San Jose crime family

[2] In the early 1940s Onofrio Sciortino founded the first probable organized crime in San Jose, California.

Sciortino would derive a majority of his profits from loansharking, gambling, counterfeiting, shylocking, prostitution and extortion.

[4] Cerrito emigrated to the United States from Palermo, Sicily in the late 1920s and eventually settled in San Jose in the early 1940s.

In 1964, he was spotted meeting Bonanno crime family former underboss Frank Garofalo at a hotel in Palermo, Sicily.

Marino had close connections with San Francisco mayor Joseph Alioto (served 1968–1974), Marino was close with San Francisco crime family boss James Lanza and Los Angeles consigliere and FBI informant Frank Bompensiero.

His father, Salvatore, a longtime member of the Pittsburgh crime family, handed the company to Marino.

Angelo Marino ordered Catelli's father Orlando to kill him in a trailer on the north side of the California Cheese factory.

Marino avoided trial for the next three years by claiming illness, but he continued to operate the crime family from a hospital.

In 1998 Salvatore Marino, son of the previously mentioned Angelo, was released from San Quentin Prison.