Founded | 1920s |
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Founder | Genovese crime family |
Founding location | Newark, New Jersey, United States |
Years active | 1920s–present |
Territory | Northern New Jersey counties of Hudson, Essex, Union, Bergen, Passaic, Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean[1] |
Ethnicity | Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates |
Membership (est.) | 40 made members and 400 associates (2004)[1] |
Activities | Racketeering, conspiracy, loansharking, money laundering, murder, gambling, and extortion |
Allies | Bonanno Colombo DeCavalcante Gambino Lucchese (New Jersey faction) Philadelphia Detroit K&A Gang |
Rivals | Various gangs in New Jersey, including their allies |
The Genovese crime family's New Jersey faction is a group of Italian-American mobsters within the Genovese crime family who control organized crime activities within the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey faction is divided into multiple crews each led by a different caporegime who oversees illegal criminal activities in labor racketeering, illegal gambling, loansharking and extortion.[1][2] The Genovese crime family's New Jersey faction has maintained a strong presence in the Northern Jersey area since the early prohibition era. A number of powerful mobsters within the New Jersey faction such as Guarino "Willie" Moretti, Gerardo "Jerry" Catena and Louis "Bobby" Manna have each held positions within the Genovese family's administration. From the 1990s until his death in 2010, Tino "the Greek" Fiumara was one of the most powerful caporegimes in the New Jersey faction.