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New York mobster Thomas Gagliano, leader of the present day Lucchese crime family, goes into semi-retirement and leaves day-to-day activities of the Family to Acting Boss Thomas Lucchese. May 28 – Joe Adonis is convicted for gambling violations and sentenced to two years in New Jersey State Prison .
South Brooklyn Boys (abbreviated as SBB) was a famous New York City street gang.In the 1950s, various Italian-American gangs were formed in South Brooklyn, New York City, and came together under the moniker of "South Brooklyn Boys" sometime around the 1950s.
On November 14, 1957, the mafia bosses, their advisers and bodyguards, approximately one hundred men in all, met at Barbara's 53-acre (21 ha) estate in Apalachin, New York. Apalachin is a town located along the south shore of the Susquehanna River, near the Pennsylvania border and about 200 miles northwest of New York City. The purpose of the ...
The five Mafia families in New York City are still active, albeit less powerful. The peak of the Mafia in the United States was during the 1940s and 50s, until the year 1970 when the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) was enacted, which aimed to stop the Mafia and organized crime as a whole. [ 23 ]
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One of the founders of the modern American Mafia, and a co-founder and later boss of the Murder, Inc. organization, he eventually rose to the position of boss in what became the modern Gambino crime family. He also controlled New York City's waterfront for most of his criminal career, mainly through the dockworker unions.
The New York Times wrote that the gang members were also homosexuals and neo-nazis, [1] Life called them "Those Terrible Youth", while Inside Detective magazine nicknamed Koslow – who wore a mustache – the “Boy Hitler of Flatbush Avenue.” [3] The notoriety of the case was such at the time that in 1955, columnist Hedda Hopper suggested ...
New York mobster and enforcer for labor racketeer Joe Ryan [4] [8] [9] Mickey Spillane: No image available: 1934–1977 1959–1977 New York mobster and head of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen during the 1950s and 60s Joseph "Mad Dog" Sullivan No image available: 1939–2017 1955–1983 New York mobster and freelance assassin for the Genovese crime ...