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Showing posts with label Lucky Luciano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lucky Luciano. Show all posts
2 May 2024

Giuseppe Morello - gangster

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Sicilian established first New York crime ‘family’ Morello was known as 'the claw' because of a deformed right hand The Mafia boss G...
22 November 2021

Joe Adonis - Mafia boss

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Boy from mountainous Campania who became powerful New York mobster The mug shots of Joe Adonis held in the files of the New York police depa...
27 January 2020

Frank Nitti - mobster

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Barber who became Al Capone’s henchman Frank Nitti grew up in the Capone family's neighbourhood in Brooklyn, New York The mobste...
2 October 2018

Joe Profaci - Mafia boss

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Sicilian who influenced profile of Mario Puzo’s Godfather Giuseppe 'Joe' Profaci hid his criminal empire behind his 'front...
31 July 2018

Salvatore Maranzano - crime boss

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Sicilian ‘Little Caesar’ who established New York’s Five Families Salvatore Maranzano had a mission to kill rival boss The criminal ...
12 June 2018

Nick Gentile - mafioso

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Sicilian mobster defied code of silence by publishing memoirs Nick Gentile was rarely photographed The mafioso Nicola Gentile, known...
10 October 2017

Stefano Magaddino - mafioso

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Longest-ruling Mafia boss in US history Stefano Magaddino ran the Buffalo crime family for more than half a century Stefano Magadd...
24 November 2016

Lucky Luciano - Mafia boss

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Sicilian who brought order among warring clans Charles 'Lucky' Luciano, pictured in Italy in 1948, after he had been deported ...