Top 10 most famous gangsters of America Bashny.Net

10th: Vincent «The Chin» Gigante was the godfather of the Genovese family. Famous Gigante made that, once in the late 60's, he avoided prison by pretending to be mad, he continued to pretend to be abnormal, for example, walking through the streets of New York in a bathrobe.

9th place: Albert Anastasia in 1944 became leader of a group of murderers that had even its name Murder, Inc. While Anastasia has never prosecuted for the murder, his group was related to the 700 murders.

8th place: Joseph Bonanno amassed capital on the management of factories for the production of cheese, the business of tailoring and funeral business. He has never been convicted of any serious offense.

7th place: Dutch Schultz (Arthur Flegenheymer) engaged in bootlegging, ie trade in alcohol during Prohibition. Dutch Schultz managed to get hold of his own enemies as Lucky Luciano and Capone Ala. Naturally, a long time after that he had not lived.

6th: John Gotti together a gang that in the 60s and was engaged in stealing cars and petty theft, but in the early '70s, he became the godfather of the group Bergin - part of the Gambino crime family. Gotti was very ambitious and soon started doing drugs, which were prohibited by the family. He repeatedly tried to condemn, but the charges have always failed. Gotti died in 2002 from cancer.

5th place: Meyer Lansky to borrow money and gambling in Florida, New Orleans and Cuba. He was an investor in a Las Vegas casino, and even bought an offshore bank in Switzerland to launder money. While he was engaged in racketeering gambling houses around the world, not in jail Lansky and spent the day.

4th place: Frank Costello was the best friend Charlie "Lucky" Luciano. Together they engaged in bootlegging and gambling. Strength Costello was that he was the link between the Mafia and politicians, which allowed him to avoid persecution.

3rd place: Carlo Gambino started killing commissioned by the age of 19. He appointed himself boss of the Gambino crime family, and held it with an iron fist until his natural death in 1976.

2nd place: Charlie "Lucky" Luciano controlled the racket all over Manhattan. After an unsuccessful attempt on his life in 1929, Luciano decided to create a national crime syndicate and became known as the "boss of bosses" - not only in New York but across the country. He had such a strong impact that the Second World War, the US Navy turned to him for help to land in Italy.

1st place: Al Capone was engaged in prostitution, gambling and bootlegging. In 1925, when he was 26 years old, Capone became head of the family and waged war Torrio families. Known for their intelligence, Capone was also known for his cruelty. It is worth remembering the massacre during a concert dedicated to St. Valentine's Day in 1929, which killed a lot of heads of criminal gangs. In 1931, a federal agent Eliot Ness Revenue Service arrested him for tax evasion.