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This is how a great thread goes bad when these content creators spout their infallible opinions without citing a single corroborating fact.
The Mafia–Camorra War was a gang war in New York City that lasted from 1915–1917. On one side was the originally Sicilian Morello crime family of Manhattan; on the other side were gangs originally from Naples and the surrounding Campania region, based in Navy Street in Brooklyn and Coney Island referred to as the Camorra. The fight over the control of the New York rackets started after the killing of Giosue Gallucci, the undisputed King of Little Italy, and his son on May 17, 1915.[1][2] The trials that followed in 1918 completely smashed the Camorra gangs; the protection that they enjoyed was demolished from the testimonies of their own men. It was the end of the Camorra in New York and the rise in power of American-based Sicilian Mafia groups.
The Morello gang, formerly run by Giuseppe Morello until 1909, then run by his half-brothers, the Terronovas, Vincenzo, Ciro and Nicholas Morello. Vincenzo and Nicola occasionally used their older, half-brother's name, Morello even though they were legally Terranovas. They controlled Harlem and most of northern Manhattan. Morello and his allies were part of the traditional Sicilian Mafia.

The Camorra organization, run by Andrea Ricci, was a powerful underworld force in Brooklyn. Unlike the Mafia, the Camorra drew its recruits from immigrants from the Naples region of Italy. The Camorra organization's close allies included the Navy Street and Coney Island gangs of Brooklyn, both of which were Neapolitan in origin. Leopoldo Lauritano and Allesandro Vollero headed the Navy Street Gang, and Pellegrino Morano was boss of the Coney Island Gang.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia%E2%80%93Camorra_War

By 1916, Luciano had connected with George Moran, a heroin dealer for Paul Kelly's Five Points gang. In May 1916, Luciano was arrested, convicted and sentenced to eight months. He was releasedafter six months. Kelly was allied with Ignazio Lupo and the Morello Mafia family, not the Camorra. Around the same time, Torrio, Ioele and Capone, who started with the Forty Thieves, and then moved up to the James Street Gang with Torrio, were also connected with Kelly and the Five Points gang, not the Camorristi from Navy St or Coney Island. Masseria was with the Terranovas and Lupo's crew at the time and that is how Masseria met Torrio, Luciano, Costello, Genovese, Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Seigel.

The Morello family had consolidated their hold on Upper Manhattan. Additionally, on November 15, 1909, New York police raided a building the Morellos were using in Highland, New York, as a front for their counterfeiting operation and recovered a large amount of American and Canadian counterfeit bills. After letters were found by Black Hand victims from New Orleans, fifteen members of the Morellos were arrested, including bosses Giuseppe Morello and Ignazio Lupo and member Pasquale Vassi, who possessed $1,200 worth of counterfeit money.

The trials began on January 26, 1910, and ended on February 19 with all members involved convicted, including Morello and Lupo, who were sentenced to 30 and 25 years, respectively, at Atlanta Federal Prison.

During this time, the Morellos had allied with powerful and prominent East Harlem businessmen and camorristi, including Giosue Gallucci, who possessed local political connections, and the Lamonti brothers. Gaetano "Thomas" Lamonti and brother Fortunato "Charles" Lamonti were known as cousins of the Morellos and owned a feed store down the street from the famous Murder Stable owned by Ignazio Lupo. After the 1914 murder of Charles Lamonti and the 1915 murder of Gallucci, the alliance between the Morellos and the East Harlem camorristi ended. The Brooklyn camorristi made plans to eliminate the mafiosi from Manhattan.

In early 1916, Camorra boss Pellegrino Morano and lieutenant Vincenzo Paragallo began moving into Morello territory. After six months of fighting, Morano offered a truce to end the stalemate. Mafia boss Nick Morello agreed to a meeting arranged at a Navy Street café owned by camorrista Alessandro Vollero. However, upon arriving on September 7, 1916, Morello was ambushed by five members of the Brooklyn Camorra group and killed along with bodyguard Charles Ubriaco.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morello_crime_family

In 1910, boss of bosses Giuseppe "the Clutch Hand" Morello was imprisoned and Salvatore D'Aquila separated from the Morello family.[6] D'Aquila formed his own crime family and was appointed the new capo dei capi.[6] His crime family operated from East Harlem and the Bronx, where he rivaled the Morellos'.[6]

D'Aquila expanded his crime family's power into Brooklyn and southern Manhattan's Lower East Side/Little Italy neighborhoods.[5] The most prominent members of the D'Aquila family were Umberto Valenti, Manfredi Mineo, Giuseppe Traina, and Frank Scalise.[4] In 1920, after Giuseppe Morello was released from prison, D'Aquila tried to have him and his closest allies murdered.[5][6] In 1925, D'Aquila moved back into the Bronx.

The Mafia–Camorra war ended in 1917, and Terranova brothers Vincenzo and Ciro kept control of the family. Many former Brooklyn Camorra members joined the Morello family; Umberto Valenti was one of new members. One year earlier in 1916, Giuseppe Masseria was released from prison after serving three years for burglary of a Bowery pawnshop and became a top member in the family. In 1918, Ciro Terranova was tried for the murders of gambling bosses Charles Lombardi and Joe DiMarco; the case was later dismissed. In 1920, both Giuseppe Morello and Ignazio Lupo were released from prison so their former captain, now Manhattan Mafia boss, Salvatore D'Aquila, sensing his power to be threatened by their return, ordered their murders.

One of D'Aquila's men, Umberto Valenti, had also run afoul of his boss and was under threat of death. To re-ingratiate himself with D'Aquila, Valenti would take out the rising power, the former captain and current ally of the Morello's, Giuseppe Masseria. First attempts failed and a war was on. On December 29, 1921, Masseria's men murdered Valenti's ally Salvatore Muaro on Chrystie Street. Then Valenti had Vincent Terranova murdered, effectively taking out the head of the Morello family. On May 8, 1922, while Terranova was in front of his home at 116th Street and 2nd Avenue, he was shot by a gunman from a moving car. Masseria ordered his men to murder Valenti and his bodyguard Silva Tagliagamba; they ambushed Valenti and Tagliabamba at Grande and Mulberry Streets in Manhattan shooting Tagliabamba but Valenti escaped. On August 11, 1922, Masseria's men (supposedly including a young Charlie Luciano) murdered Valenti ending the conflict. Masseria became the boss of the Morello family, and Giuseppe Morello became his underboss.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morello_crime_family

By 1920, Luciano had met many future Mafia leaders, including Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, his longtime friend and future business partner through the Five Points Gang. That same year, Lower Manhattan gang boss Joe Masseria recruited Luciano as one of his gunmen.[18] Around that same time, Luciano and his close associates started working for gambler Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein, who immediately saw the potential windfall from Prohibition and educated Luciano on running bootleg alcohol as a business.[19] Luciano, Costello, and Genovese started their own bootlegging operation with financing from Rothstein.[19]

Rothstein served as a mentor for Luciano; among other things, Rothstein taught him how to move in high society. In 1923, Luciano was caught in a sting selling heroin to undercover agents. Although he saw no jail time, being outed as a drug peddler damaged his reputation among his high-class associates and customers. To salvage his reputation, Luciano bought 200 expensive seats to the Jack Dempsey–Luis Firpo boxing match in the Bronx and distributed them to top gangsters and politicians. Rothstein then took Luciano on a shopping trip to Wanamaker's Department Store in Manhattan to buy expensive clothes for the fight. The strategy worked, and Luciano's reputation was saved.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano

In 1921, Mafia leaders Ignazio Lupo, Giuseppe Morello and other allies made a short trip to Palermo.8 The reason for their voyage was later described in a confidential Secret Service report: 9

When Lupo and Morello were convicted fifteen or sixteen years ago on our counterfeiting case, new leaders arose. Since that time they have grown very strong and very popular. Upon the release of Lupo and Morello they tried to come back into power, but the new organization here in America would not permit this. Consequently, Lupo and Morello and a few of their old ‘standbys’ went to Sicily, taking it up there with the main headquarters endeavouring to be put back in power. They also refused … since that time Morello has moved to the West Side and both he and Lupo are living behind bars and shutters. Their assassination is expected momentarily.

Further detail was given in the memoirs of Mafioso Nicola Gentile. He explained that Lupo, Morello and ten others had been condemned to death by boss of bosses Salvatore D’Aquila at a meeting of the US Mafia’s General Assembly. “It was a question of power. D’Aquila was a very authoritative figure and that meant that those who didn’t support him were condemned to death.”10 D’Aquila made peace with one of the condemned men, Umberto Valente, with the agreement that Valente would kill Masseria, who “at the time was capo of a New York borgata” and a growing threat to D’Aquila.11

The ongoing war resulted in many casualties on both sides. Vincenzo Terranova was assassinated in May 1922. He was gunned down outside the Morello family home at 338 East 116th Street.12 Later that day, Valente ambushed Masseria on lower Manhattan’s Grand Street in a chaotic gun battle that left five innocent bystanders wounded. Masseria survived a second assassination attempt in August that left another eight bystanders wounded.

The battle ended three days later, when Valente was killed on a crowded Manhattan Street.13 Masseria managed to escape conviction for any involvement with the shootings and later relocated his family from Manhattan to the relative safety of Brooklyn. He lived on Sixty-First Street, a short distance from Frankie Yale’s neighborhood and close to his own consigliere, Saverio Pollaccia.
https://www.gangrule.com/biographies/giuseppe-masseria

By 1925, Luciano was grossing over $12 million per year, and made a personal income of about $4 million per year from running illegal gambling and bootlegging operations in New York that also extended into Philadelphia.[21] Luciano soon became a top aide in Joe Masseria's criminal organization. In contrast to Rothstein, Masseria was uneducated, with poor manners and limited managerial skills.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano

Like his mentor Johnny Torrio, Frankie Yale was one of a new breed of gangster who believed in putting business ahead of ego. After getting started with some basic racketeering, Yale took control of Brooklyn's ice delivery trade by selling "protection" and creating monopolies.[6] In 1917, with the proceeds from these rackets, Yale opened the Harvard Inn bar on Seaside Walk in Coney Island. Hoping to capitalize on the collegiate name of his bar, he began using the name Yale. Yale's gang engaged in Black Hand extortion activities and ran a string of brothels. Their gang became the first new-style Mafia "family" which included Italians from all regions and could work in partnership with other ethnic groups if it was good for business. When asked about his profession, Yale wryly commented that he was an "undertaker". At the beginning of Prohibition, Yale became one of Brooklyn's biggest bootleggers.[citation needed]

In addition to Capone, other gangsters who worked under Yale at one time or another included Joe Adonis, Anthony "Little Augie" Carfano, and Albert Anastasia. Yale's top assassin was Willie "Two-Knife" Altieri, nicknamed as such due to his preferred method of dispatching a victim.In May 1920, Yale traveled to Chicago and personally killed longtime gang boss Big Jim Colosimo at the behest of Chicago Outfit friends Torrio and Capone.[13] Colosimo was allegedly murdered because he stood in the way of his gang making huge bootlegging profits in Chicago. Although suspected by Chicago police, Yale was never officially charged.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Yale

By 1909, Torrio moved to Chicago. "Big Jim" Colosimo, who had become head of a burgeoning vice empire in Chicago is reputed to have invited him to the city to help him deal with Black Hand extortionists. After doing so, Torrio became a top lieutenant in Colosimo's organization, rising to underboss by 1914.[12]

In 1919, Al Capone arrived in Chicago and started working as a bouncer and bartender at one of the Colosimo gang establishments, the Four Deuces at 2222 S. Wabash Street.[12]

Colosimo murder

When Prohibition went into effect in 1920, Torrio pushed for the gang to enter into bootlegging, but Colosimo stubbornly refused. In March 1920, Colosimo secured an uncontested divorce from Victoria Moresco.[13] A month later, he and Dale Winter eloped to West Baden Springs, Indiana. Upon their return, he bought a home on the South Side.[13] On May 11, 1920, Colosimo drove to Colosimo's Cafe to meet an associate he had never met before. He was shot and killed a few minutes after entering the restaurant by a gunman hiding in the cloak room. A bullet entered Colosimo's brain, behind his right ear. [12] Contract killer Frankie Yale had allegedly traveled from New York to Chicago and personally killed longtime gang boss Colosimo at the behest of Torrio.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Torrio

Frankie Yale was a Brooklyn Crime boss and former employer of Al Capone prior to Capone moving to Chicago to work for Johnny Torrio. Torrio was Yale’s mentor, and the relationship between Yale and Capone was always good until the spring of 1927.

Frankie Yale had supported Joe Aiello’s bid to become the president of the Unione Siciliana, but Capone favored Tony Lombardo for the spot. Once Lombardo took over presidency of the Unione, Yale began to resent Lombardo’s approach to conducting business and began to notice diminished proceeds remitted to him from the Unione.

Yale chose to make up the difference in income at Capone’s expense. He began to hijack some of Capone’s trucks carrying whiskey through Long Island. Yale’s gang was responsible for ensuring safe passage for Capone’s trucks through New York.

Capone began to suspect Yale of double crossing him and his suspicions were confirmed by an inside informant, Filesy DeAmato. While DeAmato was sharing what he learned to Capone, someone overhead the conversation and Yale ultimately had him killed on July 7th, 1927.

After DeAmato’s death, the hijackings continued. Capone took his time plotting his revenge. It took a year, but on July 1st, 1928, several of Capone’s men plotted and successfully killed Frankie Yale in New York. While fleeing the murder scene, the shooters ultimately abandoned their getaway car and left the weapons they used to kill Yale. One of the guns found in the abandoned car was an automatic pistol that Henderson had purchased on Capone’s behalf earlier in the year. The identification of that gun would ultimately lead the investigation to Miami.

Fallout of Frankie Yale’s Murder

It took less than a month to determine that one of the guns used in the killing of Frankie Yale had roots in Miami. The serial number of an automatic pistol was traced directly back to Parker Henderson Jr. The Miami News on July 31st, 1928, announced that Henderson would be accompanied by Police Chief Guy Reeve to New York to answer questions related to the gun that was linked back to him. In the meantime, the Yale murder set off revenge murders of two of Capone’s men. Capone’s handpicked president of the Unione Siciliana, Tony Lombardo, was the next victim. Lombardo’s successor as president of the Unione Siciliana, Pasqualino Lolordo, was also a friend of Capones. He was gunned down and killed on January 8th, 1929, in his home. Lolordo’s wife identified Joe Aiello as one of the men present in their home when her husband was killed.

Lombardo’s murder was orchestrated by members of Yale’s former gang, in conjunction with Joe Aiello. Aiello was once again back in Chicago causing problems for Capone. In addition to Aiello, two of George Moran’s crew participated in Lolordo’s murder.

Just as Capone got news of Lolordo’s murder in January of 1929, he was at his Palm Island home and had taken to bed with pneumonia. His recovery gave him time to plot the revenge of the murder of his two friends. Capone would strike back on Valentine’s Day.
https://miami-history.com/al-capone-in-miami-part-1-of-4/

The problems with Nicola Gentile's credibility

Building on extensive original research by a team of Mafia history experts and on U.S. government documents designed to extract meaning from the memoirs, we attempt to balance Gentile’s obviously self-serving and self-aggrandizing autobiographical work with verifiable history, to correct the misinformation and to fill in the wide gaps in his personal account.
https://informer-journal.blogspot.com/2020/10/october-2020-issue-of-informer.html?m=1

While Gentile provide invaluable insight into the pre-Prohibition era, his transcript was entirely in Italian and was translated by the FBI. This leaves room for misinterpretation in translation. His statements about the St. Valentine’s Day massacre are incorrect. He stated the five men were killed by Al Capone at night, this incorrect. Further, Gentile states he was present when, after learning Maranzano had been slain by Luciano, stated he overheard phone calls being made to order the Night of the Sicilian Vespers. There is no evidence there ever was a Night of the Sicilian Vespers. Gentile's version of Tony Lombardo and Pasqualino's being murdered by Capone in order to satisfy a request by Masseria in order to become "Made", is flat out wrong. Capone was too close to Lombardo to be bought by the promise of merely being made a Capodecima. In fact, there is no verifiable proof that any of the Italians, Torrio, Yale, Capone, Luciano, Costello, Genovese were ever "Made" in the same sense as Joe Valachi. Who would have made them? Lupo? Paul Kelly? Masseria? Morello? I don't think so, prior to Prohibition, Sicilian's never made Italians.

The Black Hand

The Black Hand was not only a extortion racket, it also used to describe a Mafia organization, hence The Black Hand Society. Ioele's crew were considered Black Hand even though they were connected to Masseria who was Mafia.
Black Hand was a method of extortion practiced by Italian immigrant gangsters of the Camorra and the Mafia, especially in the United States in Italian-American ghettos or neighborhoods. American newspapers in the first half of the twentieth century sometimes made reference to an organized "Black Hand Society", a criminal enterprise composed of Italians, mainly Sicilian immigrants. The term "Black Hand" was readily adopted by the American press and generalized to the idea of an organized criminal conspiracy, which came to be known as "The Black Hand Society."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hand_(extortion)#:~:text=Black%20Hand%20(Italian%3A%20Mano%20Nera,nineteenth%20century%20with%20Italian%20immigrants.

The Initiation Ritual

The first evidence of the Initiation Ritual in America came from Joe "Cago" Valachi, who was made by Maranzano. The first time any evidence of an Italian being made by a Sicilian. The first known account of the ritual in the United States was provided in 1963 by Joe Valachi, who was initiated in 1930,[3] in his testimony at the McClellan hearings.[7] Valachi's was a high-profile case, and helped convince the country of the existence of the organization in the United States called the Cosa Nostra, also known as the Mafia. He provided the FBI with firsthand information about the inside of the Mafia, including one of the first ever descriptions of the induction ceremony. There is no verifiable information on the Initiation Ritual being administered in America before 1930, although the ritual was described as originated in Sicily as early as 1877.

In conclusion, it's easy to make unsupported statements online. However, this is GBB, the premier online website for organized crime discussion, and if you post here, you better back your post up with verifiable facts and not just your flapping gums to convince me. Thus us GBB, come correct, come to wall strong or don't come at all,. You heard?

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-la...dubai-properties-were-secretly-sold-off/

Kinahan investigation: How the cartel’s Dubai properties were secretly sold off

Thanks Morton was also a beloved WWI veteran, according to a Chicago newspaper (lol) his funeral was also huge.

Here's a riddle for ya on this beautiful Sunday morning. It's a real puzzler too....

Q: Where's Angelo?

Netanyahu has ruled out any role for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, saying he plans to hand civil responsibilities over to local Palestinians unaffiliated with it or Hamas. But he has also said that it's impossible to make any such plans until Hamas is defeated because it has threatened anyone who cooperates with Israel.

Netanyahu's government is also deeply opposed to Palestinian statehood.

In a statement issued after the ultimatum, Netanyahu said Gantz' conditions would amount to "defeat for Israel, abandoning most of the hostages, leaving Hamas intact and establishing a Palestinian state.”

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-...r-cabinet-us-over-postwar-plans-for-gaza

Experts believe there will be up to 50 packs of wolves in Netherlands in the future.

A: Nicky to Ace after sneaking into casino
(I can relate getting to that point)

Q: I don’t know if I could run a casino. The gaming commissioner already has a bunch of heat on me already.

Very close fight, but clowning around in the opening rounds is what proved to be costly for Fury. He did not win, and the ref saved him in the 9th. Doubled some good money thx H

37 extractors arrested in the port of Rotterdam in one week
May 17, 2024
The police and customs have made 38 arrests at various locations on the Maasvlakte in the port of Rotterdam over the past seven days. This concerns 37 perpetrators, thirteen of whom are minors. Among them are four 15-year-old boys.
Furthermore, the ages vary between 15 and 33 years and the suspects come from Alkmaar, Rijssen, Zoetermeer, Alphen aan de Rijn, Ridderkerk, Hoogvliet and Rotterdam. The police said in a press release on Friday that they are suspected of drug trafficking.

yeah there have been some cock ups but using rental cars for a hit is pretty bad. especially when we consider the amount of stolen vehicles between mtl and toronto. no one in mtl had a line on 1 or 2 work cars for this? what happened to the good ole dodge caravan oft used by HA. a perfect work vehicle really, sliding door, lots of room to move inside and year dependent has a pretty good engine for a van. plus torching it after is much easier than destroying a porsche, mentally that is. the claim of the hitman who had contract on del balso going to extort him basically to not kill him is interesting. confirmation of anthony gallo as an associate of del balso is also new and helps explain the murder of his wife.

…Where’s Angelo?