DeCavalcante crime family

DeCavalcante Family
Founded by	Stefano Badami
Founding location	Elizabeth, New Jersey
Years active	1900s-present
Territory	Northern New Jersey, Trenton, Atlantic City. The family also maintains territory in New York, Connecticut and Florida
Ethnicity	Men of Italian descent, other ethnicities as "associates".
Membership (est.)	40 made members, approximately 200 associates
Criminal activities	bookmaking, building, cement, and construction violations, bootlegging, corruption, drug trafficking, extortion, fencing, fraud, hijacking, illegal gambling, loan-sharking, money laundering, murder, pier thefts, pornography, prostitution, racketeering, and waste management violations
Allies	Five Families of New York, Patriarca crime family of New England, Philadelphia crime family, and the Pagans Motorcycle Club
Rivals	Various gangs over NJ, including their allies

The DeCavalcante crime family is an Italian-American organized crime family that operates in Elizabeth, New Jersey and surrounding areas in the state and is part of the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). It operates on the other side of the Hudson River from the Five Families of New York, but it maintains strong relations with many of them, as well as with the Philadelphia crime family and the Patriarca crime family of New England. Its illicit activities include bookmaking, building, cement, and construction violations, bootlegging, corruption, drug trafficking, extortion, fencing, fraud, hijacking, illegal gambling, loan-sharking, money laundering, murder, pier thefts, pornography, prostitution, racketeering, and waste management violations. The DeCavalcantes are, in part, the inspiration for the fictional DiMeo crime family of HBO's dramatic series The Sopranos. The DeCavalcante family was the subject of the CNBC program Mob Money, which aired on June 23, 2010 and The Real Sopranos TV documentary (first airdate April 26, 2006) directed by Thomas Viner for the UK production company Class Films.