Racket Buster and the future New York State Governor Thomas E. Dewey called him "the king of a racket player." There is no doubt that Vito Genovese was one of the most vicious, silent and dangerous bosses in the history of the mafia.
Genovese was born on 27th November 1897 in Lisi Giano, a small town in Naples, Italy. He received education equivalent to a fifth grade in Italy. In 1913 I went to New York to contact my father who came to America several years ago. The Genovese family settled in the Greenwich Village District in Manhattan and soon Genovese was working for the young famous gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano. Genoa was also nervous with a mafia thug like Frank Costello, Joe "Adonis", Albert Anastasia. However, he did not want to specifically engage with Jewish gangsters like Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel.
Genovese said that when Costello introduced Genoves to Lansky and Siegel for the first time as a partner of various criminal companies, "What are you doing?
Costello says, "Is Dong Bitone easy, you are only a foreigner?
Because the muscles provided by criminal magicians Lansky and Siegel were included, the forbidden era of roaring twenties was very beneficial for Italian soldiers. They also tied to Irish madman Owney "The Killer" Madden and his partner Big Bill Dwyer (known as "the King of Rum Runners"), and the United States of America illegal alcohol It was the largest agent of.
In the mid 1920 's, the biggest Italian gangsters' boss in New York City was Joe 'Boss' Maseria, pig - like thugs and he was just 5 feet tall. He told me that he is doing table manners. "Masseria took Luciano, Costello, Geno Beads under the wing and welcomed him to the second under boss in charge of Luciano.The problem is that Masseria, It was that his men did not like to get along with people who are not Sicilian, especially Lansky, Siegel, Madden, Dwyer.Masseria is from Naples Genovese and Costello (real name Castiglia) from Calabria I did not like either, but Masseria was generous to both men because they were Italians, but Masseria will not promote Genoves and Costello beyond just a mafia soldier, It did not match well with Luciano and his colleagues (such as Italian).
In 1927, Benito Mussolini basically kicked out the mafia from Sicily. I imprisoned some and killed others. Salvatore · Maransano around Sicily's Castellammare Bay escaped to the United States with another group of exiles of Mafia. Maranzano 's boss Don Vito Cascio Ferro was hospitalized for life by chief Mussolini and police Caesar Mori. So Marangano, who figured out that the American Mafia was inferior to the Sicilian brand, decided that he could overcome so many problems with Maseria and all its racks in that cohort. At least, the problem he was unable to handle. This led to historians calling "Castellamarese War".
The wizard who met Maranzano shortly after Maranzano arrived in the US said, "When we arrived we were armed with teeth around him, I thought I was in front of Pancho Villa.
From 1927 to 1930, the Castellammarece War was furious throughout New York City. Men were killed even in streets that appeared in pool rooms, Italian membership clubs, all night diners, bars, restaurants, cars. The murderer fired a gun from the dark doorway, above the car, the roof. When there was no garbage, 50 bodies layered on the street, Luciano began to think of loyalty to Masseria. Lansky, closest to Luciano, warned Luciano, "Waiting for the war, so that our boss will kill each other, we will step on and take over."
In the spring of 1931, Luciano and Lansky had a secret meeting with Maranzano at the midtown office of Maranzano. At this conference, Luciano and his colleagues switched both camps in the Castelamaree war and the Malangano war. Of course, this meant that Luciano took out the Masseria that had not been reconciled.
Luciano figured out the best set-up to seduce the situation where the cassie Massilla always feels comfortable all the time. And, of course, was to scarf the food at a 4 star Italian restaurant.
According to a wonderful book on Rick Cohen's Jewish Genocide Tuff Jews on 15 April 1931, Luciano left the base of Masseria in Manhattan's Little Italy and asked Masseria for lunch at Brooklyn. Luciano told Masseria. "We will go to Scarpato of Brooklyn, Scarpato will modify the sauce using seasoning and olive oil just as in the old country."
A mere reference to the diet caused a tangling under the lips of Mascaria, agreeing to Luciano's request. Two men brought the Maselia bulletproof limousine from Broadway to the east side of Manhattan, sitting at the table behind Scarpato. In just a few hours, Masseria took more food than ordinary people in two days. When his belly became full, Masseria requested a card deck and he and his best friend Luciano could play a little poker.
About 3 PM, Luciano accepted himself and entered the male room. A few seconds later, four men penetrated the front door of the restaurant. They were observed in eclectic Genovese, Anastasia, Siegel, and a very capable Jewish murderer Red Levine. They are said to have shot 20 bullets in Masseria. Some of them are actually connected with the intended target. Maseria died like the hands of the card he had and flattened his back. In the picture of the newspaper the next day, it was a bloody hand on the right of Massalia, who was holding the diamond's ace. From that point on, the soldiers regarded the diamond ace as a curse. Several people sent a diamond ace to the enemy and he warned that he was about to enter Masseria in that hot place downstairs without air conditioning.
As Masseria died, four men were rushed to the waiting car and Ciro Terranova became tense. Terranova was so swinging that I could not get a car. Ciel was angrily pushed Terranova aside and got intoxicated by the runaway car himself. A few years later, Teriano was expelled from Luciano mob. Luciano agreed that Siegel, Levine, Genovese and Terranova did not have the courage.
When Luciano finally left the man's room, he found some nervous waiters, bullet holes on the walls and tables, and dead Masseria on the floor. As soon as the police arrived, Luciano told the law that he had not seen anything since "I was in the toilet, I had not heard anything".
The police had never been arrested in the Maseria murder case because the police had extreme dislike for Maseria and there is room for doubt even that policemen search for murderers.
When Maranzano heard about the death of Masseria, he was happily alone. Maranzano quickly named himself the winner of the Castellamarese war and the new boss of the mafia. He soon made Luciano his right hand.
A few weeks after Masseria 's death, Maranzano is said to attend all Mafioso meetings in New York City and make over 500 men. This conference was held in the big warehouse of the Bronx near the Harlem River. At this conference, Maranzano divided these men into five separate criminal families. As a boss of five of these families, Maranzano named Lucky Luciano, Albert Anastasia, Tommy Luchese, Joe Profaci, Joe Bonnano. Maranzano also appointed the second headquarters ("Underboss") to each family, and he named Genovese "Luciano Family" underboss.
Of course Maranzano was named "Boss of All Bosses" or "Capi de Tuti Capi", but I could not taste it to Luciano or other mafia leaders. A big part of their pie.
Although Maranzano promised that his new organization he called "Cosa Nostra" or "Our Thing" would keep peace and prosperity at the forefront of their activities, Maranzano secretly felt a different feel did. As he felt his ambition was a threat to his leadership, he quickly made a list of those who died. Luciano, Costello and Genovese were posted on this list. Maranzano invited Luciano, Costello, Genovese to the conference at the midtown office of Maranzano. At this conference, Maranzano was scheduled to execute Vincent "Mad Dog" Cole (especially a friendly Irish killer) by all three people. Maranzano paid $ 25,000 in advance to Cole and made another $ 25,000 after dirty acts were done.
However, Luciano was said to have one mole in the inner circle of Maranzano, said Tommy Luchese, Luchese gave Luciano a hint about setup. On the day of their intended collapse neither Luciano, Costello, nor Genovese were anywhere near Maranzano's office. Instead, Luciano sent four Jewish gangsters chosen by Meyer Lansky and led Red Levine (also one of the Masseria's killing sniper) at Maranzano's office. The four murderers who appeared as police officers passed away the Malangano bodyguard of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were arrested at Malangano's internal office and shot Marangano.
Later, the four murderers hurried off from Maranzano's office, followed by Maranzano's former bodyguard looking for a new job. The men got down the stairs and threw bullets at "Mad Dog" · Call (Cole) who was carrying a machine gun in the case of Bayern. They called that Maranzano was already dead before the policeman appeared. Cole faced her face and followed the killer from the building. I just received a payday of 25,000 dollars without shooting.
Masseria and now Maranzano have ceased, five Mafia families prospered. However, Genovese was the most malicious murderer with Anastasia, but began to kill off control.
First, Genovese's wife (unknown) suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth. The word of the city was that Genoa killed his wife and extinguished the body. It fell in love with a woman named Anna. The only problem was that Anna was already married to a man named Gerard Vernoteco. Now this is merely a small obstacle of Genovese, killing Bernothico on the roof of the tenoteir and married two weeks later with Anna on March 30, 1932.
In 1934, things began to collapse for Genovese. One of his conspirators in the plot was Ferdinand Boccia. Genovese feared that Boccia was a weak link, screamed and killed Boccia himself. This will come back to attack Genovesse later.
In 1936, a special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey focused on organized crime, especially Luciano and Genovese. After Luciano was convicted of prostitution which was supposed to be compiled by Dewey himself, Luciano was sentenced to imprisonment for 30 to 50 years. Luciano named Genoves as the boss of the family of Luciano. However, in 1937 Geno Beads was pointed out in the murder of Boccia three years ago. Genovese did not fall into the same fate as Luciano, but a year later Genoa fled to Sicily after Genoa became a naturalized citizen of America. Genovese could not oversee the Luciano family, Luciano regretted that Frank Costello was the head of the Luciano family from prison.
Genovese was in Sicily, but he was a really busy man. Geo no Beads was told that he had paid $ 750,000 in cash and decided to take out this funds through. Of course, this was impossible unless Mr. Benito Mussolini, an Italian dictator who was closely involved in the war, had friendship and cooperation as an enemy country of the United States. Genovese expended the construction of the Mussolini power plant in Nuola in southern Italy. After that, Genovese contributed $ 250,000 to the construction of a municipal building that Mussolini wanted to build. Whenever Genovese got a little cash, he contacted Anna, an American wife who had dealt with Genovese's business operations during exile himself was expelled. In the meantime, Anna Genoesee frequently traveled to Italy to supplement his wallet.
Genoveni awarded Genovese the crown of Italy to express appreciation for the greatness of Genoveni. And in 1943, Genoa was the radical radical Italian newspaper Il Martello for the murder of Italian newspaper editor Carlo Tresa, New York's chief drug offender of Mussolini in 1943 Was sold in the American Italian community. This hit is said to have been done by an up-and-coming caster Carmen Galante who shot Tressa behind his head when Tresso was walking on Fifth Avenue near 13th Avenue.
In 1944, the Mussorie empire was collapsing. Genovese looked at the handwriting on the wall, switched the side, basically started working for the US military as an information provider. I led the Army to the dark market operators Genovers had traded. Immediately, the army learned why Genovese was working so easily. It was thought that Don Vitone himself took over the operation each time the army closed down the dark market operation Genoveses had led them.
After the war ended, Genovese returned to the United States as all the witnesses to Genovese died or disappeared. There was no evidence against Genovese, and the lawyer just dismissed Boxia's murder case against him.
Genovesz immediately tried to regain control of the Luciano family, but Costello settled with the help of Lansky and Anastacia. So Genovese spent his own time. He moved with his wife to a luxurious house in Atlantic Highland, New Jersey and took a civic conscious businessman who was heavily involved in many charities, including American Boy Scouts. In fact, Genovese is deeply involved in the narcotics business, attacking millions of people, building the hearts of war and breaking through the road again and fought.
Genovers caused a minor setback when Anna Genovese claiming physical and mental pain in 1953 sued Xenovez for divorce. Anna Genovesz was reported daily in a divorce trial but said her husband left millions of dollars in European accounts and earned 20,000 to 30,000 dollars a week from an Italian lottery game. With this, Genovese made many dishonors among his Mafia group and delayed the coup d'etat planned for the rule of the Mafia family.
Genovese waited for his attack until 1957. Since returning from Italy, it was estimated that Genovese had accumulated about $ 30 million "play money" to invest in treachery, thanks to his activities with drug trade, Italian lottery, corrupt labor union. The three main obstacles to achieving his Mafia rule were Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia, Meyer Lansky. Lanski is Jewish and he is not entitled to join the mafia, so Genovers figured out whether to give out Costello and Anastacia, but Lansky would have no other choice.
Genovers tried to take the first biting of an apple when dispatching the former boxer Vincent "Chin" Gigante to ambush Costello in the lobby of an apartment in Costello Park Avenue in 1957. Gigante pointed out his gun and said, "This is for you, Frank! But the bolt-tightened Gigante simply took off Costello's head, the same night the hospital's emergency room and Costello hurried I returned to bed.Costello rejected trying to assassinate Gigantend when faithful to the code of Omelta, Gigante was captured and tried.
Genovese's second upward movement has been more successful. On October 25, 1957, Genovese arranged for a murder in Anastacia, where two men sat in a barber's chair at the Park Sheridan Hotel filled with lead. It is said that Genoa originally contracted a murder contract with Joe Profaci, a member of the Mafia five family, and Profaci contracted a crew of Red Hook Brooklyn of Crazy Joe Gallo. Anastasia's murder was never resolved and for several years several men have privately trusted for hits including Gallo.
Genovese still bought the Mafia, Costello and Lanski formulated a plan to release Genovese without killing Genovese with the approval of Luciano, which was now expelled to Italy. They got the help of an ambitious soldier named Carlo Gambino who wanted the rise of herself. Gambino proposed Genovese about millions of international drug transactions that would make a lot of money. Despite Genovese prohibiting drug creation by his crew, Don Vitone agreed greedily because he did not think that this ban came to him. Later, Gambino arranged his crooked relationship at a law enforcement agency so that Genovese was arrested on accusations of drug conspiracy. However, the Federal Reserve Board (FB) needed proof before arguing to judge Genovese.
Mr. Gambino knew a small drug and dealer suspected of being rotten at Sing Sing Prison named Nelson Cantellops. He tentatively approached Cantellops and suggested that Cantellops would testify whether he witnessed Genovese involved in several major medicine transactions.Gambino suggested Cantellops a huge $ 100,000 huge I arranged to pay the amount,. In order to achieve this, Costello, Lansky, Luciano will donate $ 50,000 and Gambino will donate $ 50,000.
Luciano later said, "We had to pay him (Canteprops) considerably".
Cantellops thought about the proposition for about 2 seconds and he agreed to take a bribe.
Thereafter, an anonymous chip was called to the drug department in New York, Cantellops said that he is willing to trade information on geno beads for his freedom. Genoa is such a big fish, Cantelops is not almost a minnow, the government easily agreed.
In 1958 Genovese and 24 crew members were arrested for violating the new drug control law.
In 1959, at Genovese's trial, Cantellops was a complete four-week star witness. Cantellops has witnessed Genovese and his colleagues for many years and pledged to buy a number of medicines. He also said that he carried a New York heroin as a courier for Geno Beads for two years and was carrying it to various cities throughout the country. Cantellops took part in the Bronx conference with Genovese at one time and tested talking about how to divide the heroin sales area.
Almost exclusively, Genovese and all 24 cohorts of his cohorts were convicted based on the testimony of Nelson · canterops. Geno Beads was sentenced to imprisonment for 15 years to serve at the Atlanta Criminal Court in Atlanta, Georgia.
While in prison, Genovese continued to run criminals through brokers. Jo Barrachi became very delusive as he later knew that he was a picture frame while housing Genoesee in prison before the sub committee of John L. McClellan . Genovese did not believe anyone, even merely ordered his top assistant Tony vendor to enforce, just because he doubted the vendor by mistaking what he was involved in the setup.
In prison, Genovese developed neurological symptoms and severe heart disease. Bito Genovese died of a heart attack while staying in prison on February 14, 1969. He is buried in Queens 'Saint John' # 39; s Cemetery.
On the 1972 film Barrache starring Charles Bronson, Geno Beads was painted by actor Reno Ventura. And in the 2001 TV program "Boss of Bosses", some of the geno beads were played by actor Stephen Bower.
