New Jersey Mafia
| Founded by | Stefano Badami |
|---|---|
| Named after | Simone DeCavalcante |
| Founding location | Northern 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.) | 40-60 made members, approximately 100 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.
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