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Showing posts with label Masseria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Masseria. Show all posts
03 February 2020

'Joe Baker' gunned down on Belmont Ave.

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On this date in 1931: Mafia gunmen working for Castellammarese insurrection leader Salvatore Maranzano on February 3, 1931, ambushed Josep...
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25 November 2019

Bringing Joe Valachi's memoirs to the Web

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The 1000-plus page memoirs of Mafia turncoat Joseph Valachi are valuable source material for organized crime historians. The manuscript, e...
22 August 2019

Why Maranzano? Why now?

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Print and electronic journal editions can be previewed and purchased through MagCloud Kindle e-book edition can be ordered through Ama...
31 May 2019

Detroit fish market murders spark Mafia war

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On this date in 1930... Detroit Free Press Detroit Mafia leader Gaspare Milazzo and aide Rosario "Sam" Parrino were shot to ...
15 April 2019

'Joe the Boss' murder befuddles press

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On this date in 1931... U.S. Mafia boss of bosses Giuseppe Masseria was shot to death in a back room at Gerardo Scarpato's Nuova Villa...
20 February 2019

Stroke takes the 'Artichoke King'

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Avoided the bullets of mob wars but suffered disgrace, financial ruin On this date in 1938... Ciro "Artichoke King" Terranov...
26 January 2019

Awaiting airport arrival, Lucky departs

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On this date in 1962... Longtime Mafia leader Salvatore "Charlie Luciano" Lucania, sixty-four, died January 26, 1962, of an a...
17 October 2018

Charlie Lucky's painful visit to Staten Island

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On this date in 1929... Rochester Democrat & Chronicle Salvatore "Lucky" Lucania (also known as Charlie Luciano) was sta...
06 October 2018

'Schatz' follows Yale to wealth, influence, grave

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On this date in 1928... New York Daily News   Michael "Mike Schatz" Abbatemarco, a top lieutenant in Frankie Yale's Broo...
10 September 2018

Valachi recalls assassination of boss of bosses

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On this date in 1931... Reigning Mafia boss of bosses Salvatore Maranzano was shot and stabbed to death in his Park Avenue, Manhattan, off...