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	Salvatore Maranzano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Salvatore Maranzano (1868-September 10, 1931) was an organized crime figure from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Mafia boss in the United States.
		Maranzano became the leader of the immigrants from Castellammare del Golfo in New York.
		Following Maranzano's death, his killers reorganized the Five Families and abolished the position of "capo di tutti capi." The remaining portions of Maranzano's empire were given by Luciano to Bonanno and became known as the Bonanno family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salvatore_Maranzano (795 words)

	Lucky Luciano
		Luciano was born as Salvatore Lucania in Sicily.
		Maranzano then realized that Luciano was hungry for power, and, having become the winner of the Castellamarese war thanks to Luciano and his friends, he made Luciano the second man in his organization.
		So, when Maranzano was waiting in his office for them to have a gunman, Irishman[?] Mad Dog Cole[?] kill them, four of Luciano's men, disguised as government agents, went into Maranzano's office and shot and stabbed him to death instead.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lu/Lucky_Luciano.html (941 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.
		Maranzano set himself above, and apart from, the five families of New York City, appointing himself capo di tutti capi or "boss of all bosses"; however, his reign would prove to be shortlived.
		On September 10, 1931 Maranzano was shot and stabbed to death in his Manhattan office by Jewish gangsters hired by Luciano and Genovese, who believed Maranzano was plotting to have them killed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castellammarese_War (384 words)

	Salvatore Maranzano - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Salvatore Maranzano (1868-1931) was a gangster who came from the town of Castellamarresse, Sicily, Italy[?].
		Maranzano as a youngster wanted to be a priest and he even went to the seminary to study to become one, but soon he gave up that dream and became associated with the Mafia in his homeland.
		Maranzano realized that Luciano, Lansky and Siegel were power hungry, and he wanted Luciano to join his side so badly that he even gave Luciano a beating once, leaving him for dead.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /sa/Salvatore_Maranzano.html (549 words)

	1931 in organized crime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Salvatore Sabella is arrested for assault and battery using a motor vehicle, however he receives a suspended sentence.
		Louis Russo, a lieutenant of Salvatore Maranzano, is captured and tortured by members of Charles Luciano-Meyer Lansky faction, before being murdered.
		Samuel Monaco, a lieutenant for Salvatore Maranzano, is found dumped in Newark Bay after being tortured to death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1931_in_organized_crime (735 words)

	Salvatore Ferragamo Shoes
		Salvatore Ferragamo (1898 - 1960) was one of the most influential footwear designers of the 20th century, providing Hollywood's ''glitterati'' with unique hand-made designs and spawning an emporium of luxury consumer goods for men and women, with stores in some of the most important cities of the world.
		Salvatore Ferragamo was born in 1898 in Bonito, near Naples, Italy.
		Maranzano became the leader of the Castellammarese immmigrants in New York.
	www.breadlike.com /pages7/75/salvatore-ferragamo-shoes.html (1275 words)

	MurderInc.COM - Salvatore Maranzano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although Maranzano brought new ideas to organized crime he still carried with him the old ways of settling vendettas with violence as the "Mustache Petes" -- the old guard of mafiosi that Maranzano held in contempt for their lack of forward thinking.
		In the early 20's, Maranzano had bounced back and forth between the U.S. and Sicily, but in 1927 he was sent back the U.S. by the most powerful Mafia boss in Sicily, Don Vito Cascio Ferro to begin taking over the for the old guard and "mainlanders" that were already established.
		Maranzano was very pleased by Luciano's decision to become part of his organization, but was well aware of Luciano's cunning wit and decided to make Luciano his number one man in the organization figuring that this would show his good faith.
	www.murderinc.com /fam/maranz.html (987 words)

	MurderInc.COM - Salvatore Luciana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Maranzano was an educated man and considered himself something of a king in the underworld and treated all those under him with a certain amount of contempt.
		Maranzano set a trap for Luciano requesting that if he wanted protection and to join forces with him, he must kill Masseria himself to stop this war and that so that Maranzano could be the Boss of the underworld.
		Maranzano was pleased to cooperate on instructions from his lawyer with the federal agents, so he identified himself and asked how he could help the "agents." Then, two of the men dragged Maranzano into his office while the other two stood watch over the six body guards.
	www.murderinc.com /fam/luciano.html (4664 words)

	The Birth of Joe Cargo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was introduced to Salvatore Maranzano, the leader of a number of Families in the New York area, as Joe Cargo.
		The war began to turn in favor of the Maranzano faction and some of the younger crime leaders felt it was time to end the fighting in favor of making money and not war.
		Maranzano gave a brief background of the war and why it had started, and then he outlined the way things would be in the future.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/68828 (526 words)

	Mafia Chronology - Section III (1920-31)
		Maranzano was to unite the traditional Mafiosi and wait for Cascio Ferro to arrive and take control of the group.
		(Maranzano did not himself have the authority of a boss yet.) Bonanno, who indicates in his autobiography that he attended a meeting involving Maranzano, Masseria and Morello at about this time, notes that Morello was Masseri'a right hand man. Bonanno further notes that Morello did most of the speaking to Maranzano in the meeting.
		Maranzano scores another victory as his soldiers ambush and kill Al Mineo, powerful ally of Joe the Boss, and Steve Ferrigno, an important Mafia figure, oustide of Ferrigno's home at 759 Pelham Parkway South.
	www.onewal.com /maf-chr3.html (3705 words)

	Mobsters (1991)
		Maranzano and Masseria ain't gonna be satisfied until one of 'em starts a war.
		MARANZANO In return for my sacrifice, I will receive a fair and proportionate share of the proceeds of all the families across the country.
		MARANZANO Each of you will be part of one of the five families, and the Capo for each family will report personally to me. The men on the dais stand as he introduces them.
	www.rosenbridge.com /scripts/m/mobsters.html (19494 words)

	SHO ’NUFF MOB STUDY - DEC 28, 2004
		Maybe the achievement of this degree of formal education higher is the factor that caused Maranzano to be a sticker for manners and decorum.
		According to Joseph Bonanno, Maranzano was as punctilious as an archbishop.
		When, on September 10, 1931, Salvatore Maranzano was killed, Joseph Bonanno, at the tender age-of-26, was the youngest of 24 Mafia bosses to be sanctioned by the newly formed National Mafia Commission.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /ShoDec2804.html (5237 words)

	Joesph Masseria
		Maranzano fought to free his Family and the other Families of Masseria's tyrannical rule.
		Maranzano saw no reason not to continue his rise to power though, and proceeded to hijack Masseria's bootlegging trucks and start infringing upon other Masseria-rackets.
		Maranzano was pleased to agree to this, figuring that only after Masseria was dead would this bloody war be over.
	kiss206756.tripod.com /genovesecrimefamily/id11.html (1194 words)

	Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - Allan May's Mob Report current mob stuff
		His new job was to oversee the whiskey stills, which Maranzano operated in Upstate New York and Pennsylvania.
		In essence, that made Maranzano the supreme commander in the New York theatre of war.
		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.
	www.americanmafia.com /Mob_Report/6-24-02_Mob_Report.html (4330 words)

	Salvatore Maranzano
		Salvatore was raised and educated in Castellammare del Golfo, in Sicily.
		But Maranzano felt he was the reincarnation of Julius Caesar, and Caesar would not let a little thing like borders stop him from expanding his influence.
		Maranzano rented a dance hall and called a meeting of all the major players in New York.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/mafia/salvatore-maranzano (785 words)

	GottiFBI's Agents Notes
		Maranzano was the boss of bosses until the other mobsters grew weary of his power and a few of them, including Charlie Luciano, conspired to murder him in 1931.
		Maranzano was the principal architect of the “five family” organizational structure existing in New York, and the head of this particular family until September 10,1931 when he was murdered in his Park
		Sicilian-born Salvatore Sabella organized the Philadelphia crime family and ran criminal operations from 1911-1927, but Max “Boo Boo” Hoff controlled citywide bootlegging operations during Prohibition and was recognized as the real power of the local underworld.
	www.agentsnotes.com /mafia.html (8060 words)

	Lucky Luciano
		Luciano was born Salvatore Lucania near Palermo in Sicily and was brought to this country in 1906.
		The assassination made Maranzano the victor in the Castellammarese War and, in supposed gratitude to Luciano, Maranzano made Luciano the number two man in his new Mafia empire.
		Maranzano was going to summon Luciano and Vito Genovese to his office for a conference.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/luciano.html (1849 words)

	The American "MAFIA" - New York Crime Bosses
		1930 - Salvatore Maranzano (1886 to Sept. 10, 1931).
		Maranzano seized the family leadership, with the support of Buffalo's Stefano Magaddino.
		He was apparently awarded the minor family by Salvatore Maranzano in return for his loyal service during the Castellamarese War.
	www.onewal.com /maf-b-ny.html (2669 words)

	Salvatore Maranzano
		By the late 1920s Maranzano had become one of the important gang leaders in New York.
		Maranzano was involved in bootlegging, prostitution and drug smuggling.
		With Maranzano and Masseria dead, Luciano was now the most important gang leader in New York.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACmaranzano.htm (200 words)

	KILL THE DUTCHMAN! by Paul Sann
		Salvatore Maranzano was the leader of the Castellammarese forces, mostly imports from the area around the Gulf of Castellammare in Sicily, who in 1929 challenged the New York rule of Giuseppe (Joe the Boss) Masseria.
		This happenstance removed the worst of his irritations from Don Salvatore's world, or underworld, but the Luciano-Genovese ascension to power on the enemy side found the Castellammarese forces still beleaguered, and this is where the Mick comes in.
		Don Salvatore, according to Valachi, set up a peace session for September 10 in his well-fortified office in the New York Central Building on Park Avenue and arranged for Vincent Coll to drop in and blow some holes into his high-level guests, Charley and Vito.
	www.killthedutchman.net /chapter_XII.htm (5914 words)

	Report on Lucky Luciano I did for school - marcellee.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Young Salvatore was a poor student, and he would speak with admittedly poor grammar for the rest of his life.
		After Maranzano stabbed him in the face, he was thrown out of a car and left for dead.
		After Masseria’s death, Luciano’s nemesis, Salvatore Maranzo, seized control of all Italian vices in America, appointing himself the “Boss of All Bosses.” He was educated in Latin, and planned to run the mob like the Roman Empire.
	www.marcellee.com /showthread.php?s=&threadid=3864 (3118 words)

	SHO NUFF MOB STUDY - AUGUST 30, 2005
		Maranzano, supposedly, was to unite the traditional Mafiosi and wait for Vito Cascioferro to arrive and take control of the group.
		After Salvatore Maranzano was assassinated, Salvatore "Charlie Lucky" Maranzano continued the reorganization of the Italian-American underworld by elaborated upon the original Maranzano blueprint.
		Salvatore Maranzano is a figure whose true historical significance is a variable in this equation.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /ShoAug3005.html (4013 words)

	From Queens
		Salvatore “Lucky” Luciano - Along with boyhood friends Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Seigal, Lucky organized the New York crime families into the Syndicate.
		Salvatore Maranzano - After studying to be a priest in Sicily, Maranzano found a different calling and fame in America.
		Maranzano’s holy and horrific ways ended with his burial in St. Johns Cemetery in Middle Village.
	queenstribune.com /guides/2005_TheyCameFromQueens/notorious/people.htm (1273 words)

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		While Masseria and Maranzano had many beliefs in common, the two men were opposites in their demeanor.
		Luciano aware that Maranzano was in no way powerful enough to move against Masseria and win, chose to decline the offer unless major changes took place in the balance of power.
		It is also stated that it was Maranzano that slashed Luciano’s face with a knife causing a permanent droop to one of his eyes.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/organized_crime/23777 (1576 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Two more of Masseria's men would desert the boss, Salvatore "Lucky" Luciano and Vito Genovese agreed to assasinate Masseria if Maranzano could provide them with protection.Vincent Mangano represented stability for the family as he was in control from 1931 to 1951.
		Gotti then took control of the family and was known as the "teflon don" for his acquital in three separate trials in the late 1980's.
		In 1991, the feds indicted John Gotti, along with underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano and consigliere Frank "Frankie Loc" Locascio on racketeering and murder conspiracy charges.
	www.notredame.org /Pages/gallery/sophweb8/mattsite/newyork.htm (411 words)

	FUNERALS ITALIAN MOBSTERS IN NYC
		Maranzano died from the four bullet holes and six stab wounds savagely inflicted upon him.
		It was Maranzano who is credited with proclaiming organized crime be called ACosa Nostra@ (our thing) and spelling out the hierarchy by which the Mob still operates today.
		The first boss of what became known as the Genovese family, he was targeted for execution along with Salvatore Maranzano, by Luciano who succeeded him.
	www2.sunysuffolk.edu /pecorip/SCCCWEB/SS680/FUNERALS_NY_MOBSTERS.html (4460 words)

	The Gambino Crime Family - The Crime library
		Salvatore Maranzano emerged as the boss of these newcomers and thus became Masseria's arch foe.
		Maranzano could count on Joe Magliocco, Joe Bonanno, and Joe Profaci as well as "secret defectors" from Masseria's camp, Tommy Lucchese and Tommy Gagliano.
		As Tommy Lucchese, who was in on the plot, kept Maranzano busy in the inner office, the killers disarmed his bodyguards in the waiting room.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/gambino/1.html (1036 words)

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