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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."
Pages in category "Gangs in West Virginia" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Dead Man ...
Mafia groups in the United States first became influential in the New York metropolitan area, gradually progressing from small neighborhood operations in poor Italian ghettos to citywide and eventually national organizations. "The Black Hand" was a name given to an extortion method used in Italian neighborhoods at the turn of the 20th century ...
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 ...
On March 3, 1987, longtime underboss and West Virginia gambling leader Joseph N. "Jo Jo" Pecora died. [25] After Pecora's death, Genovese promoted Porter as underboss. According to a 1989 report by the Pennsylvania Crime Commission, the family had fallen into decline because the family was not accepting new members while the leadership was ...
WESTOVER, W.Va. (AP) — A Black West Virginia man has filed a federal lawsuit against a police chief and two white officers accused of pulling him from his home and beating him, fracturing facial ...
The black fist is perhaps most closely identified in the United States with the Black struggle for civil rights (it was also referred to as the Black Power fist), but the clenched fist’s ...
Starz has given the green light to a new series from Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Randy Huggins, the duo behind popular Starz series “Power.”“I told you ‘Black Mafia Family’ was ...