National crime syndicate
| Founded by | Lucky Luciano |
|---|---|
| Founding location | Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Years active | 1929–1960s |
| Territory | United States; mainly active in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California, Nevada and Florida |
| Ethnicity | Mainly people of Italian and Jewish descent, to a lesser extent Irish-American gangsters, African-American gangsters, Polish-American gangsters, and other organized crime groups |
| Membership (est.) | At least 14 criminal organizations |
| Criminal activities | Racketeering, rum-running, extortion, bribery, drug trafficking, illegal gambling, pimping, robbery, fraud, money laundering, fencing, loan sharking |
| Allies | Murder, Inc., American Mafia |
| Rivals | Several gangs in the all country |
The National Crime Syndicate was the name given by the press to the multi-ethnic, loosely connected American confederation of several criminal organizations, a confederation that mostly consisted of the closely interconnected Italian-American Mafia and Jewish mob but also included to various lesser extents Irish-American criminal organizations and other ethnic crime groups. The name's origins are uncertain.
According to writers on organized crime, the Syndicate was an idea of Johnny Torrio, and was founded or established at a May 1929 conference in Atlantic City, attended by leading underworld figures throughout the United States, including Torrio, Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Dutch Schultz, Abner "Longie" Zwillman, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, Gambino crime family head Vincent Mangano, gambler Frank Erickson, Frank Scalice and Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia. Others described the Atlantic City meeting as a coordination and strategy conference for bootleggers.
According to the findings of the U.S. Senate Special Committee in the 1950s chaired by Estes Kefauver, it was a confederation of mainly Italian and Jewish organized crime groups throughout the United States.
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