One of the earliest crime families in America in New Orleans where the mafia started. Not sure if Carlo and Antonio Matranga were Arbreshe but they were born in Sicily and settled in New Orleans in the 1870s. There ancestors were originally from a region in Albania known as the Karavasta region and were a prominent family of the Matrenga clan.

So does this mean that the mafia was started by Albanians during this time, New Orleans has Alot of Italians that are Arbreshe.