| Founding location | Little Italy, Baltimore, Maryland, US |
|---|---|
| Years active | 1920s - 1990 |
| Territory | Baltimore metropolitan area |
| Ethnicity | Italians and Italian-Americans as "made man", other ethnicities as associates |
| Membership (est.) | Around 10 made members, Around 50 associates |
| Criminal activities | Gambling, extortion, prostitution, loan sharking, fraud, drug trafficking, murder and corruption |
| Allies | Gambino crime family |
The Baltimore Crew was an Italian American organized crime group that ultimately became a faction of the Gambino crime family operating in the port city of Baltimore, Maryland, from about 1900 until the 1990s. It was originally an independent organization led by the D'Urso family until the Corbi takeover in the 1920s. In 1955, Vincent Mangano of the New York–based Gambino family moved in and installed Louis Morici as the reigning caporegime over the area. The Corbi family acquiesced to the Gambino relationship, but maintained local leadership, simply answering to and accessing support from Morici and his New York Gambino connections. Throughout most of its existence, after 1920, "The Baltimore Cosca" was functionally headed by the Corbi family: Vito, and then his sons, Pasquale "Patsy" and Frank.