Joe Masseria

Maranzano and Masseria without killing themselves: make them kill each other. The time had arrived, it was decided, to put their plans into operation (Gosch, 1975). Word was promptly sent to Maranzano that Luciano was now prepared, for the good of everybody, to do what Maranzano had demanded more than a year before on Staten Island (Gosch, 1975). On April 15, 1931, Luciano lured Masseria to a coney island restaurant and had him assassinated by four loyalists - Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia,…

During the Roaring 20’s, gang/ mob activity flourished. With the Prohibition Movement which made alcohol illegal, thousands of Speakeasies (underground drinking facilities) were opened. These were run by some of the most notorious mobsters of all time- Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, and others. These men made a lot of money because of the illegal work they did, and they pretty much ran the underground of the cities. Gang activity increased during the 20’s because of prohibition, people wanting money,…

died of a heart attack in 1915. The clan went through several leaders until in 1927 the Castellammarese War broke out between the two rival criminals in New York, the Castellammarese Clan was hijacking liquor shipments from Giuseppe “Joe the Boss”(Editors, 2015) Masseria the boss Genovese Crime Family (members of…

there was no overarching unity among the cities (“Italian Organized Crime”). In New York, a number of “families,” or groups, began to grapple for power, which sparked the “Castellammarese War” between the city’s two most powerful mobsters, Joseph Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano (“Italian Organized Crime”). Maranzano eventually won and set up “five separate criminal groups,” or five families, in New York City (“Italian Organized Crime”). Following Maranzano’s death, Charles Luciano became the…

The origin of the Mafia began in Sicily, Italy. The migration to America begun when Don Vito Ferro of the “La Costra Nostra” had to flee to New York from Sicily. Don Vito Ferro was escaping from an angry enemy. Accordingly, Mussolini, the fatal prime minister of Italy, worked to try to exterminate the Mafia in Italy. With a push from Mussolini, many members of the Mafia began to flee to America throughout the 1900’s (History of the Mob). About twenty years later from the root of Italian American…

boss Lepke Buchalter. Siegel was arrested and tried for the murder (by that time, he had also killed Krakow). He was acquitted, but newspapers referred to him for the first time by his nickname "Bugsy." Siegel was not pleased, especially when his gangland past was revealed. On one return trip to the East, Siegel drove through the small town of Las Vegas, Nevada. Legend has it that Siegel suddenly had a vision of turning Las Vegas into a gambling mecca. Others said he had merely stopped there…

Organized crime in the United States pre Nineteen Twenties consisted of gambling, prostitution, and theft. However, crime syndicates not only in the United States but all across the world began to change as prohibition of alcohol spread. In the year Nineteen Seventeen the Volstead Act or National Prohibition Act was passed by congress and later became officially established as the Eighteenth Amendment in Nineteen Nineteen. The Amendment established that after one year of any activity related to…