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| | The Dying of the Light: The Joseph Valachi Story |
 | | Behind this front, he was a trusted lieutenant in a gang of mobsters controlled by a man called Gaetano Reina, 40, who was a successful businessman in his own right. |
 | | They, in turn, had been replaced by Ciro Terranova, who was assisted by his deadly brother-in-law, Ignazio Saietta, a ruthless Mafiosi, also know as “Lupo” or “The Wolf.” By the end of the 1920s, they had been superseded by another mobster, a short, squat, piggish-looking thug called Giuseppe Masseria. |
 | | By 1929, “Joe the Boss,” as he was also known, was looking to become the dominant figure in the Italian criminal underworld of the biggest city in America. |
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