Five families each described in one word...at their peaks:

Genovese: Organized

Gambino: Powerful

Lucchese: Secretive

Colombo: Ambitious

Bonanno: Traditional


"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea