Operation Wasteland

Operation Wasteland was an undercover investigation into organized crime control of the waste disposal industry in New York City.

The investigation resulted in the indictment and conviction of over one hundred participants in price-fixing and bid rigging of waste hauling contracts in the city.

The story is detailed in the book, Takedown, the Fall of the Last Mafia Empire, by Detective Rick Cowan and co-author Douglas Century,^[1] and in Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage by Heather Rogers.^[2]

References

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Italian-American Mafia

• List of Mafia crime families
• Mafia bibliography

Families

Five Families of New York City	Bonanno Calabrian group Motion Lounge crew Sicilian group Colombo Colombo Gambino Baltimore Crew Ozone Park Boys Genovese 116th Street Crew Broadway Mob Greenwich Village Crew New Jersey faction Lucchese Jersey Crew Tanglewood Boys Vario Crew
East Coast	Buffalo DeCavalcante (Northern New Jersey) Patriarca (New England) (Angiulo's Boston crew) Philadelphia (10th & Oregon Crew)
Midwestern/Western	Chicago Detroit Kansas City Los Angeles
Mostly defunct	Bufalino (Northeastern Pennsylvania) Cleveland Colorado Dallas Genna (Chicago) Galveston (Houston) Lanzetta (Philadelphia) Morello (Italian Harlem) D'Aquila (Little Italy, Manhattan) New Orleans Milwaukee Pittsburgh Rochester San Francisco San Jose Seattle St. Louis Trafficante (Florida)

Structure

Chain of command	The Commission Boss Underboss Consigliere Caporegime Soldato Associate
Members (made men)	List of Italian-American mobsters List of Italian-American mobsters by organization
Terms	Initiation ritual Made man Bagman Black Hand Black Hand in Chicago Vendetta Capo dei capi (boss of bosses) Mustache Pete Omertà One-way ride Sixth Family Zips

Events

Meetings	Atlantic City Conference (1929) Havana Conference (1946) Apalachin meeting (1957) Palermo Mafia summit (1957)
Hearings	Kefauver Committee (1950–1951) Valachi hearings (1963)
Wars	Mafia–Camorra War (1914–1917) Castellammarese War (1929–1931)
Trials	Pizza Connection Trial (1985–1987) Mafia Commission Trial (1985–1986)

Closely related
and affiliated
organizations

Active

Camorra Commisso 'ndrina Cotroni crime family The Corporation or Cuban Mafia Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan Inzerillo Mafia clan Jewish Mafia Luppino crime family Musitano crime family 'Ndrangheta Papalia crime family Philadelphia Greek Mob Rizzuto crime family Sacra Corona Unita Sicilian Mafia Siderno Group South Brooklyn Boys Stidda Unione Corse Velentzas Organization Winter Hill Gang

Defunct

Broadway Mob (Originally Jewish and Italian; absorbed by Genovese family) Bugs and Meyer Mob (Jewish, absorbed by Murder Inc.) Bumpy Johnson gang New York Camorra Los Angeles crime family (Both an American Mafia and Jewish Mafia family) The Council Dutch Schultz Mob East Harlem Purple Gang (Semi-independent, most closely affiliated with Genovese family) Five Points Gang Forty-Two Gang Italian-American National Union Marat Balagula gang (Russian mafia, affiliated with Lucchese) Murder, Inc. (Italian and Jewish, closely affiliated with or part of the American Mafia) National Crime Syndicate (Mostly Italian and Jewish) Rudaj Organization (Albanian mafia) Tanglewood Boys (Semi-independent Italian-American gang, affiliated with Lucchese family) Westies (largely defunct)

Other topics

Government operations	Collaborations between the United States government and Italian Mafia Operation Family Secrets Operation Old Bridge Operation Solare Operation Underworld Operation Wasteland
Crimes	French Connection Hired Truck Program Lufthansa heist Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
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