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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 ...
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. [148] The Sopranos was an award-winning HBO television show that depicted modern day American-Italian mob culture in New Jersey.
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.
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]
Frank Scalice – boss (1930–1931) Vincent Mangano – boss (1931–1951) Albert "The Lord High Executioner" Anastasia – boss (1951–1957), underboss (1931–1951)
1928–1930 – Manfredi "Alfred" Mineo – killed in Castellammarese War in 1930. 1930–1931 – Frank Scalice – demoted after murder of boss of all bosses Salvatore Maranzano . 1931–1951 – Vincent Mangano – disappeared in April 1951, allegedly killed on orders of underboss Albert Anastasia.
This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime ... Colosimo, 1878–1920) Louis ... Piddu Morello" (1867–1930 ...
The Baltimore Crew was an Italian American organized crime group that ultimately became a faction of the Gambino crime family operating in the port city of Baltimore, Maryland, from about 1900 until the 1990s. It was originally an independent organization led by the D'Urso family until the Corbi takeover in the 1920s.