Outlaws & Gunslingers

This week we'll cover two high ranking members of the Genovese Family. Anthony Strollo also known as Tony Bender was a close friend and underboss of Vito Genovese and helped him plan the attempted assassination on Frank Costello. He eventually turned on Vito and he ended up "missing" in 1962. Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli was a former Capo and became "acting boss" when Vito Genovese went to prison. However, it is said that there was a three man ruling committee at this time. When he borrowed $4 million from Carlo Gambino and didn't pay it back, he was murdered on July 16th, 1972.

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Although Meyer Lansky wasn't technically in the American Mafia, he was a significant figure that helped the Mafia become dominant in the 1950's along with Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel. He was instrumental in getting the gambling business started in Cuba before Castro took over which brought the Mafia millions of dollars. Nicknamed "The Mob Accountant" he is said to have been the money man behind a lot of Mafia endeavors and was a primary investor in the Flamingo Hotel which Bugsy ran and the reason he was killed.

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This week we cover the namesake of the Genovese Family, Vito Genovese. Starting out as an enforcer for Lucky Luciano, he eventually rose through the ranks. After Luciano was deported to Italy, Genovese and Frank Costello became embroiled into a power struggle which Vito won and the rest is history.

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This week we cover Frank Costello who ran with Lucky Luciano during the early Mafia days. After Luciano took control of what is now the Genovese family, Frank was his Consigliere and later became the boss after Luciano was deported back to Italy. He is perhaps more famous for his feud with Vito Genovese for control of the family which he ultimately lost and lived out his life in semi-retirement. He is also said to be the inspiration behind the Don Corleone character in Godfather.

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This week, we cover two major conferences that were attended by the nation's top crime boss. First was the Atlantic City Conference on May 13-16, 1929 and is likely the first organized crime summit ever held. In Atlantic City, the boss's goal was to curb the violent bootleg wars in New York and Chicago and establish a plan to work together moving forward. The Havana Conference meanwhile, was set up to discuss how to move forward with the drug trade and it was here that the decision was made to kill Bugsy Siegel.

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This week we cover The Commission which is the governing body of the Mafia. Consisting of all 5 New York families as well as a couple other families around the country, they decide the most important issues facing the Mafia mainly to prevent warfare between families and they also vote on who will become new bosses of families when the situation calls for it. We will go through the forming of the Commission as well as some important events involving it such as the Apalachin Meeting and the Commission Trials in the 80s.

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The Castellammarese War was fought from February 1930 to April 1931 between the rival families of Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano. After Maranzano's side wins, he established the infamous 5 families of New York and declares himself "capo di tutti capi" or boss of all bosses. However, doing so angers Lucky Luciano who takes Maranzano out and creates "The Commission'' and the Mafia begins to take shape how we know them today.

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his week we will have a 2 for 1 episode with the first half covering the Five Points Gang from NYC. Although not technically part of the Mafia, the gang is where notable Mafia figures like Johnny Torrio, Lucky Luciano, Al Capone and Frankie Yale got their start. As for Frankie Yale, we profile him in the second half of the episode. During the 1920's he was a major Mafia player and ran Brooklyn before he crossed his long time friend Al Capone.

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This week, we profile Giuseppe Morello, who is widely believed to be the first Sicilian mafioso to migrate to the United States and bring Mafia activities with him. We'll take a look at his early "black hand" (extortion) and counterfeiting operations up to his death in the Castellammarese War.

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We have finally made it to covering the American Mafia and we start out with a quick history lesson on the mob. From the arrival of the first known Italian mafioso to America up to today's Mafia activities, it's all here! Stay tuned to our upcoming shows because we have in depth profiles on mafia figures and events throughout history. Outlaws & Gunslingers is your new home for Mafia content!

Sources used in this episode:fbi.govhttps://schoolworkhelper.net/history-of-the-american-mafia/wikipedia Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/outlaws-gunslingers--4737234/support.

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