Pound for Pound the Lucchese family was the most successful of the 5 families.

Up until the late 80's when Amuso+ Casso started killing their own Capo's at an incredibly self destructive rate, that is.

The family never had much internal strife unlike ALL the other four. Well run. Struggling to think who the first informant in the family was. Tommy Brown, Tony Ducks, Tramunti were not so well known to the public , newspapers as the Vito G's, Albert A's, Joe's C & B.

Huge in East Harlem, probably the main area.

Huge in the unions. Ran the garment district. Drugs, that family seemed to have all the heroin guys of the 50s/ 60s/70s.

Decent crew in New Jersey. Big in the Bronx and a huge Brooklyn crew under Vario.


They weren't the biggest, richest etc but pound for pound the Lucchese's were number one.

Agree?