there are some of history’s most
notorious members of organized crime
this will be the easiest thing in the
world your mama can take us back welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
gangsters for this list we’ve chosen
male criminals who we felt were the most
infamous gangsters based on a mix of
their influence crimes and pop culture
recognition number 10 John Dillinger the
Great Depression gave us Bonnie and
Clyde and babyface Nelson but it’s
Dillinger’s crimes that resonate you can
be a dead hero or live coward from bank
robberies and assaults to murder the
American became famous by continuing to
commit crimes despite clashes with
authorities and escaping prison twice
his gang was one of the first major FBI
targets during the 1930s war on crime
and in 1934 the feds shot him after he
left the Biograph theater number 9 Bugsy
Siegel with partner Meyer Lansky Siegel
hired professional murderers to do their
bidding this crew paved the way for a
group of enforcers called Murder Inc
which Siegel and other American Mafia
members used to execute contract
killings the charming member of the
Genovese crime family had many celebrity
friends and used the riches he earned
bootlegging gambling and carrying out
assassinations to help develop Las Vegas
if we do this thing right if we follow a
hotel with its schools and churches and
the synagogues we build all the things
that give a city backbone will be in
charge before you know it
number 8 Meyer Lansky they claim I have
50% of Lebanon casinos 50% of Monte
Carlo after organizing a street gang
with Bugsy Siegel this Jewish gangster
helped assassinate one of New York’s
most powerful mafiosos salvatore
maranzano
this set the stage for lucky Luciano’s
climb within organized crime and
helped Lansky build gambling operations
in New York Las Vegas and Cuba along
with Luciano the mobs accountant has
also been associated with founding the
national crime syndicate number seven
Joaquin Guzman Laura his nickname may
mean shorty but el chapo guzman didn’t
let his height stop him from becoming
one of the world’s richest and most
powerful drug traffickers as head of the
Mexican Sinaloa cartel he has an
estimated net worth of 1 billion dollars
which is commonly from the illegal
transportation of cocaine and other
drugs between Colombia Mexico and the
u.s. number six Carlo Gambino he led one
of Manhattan’s most powerful crime
families but Gambino never spent a day
in prison after joining multiple
mobsters in bootlegging robbery and
illegal gambling the Sicily born
criminal slowly rose through the ranks
in the Mangano family until he was its
boss and new namesake by staying out of
the limelight and discouraging family
members from dealing drugs he expanded
his success and rackets across the
states Fitch yeah yeah Donnelly certain
things certain things trucks make your
crew understand they deal in drugs
that’s wrong they die
number 5 Pablo Escobar with a personal
fortune of 25 billion dollars this
Colombian drug lord earned the nickname
world’s greatest outlaw by maintaining
his wealth and drug trafficking Empire
without capture for decades for those of
you livin on the moon for the last 20
is he was it the boss of it all el
mágico
by commanding over three-quarters of the
cocaine smuggled into the u.s. via the
Medellin Cartel Escobar and his gang
became one of the country’s most feared
networks never afraid to bribe or kill
to get his way he’s allegedly
responsible for Colombia’s increased
crime rate number four Frank Costello he
wasn’t called the prime minister of the
underworld for nothing
Costello went from Italian gangster to
boss of the Luciano crime family by
engaging in theft bootlegging
rum-running
and gambling rackets he also associated
with important businessmen and
politicians but it was his financial
success and the indictment of fellow
mobster Vito Genovese
that ultimately allowed him to become
such an influential crime boss number
three John Gotti nicknamed the dapper
Don for his designer attire and showy
image gaudy became head of the Gambino
crime family after orchestrating the
boss’s death he made millions with the
organized crime syndicate
thanks to racketeering gambling
hijacking and other activities back in
the streets that’s where all the money
is these days and though he was called
the Teflon Don for his uncanny ability
to avoid jail during the 1980s the FBI
finally convicted him with the help of
underboss Sammy Gravano number two
Charles Luciano modern organized crime
as it exists in America today wouldn’t
be what it is without Lucky Luciano the
Italian born mobster created the
Commission to govern over the five
different New York mafia crime families
after founding the powerful Luciano
crime family now the Genovese crime
family he made a name for himself
through blackmailing pimping unlawful
gambling drug smuggling and loan
sharking number one Al Capone people are
gonna drink you know that I know that we
all know that and all I do is act on
that and all this talk of bootlegging
what is bootlegging on the boat it’s
bootlegging on Lake Shore Drive it’s
hospitality this italian-american
gangsters crimes were so infamous the
Chicago Outfit crime
became known as the Capone family living
and working during Prohibition Scarface
quickly realized the profits he could
gain from smuggling alcohol as well as
prostitution and gambling he ensured his
security by paying off influential
figures and donating to charity his gang
was also notoriously violent as seen
during the st. Valentine’s Day Massacre
do you agree with our list who do you
think is the most infamous gangster be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com for
more entertaining top 10s
notorious members of organized crime
this will be the easiest thing in the
world your mama can take us back welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
gangsters for this list we’ve chosen
male criminals who we felt were the most
infamous gangsters based on a mix of
their influence crimes and pop culture
recognition number 10 John Dillinger the
Great Depression gave us Bonnie and
Clyde and babyface Nelson but it’s
Dillinger’s crimes that resonate you can
be a dead hero or live coward from bank
robberies and assaults to murder the
American became famous by continuing to
commit crimes despite clashes with
authorities and escaping prison twice
his gang was one of the first major FBI
targets during the 1930s war on crime
and in 1934 the feds shot him after he
left the Biograph theater number 9 Bugsy
Siegel with partner Meyer Lansky Siegel
hired professional murderers to do their
bidding this crew paved the way for a
group of enforcers called Murder Inc
which Siegel and other American Mafia
members used to execute contract
killings the charming member of the
Genovese crime family had many celebrity
friends and used the riches he earned
bootlegging gambling and carrying out
assassinations to help develop Las Vegas
if we do this thing right if we follow a
hotel with its schools and churches and
the synagogues we build all the things
that give a city backbone will be in
charge before you know it
number 8 Meyer Lansky they claim I have
50% of Lebanon casinos 50% of Monte
Carlo after organizing a street gang
with Bugsy Siegel this Jewish gangster
helped assassinate one of New York’s
most powerful mafiosos salvatore
maranzano
this set the stage for lucky Luciano’s
climb within organized crime and
helped Lansky build gambling operations
in New York Las Vegas and Cuba along
with Luciano the mobs accountant has
also been associated with founding the
national crime syndicate number seven
Joaquin Guzman Laura his nickname may
mean shorty but el chapo guzman didn’t
let his height stop him from becoming
one of the world’s richest and most
powerful drug traffickers as head of the
Mexican Sinaloa cartel he has an
estimated net worth of 1 billion dollars
which is commonly from the illegal
transportation of cocaine and other
drugs between Colombia Mexico and the
u.s. number six Carlo Gambino he led one
of Manhattan’s most powerful crime
families but Gambino never spent a day
in prison after joining multiple
mobsters in bootlegging robbery and
illegal gambling the Sicily born
criminal slowly rose through the ranks
in the Mangano family until he was its
boss and new namesake by staying out of
the limelight and discouraging family
members from dealing drugs he expanded
his success and rackets across the
states Fitch yeah yeah Donnelly certain
things certain things trucks make your
crew understand they deal in drugs
that’s wrong they die
number 5 Pablo Escobar with a personal
fortune of 25 billion dollars this
Colombian drug lord earned the nickname
world’s greatest outlaw by maintaining
his wealth and drug trafficking Empire
without capture for decades for those of
you livin on the moon for the last 20
is he was it the boss of it all el
mágico
by commanding over three-quarters of the
cocaine smuggled into the u.s. via the
Medellin Cartel Escobar and his gang
became one of the country’s most feared
networks never afraid to bribe or kill
to get his way he’s allegedly
responsible for Colombia’s increased
crime rate number four Frank Costello he
wasn’t called the prime minister of the
underworld for nothing
Costello went from Italian gangster to
boss of the Luciano crime family by
engaging in theft bootlegging
rum-running
and gambling rackets he also associated
with important businessmen and
politicians but it was his financial
success and the indictment of fellow
mobster Vito Genovese
that ultimately allowed him to become
such an influential crime boss number
three John Gotti nicknamed the dapper
Don for his designer attire and showy
image gaudy became head of the Gambino
crime family after orchestrating the
boss’s death he made millions with the
organized crime syndicate
thanks to racketeering gambling
hijacking and other activities back in
the streets that’s where all the money
is these days and though he was called
the Teflon Don for his uncanny ability
to avoid jail during the 1980s the FBI
finally convicted him with the help of
underboss Sammy Gravano number two
Charles Luciano modern organized crime
as it exists in America today wouldn’t
be what it is without Lucky Luciano the
Italian born mobster created the
Commission to govern over the five
different New York mafia crime families
after founding the powerful Luciano
crime family now the Genovese crime
family he made a name for himself
through blackmailing pimping unlawful
gambling drug smuggling and loan
sharking number one Al Capone people are
gonna drink you know that I know that we
all know that and all I do is act on
that and all this talk of bootlegging
what is bootlegging on the boat it’s
bootlegging on Lake Shore Drive it’s
hospitality this italian-american
gangsters crimes were so infamous the
Chicago Outfit crime
became known as the Capone family living
and working during Prohibition Scarface
quickly realized the profits he could
gain from smuggling alcohol as well as
prostitution and gambling he ensured his
security by paying off influential
figures and donating to charity his gang
was also notoriously violent as seen
during the st. Valentine’s Day Massacre
do you agree with our list who do you
think is the most infamous gangster be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com for
more entertaining top 10s
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