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Angelo Anthony Lonardo (January 21, 1911 − March 31, 2006) was an American mobster who became the acting boss of the Cleveland crime family in the early 1980s.
Cleveland crime family. The Cleveland crime family, also known as the Scalish crime family or the Cleveland Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Cleveland, Ohio, and throughout the Greater Cleveland area. The organization formed during the 1900s, and early leadership turned over frequently due to a series of power grabs and ...
Thomas James Sinito, also known as "The Chinaman" (September 18, 1938 − December 21, 1997), was a powerful Caporegime in the Cleveland crime family who was once accused of plotting the assassination of then mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, Dennis J. Kucinich in 1979. [1] Kucinich later became a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President ...
Joseph Lonardo. Joseph Lonardo (Italian pronunciation: [loˈnardo]; October 20, 1884 – October 13, 1927), also known as " Big Joe ", was a Sicilian emigrant to the United States who became the first crime boss of the Cleveland crime family, which he structured from a number of competing organized crime gangs. When national Prohibition began ...
Raymond W. Ferritto (April 8, 1929 - May 10, 2004) was an American mobster from Erie, Pennsylvania. He served as an associate and hitman for the Cleveland and Los Angeles crime families. Ferritto is best known for assassinating rival mobster Danny Greene in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1977 in order to prevent Greene from overthrowing the Cleveland ...
At Angelo's urging, Concetta (unaware of the murder plot) arranged to meet Todaro at 1 P.M. on June 11, 1929, at 10902 Woodland Avenue, a barber shop owned by Ottavio Porrello. [118] [v] Shortly after 1 P.M., a black luxury automobile driven by Angelo Lonardo pulled up to the curb at the E. 110th Street entrance to the Porrello barber shop.
Daniel John Patrick Greene (November 14, 1933 – October 6, 1977) was an American mobster in Cleveland, Ohio, whose conflicts with the Cleveland crime family of the Italian-American Mafia ended in Greene's murder in 1977. Greene would build a close working relationship with Shondor Birns, as neither of them could become a "made" man in the ...
Young Italian-American, Giovanni "Gio", reluctantly continues his family's annual tradition of bringing a cake to the house of his Uncle Angelo, a local crime lord, to mark the anniversary of his mob-connected father's passing ten years earlier. It is not long before he witnesses a murder along the way, that will force him to learn the truth ...