The Philadelphia Crime Family, also known as the Bruno Crime Family, Scarfo Crime Family, Philadelphia Mob, Philadelphia Mafia, or Philly Mob, is a powerful, ruthless and extremely violent Italian-American criminal organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of the most active American Mafia families outside of the Five Families of New York. The Philadelphia crime family has been known to hold territory or influence in other nearby areas outside Philadelphia, including Atlantic City, South Jersey, Trenton, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Baltimore, and Newark. The Philadelphia family is notorious for brutality, ruthlessness, extreme violence, murder, and igniting external and internal wars, and for being a particularly dysfunctional family, mostly due to having a succession of e