Because family is at the heart of the Mafia
Fifty years before the Rizzuto Family wrested control of Montreal from the Violi brothers, the Rizzuto family patriarch was murdered in an unlikely place. The murder of patriarch Vito Rizzuto and a brief history of the Rizzuto and Renda families, 1925-2025.
Tommy Lucchese spent his formative years in a neighborhood dominated by the Morello-Terranova gang of Corleone. At the height of his power, some of the men closest to him were Corleonesi, people who’d worked with Giuseppe Morello, and who Tommy had known and worked with since his teens.
Mafia Genealogy 