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Mob History @mobhistory.bsky.social · 4d

#OTD (Oct 18) in 1930, #Brooklyn grape merchant Giovanni #Anselmo dies of gunshot wounds suffered a day earlier.

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Clipping from October 19, 1930, Brooklyn Citizen. Headlines: "Merchant dies hiding identity of assailants. Succumbs to wounds after mysterious shooting in street."

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Writers of Wrongs @writersofwrongs.bsky.social · 5d

#OTD in 1929, Police Officer Blanke found Salvatore "Charlie #Luciano" Lucania, severely beaten and bloody, on Hylan Boulevard in #StatenIsland.

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Charlie Lucky's painful visit to Staten Island

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Mob History @mobhistory.bsky.social · 5d

#OTD (Oct 17) in 1929, Salvatore 'Charlie #Luciano' #Lucania is found severely beaten and bleeding on #StatenIsland.

#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians #NYC

Clipping from Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Oct. 17, 1929. Headlines: "Gangster 'taken for ride' lives to tell about it. 'Lucky' Lucania forced into car, beaten and stabbed and thrown out in Staten Island road - pal of Rothstein bodyguard was quizzed in Hotsy Totsy murders."

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Writers of Wrongs @writersofwrongs.bsky.social · 7d

#NewOrleans Police Chief David #Hennessy was shot and mortally wounded by #Mafia assassins on this date (Oct. 15) in 1890.

#OTD #MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians #NOLA

New Orleans police chief ambushed, murdered

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Writers of Wrongs @writersofwrongs.bsky.social · 8d

Five southern #California #Mafia leaders went on trial in #LosAngeles on this date in 1980.

#OTD #MafiaHistory #Skystorians

SoCal rackets bosses tried in federal court

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Mob History @mobhistory.bsky.social · 9d

#OTD (Oct 13) in 1927, boss 'Big Joe' #Lonardo and his brother John are killed in a #Cleveland barbershop. Salvatore 'Black Sam' #Todaro takes leadership of the Cleveland Mafia.

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Mob History @mobhistory.bsky.social · 10d

#OTD (Oct 12) in 1950, during testimony before a Senate committee, Meyer #Lansky (shown) acknowledges associating with Frank #Costello, Joe #Adonis, Frank #Erickson and Charles #Fischetti.

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Mob History @mobhistory.bsky.social · 12d

#OTD (Oct 10) in 1957, #NewYork crime boss Joseph #Bonanno is observed in Italy, traveling under the alias of DiBella and accompanied by four men.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 14d

Former #NewYork #Mafia boss Ignazio #Lupo was suspected of the #Brooklyn murder of Roger #Consiglio on this date (Oct. 8) in 1930.

I have my doubts.

#OTD #MafiaHistory #Skystorians

Lupo unlikely to have killed Consiglio | American Mafia

Though he was arrested for it, there is no evidence to support the former-mob boss's alleged involvement in Castellammarese War-era Brooklyn murder.

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Mob History @mobhistory.bsky.social · 14d

#OTD (Oct 08) in 1930, Ignazio #Lupo is widely believed responsible for the #Brooklyn murder of Ruggerio 'Roger' #Consiglio.

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Writers of Wrongs @writersofwrongs.bsky.social · 14d

#OTD in 2008: Human remains discovered during an #FBI excavation at Farmingdale, Long Island, are officially identified as former #Colombo underboss William #Cutolo.
#MafiaHistory #Skystorians

Mafia leader's corpse discovered in Long Island

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Writers of Wrongs @writersofwrongs.bsky.social · 16d

#OTD in 1928: at 4:15 a.m. #Brooklyn mobster “Mike Schatz” #Abbatemarco is found dead of gunshot wounds, slumped behind the wheel of his parked but still-running automobile.

#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians #NYC

'Schatz' follows Yale to wealth, influence, grave

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Writers of Wrongs @writersofwrongs.bsky.social · 18d

#OTD in 1951: Guarino "Willie Moore" #Moretti was murdered at Joe's Restaurant in #CliffsideParkNJ. He had been having a friendly conversation with several men before one of them fired two bullets into the back of his head.
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Pals' pistols quiet garrulous gangster

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Writers of Wrongs @writersofwrongs.bsky.social · 19d

Father Salvatore Anastasio's book about his brother, Albert #Anastasia, was discussed in a Writers of Wrongs post from January:
www.writersofwrongs.com/2025/01/prie...

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Anastasia tale told by his priest brother

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Mob History @mobhistory.bsky.social · 19d

#OTD (Oct 03) in 1973, Salvatore Anastasio, Catholic priest and author of a book about his murdered brother Albert #Anastasia (shown), passes away in Italy.

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Mob History @mobhistory.bsky.social · 19d

#OTD (Oct 03) in 1903, Joseph #Valachi is born in #NewYork City as Giuseppe Vilacio.

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Manhattan birth certificate of Giuseppe Vilacio (Joseph Valachi), dated October 3, 1903.

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Writers of Wrongs @writersofwrongs.bsky.social · 20d

#OTD in 1919, #Detroit #Mafia boss Sam Giannola was shot to death at the corner of Monroe and Russell streets.

#MafiaHistory #Skystorians

The Assassination of Sam Giannola

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Writers of Wrongs @writersofwrongs.bsky.social · 24d

#OTD in 1920, eight players on the #Chicago #WhiteSox #baseball team are indicted in Cook County IL for conspiracy to throw the 1919 #WorldSeries.

#BlackSox

White Sox players indicted for throwing Series

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Mob History @mobhistory.bsky.social · 26d

#OTD (Sep 25) in 1959, #Genovese Crime Family lieutenant Anthony 'Augie Pisano' #Carfano and Mrs. Janice #Drake are shot to death in Carfano's car in #QueensNY.

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Anthony Carfano, left, and Mrs. Janice Drake, right.

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Mob History @mobhistory.bsky.social · Sep 22

#OTD (Sep 22) in 1966, police raid the #LaStella Restaurant in #QueensNY to discover a meeting of top #Mafia leaders Carlo #Gambino, Tommy Eboli, Joe Colombo, Joey Gallo, Mike Miranda, Aniello Dellacroce, Santo #Trafficante, Carlos #Marcello and others.

#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians #NYC

Front page of Newsday issue of September 23, 1966. Headline: "Nab 13 big hoods at Cosa parley." Photograph shows men under arrest being led down a stairway.

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Mob History @mobhistory.bsky.social · Sep 16

#OTD (Sep 16) in 1904, the #NewYork Police Department assigns six detectives to a new Italian Branch of the Detective Bureau led by Detective Sergeant Joseph #Petrosino.

#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians #ItalianSquad #NYC #NYPD

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Writers of Wrongs @writersofwrongs.bsky.social · Sep 14

#OTD in 1874, Joseph #Macheca, later linked with the local #Mafia, plays a key role in a momentarily successful #NewOrleans #WhiteLeague insurrection against the state government.

#NOLA #Skystorians #BattleOfLibertyPlace

1874 White League revolt in New Orleans

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David Amoruso @gangstersinc.bsky.social · Sep 13

Rumble at Rao’s: It’s not over ’till The Fat Lady Sings – The night Louie Lump Lump chose the gun over the cannoli gangstersinc.org/2016/10/20/r... - #Rao #Restaurant #NewYork #KashPatel #FBI #NewYork #NYC

Rumble at Rao’s: It’s not over ’till The Fat Lady Sings – The night Louie Lump Lump chose the gun over the cannoli

It was then, and probably still is today, thirteen years later, after the event, one of the most remarkable restaurants in New York. In business 120 years and run by generations of the same family,…

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Mob History @mobhistory.bsky.social · Sep 13

#OTD (Sep 13) in 1931, John Bazzano becomes uncontested boss of the Pittsburgh crime family after the shooting death of Joseph Siragusa.

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Writers of Wrongs @writersofwrongs.bsky.social · Sep 12

#OTD (Sept 12) in 1931, Joseph Manino is fatally shot in an afternoon attack in a #Brooklyn area known as "Death Valley."

#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians

'Death Valley' end for ambitious gangster

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