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Topic: Vito Cascio Ferro


In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

  
  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Vito Cascio Ferro
Vito Cascio Ferro (January 22, 1862 - 1943), known as Don Vito, he was a prominent Sicilian mafioso who also operated for a time in the United States, where he was a "pioneer" of sorts in the American Mafia.
Cascio Ferro was born in Bisacquino in the province of Palermo and worked in his early adulthood as a revenue collector, which provided a cover for his protection racket.
Cascio Ferro was arrested for the murder but released after an associate provided an alibi; however, he later told other crime figures that he had killed Petrosino, a claim which helped propel him into the position of capo di tutti capi (boss of bosses).
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Vito_Cascio_Ferro   (297 words)

  
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Born in 1862 in Palermo, Cascio Ferro grew up in traditional peasant surroundings and as a young man was hot headed, illiterate and rebellious.
Cascio Ferro was among the thousands of immigrants who got into U.S in the period before the strict quotas were introduced in the twenties.
In 1927 Don Vito was arrested for murder, something that he got used to over the years as he was arrested on suspicion of murder 69 times but would always be acquitted, thanks to there not being enough evidence and no witnesses who were deranged enough to testify against a Mafia boss.
glasgowcrew.tripod.com /ferro.html   (642 words)

  
 New York Press - WILLIAM BRYK -
In Sicily, Vito Cascio Ferro remains legendary as the greatest Mafia chieftain and the first Sicilian to be considered capo di tutti capi.
Cascio Ferro entered the United States while concealing his criminal record, which had begun with an assault in 1894 and progressed through extortion, arson and menacing to the kidnapping of the Baroness di Valpetrosa in 1899.
On the night of March 12, Don Vito excused himself from a dinner party at the home of a government official, a man who seems to have viewed him with the greatest respect, stepped into a carriage (some say that of his host) and was dropped off near Piazza Marina in the Tribunaria/Castellemare district.
www.nypress.com /15/46/news&columns/oldsmoke.cfm   (1740 words)

  
 The American Mafia - Vito Cascio-Ferro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The date of his death is generally given as 1945, but author Arrigo Petacco ("Joe Petrosino," 1974) found evidence of Cascio Ferro's demise in summer of 1943.
Petacco says the Mafia leader was left behind in his cell when other inmates of Pozzuoli prison were evacuated in advance of the Allied invasion.
The author says Cascio Ferro died of thirst.
www.onewal.com /w-cascio.html   (348 words)

  
 Sal Maranzano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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.
Following Maranzano's death, the lieutenants organized the Five Families and abolished the position of "tutto di tutti capi." Many of the old-order mafiosi in the United States were killed.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/s/sa/sal_maranzano.html   (307 words)

  
 Braccio di ferro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Reducing Crime Through Criminon Western United States - utilizing the research discoveries made by L. Ron Hubbard
Vito Cascio Ferro is believed to be the one man primarily responsible for establishing the Sicilian and US Mafia in the early 1900's.
In the U.S. Don Vito† was suspected in a brutal killing of at least one man who had been trying to establish a counterfeiting ring in Don Vito's territory.
Don Vito was the inventor of the protection racket, a system where gangsters collect small amounts of payment from all businesses for "protection." If the payment was not made then Don Vito would have these business owners' shops, homes or farms destroyed.
www.criminonwus.org /Newsletter.aspx?page=31   (545 words)

  
 Joe Masseria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
By 1920, he had assumed command of the gang through a series of assassinations.
Salvatore Maranzano was sent with several other men from Sicily in 1927 to gain control of the American Mafia for Don Vito Cascio Ferro.
Maranzano gained the support of a faction and declared war on Masseria, in what became known as the Castellemmarese War.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/jo/joe_masseria.html   (177 words)

  
 AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Joe Petrosino
Vito Cascio Ferro was a member of the Inglese Mafia family in Palermo, Sicily, and had fled to New York in 1900 to avoid a murder charge.
One of the men he was trying to extradite was Vito Cascio Ferro, who he had driven to New Orleans 6 years earlier.
Since Cascio Ferro worked with these men during his 3-year stay in New York, their involvement is a possibility.
www.mobsters.8m.com /petrosino.htm   (1208 words)

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