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	Joseph Bonanno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Bonanno was born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy, to Salvatore Bonanno and Catherine Bonventre.
		From Cuba Joseph was smuggled to the western shore of Florida by boat.
		After the death of Joseph Profaci, a very good friend of Bonanno and leader of the Profaci crime family, Bonanno was the sole survivor of the original commission.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Bonanno (2001 words)

	Napoleonic Society of Georgia
		Napoleon, Joseph Bonaparte and Pozzo were all elected in April as representing Ajaccio in the electoral assembly scheduled to meet in Orezza in September, and in due course they all took part in its proceedings.
		Masseria agreed with the Bonapartes on the thorny question of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, an issue that caused violent controversy in Corsica from 1791 on.
		Masseria was in fact a British army lieutenant on half-pay (60 Rifles) supposedly because he had served as a lieutenant at Gibraltar.
	members.tripod.com /amik78/Masseria.htm (3668 words)

	Joesph Masseria
		Joseph (Joe the Boss) Masseria's Mafia Family was the most powerful Organized Crime Family in New York City from the start of prohibition until the out break of the Castellammarese war in 1930.
		Masseria was a very strict and difficult boss to work for, and many of his young lieutenants would soon understand this.
		After Masseria's death, the police questioned Luciano who had been in the bathroom if he had seen anything, and he said no, but that he had heard shots as he was drying his hands and then rushed out to see what was happening.
	kiss206756.tripod.com /genovesecrimefamily/id11.html (1194 words)

	Castellammarese War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		After Reina's murder, Masseria appointed Joseph Pinzolo to take over the ice-distribution racket - but on September 9, 1930 Pinzolo was shot to death by Reina's former subordinates at a Times Square office rented by Lucchese.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castellammarese_War (386 words)

	Joseph Bonanno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		Masseria was killed by combined Italian and Jewish gangsters who had entirely different plans for the underworld.
		Joseph Bonanno, the last remaining Mafia don who survived Italian fascism, Mustache Petes, and his own bloody war, passed away Sunday, May 12, 2002 at the age of 97 of natural causes.
	carpenoctem.tv /mafia/bonj.html (1356 words)

	History/Background
		In the 1920's, Masseria, was recognized by Cosa Nostra leaders as the ultimate arbitrator of all major decisions that cut across family lines.
		Masseria enjoyed this prestige and didn't hesitate to flex his muscle at the least opportunity.
		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.
	kiss206756.tripod.com /genovesecrimefamily/id1.html (3320 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Joseph Bonanno
		Joseph Bonanno (January 18, 1905 – May 11, 2002) was an American Mafioso who became the boss of one of the most prominent crime families in the world, the Bonanno crime family.
		After the death of Joseph Profaci, a very good friend of Bonanno and leader of the Profaci crime family, Joe Maglicco became boss of the Profaci faction.
		Joseph Bonnano, the last remaining Mafia don who survived Italian fascism, Mustache Petes, and his own bloody war, past away Sunday, May 12, 2002 at the age of 97.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Joseph_Bonanno (1101 words)

	Lucchese Crime Family Epic
		Salvatore Maranzano was born in Sicily in 1886.
		Putting himself in Masseria’s place, it occurred to Luciano, that if that plan worked, it would appear to Maranzano that Luciano had in fact killed two of his most powerful aides, and also was working to prevent Reina’s defection into the Maranzano camp.
		They had been sent there by Luciano who was now working closely with Gagliano and Lucchese in writing their own script in the rapidly evolving drama that was to lay the foundations for organized crime in America in the years to come.
	www.dark-horse.co.uk /gangsters/lucchese/2.htm (2006 words)

	Sal Maranzano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		At the age of forty-three, Maranzano became the leader of the Castellammarese immmigrants in New York.
		Maranzano was sent to the U.S by Don Vito Cascio Ferro, where he met and allied with several other men sent by Don Ferro, including Joseph Bonanno, Joseph Profaci, and Stefano Magaddino.
		The war lasted until Maranzano had Masseria killed, it is rumoured, by Lucky Luciano.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/s/sa/sal_maranzano.html (307 words)

	Mafia Chronology - Section III (1920-31)
		Masseria, 41, rises to prominence in the New York Mafia after his murder of Mauro, a rival bootlegger, on Chrystie Street.
		Masseria is charged with the Tagliagamba killing but the case is never prosecuted.
		Masseria believed responsible for death of Gaspar Milazzo, boss of Detroit Mafia and elder statesman among the Castellamarese in America.
	www.onewal.com /maf-chr3.html (3705 words)

	History of the Mafia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Castellemmarese War (1928-1931), so called because many of the main participants were originally from Castellemmare del Gulfo in Sicily, resulted when powerful Sicilian Mafioso Don Vito Cascio Ferro sent men to America with the mission of seizing control of the American Mafia, then known as "The Black Hand", from the established "mainlanders".
		Recognizing the danger, Masseria began a war against the Maranzano faction in 1928.
		Lucky Luciano, Masseria's top lieutenant, was recruited by Maranzano, but he refused to join and was severely beaten.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/h/hi/history_of_the_mafia.html (509 words)

	Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - Allan May's Mob Report current mob stuff
		Valachi states that as 1930 began Masseria was "bidding for absolute supremacy in the Italian underworld." In his bidding Masseria set out to eliminate Maranzano and all the Castellammarese powers in New York City and other parts of the country.
		Masseria’s second in command, which would mean both Ferrigno and Mineo were subordinates to him.
		Masseria was clutching the ace of diamonds as he lay dead.
	www.americanmafia.com /Mob_Report/7-15-02_Mob_Report.html (4942 words)

	BookRags: Joseph Masseria Summary
		Giuseppe Masseria arrived in New York from Palermo, Sicily in 1902 at the age of 23.
		By 1929 Masseria had laid claim to all the major rackets in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
		The homicides included the killing of Joseph Catania, a top aide of Masseria, and ultimately concluded with the murder of Masseria himself on April 15, 1931.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/joseph-masseria-cri (201 words)

	Mafia boss made coffins twin-share - smh.com.au
		For more than 30 years Joseph Bonanno, who has died of heart failure aged 97, headed one of the most powerful Mafia groups in America, running narcotics, gambling and pornography rackets and ordering the murder of an old friend of his father.
		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)

	Ex-Agent Charged With Four Mob HIts
		Masseria was shot to death in front of a Brooklyn church by occupants of a car that had been pelted with eggs about two hours earlier in a Halloween prank.
		But the more Joseph Scarpa protested, the more his father insisted that Patrick was a rat and had to be killed.
		Sources say Joseph, who would be murdered in 1995 in a drug dispute, accompanied Sinagra (right) during the murder of his friend Patrick, but that Sinagra fired the fatal shots.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column477.htm (1258 words)

	THE COMMISSION [Empire] -- THE COMMISSION changing the world of Organized Crime as we know it. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		At this time Joe Masseria was the dominant figure in La Cosa Nostra and Mineo was closely allied to him.
		With the death of Masseria and the end of the war, Gagliano and Lucchese found themselves in an excellent position.
		Eventually, the Maranzano forces began gaining the upper hand and Masseria was murdered by men under the direction of his capo, Lucky Luciano.
	www.freewebs.com /the_commission_empire/thefivecrimefamilies.htm (1465 words)

	jbonanno
		It was Bonanno who gave the oath of allegiance to Joseph Valachi in 1930 when he was initiated into the La Cosa Nostra, another name for the Mafia (and one used exclusively by New York members of the Mafia).
		Following the deaths of both Maranzano and Masseria, Bonanno emerged as a powerful Mafia family boss who controlled a vast loan-sharking and gambling empire which stretched from Montreal to Haiti.
		This was the last great war to date between quarreling Mafia factions in the U.S. In the 1980s, Bonnano wrote a self-serving, whitewashing autobiography which nevertheless admitted to the existence of the Mafia and he was brought before a grand jury to answer questions regarding statements made in his book.
	members.allstream.net /~ctornabe/jbonanno.html (751 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.
		Guiseppe "Joe" Masseria was a tough Sicilian hoodlum who had earned his reputation as cold-blooded killer during the Mafia-Camorra war.
		Masseria’s rebellion was backed by Salvatore "Toto" D’Aquila, head of the Mafia in Brooklyn.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /blackhand2.htm (1702 words)

	Joe Colombo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Joseph Colombo, at the time of his installation of mob boss, was the youngest out of the five families.
		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.
		Masseria in 1931 in a Coney Island Resteraunt.
	dks.thing.net /Joe_Colombo.html (4971 words)

	SECRETS OF THE DEAD . Gangland Graveyard \| PBS
		Like other New York crime families, the Bonanno Family was founded in the aftermath of the Castellamarese War of the late 1920s and early 1930s, which pitted Chicago's Al Capone against members of the Castellamarese family (whose members hailed from the Castellamarese region of Sicily) for control of the bootleg liquor business.
		When Masseria was murdered -- allegedly set up by his capo, Lucky Luciano, who had switched allegiance -- the Castellamarese War ended, and Maranzano became the most powerful mobster in New York.
		In 1986, Rastelli was convicted of federal racketeering charges, and Joseph Massino, his capo -- a ranking member in the mob family, who runs a group of "soldiers" -- took over as leader of the family.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/secrets/case_gangland/index.html (674 words)

	Tommy Gagliano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gagliano remains a shadowy figure in the history of Cosa Nostra, with few details having surfaced about his early life before his arrival in New York from Sicily by 1928.
		The murders of Tom Reina and Joseph Masseria during the Castellammarese War of 1930-31, and the creation of the National Crime Syndicate, fronted by the Commission under the guidance of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, saw the promotion of the "two Tommys", Tommy Gagliano and Tommy Lucchese to the top of the Lucchese family.
		Gagliano steered the Lucchese family through a period when tensions between the Five Families constantly ran high.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tommy_Gagliano (303 words)

	SHO ’NUFF MOB STUDY - FEB 22, 2005
		Masseria is apparently ambushed on August 8, 1922 outside of his home at 5th Street and 2nd Avenue.
		Joseph Cammarano, 69, and Louis Restivo, 70, pleaded to racketeering murder.
		Joseph Armone decreed that each vendor had to donate a percentage of his merchandise to the poor.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /ShoFeb2205.html (4227 words)

	Joseph Pinzolo
		Reina had been sympathetic to the Castellamarese cause, and Masseria believed he was supporting Masseria rival Salvatore Maranzano.
		Upon Reina's death, Masseria disregarded Reina underboss Gaetano Gagliano and appointed his own ally Joe Pinzolo (who hadn't been part of the Bronx Family previously) as boss of the Reina gang.
		That move, one of the terrible Masseria miscalculations that set off the Castellamarese War, sent Gagliano and his Reina Family allies immediately into the waiting arms of Maranzano.
	www.onewal.com /w-pinzol.html (170 words)

	Albert Anastasia (1902-1957)
		Luciano’s plan was to do away with the old-line bosses, such as Masseria, and consolidate power under a National Crime Syndicate.
		As Masseria sat and waited, Anastasia and three armed men entered the restaurant and shot the crime boss.
		Vito Genovese, Joseph Profaci and Anastasia’s underboss, Carlo Gambino plotted to murder the "Mad Hatter".
	www.geocities.com /murdersrus/Anastasia.html (997 words)

	Joe Bonanno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Joseph Bonanno, began his career collecting dues from speakeasies; but when Salvatore Maranzano came to America, assigned to take over the New York underworld in the name of Sicilian Godfather, Don Vito Cascio Ferro, in a series of gangland conflicts known as the "Castellamarrese War".
		When Don Ferro died at the hands of the fascists who were now in complete control of Italy, Maranzano, who considered himself "Boss of Bosses" went to war with rival mobster Joe Masseria.
		Joseph Bonnano currently lives in Arizona, the last remaining Mafia don who survived Italian fascism, Mustache Petes, and his own bloody war.
	www.wallwin.org.uk /godfather/joe-bonanno.html (208 words)

	BANANAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		Bonnano proved to be a dedicated and dependable soldier in that struggle which became known as the Castellammarese War.
		When the aging and ailing Bonnano refused to answer questions to a grand jury about the revelations in his book, he was jailed.
	www.strippedpepper.com /bananas.htm (1324 words)

	CRIMNEWS Volume 6 Issue No. 19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Joseph Bonanno was one of the more well known gangster bosses.
		In 1984 he sued his publisher for $18 million over what he said was a depiction of a "cheap gangster" on the cover of the paperback version.
		A deadly power struggle between Maranzano and rival gang leader Joseph Masseria ended in 1931 with the assassinations of both leaders.
	www.crimcase.com /news2002/issue6no19.html (1284 words)

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