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Giuseppe "the Clutch Hand" Morello (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe moˈrɛllo]; May 2, 1867 – August 15, 1930), also known as "The Old Fox", was the first boss of the Morello crime family and later top adviser to Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria.
The Morello family traces back to Corleone, Sicily. In 1865, Calogero Morello married Angelina Piazza who gave birth to two children: Giuseppe Morello (born May 2, 1867) and Maria Morello-Lima (née Morello, born c. 1869). Calogero Morello died in 1872, and one year later Piazza remarried to Bernardo Terranova. [1]
Giuseppe Morello became the Capo di tutti capi (or boss of bosses), but before long he and Ignazio Saietta were arrested and charged with counterfeiting in 1910. In 1910 The Lomonte Brothers cousins of Morello ran East Harlem till 1915, Fortunto Lomonte killed 1914 on East 108th st., Tomasso Lomonte killed 1915 on East 116th st [1] [5] [6]
On August 15, 1930, Castellammerese loyalists executed a key Masseria enforcer, Giuseppe Morello, at Morello's East Harlem office (a visitor, Giuseppe Peraino, was also killed). [15] Two weeks later, Masseria suffered another blow. After Reina's murder, Masseria had appointed Joseph Pinzolo to take over the ice-distribution racket. [10]
Giuseppe Masseria was born on January 17, 1886, in Menfi, Province of Agrigento, Sicily, in a family of tailors. When he was young, he moved to the town of Marsala, in the Province of Trapani. Masseria arrived in the United States in 1902. [1] He then became part of the Morello crime family based in Harlem and parts of Little Italy in southern ...
A 1996 mug shot of Liborio Bellomo, believed to be the current boss of the Genovese crime family. 1890s–1909 – Giuseppe "the Clutch Hand" Morello – imprisoned; 1910–1916 – Nicholas "Nick Morello" Terranova – murdered on September 7, 1916; 1916–1920 – Vincenzo "Vincent" Terranova – stepped down becoming underboss
He is alleged to have played a key role in the Castellammarese War (1929–1931) as the assassin of Giuseppe Morello and others. Some claim that Buster was gangster Sebastiano Domingo (1910–1933), [1] notably Bill Bonanno, the son of Bonanno crime family leader Joseph Bonanno, who participated in the War. [2]
The letter named members of the Morello crime family: Giuseppe Morello, Vincenzo Terranova, Ciro Terranova, Giuseppe Fontana, Ignazio Milone, and Pietro Inzarillo. Cascio Ferro worked with these men during his three-year tenure in New York, so their involvement is possible, but it is also possible that letter was a hoax. [11]