1. Genovese
2. Chicago
3. Gambino

Powerful defunct families
Trafficante
Bufalino
Marcello

Profaci, Bonanno, Magaddino, Scalise, and LaRocco families had their own troubles to where they could not operate nationally and internationally effectively as they once did. I'll take the flack for placing the Gambino family in third, but the rankings are based not on memberships, but on business both legitimate and illegal that we know of.


"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