Who was the biggest earner in the history of the mob? I know mike Franzese was making tens of millions of dollars a month from his gas scam. He says he was making 30 to 40 mil a month. Fat tony Salerno was making up to 50 mil a year off of his gambling operations I believe it was in the 50s. The gambino family was raking in hundreds of millions of dollars in the 50s so there must've been some real heavy earners there. Was there ever any earners in the mob who made just a made just as much money as Franzese or maybe more? Or is Franzese the biggest earner the mafia has ever seen.

Do you guys think that Michael Franzese is still very rich ?

Carmine Lombardozzi was supposed to have been a massive earner as well. I don't have a clue who the biggest was though.

He's probably is still rich. I doubt that the government just took all of his money. That's never happens.

He's filthy Rich
He pays 500 a month in restitution to the govt
He will paying that for his life
Stoll hundreds of millions and he pays it backs at 500 a month
Gotta love the feds

I thought Micheal Franzese paid the $14 million dollars already .

http://www.nysun.com/new-york/dont-buy-into-story-of-mob-terrorist-collaboration/41416/

It's at the bottom of the article about Mikey franseze

Lombardozzi basically printed money for the Gambinos for decades and he made so much that it saved his ass on more than one occasion; first when he messed up on some investments that several top flight guys had made with him and second when his protege, Danny Marino, beat the shit out of an agent at Lombardozzi's pop's funeral.

Fat Tony Salerno was tops on that bogus Forbes list in the 80's for whatever that's worth but he nevertheless made bank with his labor connections and construction.

Who knows how much guys with Cuban casino investments made; Jimmy Alo, Santo Jr., Marcello, Giancana, etc.

In italy,you have/had earners that mob in US never had.

How long was he running this scam?

To many bosses to really make a good estimate.

Personally i think Franzese is full of shit. He wasn't making no 40 mil a month, that money got split up among different guys. I think the feds put a figure of 14 mil he made total and while that number might not be exact i bet it's close.

You think he would be doing his bullshit speeches and hocking those video's he used to sell on the religous cable stations at 3am if he had 50 mil stashed away. I don't doubt he has a few bucks put away but i don't buy the numbers being tossed around. It wasn't his scam, it was the russians who cut the mob in for protection.

They probably lost more than they gained because their success was short-lived over there.

I think you hit the nail on the head, but he might have very well made tens of millions back then. Whether he still has access to all that money...

meyer lansky even though he want made we all know he had one of the most influential roles in mob history. They say when he died he was among one of the richest men on earth and you have to remember he never got prosecuted and got his money tooken away and he had million upon million upon millions and besides him you know i am have to say jerry anguilo not because he is from boston like I am but he was a cash cow and was a numbers extrordaniare, genius in that racket. he gave old man ray 100,00 and another 50 every year. had all types of businessess, mortgage co's, tow trucking, lounges, resturaunts, limo services and even had big business going on with bernie mardoff so u know he was raking in millions besides the extortion bookmaking numbers sports gambling, shylocking, poker houses.... in one poker house he was raking in 250,000 a week and thats running it twice a week never mind the bingo games, racetrack, unions, construction, insurance scams, fake green cards, real big on the fireworks etc. Not for nothing Anguilo was a real cash cow like a fuckin 50 million easy. you have to know your talking about a guy when he got picked up in 83 he bailed out everyone who had bail not only the whole unit but the whole jail just so he can have some peace and quite but the whole fuckin jail lmaol people still talk about that to this day true fuckin story lmaol sorry for those who had no bail lmaol

At one time,Al Capone was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the private citizen having the highest income for one year. The figure quoted was $105,000,000. If I remember correctly,it was in the book for many years.
Since entries must be verified,I'm guessing that they had access to Law Enforcement info,or some type documentation. Adjusting for inflation,this would have to be in the half-billion dollar range in today's money.

I would say Carmine Lombardozzi. I remember reading somewhere that as he got older he was the biggest earner alive. There could have been someone before him or after him who earned more, but i don't know. I wouldn't really count bosses like Capone since that don't necessarily earn anything themselves since they mostly oversee others.

Has a comparison ever been done that factors inflation into this? Making a million in 1930 is a lot more difficult than making it today.

$1,000,000 in 1930 would be equivalent to $14,000,000 today.Check out http://www.davemanuel.com/inflation-calculator.php

Among other things,i believe Lombardozzi was one of the first guys to realize the full potential of the Stock Market as a new source of income for the Family. Nicknamed The Doctor,he was a ferocious money machine. You're right about Capone and other bosses. I was responding to income amounts,but the topic was biggest income generators,not recipients.

Don Carlo was a huge earner apparently, plehty of guys like Sal Locascio, Campos and Crea have been huge earners in recent years.

What about Jerry chilli with the bonanno's?? I heard he was a great earner.

might not be the biggest in history but John Gambino and his brothers were bringing in major weight in heroin from there scilian contacts. read somewhere that giovanni falcone said that they were bring in hundreds of millions of dollars worth of smack a year.

Not really. Not that hes not well off, but not even on the level with some bonano wiseguys. He was a shylock turned big shake down guy. As most shys do.

Who was the biggest earner in the Mafia? Noone on any of these blogs can really give any kind of accurate answer. Also, Some guys earned a lot of money and then had it taken away from them in one way or another.

Richie from the bronx
Richie martino
His scam alone made the gambinos a fortune 500 company


If we're factoring in inflation gambino was big in the tax stamps back in the day

If its a family run racket like the day the trade waste association or gambling in Harlem
Id say trigger mike
Jimmy aloi was an institution but again he was given myer

But making something out of nothing
Not overtaking a family run racket. It's richie martino. No doubt

Skinney, Do you mean the Bonnano Zips who really belonged to the Sicilian Mafia or do you mean the American Bonnano wise guys who cracked open parking meters to make money? Yes, very powerful indeed.

Richie martino run one of the biggest scan in mob history 500 millions plus

Has there ever been a estimate on how much money Carmine gAlante made?I think this guy made alot in those years when he was pushing heroin plus the fact he was greedy and wasnt splitting the profits

moe dalitz