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Showing posts with label Buffalo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buffalo. Show all posts
16 March 2020

Bogus Blackhand bombing in Buffalo

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Marital blowup nearly causes building blowup In mid-March of 1918... Buffalo Commercial Claiming to be targets of "Black Hand...
25 February 2020

Death of powerful NE Pennsylvania boss

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Some link Bufalino to Hoffa disappearance,  Kennedy assassination, effort to kill Castro On this date in 1994... Rosario "Russell...
15 February 2020

Shotgun takes out Chicago's 'Scourge'

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On this date in 1926... Shotgun blasts on the evening of February 15, 1926, ended the underworld career of well-connected Chicago Mafioso ...
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27 March 2019

Buffalo mobster Sam DiCarlo dies in Florida

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On this date in 1987... Sam DiCarlo Retired Buffalo Mafia member Sam DiCarlo, brother of the notorious Joseph DiCarlo, died March 27, ...
13 November 2018

Bosses meet on eve of Apalachin convention

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On this date in 1957... Magaddino On the eve of a scheduled Mafia convention at the Joseph Barbara estate in Apalachin, New York, unde...
06 August 2018

Unlucky date for Steel City underworld bosses

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August 6 has been a bad date to be a Pittsburgh Mafia boss. On that date in 1929, thirty-nine-year-old underworld chief Stefano Monaste...
30 July 2018

Murders his pal on "Good Killers" orders

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On this date in 1921... Asbury Park Press Aug. 19, 1921 Two old friends from Sicily, recently reacquainted in New York City, went out ...
06 September 2017

This day in crime history: September 6, 1901

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On this date in 1901, US President William McKinley was shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. Pre...
13 May 2017

SoCal boss DiGiorgio is gunned down

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Chicago Tribune illustration Feared California Mafia leader  killed in Chicago barber chair Chicago Tribune May 14, 1922 May ...
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30 April 2017

Mafia boss leads protests at FBI headquarters

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New York Times, May 2, 1970. On April 30, 1970, Mafia boss Joseph Colombo responded to the arrest of his son, Joseph Jr., by organizing...
07 February 2017

Future Buffalo mob boss arrives in NYC

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On this date in 1909: Seventeen-year-old Stefano Magaddino of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, arrived in New York City aboard the S.S. San ...
21 December 2016

Death of the Mafia's "Buffalo Bill"

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On this date in 1932: A longtime leader in the Mafia of Western New York, Benedetto Angelo Palmeri died of natural causes at the age of ...
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23 November 2016

Magaddino's wrath

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On this date in 1961: Thanksgiving Day hunters in Penfield, New York (just outside Rochester), discovered the beaten, mutilated and burned...
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