frank DeLegge, Michael LaJoy, Joseph D'Argento, Gerald Tomasczek, Peter Basile Carl Urbanotti, Ernest Lehnigg, Samuel Cusumano, Joseph Cusumano, Ernesto "Ernie" Davino, "Crazy Larry" Neumann, Wayne Matecki,Salvatore "Sonny" Romano, Leonardo "Leo" Guardino, Frank Cullotta,Joseph Blasko,other unknowns associates


Allies: Five Families,SAMCRO (NY and NJ Chapter),Aryan Brotherhood,Irish Mafia,Sex.Money,Murda.

Rivals:Various gangs over NYC, including their allies

ToTo Riina as a soldier is a odd pick mind on elaborating why you think he should only be a soldier.

Boss-Matty Ianniello (RIP)
Underboss-Joey Merlino
Consigliere-Joesph Bonanno
Street Boss-Alphonse Capone
Capos
*Vincent Gigante
*Carmine Persicio
*John Gotti
*Tony Accardo
*Joseph Ligambi
*Nicky Scarfo
*Dominic Cefalu
*Tony Sirico (remember he was a mobster before his acting career)
*Benny Mangano
*Albert Anatasia

totò riina is an animal, such as Pasquale Barra and raffaele cutolo.
if I were a boss,I will create a firing group is we put all those assocciati or soldiers, fit only to commit murder, in addition to the already mentioned I would put

Roy Demeo as capo
Soldiers:totò riina, Pasquale Barra,raffaele cutolo,salvatore brusca and the di lauro brothers.

other critics to my list?

I think Cutolo would be no good as a soldier because he spent his whole life in jail and is no expert in personally carrying out hits. But he has abilities as an organizer and could be at least a capo.