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	Joe "the Boss" Masseria
		Masseria was the undisputed head of the American Mafia in the late 1920s.
		Joe the Boss was charged with the murder, but the case never went to trial (Terranova's connections within the various branches of the government were exceptional for the time).
		Masseria narrowly escaped an ambush as he left his home on the Lower East Side on Aug. 9, 1922, and Joe the Boss established a reputation as a man who could dodge bullets.
	www.onewal.com /w-masser.html (962 words)

	NJ MAFIA - Joe "The Boss" Masseria
		Giuseppe Masseria (1879 - 1931) "Joe the Boss"
		Masseria was not only know for his ability to muscle his way around the underworld.
		Masseria was a very strict and difficult boss to work for, and many of his young lieutenants would soon understand this.
	www.angelfire.com /nj2/ELSTONSTCREW/masseria.html (1048 words)

	Joseph Bonanno
		His nickname was Joe Banana and one of the wars he undertook as leader of his organization became known as The banana war.
		In the 1960s he rose to be the capo di tutti i capo (boss of bosses).
		During this time, the other bosses began thinking that Bonanno was trying to move in on their territories.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Joseph_Bonanno.html (929 words)

	Lucky Luciano
		Luciano by the late '20s became one of the leaders of another mafia family, the one led by Joe The Boss Masseria[?].
		In 1928, the Castellamarese war[?] broke, pitting Joe The Boss and his men against those of the up and coming gangster Salvatore Maranzano.
		By 1931, Luciano was so eager to gain power and become a boss, he, along with Lanksy, planned the assassination of Masseria, and four Luciano men, including Bugsy Siegel, went and killed Masseria at a Coney Island restaurant.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lu/Lucky_Luciano.html (941 words)

	80 Second Avenue
		Masseria was what the younger gangsters called a "Mustache Pete" - an old style crime boss, unostentatious, hard working, socially conservative, and wedded to a particular neighborhood and a particular criminal specialty.
		Masseria gained confidence and increased stature from his good luck in surviving the assassination attempt, and when it was his turn to strike back at Valenti, he did so successfully.
		Masseria became a victim some years later in a legendary hit at the Nuova Villa Tammaro Restaurant in Coney Island, betrayed by his trusted lieutenant Lucky Luciano.
	members.tripod.com /Fighting9th/History4.htm (382 words)

	-castellammaresewar.page
		Masseria ordered the murder of a man he thought of as an allie but he heard that Reina had sided with Salvatore Maranzano and the Brooklyn clan of Castellammarese.
		In October of 1930, Joe Aiello was killed in Chicago while he led his small clan of Castellammarese Sicilians into war against Al Capone who was backed by Joe The Boss Masseria in New York.
		Masseria went into hiding as the war raged on into 1931 with dozens of murders on both sides.
	www.geocities.com /americanmafioso/-castellammaresewar.html (1892 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Black Hand
		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.
		Joe Morello, who now went under the name "Peter" to conceal his previous record from the police, became the Mafia’s "capo di tutti capi" (boss of all bosses) in the US.
		He became known as "Joe the Boss", and Salvatore Lucania aka Charlie "Lucky" Luciano was his underboss.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /blackhand2.htm (1702 words)

	Lucky Luciano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Joe the Boss passed up extremely lucrative deals by fighting gangsters with whom he could have cooperated for their joint benefit.
		And Joe the Boss was more intent on waging otherwise long forgotten feuds with fellow Sicilians based on which town or village they had come from than he was on making money.
		The boss of bosses position was eliminated in the syndicate, although in fact Luciano became the boss in everything but name in the Mafia division.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/luciano.html (1849 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		By the mid-1920s Joe the Boss Masseria was the undisputed boss of the New York Mafia, a tribute to treachery, extreme good luck and a willingness, even an eagerness, to kill.
		The Masseria gunmen wounded two of Valenti's men and chased after Valenti, who hopped on the running board of a passing taxi and was shooting back, when he was shot dead by one of the gunmen.
		Masseria was now the top Mafia power, and five crime families in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx were subservient to him.
	about.themafia.info /Page_248.html (587 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.
		Initially composed of seven bosses, this board of directors was to arbitrate disputes between families in the hopes of avoiding bloodshed.
		Profaci and underboss Joe Magliocco were the only leaders of the five families who survived the Castellammarese War of the early 1930's still in their positions.
	www.freewebs.com /the_commission_empire/thefivecrimefamilies.htm (1465 words)

	"Clutch Hand" Confusion - The American MAFIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Masseria had established himself as boss of bosses earlier in the decade but then committed the unpardonable crimes of meddling in the internal affairs of Mafia Families across the United States.
		Masseria was reportedly content to sit back and allow Don Piddu to speak to his guests during a critical meeting.
		Unfortunately, Masseria had pulled the "I'm going to retire" routine just once too often in his career (it was also the ploy used to expose and eliminate Valenti), and the Castellamarese saw through it.
	www.onewal.com /maf-art05.html (2814 words)

	Joseph Bonanno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno's crime family was, in 1931, the smallest of New York's big five, he still wanted to be the largest power in syndicated crime in America.
		To some rival bosses, upset by his moves beyond his traditional territory, he was "planting flags all over the world." By the 1960s this was very obvious.
		Some New York bosses were also acting tougher with him, especially after Joe Profaci, who had been another longtime crime family boss in Brooklyn, died of cancer in 1962.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/bonj.html (1356 words)

	AKA Joe "Bananas" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Joe "The Boss" Masseria, the crime boss of all New York at the time.
		On April 15, 1931, Joe the Boss Masseria was ordered killed by Lucky Luciano who had quickly jumped sides (along with Vito Genovese) after recovering from his beating at the hands of Maranzano and declaring peace with him.
		Joe Valachi explain during his hearings that it was done so that if anyone should wonder what was going on, they would think it was some holy society meeting.
	dks.thing.net /CorleSopro.html (2042 words)

	Joe Bonanna's grave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Began as a muscleman for Joseph (Joe the Boss) Masseria.
		After the murder of Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano in 1931, Lucky Luciano divided New York into sections headed by various families and bosses (those who had helped in the murders of Masseria & Salvatore, who controlled New York at the time).
		Those "The Commission" was founded and Joe Bonanno was appointed as boss of the Brooklyn-based Bonnano Family, which he exerted control over until his 1968 retirement.
	www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /GravesOutofLA/joebonanna.htm (212 words)

	Joe Masseria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Masseria was killed on the orders of Luciano, then when Luciano was boss he was forced to refuge to Italy due to law enforcement trouble.
		Masseria was assassinated at the Nuova Villa Tammaro restaurant in Coney Island...
		Joe Adonis was born Giuseppe Antonio Doto in the small town of Montemarano, Italy, near Naples...
	www.jolt12.co.uk /joe_masseria.html (330 words)

	BANANAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonnano's crime family was, in 1931, the smallest of New York's big five, he still wanted to be the largest power in syndicated crime in America.
		Masseria was killed by combined Italian and Jewish gangsters who had entirely different plans for the underworld.
		He was prosecuted and convicted on some criminal charges in the mid-1980s the federal government sought to made use of his autobiography to prove that there was a Mafia commission and that its present members were part of a criminal conspiracy and thus could be sent to prison.
	www.strippedpepper.com /bananas.htm (1324 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - CHARLES "LUCKY" LUCIANO
		His boss Masseria had the belief that only Sicilians can be trusted and become a member of the Organization.
		Masseria must have felled some bad vibes coming from Luciano because he would soon send him a message.
		Charles "Lucky" Luciano was boss of bosses of New York.
	members.tripod.com /gangstersinc/LuckyLuciano.html (1630 words)

	Genovese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		FROM Joseph (Joe The Boss) Masseria to Vincent (Chin) Gigante, the Genovese Family has probably been the most powerful La Cosa Nostra family of the last hundred years.
		In the 1920's, Masseria, was recognized by Cosa Nostra leaders as the ultimate arbitrator of all major decisions that cut across family lines.
		Unlike Masseria and Maranzano, Luciano recognized that other Mafia leaders had grown weary of an autocratic style of leadership, the endless battles, and the possibility of an early death.
	www.theofficialshitlist.com /Genovese.htm (2323 words)

	Joe Masseria's grave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Head of the Masseria crime family until his death in a Brooklyn restaurant, ordered by Lucky Luciano and carried out by Bugsy Segal.
		The Masseria family were then taken over by the Maranzano family who became all powerful.
		The famous picture of Masseria holding the ace of diamonds, was intentionally arranged by a news photographer.
	www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /GravesOutofLA/masseria.htm (439 words)

	The Castellammarese War
		MASSERIA FACTION - Joe "the Boss" Masseria, Al "Scarface" Capone, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Albert "the Mad Hatter" Anastasia, Vito "Don Vitone" Genovese, Quarico "Willie Moore" Moretti, Joe Adonis, Frank "the Prime Minister" Costello, Bonaventura "Joe" Pinzolo
		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.
		Their adversaries, who hailed both from elsewhere in Sicily and adjacent of regions of southern Italy such as Calabria and Campania (particularly Naples) were led by Joe "The Boss" Masseria and also included Alphonse Capone, Lucky Luciano, Albert Anastasia, Vito Genovese, Alfred Mineo, Willie Moretti, Joe Adonis, and Frank Costello.
	www.angelfire.com /blog/organizedcrime/castellammarese.html (572 words)

	Genovese
		Whatever the merits of the case, Luciano, at the height of his power, was convicted and sentenced to a thirty to fifty year jail term.
		Even though Tieri was identified as Genovese family boss in a 1978 New York magazine article by none other than, ahem, Jerry Capeci, AND even though Tieri was convicted of being the Genovese boss, there are those who dispute that he ever was the boss.
		Salerno (left) had been identified in the indictment as the family boss, and along with the leaders of the Colombo and Lucchese family, was sentenced to 100 years.
	www.ganglandnews.com /genovese.htm (2201 words)

	Joe Valachi Summary
		The ruler of the family is the capo (boss), with a subcapo (underboss), caporegime (lieutenants), and soldiers.
		Joseph 'Joe Cargo' Valachi (September 22, 1903 - April 3, 1971) was the first Mafia member to publicly acknowledge the existence of the Mafia.
		Genovese had apparently ordered Valachi killed (offering $100,000 to anyone who did so) because the powerful mob boss had believed Valachi had betrayed him to the authorities in exchange for a lighter prison sentence, thus violating the strict Mafia oath of Omertà (silence) which traditionally had carried the death penalty.
	www.bookrags.com /Joe_Valachi (736 words)

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		Giuseppe "Joe The Boss" Masseria (c1880-1931) Short, cold, beady eyes, came to US in 1903 on the lam from murder charges in Sicily.
		The first meeting was attended by what came to be known as the Seven group, for the 7 bosses there; by 1928 there were 22 bosses represented, and the big meeting came in 1929 in Atlantic City, NJ.
		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)

	Gaetano Gagliano
		Joe Valachi provides the only physical glimpse of Gagliano: "He is a big tall guy, a little bald.
		Valachi claims that during the initiation rite Joe Bonanno was named his "godfather" and was to be responsible for him.
		In the wake of the Maranzano murder, Luciano kept the same five-family structure, but was considered first among equals, or boss of bosses.
	crimemagazine.com /gagliano.htm (1796 words)

	Joe Colombo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Joe Bonnano's attempts to take over the underworld to the other mob bosses, gained their respect.
		Joe Gallo, knowing that none of his men would be able to get close to the crime boss, needed help.
		Masseria in 1931 in a Coney Island Resteraunt.
	dks.thing.net /Joe_Colombo.html (4971 words)

	Mafia boss made coffins twin-share - smh.com.au
		He was known to the public as "Joe Bananas" - a nickname he hated - and as the patriarch of one of New York's five organised crime families.
		Masseria decided to stop the growth of the rival gang.
		Bonanno proved an able tactician and eventually Masseria's two lieutenants, Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Vito Gambino - later to become notorious in their own right - arranged to murder their boss and join the Castellammare group.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/16/1021544047392.html (788 words)

	Gambino Family
		In the late 1920s, the boss of the gang that would come to be known as the Gambino Family was Al Mineo, one of Joe "The Boss" Masseria's strong supporters in the Castellammarese War.
		Unfortunately for Mineo, he was one of Masseria's supporters that was killed in 1930, leading to Masseria's downfall.
		Joe Colombo, boss of Profaci's old Family, attempted to start some disagreement, but a lone assassain killed him.
	mafiasite.8m.com /gambino.htm (1118 words)

	The Five Families (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Joe 'The Boss' Masseria was the family's first boss.
		Masseria was actually the boss of bosses until his murder in 1931.
		Gigante was the most recent boss, until he was brought up on racketeering charges.
	www.cob.montevallo.edu /heatonam/genovese.htm (187 words)

	The Genovese Crime Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Genovese Crime Family's first boss was Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria.
		The acting boss of the family, Liborio "Barney" Bellomo, entered a guilty plea to charges of extortion for the role of The Genovese Crime Family in the San Gennaro festival.
		The street boss of The Genovese Crime Family during Gigante's incarceration is Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo.
	www.carvelli.com /noFlash/genovese-crime-family.html (311 words)

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