Raymond Patriarca Sr beat Joe Colombo by a decade. He is the only earliest known mafia boss born in the United States who was the official boss of a family. There are many who was born in Italy or Sicily but came over as an infant or child and raised in America.

"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green