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Morello tried his hand in different business ventures, including failed investments in a saloon and a date factory. Morello's first wife, Maria Rosa Marsalisi, died in 1898 in Corleone. [11] In 1902, he acquired a saloon at 8 Prince Street in Manhattan which was to become a meeting place for members of his gang. [2]
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]
The Morello brothers formed the 107th Street Mob and began dominating the Italian neighborhood of East Harlem, parts of Manhattan, and the Bronx. One of Giuseppe Morello's strongest allies was Ignazio "the Wolf" Lupo, a mobster who controlled Manhattan's Little Italy. In 1903, Lupo married Morello's half-sister, uniting both organizations.
Carlo began the Dallas faction of the American Mafia in 1921 with Joseph as his underboss. Carlo, later described as the "original head of the Mafia in Texas," was born about 1876 in Corleone, Sicily, the same hometown as early New York Mafia boss Giuseppe Morello. Piranio's marriage to an eighteen-year-old woman, recently arrived from Italy ...
Giuseppe Morello (1867–1930) Calogero Bagarella (1935–1969) Leoluca Bagarella (born 1942) Luciano Leggio (1925–1993) Michele Navarra (1905–1958) Bernardo Provenzano (1933–2016) Salvatore Riina (born 1930–2017)
The Morello gang, formerly run by Giuseppe Morello until 1909, then run by his half-brothers, the Terronovas, Vincenzo, Ciro and Nicholas Morello. Vincenzo and Nicola occasionally used their older, half-brother's name, Morello even though they were legally Terranovas. They controlled Harlem and most of northern Manhattan. Morello and his allies ...
Morello is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ... Giuseppe Morello (1867–1930), mobster; Giuseppe Morello (footballer) (born 1985), Swiss-Italian ...