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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known as the Luciano crime family from 1931 to 1957, when Vito Genovese became boss. Genovese was head of the family during the McClellan hearings in 1963...
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businesswoman in the Italian mob and the second wife of mobster Vito Genovese of the Genovese crime family and the Costello crime syndicate. She played a...
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Frank Costello (category Bosses of the Genovese crime family)
retired 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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Five Families (section Genovese family)
Hatter" Anastasia, Vito Genovese, Alfred Mineo, Willie Moretti, Joe Adonis, and Frank Costello. However, powerful Sicilian mafioso Don Vito Cascio Ferro decided...
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Apalachin meeting (section Genovese's bid for power)
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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Carlo Gambino (section Apalachin and Genovese's fall)
City. Following the Apalachin Meeting in 1957, and the imprisonment of Vito Genovese in 1959, Gambino took over the Commission of the American Mafia and...
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New 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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Vincent Gigante (category Bosses of the Genovese crime family)
prison cell with Costello's rival, Vito Genovese, Gigante became a caporegime overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers and associates based in Greenwich...
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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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Alto Knights (category Cultural depictions of Vito Genovese)
bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello. Alto Knights is scheduled to be released in the United States on March 21, 2025, by Warner Bros. Pictures. Vito Genovese...
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Havana Conference (section Lucky and Don Vito)
the scenes. This arrangement had worked until Vito Genovese's return from Italy. Officially, Genovese was now just a caporegime; however, he had made...
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Philip Lombardo (category Genovese crime family)
Phil", was the boss of the Genovese crime family from the late 1960s until the beginning of the 1980s. He succeeded Vito Genovese as Boss in 1969 and was...
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Joseph Valachi (category Genovese crime family)
while he and Genovese family boss Vito Genovese were in prison together, he murdered an inmate he thought was a hitman sent by Genovese, and was sentenced...
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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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Gerardo Catena (category Genovese crime family)
after the convention, following the arrest of Vito Genovese in 1959. As Genovese and many others of the Genovese crime family were under indictment, Catena...
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Hatter" Anastasia, Vito Genovese, Alfred Mineo, Willie Moretti, Joe Adonis and Frank Costello. However, powerful Sicilian Don Vito Ferro decided to make...
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Philadelphia crime family (section Vito Genovese)
Five Families, especially the Genovese crime family, which sought to control the Philadelphia crime family. Vito Genovese, an underboss at the time, assumed...
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Masseria's second-in-command, Lucky Luciano, and included Frank Costello, Vito Genovese, Joe Adonis, Carlo Gambino and Albert Anastasia on the Masseria side...
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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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allegedly excused himself to the bathroom, with the gunmen reportedly being Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia, Joe Adonis, and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel; Ciro "The...
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representing the "Young Turks" faction (which included mobsters such as Vito Genovese and Frank Costello), and Ciro Terranova begins secretly negotiating...
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Willie Moretti (category Genovese crime family)
conversation with Genovese crime family boss Vito Genovese about the Moretti murder: It was supposedly a mercy killing because he was sick. Genovese told me, 'The...
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footballer Vito Dumas, Argentine sailor and travel-writer, who sailed solo around the world Vito Fossella, American politician from New York Vito Genovese, Italian-American...
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The Valachi Papers (film) (category Cultural depictions of Vito Genovese)
smuggling heroin. The boss of his crime family, Vito Genovese, is imprisoned there as well. Genovese is certain that Valachi is an informant, and gives...
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Thomas Eboli (category Genovese crime family)
for Luciano's underboss, Vito "Don Vito" Genovese. Some sources claim that Eboli committed as many as 20 murders for the Genovese family. In 1933, Eboli...
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17 – Vito Genovese, boss of the Genovese crime family is convicted of drug trafficking and is sentenced to 15 years. Vincent Gigante, Genovese's driver...
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Italian film director Richard Genovese (born 1947), American painter Rino Genovese (1905–1967), Italian film actor Vito Genovese (1897–1969), prominent New...
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Greenwich Village Crew (category Genovese crime family)
crew within the Genovese crime family, active in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. It was originally controlled by Don Vito Genovese from the early...
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by the Genovese crime family. Barzini heads one of New York's Five Families, and is the second most powerful Mafia don in the country after Vito Corleone...
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