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Lonardo transformed his gang, the Mayfield Road Mob, into a powerful organized crime family. He had the support of the D'Aquila crime family of New York City, and engaged in widespread bribery of local judges, police, and politicians. His criminal organization's reliance on low-quality corn whiskey led to a drop in revenues when consumers began ...
The case would establish the precedent of illegal income being taxable, an effective weapon against organized crime figures throughout the decade. May 25 - Antonio "Tony" Torchio, believed to be a hitman from New York who the Aiello Brothers have hired to kill Al Capone, is shot and killed at the intersection of De Koven and Desplaines Streets ...
After a series of Black Hand-related murders in the city in 1906, the Italian squad largely suppressed this first expression of organized crime in Cleveland. [9] [a] Loosely organized gangs emerged again in the 1910s. One Italian American gang, known as the Mayfield Road Mob, formed in Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood about 1913. [11]
The Mobs and the Mafia: The Illustrated History of Organized Crime. New York: Ballantine Books. Miller, William (July 1947). "House for Adano". 1947: The Magazine of the Year. pp. 46– 47. Neff, James (1989). Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the F.B.I. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 9780871133441.
Albanian Mafia. Albanian Boys (1990s) Rudaj Organization (1993-2004) Batavia Street Gang (1890s- early 1900s) Baxter Street Dudes (1870s) Boodle Gang (1850s-1890s) Born to Kill (1980-1992), who were active in Chinatown [1] Bowe Brothers (1840-1860) Bowery Boys (1830s-1860s) Breed Motorcycle Club (1965-2006) Broadway Mob (1920s) Brooklyn Camorra ...
Red Hook is best known to today’s New Yorkers for the blue and yellow glow of its IKEA store, pulling in urban furniture shoppers from all five boroughs. But the...
Colombo renamed the family as the Colombo family. At 41 years old, Colombo was the youngest boss in New York at the time. He was also the first New York Mafia boss to have been born and raised in the United States. Having risen to the top of the family at such a young age, Colombo knew that he had a potentially long reign ahead of him.
(The Mafia) truly formed in the 1930s but became unraveled in the 1990s for a range of reasons, including the decision by Rudy Giuliani (then U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York ...