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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. List of groups engaged in illegal activities This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "List of criminal enterprises, gangs, and ...
Sources included are Carl Sifakis's The Mafia Encyclopedia, Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York and others. Online references also include Thomas P. Hunt's Mafia Chronology, John Dickie's Cosa Nostra history and The Chronological History of La Cosa Nostra in the United States: January 1920 - August 1987 compiled by the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division's Organized Crime ...
Massino thus stood to be the first Mafia boss to be executed for his crimes, and the first mob boss to face the death penalty since Lepke Buchalter was executed in 1944. [75] Massino was the first sitting boss of a New York crime family to turn state's evidence, and the second in the history of the American Mafia to do so. [76]
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Luciano's objective was to modernize the mob and do away with unnecessary orthodox norms. [5] This was a vision that enabled him to attract followers, who had seen the inadequacies of Masseria's traditionalist leadership.
Disappeared in 1935 and long presumed to have been killed by the mob. [4] George Weinberg: No image available: 1901–1939 1920s–1930s Younger brother of Schultz' gunman Abraham Weinberg. After his brother's disappearance in 1935, he agreed to become a government witness but committed suicide while in police custody in 1939. [4] Emanuel Weiss ...
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