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    The Genovese crime family (pronounced [dʒenoˈveːze, -eːse]), also sometimes referred to as the Westside, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and...
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  • into a surname. Alfred Genovese (1931–2011), American oboist Alfredo Genovese (born 1964), Argentine artist Anthony Vincent Genovese (born 1932), American...
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    Vito Genovese (Italian: [ˈviːto dʒenoˈveːze, -eːse]; November 21, 1897 – February 14, 1969) was an Italian-born American mobster of the American Mafia...
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    In the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was raped and stabbed outside the apartment building where she lived in...
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    Genovese basil or sweet basil (Genoese: baxaicò [baʒajˈkɔ] or baxeicò [baʒejˈkɔ]; Italian: basilico genovese [baˈziːliko dʒenoˈveːse, -eːze]) is a cultivar...
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    Genovese sauce, known in Italian as sugo alla genovese or "la Genovese", is a slow-cooked onion and meat sauce associated with the city of Naples, in the...
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    Pesto (redirect from Pesto alla Genovese)
    Pesto (Italian: [ˈpesto]) or more fully pesto alla genovese (Italian: [ˈpesto alla dʒenoˈveːse, -eːze]; lit. 'Genoese pesto') is a paste made of crushed...
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  • York mob boss Vito Genovese are to a different Michael Genovese; Michael James Genovese was first cousin to Vito Genovese. Genovese was born to Anthony...
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  • Mike Genovese (born Peter Michael Genovese on April 26, 1942 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American actor. Genovese was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri...
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    Gagliano families, which are now known as the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese families, respectively. Each family had a demarcated territory...
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  • Eugene Dominic Genovese (May 19, 1930 – September 26, 2012) was an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He was noted for bringing...
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  • The Genovese crime family's New Jersey faction is a group of Italian-American mobsters within the Genovese crime family who control organized crime activities...
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    Frank Costello (category Bosses of the Genovese crime family)
    in 1957 after he had survived an assassination attempt ordered by Vito Genovese. Costello was born Francesco Castiglia on January 26, 1891, in Lauropoli...
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    Vincent Gigante (category Bosses of the Genovese crime family)
    2005), also known as "Chin", was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City from 1981 to 2005. Gigante started out as...
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    Paolo Genovese (born 20 August 1966) is an Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Rome, after graduating in Economics and Business Genovese started...
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    Anthony Salerno (category Genovese crime family)
    was an American mobster who served as underboss and front boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City from 1981 until his conviction in 1986. Salerno...
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    Following the Apalachin Meeting in 1957, and the imprisonment of Vito Genovese in 1959, Gambino took over the Commission of the American Mafia and played...
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    Lucky Luciano (category Bosses of the Genovese crime family)
    Castellammarese War. He was also the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family. In 1936, Luciano was tried and convicted for compulsory prostitution...
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  • Corporation subsidiary. Genovese Drug Stores was founded in 1924 by Joseph Genovese in Astoria, Queens. In 1955, Joseph W. Genovese Jr., the son of the founder...
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  • Anna Genovese (formerly Vernotico, née Giovaninna Petillo; 28 October 1905 – January 1982) was an Italian-American businesswoman in the Italian mob and...
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  • control of the Luciano crime family (renamed the Genovese crime family) from Frank Costello, Vito Genovese wanted to legitimize his new power by holding...
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  • unions. Anastasia was murdered on October 25, 1957, on the orders of Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino; Gambino subsequently became boss of the family. Anastasia...
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  • Richard Misiano-Genovese (born New York City, 31 May 1947[citation needed]) is a collagist, photographer, painter, and theorist, and practitioner of transgressive...
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    Leonardo Genovese (born 1979) is an Argentine jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer. He has played with The Mars Volta. Genovese was born in Venado...
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    Joseph Valachi (category Genovese crime family)
    Valachi (September 22, 1904 – April 3, 1971) was an American mobster in the Genovese crime family who was the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to...
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    Feodosia (redirect from Genovese Provinces)
    Campania, Puglia e Basilicata nella colonizzazione genovese dell'Oltremare nei secoli XIV – XV: Caffa genovese secondo i dati dei libri contabili. In: Rassegna...
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    Liborio Bellomo (category Bosses of the Genovese crime family)
    (born January 8, 1957) is an Italian American mobster and boss of the Genovese crime family of New York City. Bellomo was a member of the 116th Street...
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    Commission. Costello's bitter rival was Vito Genovese, a former underboss for Lucky Luciano. Since 1946, Genovese had been scheming to remove Costello from...
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    Elizabeth Ann Fox-Genovese (née Fox; May 28, 1941 – January 2, 2007) was an American historian best known for her works on women and society in the Antebellum...
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    Luciano took over Masseria's family, with Genovese as his underboss. In September 1931, Luciano and Genovese planned the murder of Salvatore Maranzano...
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