Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Velentzas crime family is a Greek-American criminal organization operating in the New York City area.Mostly dominant in the 1980s, Spiros Velentzas was a Greek Mobster, leading the Velentzas Family, who worked with and was aided by the Lucchese crime family in New York. The Velentzas Family mainly controlled Greek-American areas of Queens throughout the 80''s and the 90''s and into the present day, setting up racketeer businesses like dice games, horse-racing parlors, and other, mostly illicit, gambling venues.