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Carlos Marcello - Got JFK elected and then planned his assassination!!!

Born Calogero Mincore (Minacori) on Feb. 6, 1910 in the ancient North African port city of Tunis, when Tunisia was a French protectorate, Carlos Marcello arrived in New Orleans as an infant and later would rise from obscurity to become one of America’s most enduring and most beguiling celebrity gangsters of the 20th celebrity.
In his prime, Marcello was a Louisiana cultural icon and political deal-maker, a multi-millionaire real estate developer and entrepreneur, and, most notably, a notorious racketeer and powerful crime boss, reputedly serving as the head of the New Orleans Mafia (and controlling an empire that some say was worth billions) for nearly 50 years. 
Known as “the Little Man” because of his diminutive stature, the five-foot-three-inch Marcello was the subject of constant media coverage and the target of relentless investigation from 1951 until his death in 1993.

Joseph Bonanno - Creator of the Bonanno family, Maranzano’s number 2 and started the Banana Wars

Joseph Charles Bonanno (born Giuseppe Carlo Bonanno; Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈkarlo boˈnanno]; January 18, 1905 – May 11, 2002), sometimes referred to as Joe Bananas, was an Italian-American crime boss of the Bonanno crime family, which he ran from 1931 to 1968.
Bonanno was born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, where his father was also involved in organized crime. At the age of three, Bonanno immigrated to New York City with his family, for about 10 years before he moved back to Italy. He later slipped back into the United States in 1924, by stowing away on a Cuban fishing boat bound for Tampa, Florida. After the Castellammarese War, Salvatore Maranzano was murdered in 1931, and Bonanno took control of most of the crime family, and at age 26, Bonanno became one of the youngest-ever bosses of a crime family. In 1963, Bonanno made plans with Joseph Magliocco to assassinate several rivals on the Mafia Commission. When Magliocco gave the contract to one of his top hit men, Joseph Colombo, he revealed the plot to its targets. The Commission spared Magliocco's life but forced him into retirement, while Bonanno fled to Canada. In 1964, he briefly returned to New York before disappearing until 1966. The "Banana War" ensued and lasted until 1968, when Bonanno retired to Arizona. Later in life, he became a writer, publishing the book A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno in 1983. Bonanno died on May 11, 2002, in Tucson, Arizona.

Salvatore Maranzano - The OG mafia creator whose face has only been captured in photos of his murder

Salvatore Maranzano (July 31, 1886 – September 10, 1931) was an Italian-American mobster from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss who led what later would become the Bonanno crime family in New York City. He instigated the Castellammarese War in 1930 to seize control of the American Mafia, winning the war after the murder of rival faction head Joe Masseria in April 1931. He then briefly became the Mafia's capo di tutti capi ("boss of all bosses") and formed the Five Families in New York City, but was murdered on September 10, 1931, on the orders of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who established an arrangement in which families shared power to prevent future turf wars: The Commission.

Joseph ”Crazy Joe” Gallo : Mobster Who Broke The Mafia

Joe Gallo's life, his struggle with mental illness, Anastasia's murder, Gallo's crew kidnapping top members of the Colombo family for ransom, the McClellan Trials, the two Colombo Wars, his marriage to two women, Joseph Colombo's shooting at the Italian American Civil Rights League's 2nd Unity Day, his iconic death outside Umberto's Clam House, two innocent people murdered by accident in revenge scheme, the Mafia Commission Trials' impact on the Colombo family, and a theory about The Sopranos questionable ending
 
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Lee D’Avanzo - ”Mob Wives” star Drita D’Avanzo’s husband’s criminal charges played out on national television!

Lee D'Avanzo is a mobster best known for being the leader of the New Springville Boys. This gang was allegedly the farm team for the Colombo Crime Family and the Bonanno Crime Family.
Lee was born March 7, 1969, at a time when being a mob gangster was still glamorous and popular. He once dated Karen Gravano, daughter of Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano. They dated for about ten years. Then, Lee fell in love with her friend, Drita. They got married and now have two beautiful daughters together. Karen Gravano and Drita D'Avanzo are both stars of the VH1 reality TV show, Mob Wives. The show is comprised of the wives, daughters and a niece of mobsters.

Frank Cali

Francesco Paolo Augusto, also known as "Franky Boy", was an American mobster and the eventual acting boss of the Gambino crime family. Law enforcement considered Cali to have been the Gambinos' "ambassador to Sicilian mobsters" and had linked him to the Inzerillo Mafia family from Palermo. According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Lipton, he was "seen as a man of influence and power by organized crime members in Italy". Cali was shot and killed outside his home in Staten Island on March 13, 2019. At the time of his death, a number of media organizations described him as the "reputed" acting boss of the Gambino crime family.

Albert Anastasia

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