Maggia

The Maggia is a crime syndicate operating in Los Angeles, and led by mobster Joseph Manfredi.

Stealing a Bomb
"Now we're talking, how many guns do you need?" "No guns, no guns. Just some of your men who are good with their hands and discreet." "Sounds like a pretty sweet deal for me."

- Joseph Manfredi and Whitney Frost

Maggia leader Joseph Manfredi, surrounded by his bodyguards, was eating in a restaurant when Whitney Frost and Calvin Chadwick requested to meet with him; they wanted to have members of his organization to help her move a package. Manfredi demanded not only the contract that assured highway construction work to his loyalists, but his operations to stop appearing in the newspapers. When Chadwick hesitated about agreeing to his terms, Manfredi severely pummeled the bodyguard Clifford staring at Frost, showing how ruthless Manfredi can be. Chadwick agreed to the terms. Manfredi had five members help Frost look for an Atomic Bomb at a Roxxon Oil Corporation building. Three of the mobsters where stationed outside the facility while disguised as security guards while the rest assisted Frost and Chadwick. The mobsters outside encountered Rose Roberts and Aloysius Samberly who incapacitated them with a gadget. While searching inside, one mobster fought Roberts and another battled Peggy Carter; both men lost to their opponents and were knocked out.

Trivia
"Your company is under siege. So is mine. Groups like the Maggia are becoming a serious problem. They want what you and I have."

- Obadiah Stane to A.I.M. President


 * In the comics, the Maggia was a group of crime families led by different individuals, including the one lead by Luchino Nefaria.
 * In the non-canon video game Iron Man, Maggia are a weapons manufacturing company in contract with Stark Industries, whose members include Madame Masque and Blacklash. They become enemies of Tony Stark once he announces that he will stop making weapons, at which point he hunts them down and destroys their assets, forcing them into bankruptcy.