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The Morello and Terranova children grew up together and Bernardo may have facilitated Giuseppe's early induction into the local cosca, or Mafia clan. [6] Author David Crichley notes that Morello also had an uncle, Giuseppe Battaglia, who was a leader in the Corleonesi Mafia and who may have assisted in his nephew's passage. [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]
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.
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 ...
Giuseppe Marchese; Joe Masseria (1886–1931) Leonardo Messina; Francesco Messina Denaro (1928–1998) Gerlandino Messina; Matteo Messina Denaro (1962–2023) Salvatore Miceli; Giuseppe Morello (1867–1930) Giovanni Motisi; Gaspare Mutolo
Buster from Chicago was a pseudonym used for a mobster and freelance hitman of the 1930s. He is alleged to have played a key role in the Castellammarese War (1929–1931) as the assassin of Giuseppe Morello and others.
Giuseppe Morello (born 12 October 1985) is a former Swiss-Italian footballer. On 19 June 2024, he joined Grasshopper Club Zürich as assistant coach of Marco Schällibaum . [ 1 ] Following Schällibaum's dismissal on 5 November 2024, he took over as caretaker. [ 2 ]