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Salvatore "Sammy G" Gingello, underboss/acting boss of the Rochester La Cosa Nostra, circa 1973. |
Murder scene of Rochester acting boss Salvatore Gingello outside Ben's Cafe Society on Stillson Street in April of 1978. Gingello died at the hospital. Prior to this hit, a rival faction made five unsuccessful attempts on Gingello's life. |
Louis Buchalter, A.K.A. Louis Lepke. Foremost labor racketeer during 1930s, becoming a millionaire. Head of Murder, Inc. and associate of Albert Anastasia, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello. Executed in 1944 for murder. | Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli, acting boss and boss of New York's Genovese Mafia clan 1960-1972. Murdered. |
An early rumrunner in the Prohibition Area, Larry Fay made a half a million dollars bringing whiskey into New York from Canada. Was shot 4 times at close range and died instantly on New Years Day, 1933 by a disgruntled doorman. |
Rosario Porrello, oldest of the seven Porrello brothers, Cleveland's second mob family. Killed in 1932 near E. 110th Street and Woodland Avenue, the "bloody corner."
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Joe Porrello, corn sugar baron and leader of the seven Porrello brothers. Second mob boss of Cleveland rackets 1927-1930. Murdered. |
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