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In 1922, Buffalo's crime family boss Joseph DiCarlo died and Magaddino quickly succeeded him as the new boss. [12] The Buffalo crime family continued to gain power during the Prohibition era through bootlegging. In 1931, the family boss, Stefano Magaddino, became an original member of The Commission, the governing body of the American Mafia.
The Five Families refer to five Italian American Mafia crime families that operate in New York City. In 1931, the five families were organized by Salvatore Maranzano following his victory in the Castellammarese War. Maranzano reorganized the Italian American gangs in New York City into the Maranzano, Profaci, Mangano, Luciano, and Gagliano ...
The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, which originated in the city's South Side in 1910. The organization is part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
In New York City, by the end of the 1920s, two factions of organized crime had emerged to fight for control of the criminal underworld — one led by Joe Masseria and the other by Salvatore Maranzano. [29] This caused the Castellammarese War, which led to Masseria's murder in 1931. Maranzano then divided New York City into five families. [29]
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 ...
In Chicago, Joseph Saltis and Jake Guzik allied themselves with Al Capone's Chicago Outfit. However, fighting Capone was the North Side Gang , which, while mostly Irish-American , had a large Polish presence as well, with Hymie Weiss (Wojciechowski) having Polish heritage.
The clandestine gambling den hosted “illegal joker poker-style” machines and traditional card games that earned more than $10,000 per week for the crime family coalition, prosecutors allege.
Murdered Buffalo crime family members (1 C, 4 P) Murdered Papalia crime family members (3 P) Pages in category "Buffalo crime family"