Editing Genovese crime family (section)

==Historical lineage==
The family's early lineage includes personnel and territory from the [[Morello crime family]], especially East Harlem figures who entered Giuseppe Masseria's broader coalition after Giuseppe Morello's release from prison in 1920. Masseria's organization also incorporated people and factions unrelated to the original Corleonesi circle, so this was a reorganization rather than direct institutional inheritance of every Morello component.<ref>David Critchley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA154 ''The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931''] (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 154–191.</ref>

After Masseria's killing in 1931, Charles “Lucky” Luciano reorganized the surviving family and helped establish a national Commission of Mafia families. Frank Costello later became its dominant leader. The FBI dates the Genovese namesake to 1957, when Vito Genovese displaced Costello and took control.<ref name="FBI" /><ref name="Raab">Selwyn Raab, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wAyRzj6j3zEC ''Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires''] (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2005), chapters 1–8.</ref> This was a conventional underworld and law-enforcement name, not a public corporate filing.

This lineage is properly described as:

:Corleone-centered paesani relationships → Morello–Terranova organization → Masseria coalition → Luciano family → Genovese family.

The sequence represents personal, territorial and factional continuity combined with mergers and restructuring—not a series of automatic one-to-one renamings.