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Gibson was an American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw associated with Alvin Karpis and the Barker gang during the late 1920s and '30s. [2] [9] Helen Wawzynak Gillis: No image available: 1908–1987 Gillis was the wife of mobster Baby Face Nelson, and assisted with many of his crimes. Alongside her husband, she was labeled public enemy ...
This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures by region and by American Mafia ... (1916–1920) Giuseppe "Joe the ... (1928–1930) Frank ...
This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime ... Colosimo, 1878–1920) Louis ... Piddu Morello" (1867–1930 ...
December 18 – New York Prohibition gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond is shot to death while staying at a safe house in Albany, New York by a number of unidentified gunman. December 22 – Irish-American mob boss Frankie Wallace, on the pretense of a sit-down with Italian-American mobsters, is ambushed and murdered in Boston's North End.
1920s–1930s New York mobster and enforcer for labor racketeer Nathan Kaplan, and later Louis Buchalter and Jacob Shapiro during the 1920s and 1930s. [4] Martin Goldstein: 1905–1941 1920s–1930s Hitman and member of Murder, Inc. Involved in the 1939 murder of Irving Feinstein and later executed with other members of Murder, Inc. in 1941. [3 ...
December 5 - Irish-American gangster William "Wild Bill" Lovett turns himself in to the Brooklyn police, who have been looking for him since the murder of rival gangster Dennis "Dinny" Meehan in March 1920. He is wanted for both the Meehan murder, as well as the murder of a black man six months later. [79]
Some names may be listed in more than one city. ... (1889 or 1890–1930) Domenico Violi (born 1966) ... List of American mobsters of Irish descent;
A 13-part miniseries by NBC called The Gangster Chronicles based on the rise of many major crime bosses of the 1920s and 1930s, aired in 1981. [149] The Sopranos was an award-winning HBO television show that depicted modern day American-Italian mob culture in New Jersey.