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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 Sly-Fanner Murders: The Birth of the Mayfield Road Mob, Cleveland's Most Notorious Mafia Gang. Cleveland: Con-Allan Press. ISBN 9780983703747. McCarthy, Dennis M.P. (2011). An Economic History of Organized Crime: A National and Transnational Approach. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415487962. Miller, Carol Poh; Wheeler, Robert A. (1997).
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.
Dutch Mob (1870s-1880s) East Harlem Purple Gang (1970s-1980s) Eastman Gang (1890s-1910s) Five Points Gang (1890s-1920s) Flying Dragons (1967-1994) Forty Thieves (1825-1860s) - Considered the first known street gang in New York City; Gas House Gang (1880s-1910) Ghost Shadows (1970s-1990s) Gopher Gang (1890s-1910s) Grady Gang (1860s) Honeymoon ...
In the early part of the 20th century, New York had five Sicilian crime families. With the imprisonment of powerful Sicilian Mafia boss Giuseppe Morello in 1910, Salvatore D'Aquila, one of Morello's chief captains, immediately emerged as the new chief Mafia power in New York City, mostly in East Harlem and Little Italy (in southern Manhattan), but he also led a faction in Brooklyn that was ...
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.
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...
The Castellammarese War (Italian pronunciation: [kaˌstɛllammaˈreːze,-eːse]) was a bloody power struggle for control of the American Mafia between partisans of Joe "The Boss" Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano that took place in New York City from February 26, 1930, until April 15, 1931.