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The Mafia Commission divided up D'Amico's territory among the Luciano (Boiardo crew), Gagliano (Jersey crew), Mangano, Bonanno, Badami family, Profaci and Philadelphia (North Jersey crew) families. [4] In 1937, family boss Luciano was arrested leaving Frank "the Prime Minister" Costello as the new acting boss of the family. Moretti, a cousin to ...
Joseph E. "Joe Bikini" Brocchini (1933 – May 20, 1976) was a soldier under Joseph "Joe Brown" Lucchese in the Corona crew. Born and raised in Corona, Queens, he was arrested as a 17-year-old along with four other youths for carrying out a series of burglaries that robbed eight businesses in north Queens of $26,000 during a week-long spree in 1950.
Luciano Leggio: 1993-11-15 Italy: Heart attack Mafioso, head of the Corleonesi: Succeeded by Salvatore Riina: Jack Unterweger: 1994-06-29 Austria: Suicide Serial killer with estimated 12-15 victims [6] [7] [8] Michele Zaza: 1994-07-18 Italy: Heart attack Mafioso, head of the Camorra clan Succeeded by his nephew Ciro Mazzarella. Daniel Camargo ...
The modern family was founded by Charles "Lucky" Luciano and was known as the Luciano crime family from 1931 to 1957, when Vito Genovese became boss. Genovese was head of the family during the McClellan hearings in 1963, which gave the Five Families their current names.
John "Big John" Contello – capo operating from Brooklyn and Florida. Contello is a former acting capo of the Joseph "Junior" Chilli's crew. [ 205 ] Contello was a target of an August 28, 2008, indictment that charged him with racketeering, illegal gambling and conspiracy. [ 206 ]
John C. Montana (born Giovanni Montana, 1893–1964) Lenny Montana (born Leonardo Passafaro , 1926–1992) Dominick Montiglio (born Dominick Angelo Santamaria , 1947-2021)
Detroit — A teenager drove nearly 140 miles per hour just days before a high-speed crash in suburban Detroit last November that killed his friend, according to video obtained by CBS News this ...
Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola (July 2, 1900 – October 1, 1966) was a New York City mobster who became a caporegime of the 116th Street Crew of the Luciano family, which later came to be known as the Genovese family. Coppola headed many Genovese family criminal operations from the late 1930s until the early 1960s.