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Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe masseˈriːa]; January 17, 1886 – April 15, 1931) was an Italian-American Mafia boss in New York City.He was boss of what is now called the Genovese crime family, one of the New York City Mafia's Five Families, from 1922 to 1931.
William Vincent Dwyer (February 23, 1883 – December 10, 1946), known as "Big Bill" Dwyer, was an early Irish-American Prohibition gangster and bootlegger in New York during the 1920s. He used his profits to purchase sports properties, including the New York Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates of the National Hockey League (NHL), as well as the ...
Following the downfall of the New York Camorra, Neapolitan or Campanian organized crime groups in New York were absorbed into or merged with the newly dominant Sicilian Mafia groups in New York, [9] creating the modern Italian-American Mafia, which would increasingly consist of not only Sicilians but Italian and Italian-American criminals from ...
The new Red Hook rulers called themselves la Mano Nera – the Black Hands – and it had no shortage of willing conscripts.. When local young men were sucked into the underworld, it was usually ...
In New York City, by the end of the 1920s, two factions of organized crime had emerged to fight for control of the criminal underworld — one led by Joe Masseria and the other by Salvatore Maranzano. [29] This caused the Castellammarese War, which led to Masseria's murder in 1931. Maranzano then divided New York City into five families. [29]
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 ...
The early history of the Lucchese crime family can be traced back to the Morello crime family which was based in East Harlem and the Bronx. Durning the 1910s, the bosses of Morello family lost power and control which allowed Gaetano "Tommy" Reina, along with Salvatore D'Aquila and Joe Masseria, to split off and form their own crime families.
The D'Aquila crime family (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdaːkwila]) was one of the earliest crime families to be established in the United States and New York City.The D'Aquilas were based in Manhattan's Little Italy, originally a crew of the Morello family prior to breaking off and absorbing what was left of the Neapolitan Camorra of Brooklyn. [1]