Vincent Mangano felt uncomfortable with Anastasia's close ties to Luciano and other top mobsters outside his family.

Since then, several other top mobsters agreed to become government witnesses in exchange for being given lenient or no sentences at all.

Mr. Ivankov was branded a top mobster who relied on his ability to inspire fear to carry out his schemes.

The arrests of top mobsters, however, has not been intepreted here as a decisive victory.

Taccetta and Accetturo were arrested that year, along with 18 other top mobsters of the Northern New Jersey faction.

Sinatra had been photographed in Cuba with top American mobsters at a mob wake, was widely accused of womanizing, and reportedly had assaulted a reporter.

"How true; but you've read about how the old FBI used to catcch the top mobsters?"

The authorities said corrupt guards let top mobsters turn the jail into a social club, where they plotted crimes and sipped vodka and wine.

Greene's character represented the top Jewish mobster in the United States.

A leading Sicilian lawyer who had defended several top mobsters was shot and killed late today in what appeared to be a Mafia attack, the police said.