Originally Posted by Michael_Giovanni
Originally Posted by Revis_Island
I always wondered what the estimate of total income for the boss was. In Luciano’s days, Costello’s and Genovese’s. At this time, the American Mafia was probably the most powerful criminal enterprise in the world. This was all before the Italians really started to make billions of dollars from their drug trafficking and businesses.


During Vito Genovese divorce trial in 1952 his wife estimated his weekly income at $40,000. $2,080,000 a year.

Over $19 million a year in todays money.


And that’s just from what she knows. He was probably making even more than that. If he had gone about his business maybe in a smarter or more discreet way then him and the other bosses of that time and prior to could have legitimized all of their cash flow and basically been like Michael Corleone in Godfather 3. I’ve said it before, but I believe that was the dream for most of the old timers. But for most of them, things fell apart before they could attain that goal.