Vito Genovese whacked a guy so he could marry his widow.
When the Gallos went to the mattresses during the famous Profaci war ca. 1960-61, they invited a reporter from Look Magazine to visit his HQ. The reporter noticed a dwarf in the crew. He asked Crazy Joe who he was. "He's our dwarf," Crazy Joe replied, as if, "Doesn't every organization have a dwarf?"

Al Capone offered to solve the Lindbergh baby kidnapping if he could get sprung from Alcatraz.
Gotti, asked by a reporter if he was the boss of the Gambino Family, replied, "I'm a member of the Gotti family, and my wife Vicki is the boss."