New Orleans was the first home of the American Mafia. Crime family roots in that community extend back as far as - perhaps further than - the U.S. Civil War. For much of its history, the New Orleans Mafia isolated itself from underworld organizations in the rest of the country. This must be partly due to historic friction between Palermo Mafia authority and the rebellious Monreale-based Stuppagghieri group that took hold in the Crescent City. The New Orleans Mafia colonized other areas of the U.S., including the western coast of Florida, Texas, California and eastern Missouri. Descendants of a New Orleans Mafioso managed for a time to dominate the underworld of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.(CLICK FOR MORE)
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