La Cosa Nostra History in the U.S.

Savatore Maranzano September 10, 1931, Helmsley Building, New York City.   A team of hitmen enter the building and head to the 9 th floor, where Maranzano’s office is located.   The hit team posed as cops and federal lawmen so as not to alarm the guards that Maranzano had in place.   The hit team disarmed the guards as they made their way up to Maranzano’s office.   The hit team consisted of four members, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia, JoeAdonis , and Samuel Levine . Maranzano is grabbed and pinned up against the wall, he is repeatedly stabbed.   Knife wounds to the chest, stomach, face, Maranzano is strangled, and finally the hit team pumps six rounds into his lifeless body.   Why did Maranzano suffer the same fate as his former nemesis Joe Masseria, six months after killing him?   Who ordered Maranzano’s death? Early Years Salvatore Maranzano was born on July 31, 1886 in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy.   As a young Sicilian boy Maranzano had inter

In the late 1960s the FBI faces heavy criticism in its handling of the safety of African Americans in the south.   In the south the FBI is facing a tough enemy, the local citizens, cops, local government, and member of the Ku Klux Klan. January 10, 1966 the home of Vernon Dahmer, President of a local NAACP chapter is attacked by members of the White Nights of the Ku Klux Klan.   The KKK started shooting at the Dahmer house with shotguns, then they started throwing gas jugs at the home.   Dahmer’s home, car, and grocery store were destroyed in the fire.   Vernon Dahmer suffered massive burns to his upper body.   Dahmer later died at the hospital.   The F.B.I. calls the New York office and requested the use of informant NY-3461 for a special assignment.   The informant is later identified as a member of the Colombo Family Gregory Scarpa.   Scarpa would go on to lead a very unique life, a hitman, and informant, and a family man.   How was a Profaci/Colombo family hitman recruited

  November 17, 1986 Colombo Crime Family Boss Carmine “the snake” Persico is handed a 39-year jail sentence, while his son Alphonse “Little Allie Boy” Persico was handed a 12-year term.   In January of 1987 Carmine Persico is handed a 100-year jail sentence, effectively taking away his freedom for the rest of his life.   The snake wanted to maintain control of the family, and this would ensure that he would continue making money from the illegal rackets.   The snake appoints his brother “Allie Boy” as acting boss, however he was arrested for loansharking and then he disappeared.   The snake the creates a ruling committee consisting of Colombo Crime family members Vittorio "Little Vic" Orena , Joseph Russo, and Benedetto Aloi.   The committee would remain in place until Little Allie Boy was released from prison.   Vic Orena was also promoted to the rank of Capo and given Little Allie Boy’s old crew.   Orena then set up shop in New York and most of New Jersey.   Orena