The largest Camorra faction within the City of New York — within the entire country for that matter — was headquartered in the “Downtown Brooklyn” section of Kings County (Brooklyn). And for many years, the acknowledged leader of that faction was Francesco (Frankie Yale) Ioele.

Frankie Yale’s crew was a very powerful one, which included such notorious hoodlums as Michele (The Sweetheart) Abbatemarco, Antonio (Tony the Sheik) Carillo, Generoso (Toddo Dell) Del Duca, his brother, Pasquale (Patsy Dell) Del Duca, Giuseppe (Joe Adonis) Doto, Joseph (Joe Shep) Schipani, George (Pokerface) Scalise, Joseph (Joe Tobin) Scarpinito, Francesco (Frankie) Galluccio, Yale’s kid brother, Angelo (Angelo Yale) Ioele, to name but a few. There were many others.

This laundry list also included a young Brooklyn-born hoodlum from that same neighborhood, Downtown Brooklyn, by the name of Alphonse (Scarface Al) Capone, who, as a young man worked as a bouncer in Frankie Yale’s Harvard Inn nightclub in Coney Island, and also served as an all-around aide and strong-arm man to his mentors and superiors (Yale and Torrio, and other senior Camorrista.) Also included in this list of Yale subordinates were Capone’s notorious NYC-born cousins, the Fischetti brothers (Charlie, Rocco and Joe.)

Torrio, born years earlier, in 1882, was considered a senior, a contemporary, and a close friend of Yale’s. With the exception of Torrio, most of these very same men, in future years, went on to become noted New York-based Cosa Nostra figures. But almost to a man, each “cut his teeth” under the tutelage of Francesco Ioele.

Among the many other acknowledged Brooklyn powers within New York’s Camorra Gang during that same time period (1910s, to the late 1920s) were the shadowy Alessandro Vollero, Leopoldo Lauritano, and Antonio (Tony the Shoemaker) Paretti.
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Noteworthy murders and dates;

A) May 20, 1920, Jim Colosimo is killed (Chicago)
B) November 10, 1924, Dion Bannion is killed (Chicago)
C) July 1, 1928, Frankie Yale is killed (Brooklyn)

Side Note: These killings, and many others that took place in Chicago during most of that decade, had absolutely, positively, nothing to do with the so-called “Castellammarese War” which was fought years later between rival “Sicilian” factions of the Sicilian-based Mafia.

That conflict was fought for approximately one year, between mid-1930 and April, 1931 (the day Masseria was finally assassinated.) Each of the aforementioned incidents took place years before the Castellammarese War.

And whether the hundreds and hundreds of killings that were committed during that 1920's era were perpetrated by The Capone Gang and his Camorrista associates back in NYC, the “Terrible” Genna brothers, the Giuseppe Aiello (Mafia) Family, The Bugs Moran Gang, or a host of other independent factions who all fought for control of Chicago’s racket territory, during that era, the family headed by NY mafioso Joe Masseria generally had no involvement with that. They were “New York” based and focused.

It was not until the hard-fought Castellammarese War, when Masseria first approached Capone for help to eliminate his enemy, Chicago’s “Sicilian” boss Joe Aiello (who was a Castellammarese-faction sympathizer and ally of Masseria's rival, Salvatore Maranzano) that Masseria and Capone finally allied together.

Aiello is killed on October 23, 1930.

THIS particular killing, committed by Capone, at the behest of New York boss Joe Masseria, is what is believed by knowledgable mob historians to have been the catalyst that allowed Capone formal entry into the ranks of the Mafia.

***It is generally believed that Al Capone was first “made” a member of the Sicilian Mafia, (either shortly before, or shortly after) Aiello was killed…THIS was his “official” entry into the Sicilian Brotherhood.

He was brought into the fold and immediately made a "capo di decina" with the privilege of inducting 10 additional men into the ranks of his “regime” as formally “made” soldiers. THIS was the start of his Mafia membership!

Previous to that time, although some news accounts allege differently, Al Capone and his organization were extremely powerful in their own right, but were considered independent from the Mafia, per se.

NOTE: But, what is generally not recognized or ever mentioned is that Torrio and Capone, had, in fact, actually lead a “Camorrista” oriented organization as a branch of New York’s Camorra for many years, with support from the noted Camorrista I name above.

So, in all likelihood, Yale's murder was sort by Capone, and then approved by the Napolitani/Calabrese Camorra, NOT by Masseria and the Sicilian Mafia.

...These are the facts, folks!