In the Mafia Commission Trial (February 25, 1985–November 19, 1986), Giuliani indicted eleven organized crime figures, including the heads of New York's so-called "Five Families", under the RICO Act on charges including extortion, labor racketeering, and murder for hire. Time magazine called this "Case of Cases" possibly "the most significant assault on the infrastructure of organized crime since the high command of the Chicago Mafia was swept away in 1943", and quoted Giuliani's stated intention: "Our approach...is to wipe out the five families."[30]
The inital defendants included:
Paul "Big Paul" Castellano, head of the Gambino crime family
Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, convicted as head of the Genovese crime family[31]
Carmine "Junior" Persico, head of the Colombo Family
Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo, head of the Lucchese crime family
Philip "Rusty" Rastelli, head of the Bonanno family,
and six subordinates. Eight defendants were found guilty on all counts and subsequently sentenced on January 13, 1987 to hundreds of years of prison time.
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