73 relations: Abe Bernstein, Abner Zwillman, Al Capone, Albert Anastasia, Apalachin meeting, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Belle Harbor, Queens, Bill Dwyer (mobster), Bonanno crime family, Bugs Moran, Bugsy Siegel, Carlo Gambino, Charles Solomon (racketeer), Chicago, Cleveland crime family, Crime, Daily Racing Form, Danny Walsh, Dutch Schultz, Enoch L. Johnson, Frank Costello, Frank Erickson, Frank McErlane, Frank Nitti, Frank Rio, Frank Scalice, Frank Wallace (gangster), Harry Rosen (mobster), Havana Conference, Jacob Shapiro, Jake Guzik, Jersey Shore, Jewish-American organized crime, Joe Adonis, Joe Masseria, John Lazia, Johnny Torrio, Joseph Bonanno, Legs Diamond, Little Italy, Louis Buchalter, Lucky Luciano, Mad Dog Coll, Max Hoff (mobster), Meyer Lansky, Moe Dalitz, Moses Annenberg, Mustache Pete, National Crime Syndicate, New York City, ..., Organized crime, Owney Madden, Ritz-Carlton Atlantic City, Rockefeller family, Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, Salvatore Maranzano, Santo Trafficante Sr., Sicilian Mafia, Sylvestro Carolla, The Commission (mafia), The Purple Gang, Tom Pendergast, Tommy Gagliano, Tommy Lucchese, United States, Vannie Higgins, Vincent Mangano, Vito Genovese, Waxey Gordon, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, William Randolph Hearst, Willie Moretti, 1929 in organized crime. Expand index (23 more) »
Abe Bernstein
Abe Bernstein (c. 1892 – March 7, 1968) was a Detroit gangster and a leader of the infamous Prohibition-era Purple Gang with his brothers Joseph Bernstein, Raymond Bernstein, and Isadore Bernstein.
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Abner Zwillman
Abner "Longie" Zwillman (July 27, 1904 – February 27, 1959) was a Jewish American mob boss, mainly active during Prohibition, operating primarily in North Jersey.
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Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit.
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Albert Anastasia
Albert Anastasia (born Umberto Anastasio, September 26, 1902 – October 25, 1957) was an Italian Cosa Nostra mobster, one of the most ruthless and feared organized crime figures in United States history.
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Apalachin meeting
The Apalachin meeting was a historic summit of the American Mafia held at the home of mobster Joseph "Joe the Barber" Barbara, in Apalachin, New York, on November 14, 1957.
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Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City is a resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known for its casinos, boardwalk, and beaches.
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Belle Harbor, Queens
Belle Harbor is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.
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Bill Dwyer (mobster)
William Vincent Dwyer (1883–1946), known as "Big Bill" Dwyer, was an early Prohibition gangster and bootlegger in New York during the 1920s.
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Bonanno crime family
The Bonanno crime family (pronounced) is one of the Five Families that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).
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Bugs Moran
Adelard Cunin (August 21, 1893 – February 25, 1957), better known as George 'Bugs' Moran, was a Chicago Prohibition-era gangster.
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Bugsy Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (February 28, 1906 – June 20, 1947) was an American mobster.
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Carlo Gambino
Carlo "Don Carlo" Gambino (August 24, 1902 – October 15, 1976) was a Sicilian-American mobster and boss of the Gambino crime family, which is still named after him.
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Charles Solomon (racketeer)
Charles "King" Solomon (1884 – January 24, 1933) was a Jewish-Russian mob boss who controlled Boston's bootlegging, narcotics, and illegal gambling during the Prohibition era.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Cleveland crime family
The Cleveland crime family is the collective name given to a succession of Mafia gangs, such as the Licavoli crime family (pronounced)or the Mayfield Road Mob, that were based in Cleveland's little Italy.
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Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.
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Daily Racing Form
The Daily Racing Form (DRF) (usually just referred to as the Racing Form) is a tabloid newspaper founded in 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, by Frank Brunell.
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Danny Walsh
Daniel L. "Danny" Walsh (c. 1893 – February 2, 1933?) was an organized crime figure in Providence, Rhode Island involved in bootlegging during Prohibition.
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Dutch Schultz
Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer; August 6, 1901October 24, 1935) was a New York City-area Jewish-American mobster of the 1920s and 1930s who made his fortune in organized crime-related activities, including bootlegging and the numbers racket.
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Enoch L. Johnson
Enoch Lewis "Nucky" Johnson (January 20, 1883 – December 9, 1968) was an Atlantic City, New Jersey political boss, Sheriff of Atlantic County, New Jersey, businessman, and racketeer.
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Frank Costello
Frank "the Prime Minister" Costello (born Francesco Castiglia; January 26, 1891 – February 18, 1973) was an Italian-American Mafia gangster and crime boss.
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Frank Erickson
Frank Erickson (1896 – March 2, 1968) was born in New York City to parents of Swedish and Irish descent.
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Frank McErlane
Frank McErlane (1894–1932) was a Prohibition-era Irish American gangster.
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Frank Nitti
Francesco Raffaele Nitto (January 27, 1886 – March 19, 1943), nicknamed "The Enforcer", was an Italian-American gangster.
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Frank Rio
Franklin Rio also known as "Frank Rio" and "Frank Cline"Robert J. Schoenberg, Mr.
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Frank Scalice
Francesco "Frank" Scalice (31 March, 1893 – June 17, 1957) (also spelled Scalise) also known as Don Ciccio and Wacky, was an Italian-American mobster active in New York City, who led the future Gambino crime family from 1930 to 1931 and was underboss from 1951 to 1957.
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Frank Wallace (gangster)
Frank Wallace (died December 22, 1931) was an Irish-American gangster from South Boston, who ran the Gustin Gang in Boston during the Prohibition in the United States.
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Harry Rosen (mobster)
Harry "Nig" Rosen was a Philadelphia mobster who was a major organized crime figure on the east coast with influence as far as Atlantic City, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
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Havana Conference
The Havana Conference of 1946 was a historic meeting of United States Mafia and Cosa Nostra leaders in Havana, Cuba.
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Jacob Shapiro
Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro (May 5, 1899 – June 9, 1947) was a New York mobster who, with his partner Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, controlled industrial labor racketeering in New York for two decades and established the Murder, Inc. organization.
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Jake Guzik
Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik (March 20, 1886 – February 21, 1956) was the financial and legal advisor, and later political "greaser," for the Chicago Outfit.
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Jersey Shore
The Jersey Shore is the coastal region of the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Jewish-American organized crime
Jewish-American organized crime emerged within the American Jewish community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Joe Adonis
Joe Adonis (born Giuseppe Antonio Doto; November 22, 1902 – November 26, 1971), also known as "Joey A", "Joe Adone", "Joe Arosa", "James Arosa", and "Joe DiMeo", was a New York mobster who was an important participant in the formation of the modern Cosa Nostra crime families.
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Joe Masseria
Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria (January 17, 1886April 15, 1931) was an early Mafia boss in New York City.
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John Lazia
John Lazia, also known as "Brother John" (September 22, 1896 – July 10, 1934), was an American organized crime figure in Kansas City, Missouri, during the prohibition period in the United States.
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Johnny Torrio
John Donato Torrio (born Donato Torrio, January 20, 1882 – April 16, 1957) was an Italian-born American mobster who helped to build a criminal organization, the Chicago Outfit, in the 1920s; it was later inherited by his protégé, Al Capone.
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Joseph Bonanno
Joseph Charles Bonanno Sr. (January 18, 1905 – May 11, 2002) was an Italian-born American mafioso who became the boss of the Bonanno crime family.
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Legs Diamond
Jack "Legs" Diamond (possibly born John Thomas Diamond, though disputed; July 10, 1897 – December 18, 1931), also known as Gentleman Jack, was an Irish American gangster in Philadelphia and New York City during the Prohibition era.
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Little Italy
Little Italy is a general name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood.
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Louis Buchalter
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (Pronounced "Lep-key"; February 6, 1897March 4, 1944) was a Jewish-American mobster and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc. during the 1930s.
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Lucky Luciano
Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania; November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was an Italian-born mobster and crime boss who operated mainly in the United States.
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Mad Dog Coll
Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll (born Uinseann Ó Colla, July 20, 1908 – February 7, 1932) was an Irish-American mob hitman in the 1920s and early 1930s in New York City.
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Max Hoff (mobster)
Max "Boo Boo" Hoff was born in South Philadelphia in 1892.
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Meyer Lansky
Meyer Lansky (born Meier Suchowlański; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983), known as the "Mob's Accountant", was a major organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States.
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Moe Dalitz
Morris Barney Dalitz (December 25, 1899 – August 31, 1989) was an American gangster, businessman, casino owner and philanthropist.
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Moses Annenberg
Moses "Moe" Louis Annenberg (February 11, 1877 – July 20, 1942) was a Jewish American newspaper publisher, who purchased The Philadelphia Inquirer, the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States in 1936.
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Mustache Pete
A Mustache Pete is the name given to members of the Sicilian Mafia who came to the United States (particularly New York City) as adults in the early 20th century.
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National Crime Syndicate
The National Crime Syndicate was the name given by the press to the multi-ethnic, loosely connected American confederation of several criminal organizations, a confederation that mostly consisted of the closely interconnected Italian-American Mafia and Jewish mob but also included to various lesser extents Irish-American criminal organizations and other ethnic crime groups.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Organized crime
Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit.
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Owney Madden
Owen Vincent Madden (December 18, 1891 – April 24, 1965), known as Owney Madden and nicknamed "The Killer", was a leading underworld figure in Manhattan, most notable for his involvement in organized crime during Prohibition.
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Ritz-Carlton Atlantic City
The Ritz-Carlton Atlantic City began as a hotel on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, built at the beginning of the Roaring Twenties and renowned for its luxurious decor and famous guests.
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Rockefeller family
The Rockefeller family is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes.
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Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang.
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Salvatore Maranzano
Salvatore Maranzano (July 31, 1886 – September 10, 1931) was an organized crime figure 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 the United States.
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Santo Trafficante Sr.
Santo Trafficante Sr. (May 28, 1886 – August 11, 1954) was a Sicilian-born mobster, and father of the powerful mobster Santo Trafficante Jr. Santo Trafficante Sr.
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Sicilian Mafia
The Sicilian Mafia, also known as simply the Mafia and frequently referred to by members as Cosa Nostra (this thing of ours), is a criminal syndicate in Sicily, Italy.
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Sylvestro Carolla
Sylvestro or Silvestro Carolla or Carollo (June 17, 1896 – 1972) was a leader of the New Orleans crime family who was nicknamed "Silver Dollar Sam".
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The Commission (mafia)
The Commission is the governing body of the American Mafia,Capcei, Jerry.
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The Purple Gang
The Purple Gang, also known as the Sugar House Gang, was a mob of bootleggers and hijackers, with predominantly Jewish members.
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Tom Pendergast
Thomas Joseph Pendergast (July 22, 1872 – January 26, 1945) was an American political boss who controlled Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri from 1925 to 1939.
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Tommy Gagliano
Tommaso "Tommy" Gagliano (May 29, 1883 − February 16, 1951)Critchley, p.148-149 was an American mobster and boss of what U.S. federal authorities would later designate as the Lucchese crime family, one of the "Five Families" of New York City.
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Tommy Lucchese
Thomas "Tommy" Lucchese (pronounced; born Gaetano Lucchese, December 1, 1899 – July 13, 1967) was a Sicilian-born American gangster and founding member of the Mafia in the United States, an offshoot of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Vannie Higgins
Charles "Vannie" Higgins (1897 – June 19, 1932) was a New York mobster and one of the most prominent bootleggers during the Prohibition era.
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Vincent Mangano
Vincent Mangano (born Vincenzo Giovanni Mangano; March 28, 1888April 19, 1951), also known as "The Executioner" as he was named in a Brooklyn newspaper, was the head of what would come to be known as the Gambino crime family from 1931 to 1951.
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Vito Genovese
Vito "Don Vitone" Genovese (November 27, 1897 – February 14, 1969) was an Italian-American mobster who rose to power during Prohibition as an enforcer in the American Mafia.
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Waxey Gordon
Waxey Gordon (born Irving Wexler; January 19, 1888 – June 24, 1952) was an American gangster who specialized in bootlegging and illegal gambling.
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White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) is an informal acronym that refers to social group of wealthy and well-connected white Americans of Protestant and predominantly British ancestry, many of whom trace their ancestry to the American colonial period.
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William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst Sr. (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company Hearst Communications and whose flamboyant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human interest stories.
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Willie Moretti
Guarino "Willie" Moretti, also known as Willie Moore (February 24, 1894 – October 4, 1951), was a notorious underboss of the Genovese crime family and a cousin of the family boss Frank Costello.
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1929 in organized crime
See also: 1928 in organized crime, other events of 1929, 1930 in organized crime and the list of 'years in Organized Crime'.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_City_Conference