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  mafia international - bruno
Angelo Bruno soon made an important alliance with a man of similar age and mind; Carlo Gambino became friendly with Bruno thanks to a deal where the two of them became partners in a profitable Florida land deal.
During the 60's Angelo Bruno was against taking a huge part in the narcotics trade, Bruno was no fool to what the repercussions in taking a bigger hand in the narcotics trade could mean.
Angelo Bruno was a month short of his 70th birthday when he was murdered, he was also now without his good friend Carlo Gambino, and so was killed the 21st March 1980, the shooter blew his head off with a shot gun when one of his men John Stanfa had drove Bruno to his home.
glasgowcrew.tripod.com /bruno.html   (606 words)

  
  Angelo Bruno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Angelo Bruno ( 1911 - March 21, 1980) was a member of the US Mafia who ran the Mafia's faction in Philadelphia.
Bruno was known as The Gentle Don because he rarely resorted to violence and his leadership was regarded as successful in that his crime family was not plagued by the wars that others were.
Bruno himself avoided lengthy prison terms, despite numerous arrests, his longest term of imprisonment being two-years for refusing to testify to a Grand Jury.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Angelo_Bruno   (306 words)

  
 SETI League: Biography of Giordano Bruno
Bruno visited Geneva, Toulouse, Paris, and London, where he spent two years (1583-85) under the protection of the French ambassador and in the circle of the English poet Sir Philip Sidney.
Bruno is considered a forerunner of modern philosophy because of his influence on the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and his anticipation of the theories of monism, later advocated by the German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Among Bruno's outrageous beliefs were his assertions that the stars were actually other suns spanning the infinite reaches of space and the entire universe was composed of the same matter.
www.setileague.org /awards/brunoquo.htm   (609 words)

  
 Bruno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bruno is the latinized version of the Germanic male given name Brun.
Saint Bruno I, Archbishop of Cologne, died 965
Bruno, a character from Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruno   (179 words)

  
 Organized Crime Syndicates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Angelo Bruno arrived fresh from Sicily in 1911.
Bruno climbed slowly under his boss with the same namesake and during the years of Joseph Ida held capo status.
Angelo Bruno, in public testimony, swore he would not be involved or had plans of infiltrating the casinos.
www.geocities.com /OrganizedCrimeSyndicates/AngeloBruno.html   (902 words)

  
 The American "MAFIA" - Philadelphia Crime Bosses
Known as "Angelo Bruno." His reign was said to be one of conciliation and compromise.
Angelo Bruno was shot to death on March 12, 1980.
Bruno's consigliere Anthony Caponigro was also thought to have cooperated on the hit.
www.onewal.com /maf-b-ph.html   (352 words)

  
 San Bruno B.A.R.T.
Assistant District Attorney Al Giannini described the environment where Angelo was born as a tense one, with his unmarried father and mother struggling financially and personally and his father on the outs with the mother's family.
Angelo's unexplained injuries early in his life -- which his father is charged with causing -- exacerbated that tension, Giannini said.
Angelo was alone with his father when he received the injuries that killed him, Giannini said.
www.sanbrunobart.com /Community/News/040420.shtml   (731 words)

  
 Angelo "the Gentle Don" Bruno
Angelo Bruno was born on Sicily in 1911 and came to the U.S. in the late 1920s and settled in Philadelphia.
When Bruno heard of this order he went to see his dear old friend Carlo Gambino, who by this time was one of the most powerfull bosses in the U.S. Bruno told Gambino of the hit order and Gambino made it clear that his friend would not be whacked.
Bruno felt that if he didn't declare Atlantic City open territory he could get his Family into a war with the bigger and more powerful New York Families, declaring open territory made sure that there would be no war.
www.angelfire.com /blog/organizedcrime/bruno/bruno.html   (1069 words)

  
 Mob Family Values
Jeanne Bruno’s father, Philadelphia mob boss Angelo Bruno, always told her there was no such thing as the Mafia.
It’s been 20 years since Angelo Bruno, the city’s "Docile Don," was assassinated in front of his house at 10th and Snyder.
Bruno remembers the late boss as a loving father who spoke four languages and rose to the top of the local crime family without being a "made" member of the Mafia because he had never killed anyone.
www.citypaper.net /articles/061500/cb.onmedia2.shtml   (415 words)

  
 Trouble With a Capital N
Angelo Bruno’s consigliere, the number-three man in the mob, was Antonio "Tony Bananas" Caponigro, who lived in a north Jersey suburb and owned a club in Newark.
On March 21, 1980, Angelo Bruno was killed by a shotgun blast to the head as he sat in his car chatting with his driver, John Stanfa.
Angelo Bruno’s friends in the New York Mafia and in crime families across the country were numerous and powerful — many were current or former leaders of organized crime in New York, Scranton, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, New Orleans, Tampa and Boston.
www.citypaper.net /articles/041901/news.mob.shtml   (2052 words)

  
 Tosolini : Parus di Cavalicco
Angelo (1879-xxxx) sposa nel 1904 Gentile Maria (1883) di Francesco di Cavalicco.
Bruno Antonio (1922) sposa nel 1945 Di Fant(?) Iolanda.
Angelo Felice (1906-1978) sposa nel 1929 Rainis Gisella a Udine.
xoomer.virgilio.it /ltosoli/stope12.htm   (644 words)

  
 San Bruno B.A.R.T.
Angelo had been taken away from his parents by the County's child protective services after being hospitalized with fractured ribs and ankles at just 12 days old.
Diesta didn't take Angelo when she went to visit family in the East Bay, May said, because she feared her relatives could hurt him, and didn't even tell them he was home for a visit.
Using a blonde doll to demonstrate, Thyne said Angelo's injuries appeared to be the result of someone moving the baby's legs in either a jerking or twisting motion.
www.sanbrunobart.com /Community/News/040420-1.shtml   (736 words)

  
 Bruno Friends
Angelo Bruno was by far the smartest businessman that I have ever known.
Angelo was a strong family man and he was committed to his family of employees as well.
Everyone who worked for Bruno's knew that as long as the Bruno family was in control of the company they had a job to support their families.
www.allbygrace.com /friends.html   (2411 words)

  
 Angelo Bruno at AllExperts
Angelo Bruno (May 21, 1910 - March 12, 1980) was a member of the U.S. Mafia who ran the Mafia's faction in Philadelphia.
Bruno himself avoided lengthy prison terms despite several arrests, his longest term of imprisonment being two-years for refusing to testify to a Grand Jury.
On March 12, 1980, sixty-nine-year-old Angelo Bruno was killed by a shotgun blast in the back of the head as he sat in his car.
en.allexperts.com /e/a/an/angelo_bruno.htm   (481 words)

  
 GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - ANGELO "THE GENTLE DON" BRUNO
Angelo Bruno was by far the most succesful boss that the Philadelphia Crime Family ever had.
This was what made Bruno the most succesful boss in Philadelphia Family history it also gave him the nicknames "The Docile Don" and "The Gentle Don" because he never lost his cool and always handled his business in a professional manner.
Angelo Bruno would be the most succesful Boss in the history of the Philadelphia Crime Family.
gangstersinc.tripod.com /AngeloBruno.html   (1053 words)

  
 Bruno Martelli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Bruno's father Angelo was a taxi driver, who did everything possible to support his son, refusing to let him work to help pay for his music.
We never saw Bruno's mother, but we know that she too was a talented pianist whose favourite piece was the Moonlight Sonata.
Bruno was never seen again after the end of season 3, and his future absence was never explained.
www.geocities.com /TelevisionCity/Satellite/1314/bruno.htm   (449 words)

  
 bruno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Angelo Bruno, who referred to himself as a "commissioned salesman" for a vending corporation, was in fact a wealthy mob leader who controlled illegal gambling and loan-sharking for the Mafia in the 1960s and 1970s.
Although Bruno had been pursued by police and federal agents, arrested thirteen times, and subpoenaed and indicted by grand juries regularly, his only jail term lasted two and a half years for refusing to testify in an investigation of official corruption in Atlantic City.
One of the last of the old-time underworld bosses, Bruno was known as a peacemaker, and was said to have held out against the mob by opposing their involvement in drug trafficking and truck hijacking.
members.allstream.net /~ctornabe/bruno.html   (184 words)

  
 Scarfo/Philadelphi Mob
Angelo Bruno was the boss of the Philadelphia family, known for his efforts to reconcile differences rather than using violence.
Scarfo was named the new head of the Bruno Family and given a seat on the commission in 1981, and became an ally of the powerful Genovese Family.
A local cop who was on the Bruno family payroll testified that Scarfo's car was not at the property where the murder was committed, contradicting Salerno, who testified Scarfo had parked his fl Cadillac outside in front of the home.
www.ipsn.org /scarfo.html   (1580 words)

  
 Norwalk Citizen - Batters on Deck for Norwalk High Baseball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Bruno is still working on his starting lineup after an intense week of scrimmaging before the team opened April 4 against Greenwich.
Bruno thinks another important addition to the Bears is the return of former Norwalk head coach Pete Tucci as his assistant.
Bruno is anticipating his Bears being in contention for the league and state titles.
www.norwalkcitizen-news.com /sports/ci_5600514   (742 words)

  
 AmericanMafia.com 26 Mafia Cities - Philadelphia, PA
Bruno was in power essentially from 1927 until 1946.
Bruno, son of Joseph Bruno, would be the man to put the Philadelphia Mafia on the map.
He was unhappy that Bruno seldom used violence as a means to achieve his goals.
www.americanmafia.com /Cities/Philadelphia.html   (1227 words)

  
 Angelo Annaloro / Angelo Bruno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Angelo Bruno was boss of the Philly Mob from about 1959 to his death in 1980.
During Bruno's tenure as boss, Atlantic City was opened for gambling.
New York crime lords appear to have conspired with Bruno's ambitious consigliere Anthony Caponigro to eliminate Bruno.
www.onewal.com /w-annalo.html   (103 words)

  
 Angelo Bruno Business Library, Who is Angelo Bruno?
The late Angelo Bruno, who was Chairman of the Board of Bruno's, Inc., has been described as a quiet, shy man who enjoyed life, loved his family, and was proud of his family's achievements.
Angelo Bruno; his brother (Vice Chairman of the Board and Senior Vice President) and other executives were making the traditional holiday visits to Bruno stores throughout the Southeast.
Angelo Bruno is survived by his wife Ann Marie Messina Bruno; four sons-Ronald, Ken, David, and Alan-and one daughter, Suzanne Bowness.
brunolib.cba.ua.edu /about/brunobio.html   (1100 words)

  
 TV VIEW; ANOTHER CHAPTER IN MOB FOLKLORE - New York Times
Bruno, the boss of a Philadelphia crime family, had been killed by a shotgun blast as he sat in an automobile in front of his house.
Bruno, he says, was ''a sweet person, a sweet man.'' Journalistic convention, print and electronic, has come to demand that mobsters be regarded as bearishly benign unless they are actually at work.
Bruno was killed no one in the old neighborhood would admit they had even heard of him.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E2DD1F39F932A25751C1A965948260   (804 words)

  
 INSIDE STORY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Bruno was gunned down in a car in front of his home in 1980, and the void was filled by young hotheads.
Bruno stressed "omerta," the Sicilian code of silence, and inspired loyalty that helped forge close ties with New York's Gambino family.
Bruno died without an heir apparent, and his style was missing from the leaders who followed, such as Phil "Chicken Man" Testa and Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, a swaggering former boxer who proudly proclaimed himself a gangster and had a penchant for violence.
gamblingmagazine.com /articles/22/22-82.htm   (818 words)

  
 All about the Real Life Sopranos, by Anthony Bruno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The plot against Angelo Bruno had been hatched in Newark by the then-capo of the North Jersey faction, Anthony “Tony Bananas” Caponigro.
He was eventually assured by a capo from New York’s Genovese family that the commission had approved the Bruno murder.
Less than a month after Bruno’s murder, Caponigro’s body was found in the trunk of a car in the South Bronx.
www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/sopranos/5.html   (1325 words)

  
 Bruno's Supermarkets, Inc. -- Company History
Angelo's son Ronald Bruno, who had been groomed to run the company and who had already been designated president and chief executive officer, was elected to the chair.
Bruno's management noted, "We felt it was time to eliminate our loss from the American Fare stores and focus our full attention on our primary store concerns." The company took a charge of $.13 a share, or $10.8 million, for the fiscal year ending in June 1992.
Bruno's was also targeted by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1657 in an extensive strike in its hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, which began in September of 1999.
www.fundinguniverse.com /company-histories/Brunos-Supermarkets-Inc-Company-History.html   (3016 words)

  
 DIELAND: Mob: The Philadelphia Family
Ida who was Joe Brunos underboss took control in 1945, and tried to remain a low key boss operating big in blue collar rackets.
Nicky who was once banished to Alantic City by the late boss Angelo Bruno for stabbing a man to death over a seat in a resturant took over as boss in early 1981.
Riccobene, who was a capo under then boss Angelo Bruno, would wage a violent war against one time boss Nicky Scarfo and his followers.Riccobene, who was still angry about the murder of Bruno, decided any of his earnings he would keep and not share with Scarfo.
members.fortunecity.com /sosdie/mob/family/philly/philly.htm   (1816 words)

  
 UA Catalog 2002-04: Facilities and Services
The state-of-the-art Angelo Bruno Business Library serves the business information needs of The University of Alabama and, in particular, the students and faculty of the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration (C&BA) and the Manderson Graduate School of Business.
The Bruno Library's books, journals, special collections, and commercial databases offer excellent support of the C&BA teaching and research fields in business, economics, finance, accounting, information systems and statistics.
The Angelo Bruno Business Library provides convenient access to information resources through traditional as well as technologically advanced means.
www.ua.edu /catalogs/catalog02/13240.html   (2223 words)

  
 Discount Store News: Bruno chairman Angelo J. Bruno dies in crash; son to succeed - Ronald Bruno
Bruno's, Birmingham, Ala., is the supermarket partner of Kmart in its three American Fare hypermarkets: Atlanta, Charlotte, N. C.; and Jackson, Miss.
Also killed were: Lee J. Bruno, 71, Angelo Bruno's brother and vice chairman; Sam A. Vacarella, 43, senior vice president, merchandising; Edward C. Hyde, 40, vice president of store operations; R. Randolph Page Jr.
Bruno's board named Ronald Bruno, 39, to succeed his father Angelo Bruno as chairman.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3092/is_n1_v31/ai_11768365   (454 words)

  
 The Mafia in New Jersey - La Cosa Nostra - State of New Jersey Commission of Investigation 1989 Report - The ...
With the murder of boss Angelo Bruno in 1980, the family began a decade of decline fueled by murders and prosecutions of key members.
Although Angelo Bruno had forbidden this activity by his subordinates, several of his key members were clandestinely engaged in the prohibited crime.
In addition to 18 Bruno associates, also arrested was Michael Perna of Belleville, a member of the Lucchese family and a long-time associate of the northern faction of the Bruno family.
www.mafianj.com /sci89/bruno.shtml   (2865 words)

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