The Baltimore Crew was an Italian American organized crime group that ultimately became a faction of the Gambino crime family operating in the port city of Baltimore, Maryland , from about until the s. It was originally an independent organization led by the D'Urso family until the Corbi takeover in the s. In , Vincent Mangano of the New Yorkβbased Gambino family moved in and installed Louis Morici as the reigning caporegime over the area.
The Corbi family acquiesced to the Gambino relationship, but maintained local leadership, simply answering to and accessing support from Morici and his New York Gambino connections.
Throughout most of its existence, after , "The Baltimore Cosca" was functionally headed by the Corbi family: Vito, and then his sons, Pasquale "Patsy" and Frank. In the spring of , Patsy Corbi was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of local barber Frank Naples, a reputed Camorra member.
In , Lou Morici stepped down from the role of capo due to ill health. Frank Corbi assumed the position of acting leader of the Baltimore operation, reporting directly to Gallo. Eventually, Corbi was promoted to official captain of the outfit. By the s most of the membership had died or retired, and with Corbi in his s and inactive, the regime became extinct.
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