THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MAFIA

In the Pittsburgh Mafia family, until 1956, the leader of the Mafia family was Frank Amato. He ran it until he was struck by a kidney disease and was forced to resign and become the underboss. His place was taken by Sebastian LaRocca known as "John" LaRocca. It is said that there were family relations between Franck Amato and La Rocca.

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In the city of Pittsburgh, Italian criminals were divided into two factions: the "Sicilians" and the "Neapolitans". The territory within the city was also divided as Sicilian Mafia clans controlled the north and south sides, while Neapolitan Camorra clans controlled the east end.

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Santo Sorge was a powerful Sicilian mafioso residing in the United States. His exact role was never very clear to investigators. For scholars he was one of the great 'unknowns' of the Sicilian and American mafia. He was one of the Sicilian mafia bosses at the top of his time. His opinion was sought and listened to even in important decisions that affected the American mafia. He shuttled between Italy and the United States

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After the summit held in 1956 at the Hotel delle Palme in Palermo, another important meeting took place in 1957. This was the one that will be remembered as the Apalachin summit in the state of New York. It was a milestone in the history of crime in America. Apalachin is an urban aggregate of the United States of America, located in the state of New York, in the county of Tioga.

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THE SUMMIR AT THE HOTEL DELLE PALME -PALERMO

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Joe Profaci, born Giuseppe Profaci, is considered the first mafia boss of the Colombo mafia family of New York. Giuseppe Profaci was born in Villabate in the province of Palermo on October 2, 1897. He soon became a man of honor of the local clan. Joe Profaci entered the United States in New York clandestinely in 1921 with Vincent Mangano. The two were childhood friends, both took refuge in America to escape the regime and the repression wanted by Mussolini in the twenties against the mafia in Sicily. Profaci had already served a year in prison in Italy for theft. In 1927, he assumed American citizenship. Joe Profaci had six children with his wife Ninfa. One of his granddaughters, in 1956, married Salvatore Vincent Bill Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonanno, while his two daughters married one the son of William Tocco and the other the son of Joseph Zerilli, mafia bosses of Detroit.

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From 1964 to about 1969, the last major war was fought in which a major Mafia crime family attempted to gain a position of supremacy over other organized crime families in America. If the plan had been successful, the attackers could have truly changed the course of the criminal world as Lucky Luciano had done. This new conflict of the 1960s was initiated by an elderly boss, namely, Joseph Bonanno, head of the relatively small but efficient New York Mafia family of the same name, also known by the nickname "Bananas", hence the name of the Mafia conflict, namely BANANA’S WAR.

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In 1962 Bonanno, after the death of Joseph Profaci, one of his most faithful friends and allies, from cancer, together with his successor Joe Magliocco, thought of getting rid of the two most powerful bosses: Gambino and Lucchese, therefore organizing a plot to kill them together with their lieutenants.

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Joseph Bonanno, nicknamed "Joe Bananas" from a newspaper typo of the time, was a nickname he hated because it gave the idea that he was crazy. Bonanno was one of the most important Italian-American mobsters, the head of a powerful family of the New York underworld, known to this day as the Bonanno family.

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They called him "Jimmy Blue Eyes". Alo was a key figure in New York's post-Prohibition Genovese Mafia family. He served as a liaison between the Sicilian-Italian mafia and Meyer Lansky's criminal organization. In fact, as we will say below, he was Meyer Lansky's partner in the construction of various casinos in Florida and Cuba.

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