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Silvestro Carollo [a] (/ k ɑː ˈ r ɔː l oʊ /, Italian: [silˈvɛstro kaˈrɔllo]; June 17, 1896 – June 26, 1970), nicknamed "Silver Dollar Sam", was an Italian-American mob boss, and boss of the New Orleans crime family. He transformed the New Orleans's Black Hand gang into a Cosa Nostra crime family, and acted as street boss from 1922 ...
Rick Porrello, a former Cleveland-area police lieutenant, wrote To Kill The Irishman: The War that Crippled the Mafia (1998), about Greene's engagement with the Mafia. He won a national non-fiction award for the book. [32] Porrello's book was adapted as a movie first entitled The Irishman: The Legend of Danny Greene. [33]
After his father was murdered by a member of the Porrello crime family on October 13, 1927, 16-year-old Lonardo swore revenge. On June 11, 1929, the 18-year-old Lonardo and his cousin, Dominic Sospirato, shot and killed Salvatore "Black Sam" Todaro at a cigar store owned by the Porrellos at the corner of East 110th Street and Woodland Avenue. [ 2 ]
The Grand Theft Auto series by Rockstar Games also features the Mafia prominently, mainly in the games set within the fictional Liberty City (based on New York); the games set in the "3D universe" canon feature the Forelli, Leone and Sindacco families, while those in the "HD universe" have the Ancelotti, Gambetti, Lupisella, Messina and Pavano ...
The Miss Universe pageant has been through a lot over the decades — from the 21-year Trump-owned era (and his fat-shaming of 1996 winner Alicia Machado, tabloid fodder for the 2016 elections) to ...
The Pittsburgh crime family, [4] also known as the LaRocca crime family [5] or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] The LaRocca family is one of the original twenty-six Mafia families in the United States. [ 7 ]
This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures that operate in the United States, both past and present. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( April 2017 )
The Miss Universe Organization called accusations that it rigged this year's pageant in favor of the winner "absurd" after crowning its first Filipina American champion over the weekend.