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| Founded | c. 1940s |
|---|---|
| Founding location | San Jose, California, United States |
| Years active | c. 1940s–2000s[1] |
| Territory | Primarily the San Francisco Bay Area, with additional territory throughout Northern California |
| Ethnicity | Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates |
| Membership (est.) | 25 made members (1960s)[2] |
| Activities | Racketeering, loan sharking, extortion, prostitution, drug trafficking, illegal gambling and murder |
| Allies | |
| Rivals | Various gangs in the San Jose area |
The San Jose crime family, also known as the Cerrito crime family or the San Jose Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in San Jose, California. The San Jose family was one of the two families that controlled organized crime in San Jose, within the nationwide criminal organization known as the American Mafia (or "La Cosa Nostra"); the other family that ran organized crime in the city was the Bonanno crime family of New York. The family consisted of around 25 "made" members in the 1960s.[2]
- ^ San Jose crime family Jay C. Ambler, American Mafia (1999)
- ^ a b Bay-Area informants proved crucial for FBI Edmond Valin, The American Mafia (2013) Archived April 17, 2024, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Les Gangs de Motards Criminalisés: Une expansion internationale Xavier Raufer, Institut de Criminologie de Paris Archived December 20, 2022, at the Wayback Machine