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	Joe Masseria Summary
		The killing that became later known as the Castellammarese War began in February, 1930 when Gaetano Reina, a top aide to Masseria, was shot to death, allegedly the first victim of Maranzano.
		Masseria controlled all organized crime in New York City from 1920 until his assassination by Lucky Luciano in 1931 during the Castellammarese War.
		The survivors of the Castellammarese War of 1930-31 were smart enough to take credit for Masseria's murder, which is probably how Luciano ended up getting put in Pollaccia's role that day.
	www.bookrags.com /Joe_Masseria (559 words)

	Castellammarese War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Castellammarese War is the name given to a bloody internal power struggle between two factions of the Italian-American mafia that took place in 1930 and 1931.
		It culminated in the brief establishment of Salvatore Maranzano as capo di tutti capi, before he himself was killed and "the Commission" of five mafia families of equal stature was established.
		Outwardly, the Castellammarese War was between the forces of Masseria and Maranzano, but in reality the war was between the "Mustache Petes", or the old guard Sicilians in the American Mafia, and the "Young Turks" following Luciano and their multi-ethnic allies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castellammarese_War (481 words)

	eight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In his war with remenents of the Morellos, he was once cornered in a millinary shop by a cool, accurate killer named Ricco Valenti; Valenti emptied his gun at close range, and to everyone's amazement, Joe dodged and twisted away from every one of them.
		That ended the war, with Masseria the king of the Italians in NYC by 1925.
		Castellammarese War started when Masseria issued death sentences for all born in the Castallammarese district of Italy, which was all of Maranzano's gang.
	www.fsu.edu /~crimdo/faculty/waddell/eight.html (1212 words)

	-castellammaresewar.page
		These were the leaders of the 5 Families in New York City as of 1930 at the start of the war between Masseria, Maranzano and their various allies in the other New York Families.
		The Castellammarese War was so named because of the ethnic clan of Sicilians who hailed from the coastal town of Castellammare del Golfo located 66 miles west of the Sicilian capital Palermo and 41 miles northeast of Trapani.
		In 1912 Salvatore Bonanno was drafted in the Italian Army during World War I. He returned home to Castellammare in November of 1912 after being wounded in battle and died in December of that year.
	www.geocities.com /americanmafioso/-castellammaresewar.html (1892 words)

	Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
		Masseria controlled all organized crime in New York City from 1920 until his assassination by Lucky Luciano in 1931 during the Castellammarese War.
		Maranzano gained the support of a faction and declared war on Masseria, in what became known as the Castellemmarese War.
		In a footnote to Masseria's murder, Gerardo Scarpato, owner of the restaurant where Joe the Boss was killed, was murdered himself in September 1931, within days of the killing of Salvatore Maranzano.
	www.clintongoveas.com /wikipedia/?title=Joe_Masseria (304 words)

	Castellammarese War
		Castellammarese War is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Allies of Masseria, Mineo and Ferrigno were killed in an ambush during the Castellammarese War in 1930 by gunmen Joe Profaci, Nick Capuzzi, Joe Valachi, and a hitman from Chicago known only as Buster.
		The war between Masseria and Maranzano became known as the Castellammarese War.
	www.experiencefestival.com /castellammarese_war (2825 words)

	Salvatore Maranzano - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		This led to a bloody underworld battle known as the Castellammarese War.
		The war ended after Lucky Luciano helped orchestrate Masseria's murder at what was supposed to be a quiet lunch and a game of cards at Scarpato's Restaurant, located in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn.
		After the war, he began to organize the Mafia and implement rules, including appointing five mobsters under his immediate command, who would establish the Five Families which soon ruled organized crime in New York City.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Salvatore_Maranzano (782 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - STEFANO MAGADDINO
		He was seen as a leader of a Castellammarese clan in Brooklyn but left Cola Schiro in charge as he fled the City from feuding Sicilians and prying police.
		In what became known as the Castellammarese War, the future of the underworld was created by the victors of this war.
		After Masseria and Castellammarese wartime leader Maranzano were both killed by the likes of Lucky Luciano, a Commission was formed in which leaders from New York City, Chicago, and Buffalo would meet to decide the outcome of disputes.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /Magaddino.html (1273 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - JOSEPH PROFACI
		Profaci and underboss Joe Magliocco were the only leaders of the five families who survived the Castellammarese War of the early 1930's and were still in their positions.
		After the Castellammarese War Profaci allied himself with up and coming gangster Lucky Luciano (the man who would ultimately lay down the framework for organized crime as it is known to day).
		Because of Profaci's death the war never ended, raging on well into the 90s and under different bosses, the factions were never again really one Family.
	members.tripod.com /gangstersinc/JosephProfaci.html (974 words)

	Joseph Bonanno
		Bonanno proved to be a dedicated and dependable soldier in that struggle which became known as the Castellammarese War.
		Eventually, Masseria was murdered and the war ended - although not by the hands of the Maranzano forces.
		He was to disappear for 19 months during which time war broke out between the DiGregorio forces and Bonanno's son Bill.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/bonj.html (1356 words)

	Gaetano Gagliano
		In the books where he is discussed, his role in the Castelammarese War is talked about, as is his selection to lead one of the original five New York crime families, but almost no biographical information about him exists outside of the years 1930 and 1931.
		In early-1930, the Castellammarese War began in New York City.
		He claims that after the Ferrigno and Mineo slayings that the Maranzano forces and Gagliano’s men held a weeklong celebration in late December 1930 near Hyde Park, N.Y. On April 15, 1931 the Castellammarese War officially came to an end when Masseria was murdered in a Coney Island restaurant after being set up by Luciano.
	www.crimemagazine.com /gagliano.htm (1796 words)

	Gangland.net - Home
		Joe "The Boss" Masseria (?-1931)- This guy was the man in NY until he decided to piss off the wrong people.
		He is responsible for starting the Castellammarese War and died because of it in 1931.
		Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1931-1946)- Charlie Lucky replaced Masseria as the head of the Masseria family in 1931, after the end of the war.
	www.gangland.net /genovese.htm (497 words)

	Albert Anastasia's grave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The outcome of the Castellammarese War and the subsequent murder of Salvatore Maranzano was that Luciano assumed control of organized crime across America.
		In order to avoid the power struggles and turf disputes that led to the Castellammarese War, Luciano sought to establish the National Crime Syndicate (more familiarly known as the "Commission") consisting of the bosses of major families around the country, including especially the so-called "five families" of New York.
		World War II In 1936, Prosecutor Thomas Dewey was successful in convicting Luciano on the charge of pandering, for which he secured a 30- to 50-year sentence.
	www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /GravesOutofLA/anastasia.htm (1662 words)

	Joseph Bonanno - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Inside their organizations, there was a group of young men who seized their opportunity to get to the top and had both bosses killed within five months of one another.
		Bonanno then moved to Arizona, where he was at one time sent to jail by the FBI to serve time for some charges, during his previous stay in that state.
		Upon retirement, Bonanno was allowed to live in peace in a normal suburban house in Tucson, Arizona with his family and some of his rackets that existed there.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Joseph_Bonanno (1079 words)

	ANECDOTES 2
		In 1929 during the Castellammarese War in New York..........
		Therefore as the war intensified and men's resolve was tested it was with Maranzano's family that loyalties were remaining stronger.
		Though Joe's success in the war thus far was with the help of "Lucky", his understanding of Masseria's constant treachery and self centered tactics made him dislike the old man intensely.
	paulandkaja.com /intersection/anecdote2.html (2680 words)

	The Rise of the Lucchese Family
		The history of each of the families is both similar because of their ties, but also different in relation to styles of leadership and the impact individuals had on the family.
		The conflicts of Chicago were turf wars between Irish and Italian gangs, and it was mainly interfamily fighting which occurred in Cleveland.
		With the end of the Castellammarese Wars, Maranzano emerged the winner and began to design his version of a new Italian empire.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/57815 (644 words)

	The Free Information Society - Charles "Lucky" Luciano Biography
		By joining Maranzano, Charles caused a war to erupt between the two families, later known as the Castellammarese War.
		Maranzano was winning the war, but many men were just waiting for one of the bosses to die to continue their normal lives as mobsters.
		After the war, governor Thomas Dewey granted his release on the condition that he be deported to Italy.
	www.freeinfosociety.com /site.php?postnum=114 (850 words)

	Gaetano Gagliano
		In the books where he is discussed, his role in the Castelammarese War is talked about, as is his selection to lead one of the original five New York crime families, but almost no biographical information about him exists outside of the years 1930 and 1931.
		In early-1930, the Castellammarese War began in New York City.
		He claims that after the Ferrigno and Mineo slayings that the Maranzano forces and Gagliano’s men held a weeklong celebration in late December 1930 near Hyde Park, N.Y. On April 15, 1931 the Castellammarese War officially came to an end when Masseria was murdered in a Coney Island restaurant after being set up by Luciano.
	crimemagazine.com /gagliano.htm (1796 words)

	Laborers-LIUNA Local 210 Ron Fino and Buffalo Mafia
		However, in 1933 when remnants of another Cleveland gang, the Porrello family, tried to muscle in on the Buffalo corn sugar business, guns blazed and the Porrellos were turned back losing their fifth family member in four years.
		The war came to an end on April 15, 1931 when Luciano set-up Masseria to be hit in a Coney Island restaurant.
		The "Banana War" effectively ended in 1968 when Bonanno suffered a heart attack and retired, or was banished, to Arizona.
	www.laborers.org /AmericanMafia_Fino_.htm (2954 words)

	BANANAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Bonnano proved to be a dedicated and dependable soldier in that struggle which became known as the Castellammarese War.
		After Maranzano had won the war, he took in Luciano as his number two man, and appointed himself boss of bosses over them all.
		It is doubtful the commission could ever have won the Banana War, but in 1968 Bonnano suffered a heart attack and was forced into real retirement.
	www.strippedpepper.com /bananas.htm (1324 words)

	THE COMMISSION [Empire] -- THE COMMISSION changing the world of Organized Crime as we know it.
		Masseria was certainly a formidable foe, but things changed quickly with the killing of his chief strategist, underboss Peter Morello, and the ambush slaying of Al Mineo, a strong supporter and boss of what we now know as the Gambino Family.
		His murder during the Castellammarese War in 1930 brought the team of the two Tommy's to the fore.
		With the death of Masseria and the end of the war, Gagliano and Lucchese found themselves in an excellent position.
	www.freewebs.com /the_commission_empire/thefivecrimefamilies.htm (1465 words)

	Joseph Bonanno-Capo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In 1964 Bonanno further enraged the other mobs by plotting to eliminate most of the governing leadership of the rival families, which led to the famous Banana War that ended in the ruination of Bonanno's plans and his hopes to install his son as the successor as head of the crime family.
		Genovese family gangsters were cut down by Galante gunmen in a war for control of a multimillion-dollar drug operation.
		After World War II, Genovese was returned to the United States for trial on that old murder charge, but nothing came of it; a couple of well-timed murders eliminated the key witnesses against him.
	dks.thing.net /Joseph_Bonanno-Capo.html (7084 words)

	SOAR Project 5th Grade
		One major war took place in New York City and was called the Castellammarese war.
		This war was between two major families, one led by Joe Mazzoria, the other led by a Sicilian named Salvitor Merrinzono.
		This led to power and more wars as the wars escalated so did the assassination of gang members and innocent citizens.
	www.selah.k12.wa.us /SOAR/Projects2001/SierraS.html (851 words)

	crimebosskillings
		As long as there have been gangsters in New York, there have been turf wars and power struggles on the city's streets.
		The conflict became known as the Castellammarese War and forever changed the way organized crime did business in America.
		Find out why some call it Lucky Luciano's War, a subtle finesse that could only be a New York moment.
	www.artmontague.com /crimebosskillings.html (110 words)

	The Castellammarese War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Castellammarese War erupted between the numerous forces of Joe the Boss and those of a fast-rising New York mafioso, Salvatore Maranzano.
		The war moved into 1931 with Maranzano winning, but Masseria was still powerful.
		The assassination made Maranzano the victor in the Castellammarese War and, in supposed gratitude to Luciano, Maranzano made him the Number Two man in his new Mafia empire.
	www.dark-horse.co.uk /gangsters/lucky/war.htm (481 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Don-town New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In the 1930s, New York was rocked by the Castellammarese War, which pitted immigrant mobsters from the town - led by Bonanno, Joseph Profaci and then-boss Salvatore Maranzano - against factions from Calabria and Naples, including Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese and Frank Costello.
		Another Castellammarese, Joseph Barbara, hosted the notorious Appalachian Mafia Conference of 1957, which was raided by the cops and began the mob's long slow decline.
		In the past decade, Italian authorities have made a great effort to crack down on gangsters, and Castellammare is now thriving, with new six-story blocks of condos going up on the outskirts of town and fewer poor laborers leaving in search of a better life.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/472899p-397851c.html (1047 words)

	Albert Anastasia - Murder Inc. FBI Files
		In 1928, conflicts between mob leaders led to the Castellammarese War.
		At the end of the Castellammarese War, a more peaceful existence between the crime bosses was sought.
		One section of the Syndicate enforced the Syndicate's business and performed murders for hire and was known as "Murder, Inc." For decades the FBI denied the existence of such an organization as the "Syndicate." Anastasia was a leading figure in the Brooklyn, New York based "Murder, Incorporated".
	www.paperlessarchives.com /anastasia.html (1412 words)

	Blood in the Street:Subculture of Violence-1972-04-24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		It was the most bitter gang conflict in a decade, and could become the bloodiest campaign since the savage Castellammarese war* in 1930-31, when scores of Mafiosi killed off one another in the streets across the country.
		Although neither the Colombos nor the Gallos seemed to be aware of it, the Gambinos were deliberately promoting the war, approving executions in order to fan the flames and encourage the Colombos and Gallos to kill one another off.
		There were a number of stories that neither Carlo nor Paul had ever killed anyone-which is ample reason for them to be held in contempt-and both were suspected of sitting out the Castellammarese war, tending their bootleg stills instead of shooting their enemies.
	www.thelaborers.net /newspapers/time/blood_in_the_street.htm (2766 words)

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