Does anyone know how many Calabrian/Calabrese imigrants, or 1st generation Calabrian-Americans were involved in the mob during the late 1800s through 1940s?

Were they involved with the Sicilian mob? Or did the so called Calabrese mob or 'Ndrangheta in Italy also send them over in those years like the Sicilians did?

Frank Costello (Francesco Castiglia) was from the same town as my paternal grandparents. Lauropoli, Cosenza, Calabria. I've spent a considerable amount of time there in my life.

And here in New York, the mainland Italians hooked up with the Sicilians fairly early on. By the time the Five Families as we know them were formed (the 1930's), the gangs were a mixture of both Sicilians and Southern Italians.

I always had the impression that Italian-Americans mostly trace their roots to Sicily and Campania, along with some from Basilicata. Where I live on the other hand Calabrians and Sicilians seem to predominate, followed by a significant amount that trace their roots to Sardinia. Far fewer Neapolitans. In Europe in general there seems to be a large percentage of Calabrians

patriarca was very close to genovese and very weary of gambino and his huge Brooklyn family of Sicilians. I think there Naples or wat ever is called. there a funny wiretap from the gallo war telling a capo to watch Carlo but respect him.

Where do you live? I am from Philadelphia in the United States, and there are Italians/Italian-Americans from all over. Sicilians, Neapolitans and Campanians, Romans, Venetians, Calabrians, a few Puglians, and I know people from Genoa as well.

There are also a lot of Italians/Italian Americans from various places in or near Pittsburgh.

But when people first started to emigrate to the United States it was not uncommon for people and their relatives all from a certain village, town, commune, or region all to live around each other in the same town or state in the United States.

I live in Belgium in a former mining area. From the 1960s to the end of the 1970s a lot of guest workers came to Belgium to work in the mines over here, mostly from Italy, Turkey, Greece and Morocco. Most people came from selected areas in their respective country: in Belgium Sicilians and Calabrians from Italy, Riffian Berbers from Morocco, Turks mostly trace their roots to Central Anatolia and the Black Sea Region and Greeks mostly came from the Mani Peninsula in Southern Peloponnese and from Crete. Where I live there are also a fair amount of Sardinians. Sardinians as far as I know didn't really emigrate to the USA in large numbers. From my personal point of view Sardinians are rarely involved in organized crime, but in general they are a very proud people, often fiery, and they like a brawl from time to time

Nicky Scarfo was Calabrian. So his uncles or whoever else who were made would have been

I found this guy and he was Calabrian and involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Milano

Were a lot of Calabrian/Calabrese immigrants in the United States who were involved in gambling, illegal alcohol sales, etc. and just absorbed into working for the Sicilian mob who gained power in the United States?