PROHIBITION ERA GANGSTERS

The 18th Amendment helped the mob make serious cash.

During Prohibition the gangs in America went from reasonably rich criminals to multi-millionaires.

Good Times

But it was nothing like our War on Drugs. It is impossible not to get rich in this war. Yeah Congress.

Cocaine dollars built half of Miami.

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MARANZANO AND MASSERIA WERE THE FIRST BOSSES

THE MUSTACHE PETES

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SALVATORE MARANZANO

JOE MASSERIA

THOSE TWO GUYS WEREN’T SURE WHAT TO DO WITH PROHIBITION

THEIR LIEUTENANTS KNEW

THE YOUNG GUYS HAD TO MURDER THEM TO GET WHAT THEY WANTED

AN END TO THE CASTELLAMMARESE WAR(BETWEEN MARANZANO AND MASSERIA)

ANDTO MAKE LOTS OF MONEY

NEW YORK HAS 5 CRIME FAMILIES

THEY WERE ESTABLISHED AFTER THE CASTELLAMMARESE WAR

THESE CRIME FAMILIES EXIST IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER TODAY

A FEW RETAINED THEIR FOUNDING FATHER’S NAMES

• Bonanno Crime Family

• Colombo Crime Family

• Gambino Crime Family

• Genovese Crime Family

• Lucchese crime family

Following are the photos of the people they are named after.

JOE BONNANOLead the Bonnano Crime Family

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JOE COLUMBOLead to Columbo Crime Family

CARLO GAMBINOLead of the Gambino Crime Family

VITO GENOVESELead of the Genovese Crime Family

TOMMY LUCCHESSE

Lead the Lucchese Crime Family

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LUCKY LUCIANOWhy does Lucky not get a crime

family named after him.

He is the most famous of all New York mob bosses.

First among equals.

MEYER LANSKYHe was the gambling czar for the

mob. He doesn’t get a crime family either.

Was a gangster during Prohibition and long after it.

His life long friend was Bugsy Seigel who built Las Vegas and Lansky was

big into developing gambling in Cuba before Castro took over.

BUGSY SIEGELBuilt Las Vegas for the mob. They

killed him for being stupid.

Very close friend of Meyer Lansky and a lot of other mafia big shots.

ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN

Advisor to Lucky Luciano and other people, especially Jewish gangsters

Major gambler – accused of fixing world series

The Italian gangs seem to have been the muscle of his operation.

Advised Meyer Lansky

No crime family for him either

HERE ARE SOME OF THE MEN WHO FILLED THE ORIGINAL FAMILY BOSSES

POSTITIONSHow important they are depends on their biographer but all of

these men were big shots in the mob. Leaders of Organized Crime.

They would have been soldiers/capos during Prohibition

JOE PROFACILead the Profaci Crime Family

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FRANK COSTELLOLead the Costello Crime Family

THOSE ARE THE HISTORICAL LEADERS OF THE NEW YORK MAFIA

EVERY METROPOLITAN AREA WILL HAVE SOMEONE IN CHARGE OF IT

TO BE ORGANIZED YOU NEED TO HAVE A BOSS AND STRUCTURE

What did Chicago do for criminal leadership.

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CHICAGOTHE OUTFIT

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JOHNNY TORRIOBoss in Chicago until he retired.

Al Capone worked for him

Al Capone did not murder his boss to get the top spot

AL CAPONEThe next boss of Chicago.

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AL CAPONE

CAPONE’S JAIL CELL

I don’t remember which prison.

Capone went to prison a few times.

Also, Capone wasn’t a mafia member. He wasn’t from Sicily.

TONY ACCARDOOne of the bosses between Capone

and Giancana.

Possibly even more vicious than Capone

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PAUL RICCAThe other boss of Chicago between

Capone and Giancana.

SAM GIANCANANext big boss of the Chicago Outfit

We are going to stop with him. It is very unlikely he was old enough to

be a prohibition gangster.

OF COURSE PHILADELPHIA, LOS ANGELES, NEW ORLEANS, AND OTHER

CITIES HAVE ORGANIZED CRIME.

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ALL THESE AREAS HAVE A MOB BOSS WHO RUNS THEM.

THEY JUST DON’T GET INTO THE PAPER AS MUCH.

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IN THE MOB IT IS BETTER TO BE INVISIBLE THAN TO BE SEEN.

CARLOS MARCELLO

He was the leader in Lousiana.

Bobby Kennedy deported him to somewhere in South America and left him in the jungle with no ID or

money.

Marcello held a grudge the rest of his life.

JFK was shot??? Who knows

Would have been a soldier during Prohibition. Ran plenty of Rum from

Cuba to America

JOSEPH KENNEDY

Father to JFK and Bobby.

Also a United States Ambassador

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Apparently owned a fleet of trucks and let “guys” use them to drive to Canada and pick up

Seagram’s whiskey during Prohibition.

SEAGRAMS DID VERY WELL DURING PROHIBITION.

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I wonder how many of our politicians are getting rich off our war on drugs. Scum bags. Maybe drug dealers pay them to keep drugs illegal so

they don’t lower the profit margins.

CRIME FIGHTER***********

BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN INCORRUPTIBLE

Arch nemesis to every rumrunner, bootlegger, gangster type violating the 18th

Amendment

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ST. VALENTINES DAY MASSACREProbably the most famous mob

slayings of all time.

The assassins pretended to be police officers and killed a rival

gang.

No one knows who did these killings but Al Capone profited by them.

PROHIBITION ERA GANGSTERS AND

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