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Capone with his mother. Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, on January 17, 1899. [3] His parents were Italian immigrants Teresa (née Raiola; 1867–1952) and Gabriele Capone (1865–1920), [4] both born in Angri, a small municipality outside of Naples in the province of Salerno.
Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. Died: 1968. Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery. Bronx, New York. Bumpy Johnson has been called the Godfather of Harlem, and even inspired a television series of the same name ...
January 4 – Ciro Terranova, a former boss of the New York Morello crime family, is arrested by New York City police on vagrancy charges as he was entering Manhattan. February 14 – "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn , a high-ranking member of the Chicago Outfit and the reported organizer of Chicago 's St. Valentine's Day Massacre , is murdered in a ...
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.
Born in 1899 Brooklyn, New York to an immigrant family, Alphonse Gabriel Capone was destined for a life of trouble-making. Capone joined his first gang after being expelled from school at age 14.
Their acquittal frees Anselmi and Scalise to work for their new boss, Al Capone. July 7 – Just before 9:00 p.m. on 21st Street in Brooklyn, an unidentified gunman in a black sedan shoots and kills James "Filesy" D'Amato (sometimes spelled DeAmato), a gambler friend and associate of Chicago's Al Capone.
The Commission is the governing body of the American Mafia, formed in 1931 by Charles "Lucky" Luciano following the Castellammarese War. [1] The Commission replaced the title of capo di tutti i capi ("boss of all bosses"), held by Salvatore Maranzano before his murder, with a ruling committee that consists of the bosses of the Five Families of New York City, as well as the bosses of the ...
The Making of the Mob: New York is an American television miniseries, and the first season of The Making of the Mob. It follows notorious New York gangster Lucky Luciano and his rise in the New York City crime mob, alongside Meyer Lansky , Frank Costello , Bugsy Siegel , and Vito Genovese .