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The “Mexican Mafia” (MM), or “La eMe” (eMe) is a Mexican American prison criminal gangs in the United States.

The EME was in the late 1950’s in the California Department of Corrections. It was originally a street gang in urban Los Angeles.

During this time, White inmates enjoyed control over most trusted positions, which many of them luxury prison spending. But more importantly, the Whites controlled the prison underworld. The Mexican American occupants wanted more freedom and more importantly, the control of the prison drug trade.

Originally, the gang responsible for the protection against other inmates and the prison staff. As the organization grew, it quickly changed into a criminal organization to extortion, drug trafficking, murder and both inside and outside the prison system walls. Gang leader from East Los Angeles and other Barrios a deadly alliance for the control of drug trafficking in prison. The well-organized gang built its criteria along ethnic lines, and a series of rules loosely based on the model of the Sicilian Mafia.Some of the original members and leaders of the group were: Louis “Huero” Flores, it will be for one, which deals with the names, and Rodolfo Cadena. Joe “Pegleg” Morgan (sometimes called Papa Joe), the Croatian descent not join “La eMe” until later, and rose to become one of the most powerful members.

Capo di tutti capi, or Capo dei capi is Italian for “Boss of Bosses”. It is a phrase used primarily by the media, public and the law enforcement community to indicate powerful boss in the Sicilian and American Mafia (Cosa Nostra). The title is the rare individual bosses, because it could create tensions between the various parties (also known as the families) in the Mafia. Typically, the title is awarded, “the de facto head of the most powerful Mafia family…

Stefano Bontate (Palermo, 23 April 1939 - Palermo, April 23, 1981) was an Italian criminal. The surname Bontate is reported in some papers as Bontade, but a court decision brings it back as Bontate.

Falco, also known as the Prince of Villagrazia, was born in Palermo on April 23, 1938. Possessing Officially, it was instead the leader of the Mafia family of Santa Maria of Jesus and also affiliated with Freemasonry. His father, Don Paolino, was among the most powerful Mafia in Sicily and was the politicians as his subject, not hesitating to schiaffeggiarli in public. The political relations were also cultivated by his son who was in business with Salvo Lima and cousins Salvo, the esattori of Salemi.

Inside the committee was one of the most authoritative, so that corleonesi decided to delete it on his birthday, April 23 of 1981, thus inaugurating the second bloody Mafia war.

Son of a leader of the Sicilian Mafia, Francis Bontate said “don Paolino, attended Gonzaga Jesuit high school and then, together with his brother John, followed in the footsteps father. He became head of the “family” of St. Mary of Jesus in 1964, at the age of 25 years, due to the illness of his father.

After his studies at the Jesuit School Gonzaga, Stephen and his brother John followed in the footsteps of his father within the organization. Stephen ended for the first time in jail on charges of drug trafficking, after the murder of Chief Prosecutor Peter Scaglione, who was killed by corleonesi. Sentenced to three years in the process of one hundred fourteen, he was acquitted on appeal. In addition to the considerable proceeds of drug trafficking, really proved fruitful collaboration with the clan Neapolitans in tobacco smuggling. In the seventies its influence within the Sicilian Mafia reached a climax. Accolse and Michele Sindona protected in 1979, when he fled to Sicily.

He ended up in jail for the first time on charges of drug trafficking during the investigation that followed the killing of Chief Prosecutor Peter Scaglione, operated by the Corleonesi. In the seventies held a triumvirate with Luciano Liggio, head of the Corleonesi, and Gaetano Badalamenti. During the same decade, was part of a committee, which consisted of the other two men of the triumvirate, which was intended to govern Cosa Nostra and try to keep the peace between the various Sicilian Mafia families.

Its revenues were derived, as well as the selling of drugs, including the collaboration with the clan Neapolitans for the smuggling of tobacco. In the late seventies his influence reached its in the Sicilian Mafia and in 1979 welcomed and protected the banker Michele Sindona during his flight to Sicily.

Michele Greco (12 May 1924) is a member of Cosanostra currently in prison for multiple murder. The pope was nicknamed for his ability to mediate between the various Mafia families.

Michele Greco was part of the powerful family that ruled Gardens neighborhoods Ciaculli and Croceverde of Palermo. Assume the leadership of mandamento of Croceverde the death of his father, Joseph Greco.

It cousin Salvatore “Ciaschiteddu” Greco, the first secretary of the First Committee of the Mafia which was formed in 1958.

He had good relations with politicians, bankers and other important people who were invited to dinner, and taking part in hunting in keeping Favarella he runs as campiere the noble family of Tagliavia.

This seal was also used as a refuge for other Mafia and a laboratory refining heroin.

Michele Greco was appointed head of the committee in 1978 after the expulsion of Gaetano Badalamenti.

In 1981 the heads Mafia Stefano Bontade and Salvatore Inzerillo are killed by corleonesi by Pino Greco relative precisely by Michele Greco. So Greco takes control of the family Bontade. Subsequently an alliance with Salvatore Riina and Corleonesi. Riina uses Greco to cast Badalamenti from Cosanostra and orders after the murder. Greco was subsequently described as a madman by Riina was because anything that was the.

Based on the revelations of Salvatore Contorno anonymous police chief Antonino Ninni Cassarà draws in July 1982 a relationship with the arrest warrant for 162 Mafiosi. The report was unofficially called the report Michele Greco +161. From here came the series of investigations that led to Maxi-Processo where most of Mafia leaders will be tried for the countless crimes.

Tommaso Buscetta (Palermo, 13 July 1928-New York, April 2, 2000 ), said the boss of the two worlds has been a member of the Mafia and one of the first and most important collaborators of justice in the fight against the Sicilian Mafia. He collaborated with Giovanni Falcone reconstruction judicial organization and structure of Cosa Nostra.

Born into a poor family (mother housewife, father glazier), the last of 17 children, is married to sixteen years in 1944 with Melchiorra Cavallaro and they had 2 children: Felicia (born in 1946) and Benedict (born in 1948). At the end of his life had 3 wives and 7 children.

To make money began a series of illegal activities, such as the illegal sale of tickets for the rationing of flour, released during the Fascist period. This job makes it quite famous in Palermo, where despite the young age was nicknamed Don Masino. Enter Mafia family Porta Nuova in 20 years.

At the end of the Second World War she went to Naples and then to Buenos Aires, where he opens a glass: the poor economic performance of his new work force, in 1957, to return to Palermo. Here in the sixties Buscetta binds the clan of Salvatore La Barbera and starts smuggling tobacco, which interrupted in 1961 with the outbreak of the first war of Mafia, which he managed to evade ten years of inertia.

During this period Buscetta married two more times, using false identity (Manuel Lopez Cadena and Paulo Roberto Felici) and move from country to country, through the United States of America, Brazil and Mexico. Arrested by police and extradited from Brazil on November 2, 1972, is detained in prison dell’Ucciardone and sentenced to 14 years in jail (reduced to 5 on appeal) at the end of the process of Catanzaro.