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He was a high-ranking member and the final leader of the White Hand Gang. He succeeded Bill Lovett after his murder in 1923 and, under his leadership, led a two-year campaign against Frankie Yale over the New York waterfront until he and five of his lieutenants were killed in South Brooklyn during a Christmas Day celebration at the Adonis ...
The police believe that the true murderers were probably connected with Lovett's own gang, or a rival Irish gang. Lovett's brother-in-law Richard Lonergan , who had become leader before Lovett was killed, began an even more aggressive attack against Vincent Mangano , Albert Anastasia , and Joe Adonis , who had begun moving in on the waterfront.
Lovett was labeled by the media as the new "leader" of the White Hand Gang after he took control of the waterfront rackets upon the killing of Dinny Meehan, who was shot while sleeping at his home with his wife at his side on the afternoon of 31 March, 1920 (the press lumped both Lovett's and Meehan's gang together). [2]
In the early morning hours of December 26, 1925, White Hand gang boss Richard "Pegleg" Lonergan and a few of his men were attacked at Brooklyn's Adonis Club by a handful of Yale's men and a visiting Al Capone (Capone's son Sonny had just had an operation for a mastoid infection in New York). Lonergan planned on leading his men into the club to ...
On 7 September, Serhii Balanchuk , a former football player for Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukrainian national football team, a lawyer and a soldier, was killed by Russian artillery shelling near Bakhmut. [41] On 12 September, Oleksandr Shapoval, a ballet dancer and choreographer at the National Opera of Ukraine was killed in a battle near Donetsk. [42]
Meyer Lansky (born Maier Suchowljansky; [1] July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983), known as the "Mob's Accountant", was an American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States.
Northern Irish loyalist and leading member of the Ulster Defence Association's South Belfast Brigade: 31 July 1994 Martin Cahill [75] Irish crime boss: Dublin Republic of Ireland: 18 August 1994 Hugh Torney [76] Member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party and leader of the GHQ faction of the Irish National Liberation Army: Lurgan, County Armagh
Died: Bill Lovett, 29, Irish-born American gangster and recently retired leader of New York's White Hand Gang, was murdered while sleeping in an abandoned store at 25 Bridge Street in Brooklyn, after a night of drinking at Sand's Saloon. [6] [7]