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Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences (2014; ISBN 9781634507554) written by Catherine Pelonero is based on this case. In the book "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy (2016), by Marcia M. Gallo, won in the category of LGBT Nonfiction at the Lambda Literary Awards ...
Biello, a Genovese crime family captain, was killed on orders of boss Joseph Bonanno after Biello revealed to the Commission Joseph Bonanno's plans to take over the Commission and murder Bonanno family members during the war and within the Commission takeover if necessary. Biello is found shot to death in Miami.
Pelonero's debut book, Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences, was published in 2014. [5] The book is a detailed nonfiction account of the infamous 1964 murder of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, a young woman stalked and stabbed on the street where she lived in Queens, New York. [6]
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn say eight members or associates of the Bonanno and Genovese crime clans were taken into custody for their roles related to a string of illegal poker parlors run out ...
Bonanno was the first child of Joseph and Fay (née Labruzzo) Bonanno, born on November 5, 1932, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. [1] His father had come from Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, with his grandparents, Catherine and Salvatore, and became boss of the Bonanno crime family a year before he was born. [2]
Joseph Michael Valachi (September 22, 1904 [nb 1] – April 3, 1971) was an American mobster in the Genovese crime family who was the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to acknowledge its existence publicly in 1963.
At the time of his testimony in 1963, Valachi revealed that the current bosses of the Five Families were Tommy Lucchese, Vito Genovese, Joseph Colombo, Carlo Gambino, and Joe Bonanno. These have since been the names most commonly used to refer to the New York Five Families, despite years of overturn and changing bosses in each.
Evola was a close associate of Joseph Bonanno, the original boss of the Bonanno crime family. In 1931, Evola served as an usher at Bonanno's wedding. [1] In 1957, Evola was identified at the infamous Apalachin Meeting in Apalachin, New York and later charged, along with twenty other organized figures, with conspiracy. The case was later overturned.