On this date (Jan. 24) in 1925, gunmen seriously wounded Chicago rackets boss John Torrio outside of his Clyde Avenue home. Torrio, who was to begin a federal sentence for Prohibition violations just days later, spent weeks recovering. He then spent months in a Lake County jail. Upon his release, he...

Silvio Tagliagambe was fatally wounded in a May 9, 1922, gunfight in lower Manhattan. While some have considered him merely a bystander, accidentally caught up in an exchange of bullets between a group loyal to boss of bosses Salvatore D'Aquila and a rival faction led by Giuseppe Masseria, the truth...

http://mafiahistory.us/mugs/santora-nicholas-nybon1.png According to published reports, Nicholas "Nicky Cigars" Santora, a longtime leader in the Bonanno Crime Family of New York, died this past autumn (October 2018). We have just added a short biography of Santora to the website: "Bagged by Brasco...

On this date (Jan. 3) in 1956: Joe "Adonis" Doto avoided a prison sentence and deportation by exiling himself to Italy. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xUqp802XJms/WGvDM0DidSI/AAAAAAAAHrs/KJSdovbP-CMO-RIYBrAgMClGZZOJqndZACLcB/s1600/1955nov15p25-nytimes-pics.gif Adonis had improperly claimed U.S. citizens...

Frank J. "Frankie Breeze" Calabrese, Sr., seventy-five, a convicted leader of the Chicago Outfit, died December 25, 2012, at the Federal Medical Center of Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina. He was serving a life sentence. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-efiLr19cHs8/XCIkY3tsnjI/AAAAAAA...

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DKP0mnSxGSg/XB-R2zbQxrI/AAAAAAAAKmA/DQD1Ll3Lau4HeZvb5P5g5oE9XjoiJd8pwCLcBGAs/s320/couple.jpg Thomas and Rosemarie Uva headed out on the morning of Thursday, December 24, 1992, to finish up their Christmas shopping. Before leaving their apartment at Eighty-Third Street in ...

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The latest mafiahistory.us article by Edmond Valin focuses on Salvatore Piscopo (1893-1977), the Los Angeles Mafia soldier who betrayed Johnny Roselli to federal authorities.



Read here:
http://mafiahistory.us/rattrap/salvatorepiscopo.html

On this date (Dec. 5) in 1928, police arrested 23 men - most from out of state - attending a Mafia convention at Cleveland's Hotel Statler. The group included representatives from the Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Tampa and Buffalo underworlds. https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9exN2p1uF1A/WEVdd__BrBI/AAAA...

New York's Gambino Crime Family was fractured with the death by natural causes of underboss Aniello "Neil" Dellacroce on this date (December 2) in 1985. Dellacroce had demanded that his faction in the crime family remain peacefully loyal to boss Paul Castellano. With Dellacroce's death by natural ca...