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	The Untouchables Episode Guide - The Untouchables Season Episodes - TV.com
		Ciro Terranova is The Artichoke King; his racket is simple: he buys carloads of artichokes at $6 a crate, and sells them for twice the price-- at the point of a gun.
		Ciro Terranova, meanwhile, goes to Chicago and hires a hitman for 20 grand-- to get rid of his new "partner." Hitman Felix Burke is expensive because he's the best, he did the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
		Terranova gives him 5 grand now, and promises to pay the rest of the money immediately when the job is done; Burke makes him sign a contract, in case Terranova tries to stiff him.
	www.tvtome.com /Untouchables/guide.html

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Black Hand
		After the Black Hand leaders were convicted of counterfeiting in 1910, Nicholas Morello and his step-brothers Vincenzo and Ciro "The Artichoke King" Terranova, took control of New York's largest Mafia family.
		Though the elder brother Vincenzo was the man who introduced Ciro to the Black Hand, the younger Terranova was to surpass his brother in terms of power and influence.
		Under the reign of Saietta and Joe Morello, Ciro built up numerous political contacts who made it far easier for him to conduct his business – that business being the sale of what he called the "White Stuff", cocaine.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /blackhand2.htm (1702 words)

	The American "MAFIA" - Who Was Who - M
		The gang was supervised by Morello's older brother Nicholas and half-brother Ciro Terranova.
		After Morello's death, his brother-in-law Ciro Terranova watched over the Mafia organization and eventually supported Joe Masseria as the next boss of bosses.
		It appears that Milazzo graduated to Mafia crime family boss in Detroit by 1930 (or, according to some sources, was a chief lieutenant in the East Side Gang led by Angelo Meli, Bill Tocco and Joe Zerilli).
	www.onewal.com /maf-whom.html (1702 words)

	Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - Allan May, Organized Crime Historian and Journalist
		Terranova’s half-brother Giuseppe Morello joined the powerful combine and the gang moved their headquarters to an infamous building that the police would dub the “murder stable.” It was alleged that the Terranova / Morello gang murdered 23 rival hoodlums there between 1900 and 1917.
		Rosalia’s husband was murdered shortly after Ciro’s birth after which she married a man named Morello.
		Charges against Terranova were dismissed on the “ground that testimony against him was given by co-conspirators and accomplices and that outside corroboration necessary under New York law was missing.”
	www.americanmafia.com /Allan_May_10-11-99.html (1702 words)

	NJ MAFIA - Joe "The Boss" Masseria
		When he got to the U.S., he became involved in racketeering and enforcing for the Morello Gang of the Lower East Side, a gang let by Iganzio Saietta and Ciro Terranova.
		The leadership of the Morello gang was on shakey ground, Saietta had gone to prison along with a few other top officials and Terranova had struck it rich by cornering the market on all artichokes that came into the U.S. Masseria saw his chance to take over.
		There were several attempts on Masseria's life, including an assassination attempt on him by Peter Morello, the former leader of the Morello Gang in an attempt to regain power.
	www.angelfire.com /nj2/ELSTONSTCREW/masseria.html (1702 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Black Hand
		George Terranova (Uncle of Ciro and Vincenzo) became the first casualty of the war when he was murdered on January 27 1921.
		Saietta seems to have retired from organiZed crime at this point, but Morello went back to take control of the gang, making his step-brother Ciro his underboss.
		In 1921, the original bosses, Ignazio "Lupo" Saietta and Guiseppe "Joe" Morello were released on parole.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /blackhand2.htm (1702 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Black Hand
		After the Black Hand leaders were convicted of counterfeiting in 1910, Nicholas Morello and his step-brothers Vincenzo and Ciro "The Artichoke King" Terranova, took control of New York's largest Mafia family.
		Saietta seems to have retired from organiZed crime at this point, but Morello went back to take control of the gang, making his step-brother Ciro his underboss.
		A war with the Camorra and a hostile take-over from "Joe the Boss" Masseria ensured that these men were not allowed to rest on their laurels.
	mobsters.8m.com /blackhand2.htm (1702 words)

	The American "MAFIA" - Who Was Who - L
		Nicholas Morello and Ciro Terranova looked after Mafia business in the Harlem and Bronx areas after Lupo and Giuseppe Morello were locked away, but the Italian/Sicilian communities in Brooklyn and on the Lower East Side began generating their own Mafia leaders.
		Their son Rocco was born in 1900, and the family lived in an upscale home at 261 Avenue P in Brooklyn, which was purchased for them by Terranova.
		Lupo and Giuseppe Morello, leader of the Morello Mob and The Wolf's right-hand man, were arrested for counterfeiting in 1909 and began lengthy prison sentences in 1910.
	www.onewal.com /maf-whol.html (1702 words)

	GangRule Event The Mafia-Camorra War {1914-1918}
		That evening Nick and Vincent Morello, Steve LaSalle, Ciro Terranova and Verizzano all travelled to Navy St. They congratulated Lauritano on the news that DeMarco had been shot and gave him $50 to pass on to the gunmen.
		Nick Morello and Steve LaSalle explained that Joe DeMarco would have to be killed before they could control all the gambling lower Manhattan.
		Nick Sassi, an employee of Demarco's but also friend of the Navy St gang, got the gunmen inside past the doorman.
	www.gangrule.com /events.php?ID=5 (3216 words)

	Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - Allan May's Mob Report current mob stuff
		Salvatore Lucania, who would later become Charles "Lucky" Luciano, claims that in 1923 the "major figures in the Italian underworld" were Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria, Ciro Terranova and Salvatore Maranzano.
		Maranzano is given a welcome banquet in America, thus again indicating his arrival is no earlier than late 1925.
		It is at this meeting on October 17, 1929 where Maranzano’s men savagely beat Luciano because he refuses to "personally" murder Masseria.
	www.americanmafia.com /Mob_Report/6-24-02_Mob_Report.html (4330 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Black Hand
		Two members of the Black Hand, Vincenzo and Ciro Terranova, strengthened their alliance with Lupo by arranging his marriage to their sister in 1901.
		Saietta was a member of the Mafia in his hometown of Corleone, Sicily, and he founded the New York branch of that notorious society when he emigrated in 1898.
		A depiction of the dreaded Mano Nera (Black Hand) was traditionally used in extortion letters in Sicily to infer the threat of violence.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /blackhand1.htm (995 words)

	The Dying of the Light: The Joseph Valachi Story
		They, in turn, had been replaced by Ciro Terranova, who was assisted by his deadly brother-in-law, Ignazio Saietta, a ruthless Mafiosi, also know as “Lupo” or “The Wolf.” By the end of the 1920s, they had been superseded by another mobster, a short, squat, piggish-looking thug called Giuseppe Masseria.
		The Morello brothers, hailing from Coreleone in Sicily, had been a potent influence in the criminal world from the end of the nineteenth century into the new millennium.
		He had been born in Palermo in 1886 and emigrated to New York in 1903 when he was sixteen.
	crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/valachi/war_4.html?... (995 words)

	Articles - Peter Morello
		Born in Corleone, Sicily around 1880, Morello immigrated to the United States with his brothers Nicolo and Giuseppe Morello (although it has been argued Giuseppe and Peter may be the same man) and half-brothers Ciro and Vincenzo Terranova arriving in New York in the late 1890s.
		Peter "The Clutching Hand" Morello (1880-August 15, 1930), also known as "The Old Fox", was the last leader of the Morello crime family and top advisor to Joe Masseria.
		One of the first victims of the Castellammarese War, Morello was killed with collector Giuseppe Periano on August 15, 1930 while collecting cash receipts in his East Harlem office.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Peter_Morello?mySession=4f48535b47561067ba68616cdfa34459 (995 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Black Hand
		After the Black Hand leaders were convicted of counterfeiting in 1910, Nicholas Morello and his step-brothers Vincenzo and Ciro "The Artichoke King" Terranova, took control of New York's largest Mafia family.
		Meanwhile, the war with the Camorra continued, and Nick Morello was approached by "Torpedo" Tony Notaro, a member of the Camorra who claimed his organization wanted to negotiate a peace-deal.
		Arrangements were made for Morello and his underboss Charles Umbriacco to meet with Pelligrino Morano and Alessandro Vollero at Vollero’s Café in Navy Street.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /blackhand2.htm (995 words)

	GangRule Biography Giuseppe DeMarco
		Around three weeks later Nick Morello, Steve LaSalle, Ciro Terranova and Giuseppe Verazzano travelled to Navy St to discuss the plan to kill Joe DeMarco.
		Salvatore DeMarco, brother to the slain Joseph Demarco, was found dead in a clump of weeds in a lot in Washington Avenue, near William St, Astoria.
		DeMarco almost died from his wounds but surgeons in Harlem Hospital were able to save his life.
	www.gangrule.com /biography.php?ID=15 (995 words)

	The American "MAFIA" - Who Was Who - L
		Though his previous partners Giuseppe Morello and Ciro Terranova figured prominently in the Castellamarese War of 1930-1931, Lupo kept a relatively low profile.
		When Reina was eliminated and replaced at the start of the Castellamarese War by "Joe the Boss" Masseria, Lucchese and Gagliano defected to the Castellamarese side led by Salvatore Maranzano.
		Leo Lauritano was a Brooklyn-based Mafioso (possibly Castellamarese) who ran a saloon at 115 Navy Street and also conducted a lucrative murder-for-hire business.
	www.onewal.com /maf-whol.html (995 words)

	Joe Masseria
		In New York, Joe joined the Ciro Terranova gang, an up and coming group of thugs that had moved their way up the east side of New York.
		Adonis and Luciano were the golden boys of Masseria's empire afterwards, members of the privileged few he considered trusted allies.
		He sent Joe Adonis and Lucky Luciano to do it, and the pair dropped him at an ambush in a local restaurant.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/mafia/joe-masseria (902 words)

	The Dying of the Light: The Joseph Valachi Story
		They, in turn, had been replaced by Ciro Terranova, who was assisted by his deadly brother-in-law, Ignazio Saietta, a ruthless Mafiosi, also know as �Lupo� or �The Wolf.� By the end of the 1920s, they had been superseded by another mobster, a short, squat, piggish-looking thug called Giuseppe Masseria.
		Masseria had built his power base in Lower Manhattan, but was challenged by a newcomer to the New York area, a man called Salvatore Maranzano, who had landed in the city in 1925.
		Late in the afternoon of November 5th, Ferrigino and another member of Masseria�s group, Alfred Mineo, were shot dead by three of the four gunmen, who blasted them with shotguns as they walked into the courtyard.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/valachi/war_4.html?sect=8 (902 words)

	Mafia Chronology - Section III (1920-31)
		Masseria previously looked to be serving within Umberto Valenti organization, but now appears to be moving toward leadership role with support of Harlem's Ciro Terranova.
		Masseria, who had met with the two men, lagged behind as Mineo and Ferrigno left the building and so escaped the ambush.
		(Masseria's home address at the time is #80 Second Avenue.) He ducks into Heiney's Millinery and then ducks at least four bullets fired at close range, escaping unharmed but with bullet holes through a new straw hat.
	www.onewal.com /maf-chr3.html (902 words)

	Articles - Peter Morello
		Born in Corleone, Sicily around 1880, Morello immigrated to the United States with his brothers Nicolo and Giuseppe Morello (although it has been argued Giuseppe and Peter may be the same man) and half-brothers Ciro and Vincenzo Terranova arriving in New York in the late 1890s.
		Taking control of the organization after the death of Nicolo Morello in 1916 during the Mafia-Camorra War, Morello allied with Rocco Valenti against former Morello member Joe Masseria who now controlled a rival faction of the Morello's.
		After two failed assassination attempts by Valenti against Masseria a truce was arranged between Morello and Masseria.
	lastring.com /articles/Peter_Morello?mySession=4f48535b47561067ba686... (902 words)

	The American "MAFIA" - Who Was Who - D
		Giuseppe and Salvatore DiMarco were two unfortunate Mafiosi who attempted to secure the title of New York boss of all bosses without the approval of Ciro Terranova.
		The Morello mob cooperated with a number of Neapolitans in Manhattan, and the Morano organization apparently did not go to war with the Castellamarese Sicilian organization believed to have been thriving in Brooklyn at the time.
		He was born in Corleone, Sicily, in 1891 and came to the United States with his family early in life.
	www.onewal.com /maf-whod.html (902 words)

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