The Bonanno crime family (pronounced [boˈnanno]) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime...
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Salvatore Vincent "Bill" Bonanno (November 5, 1932 – January 1, 2008) was an American mobster who served as consigliere of the Bonanno crime family, and son...
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Tommy Lucchese (redirect from Gaetano Lucchese)
Thomas Gaetano Lucchese (born Gaetano Lucchese; Italian: [ɡaeˈtaːno lukˈkeːse]; December 1, 1899 – July 13, 1967), sometimes known by the nicknames "Tommy"...
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Tommy Gagliano (redirect from Gaetano "Tommy" Gagliano)
pp. 148–149. ISBN 978-0415990301. Bonanno, Bill; Abromovitz, Gary B. (2011). The Last Testament of Bill Bonanno: The Final Secrets of a Life in the...
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American New York City mafia boss of what would later become known as the Bonanno crime family. He briefly attained the title capo dei capi (boss of bosses)...
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Five Families (section Bonanno family)
DiGaetano 1912–1930 – Nicolo Schirò – fled 1930–1931 – Salvatore Maranzano – murdered on September 10, 1931 1931–1968 – Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno –...
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Nicolo Schiro (category Bosses of the Bonanno crime family)
mobster who, in 1912, became the boss of what later become known as the Bonanno crime family. Schiro's leadership of the mafia clan would see it orchestrate...
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Masseria was a contemporary of other captains of that mafia family such as Gaetano Reina. In 1909, Masseria was convicted of burglary and received a suspended...
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The Castellammarese faction in the U.S. included Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno, Stefano "The Undertaker" Magaddino, Joseph Profaci and Joe Aiello. As...
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Pizza Connection Trial (category Bonanno crime family)
defendants—Salvatore Catalano, Gaetano Mazzara, and Salvatore Greco. Pistone testified that he was told that a Bonanno faction headed by Dominick Napolitano...
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Gaetano Badalamenti (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaeˈtaːno badalaˈmenti]; 14 September 1923 – 29 April 2004) was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. Don...
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Gambino crime family (section The Gambino-Bonanno)
business for the Cosa Nostra. In 1964, Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno, the head of the Bonanno crime family, and Joseph Magliocco, the new boss of the Profaci...
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Connection. The FBI believed it was this meeting that established the Bonanno crime family in the heroin trade. This "heroin summit" was described by...
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Lucchese family members as "Lukes". The family originated in the early 1920s; Gaetano Reina served as its boss until his murder in 1930. It was taken over by...
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including Sebastiano DiGaetano, Salvatore Maranzano, Stefano Magaddino, Vito Bonventre, John Tartamella, and Joseph Bonanno. This is the origin of the...
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heroin-trafficking operation involving Salvatore Catalano, a capo of the Bonanno crime family, and Gaetano Badalamenti, a Sicilian mafioso, was largely organized by...
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underboss and future boss. Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno, Bonanno family boss, charter Commission member. Gaetano "Tommy Brown" Lucchese, Gagliano family underboss...
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the game. In 1984, Avellino and his brother Salvatore had a sitdown with Bonanno crime family members Steven Cannone, Joseph Massino, Salvatore Vitale over...
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"Frankie Bomp" (1905–1977) Joseph Bonanno, "Joe Bananas", "Don Peppino" (born Giuseppe Carlo Bonanno, 1905–2002) Salvatore Bonanno, "Bill" (1932–2008) Cesare...
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receiving kickback payments from the recording industry. June 11 – Former Bonanno Family Capo Gaspar DiGregorio dies of natural causes. August 27 - Sicilian...
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boss (1930) Salvatore Maranzano – boss (1930–1931) Joseph "Don Peppino" Bonanno – boss (1931–1965) Gaspar DiGregorio – boss (1965–1966) Paul Sciacca –...
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Brusca (1929–2000) Giovanni Brusca Tommaso Buscetta (1928–2000) Joseph Bonanno (1905–2002) Antonino Calderone (1935–2013) Giuseppe Calderone (1925–1978)...
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families, known as the Five Families: the Gambino, Lucchese, Genovese, Bonanno, and Colombo families. The Italian-American Mafia has long dominated organized...
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leaders such as Costello, Genovese, Albert Anastasia, Joe Adonis, Joe Bonanno, Carlo Gambino, Joe Profaci, Tommy Gagliano, and Tommy Lucchese. They believed...
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twenty-year hiatus. Salvatore Bonanno, the son of mafia boss Joseph Bonanno, becomes a "made man" and an official member of the Bonanno crime family. February...
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Rizzuto crime family (category Bonanno crime family)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) considers the family a faction of the Bonanno crime family, while Canadian and most other international law enforcement...
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Langella-100 years. The other 2 Colombo soldier Ralph Scopo-100 years, Bonanno soldier Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato-45 years January 15 – Nicodemo "Little...
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Ruggiero. During this time, Gotti befriended fellow mob hijacker and future Bonanno family boss Joseph Massino, and he was given the nicknames "Black John"...
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Gaspar Milazzo (category Bonanno crime family)
member of the Brooklyn-based gang that would later become known as the Bonanno crime family. Born to Vincenzo Milazzo and Camilla Pizzo in Castellammare...
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believe the younger Cirillo was killed after he insulted the son of acting Bonanno crime family boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano and caporegime Dominick...
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