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The Famiglia Vagabonda ("Wandering Family") was an American Prohibition-era criminal organization of Italian origin operating in Clarksburg and Fairmont, West Virginia. The gang was composed of Black Handers, Camorristi and Mafiosi. John C. McKinney, a detective who investigated the group, identified them as the "Famalia [sic] Vagabonda."
Black Hand (Italian: Mano Nera) was a type of Italian extortion racket. Originally developed in the eighteenth century, Black Hand extortion was exported to the United States in the later nineteenth century with Italian immigrants. Black Hand was a method of extortion practiced by Italian immigrant gangsters of the Camorra and the Mafia ...
Dominick Napolitano (June 16, 1930 – August 17, 1981), also known as Sonny Black, was an American Mafia caporegime in the Bonanno crime family. He is known for unwittingly allowing FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone to become an associate in his crew and nearly having him become a "made man."
Borgio reportedly admitted to other crimes while awaiting death in hopes that it would delay or call off his execution. [8] [5] Borgio died by electric chair on February 21, 1919, at the Ohio Penitentiary. [18] [3] In the weeks following his death, three more policemen were shot by angry Black Hand members, one of whom, Officer George Werne ...
The Black Hand was a precursor of organized crime, although it is still a tactic practiced by the Mafia and used in organized crime to this day. The Black Hand gangsters of this time period differed from the Mafia by lacking formally structured hierarchies and codes of conduct, and many were essentially one-man operations. Black Hand blackmail ...
An inmate was stabbed to death last week in Men's Central Jail, an incident that authorities suspect may represent more fallout from the killing of Michael Torres, a Mexican Mafia member who ...
It took 26 years for death to catch up to Donald Ramon Ortiz. A member of the Mexican Mafia, Ortiz was cast out of the criminal organization in the mid-1990s after angering other members.
STARZOne of the earliest, most salient conflicts in the new Starz drama, BMF—which stands for Detroit’s infamous Black Mafia Family street gang founded by brothers Demetrius “Big Meech ...