Dana Truppiana Mob Times

Frank Costello - Shot in the head & lived!!! He was the inspiration for The Godfather & was Lucky Luciano’s number 2

"The Prime Minister of the Underworld," Frank Costello, was the ideal racketeer. Costello grew up in East Harlem, where he led the 104th Street Gang, a group of young Italian hoodlums. After serving a year in prison for concealing a weapon, he allied himself with Lucky Luciano and expanded his bootlegging and gambling operations into New York, Florida, Louisiana, and other states. The mafia's political link and Luciano's closest aide after Giuseppe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano died in 1931, Costello quietly took over his syndicate interests after the boss of bosses was deported to Italy in 1946. He socialized with New York politicians and businessmen and gathered interests in Las Vegas casinos.
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Virginia Hill, Queen of the Mob : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMvrZ...
Charles "Lucky" Luciano : https://youtu.be/65BASz8-ahI
John Gotti : https://youtu.be/AYllyWq6gZs
Joseph "Crazy Joey" Gallo : https://youtu.be/j0H7JbckNso
 
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Vincent ”The Chin” Gigante - Tricked the cops into thinking he was crazy in order to get away with murder!!

Vincent Louis Gigante also known as "The Chin", was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City from 1981 to 2005. Gigante started out as a professional boxer who fought in 25 matches between 1944 and 1947. He then started working as a Mafia enforcer for what was then the Luciano crime family, forerunner of the Genovese family. Gigante was one of five brothers; three of them, Mario, Pasquale, and Ralph, followed him into the Mafia. Only one brother, Louis, stayed out of the crime family, instead becoming a priest.[1] Gigante was the shooter in the failed assassination of longtime Luciano boss Frank Costello in 1957. In 1959, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for drug trafficking, and after sharing a prison cell with Costello's rival, Vito Genovese, Gigante became a caporegime overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers and associates who operated out of Greenwich Village. Gigante quickly rose to power during the 1960s and 1970s. By 1981 he became the family's boss With the arrest and conviction of Gotti and various Gambino family members in 1992, Gigante was recognized as the most powerful crime boss in the United States.
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Virginia Hill, Queen of the Mob : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMvrZ...
Charles "Lucky" Luciano : https://youtu.be/65BASz8-ahI
John Gotti : https://youtu.be/AYllyWq6gZs
Joseph "Crazy Joey" Gallo : https://youtu.be/j0H7JbckNso
 
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Virginia Hill - Bugsy Siegel’s wife, a Mafia messenger, and an absolute lunatic!!!!

Virginia Hill was an American organized crime figure. An Alabama native, Hill became a Chicago outfit courier during the mid-1930s. Hill was famous for being the girlfriend of mobster Bugsy Siegel. Also, some personal thoughts on mental health, therapy, and PTSD.
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Charles "Lucky" Luciano : https://youtu.be/65BASz8-ahI
John Gotti : https://youtu.be/AYllyWq6gZs
Joseph "Crazy Joey" Gallo : https://youtu.be/j0H7JbckNso
 
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Lucky Luciano-Stabbed and dumped in SI, helped US win WWII and lived to create the American Mafia!!

Real name Salvatore Lucania, this gangster was known to be the supreme leader of the American Mafia, as well as the leader of the 5 Costa Nostra families in New York in the 30s to 50s. Yes, he was the godfather of godfathers in the United States at that time. He was the one who created the Commission (a kind of American organized crime government). Luciano started his criminal career in the Five Points gang and was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for the establishment of The Commission in 1931, after he abolished the boss of bosses title held by Salvatore Maranzano following the Castellammarese War. He was also the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family. Besides, it is not for nothing that he inspired the characters of Vito and Michael Corleone in the famous saga "The Godfather". 👉 SUBSCRIBE to the channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR8y...
 
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John Gotti : https://youtu.be/AYllyWq6gZs
Joseph "Crazy Joey" Gallo : https://youtu.be/j0H7JbckNso
 
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John Gotti - The Teflon Don, took out Paul Castellano and was taken down by Sammy the Bull Gravano

John Joseph Gotti Jr. (October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002) was an American gangster and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. He ordered and helped to orchestrate the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano in December 1985 and took over the family shortly thereafter, becoming boss of what was described as America's most powerful crime syndicate. Gotti and his brothers grew up in poverty and turned to a life of crime at an early age. Gotti quickly became one of the crime family's biggest earners and a protégé of Aniello Dellacroce, the Gambino family underboss, operating out of the neighborhood of Ozone Park in Queens. Following the FBI's indictment of members of Gotti's crew for selling narcotics, Gotti began to fear that he and his brother would be killed by Castellano for dealing drugs. As this fear continued to grow, and amidst growing dissent over the leadership of the crime family, Gotti organized the murder of Castellano. At his peak, Gotti was one of the most powerful and dangerous crime bosses in the United States. During his era, he became widely known for his outspoken personality and flamboyant style, which gained him favor with some of the general public. While his peers generally avoided attracting attention, especially from the media, Gotti became known as "The Dapper Don", for his expensive clothes and personality in front of news cameras. He was later given the nickname "The Teflon Don" after three high-profile trials in the 1980s resulted in his acquittal, though it was later revealed that the trials had been tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct and witness intimidation. Law enforcement authorities continued gathering evidence against Gotti, who reportedly earned between $5–20 million per year as Gambino boss. Gotti's underboss, Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, aided the FBI in convicting Gotti; in 1991, Gravano agreed to turn state's evidence and testify against Gotti after hearing the boss make disparaging remarks about him on a wiretap that implicated them both in several murders. In 1992, Gotti was convicted of five murders, conspiracy to commit murder, racketeering, obstruction of justice, tax evasion, illegal gambling, extortion, and loansharking. He received life in prison without parole and was transferred to United States Penitentiary, Marion. Gotti died of throat cancer on June 10, 2002, at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. According to Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, the former boss of the Lucchese crime family, "what John Gotti did was the beginning of the end of Cosa Nostra".

Big Jim Colosimo - Prostitution, Gambling, racketeering, and was ultimately taken down bc he wouldn’t get into bootlegging

Vincenzo Colosimo, known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal empire in Chicago based on prostitution, gambling and racketeering. He gained power through petty crime and by heading a chain of brothels. From about 1902 until his death in 1920, he led a gang that became known after his death as the Chicago Outfit. Colosimo was assassinated on May 11, 1920, and no one was ever charged with his murder. Johnny Torrio, an enforcer whom Colosimo imported in 1909 from New York, seized control of Colosimo's businesses after his death. Al Capone, a close associate of Torrio, has been accused of involvement in Colosimo's murder, but was not yet in Chicago at the time.
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Joe Adonis - Pretty boy mobster, HE WAS THE REASON JFK WAS ASSASSINATED!!!

Born near Naples, Adonis came to America as a child and in the 1920s became a follower of Lucky Luciano. He was one of the assassins of crime czar Giuseppe Masseria in 1931, leading to Luciano’s supremacy in organized crime. As a rackets boss, Adonis specialized in labour racketeering, gambling, and hijacking. In 1951 he was convicted of violating gambling laws and sentenced to two to three years in prison. In 1953 he was ordered deported to Italy.

”Little Nicky” Scarfo - He never snitched, but he did flip on his friends

Nicodemo Domenico "Little Nicky" Scarfo Sr. (March 8, 1929 – January 13, 2017) was a member of the American Mafia who became the boss of the Philadelphia crime family after the deaths of Angelo Bruno and Phil Testa. During his criminal career, Scarfo had a murderous reputation, also engaging in organized crime activities such as drug trafficking and gambling. In 1988, he was convicted of multiple charges including conspiracy, racketeering and first degree murder. His trial was met with damaging testimonies of several informants, who had carried out his murders. Scarfo died in prison on January 13, 2017, while serving his 55-year sentence. He is also the father of Nicky Scarfo Jr., a Lucchese family soldier, who was sentenced in 2015, to 30 years in prison for security fraud, racketeering, and illegal gambling.

Giosue Gallucci-His death caused the Mafia-Cammora war!!

Giosuè Gallucci, also known as Luccariello, was a crime boss of Italian Harlem in New York City affiliated with the Camorra. He dominated the area from 1910–1915 and was also known as the undisputed "King of Little Italy" and "The Mayor of Little Italy", partly due to his political connections. He held strict control over the policy game (numbers racket), employing Neapolitan and Sicilian street gangs as his enforcers.
Born in Naples, Italy, Gallucci became one of the most powerful Italians politically in the city. With his ability to mobilize the vote in Harlem and register immigrants, he delivered a significant number of ballots. He gained near immunity from law enforcement by allying with Tammany Hall, a Democratic political machine that ruled Manhattan and New York City politics almost unopposed. Despite his power and political clout, Gallucci was subject to Black Hand extortion and his rule was challenged frequently. In 1915, he was killed by a rival gang. The fight over the lucrative numbers rackets left behind by Gallucci was known as the Mafia-Camorra War.

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.