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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Joe_MasseriaJoe Masseria - Wikipedia

    Giuseppe " Joe the Boss " Masseria ( Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe masseˈriːa]; January 17, 1886 – April 15, 1931) was an early Italian-American Mafia boss in New York City. He was boss of what is now called the Genovese crime family, one of the New York City Mafia's Five Families, from 1922 to 1931.

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  3. allthatsinteresting.com › joe-masseriaJoe Masseria And The Hit That Changed The Mafia Forever

    Apr 27, 2024 · Joe Masseria got his revenge in 1928 when D’Aquila was murdered by one of his men after stepping out of a doctor’s office. For the next two years, Masseria solidified his control over organized crime in New York.

  4. www.britannica.com › biography › Joe-MasseriaJoe Masseria | Mafia Don, Prohibition Era & New York City

    Joe Masseria (born c. 1887, Italy—died April 15, 1931, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was a leading crime boss of New York City from the early 1920s until his murder in 1931. Emigrating from Sicily at age 16, Masseria associated with a band of Italian killers and Black Hand extortionists and committed burglaries and other petty crimes, but in 1920 he ...

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  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Colombo_crime_familyColombo crime family - Wikipedia

    Months after the D'Aquila murder, Joe Masseria began a campaign to become capo di tutti capi ('boss of bosses') in the United States, demanding tribute from the remaining three Mafia groups in New York City, which included the Reina family, the Castellammarese Clan and the Profaci family.

  7. themobmuseum.org › blog › the-afternoon-that-joe-masseriaThe afternoon that Joe Masseria dined on bullets

    Apr 14, 2021 · The tale of Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria’s assassination on April 15, 1931, is one of many gangland legends that have been told, retold and morphed over the decades. It is sometimes hard to distinguish facts from folklore.

  8. mafiahistory.org › gangsters › joe-masseriaGangsters | Joe Masseria

    Joe Masseria was a member of the Morello Gang began before becoming boss of and creating the Masseria Organization. During the period of Prohibition, he along with Peter Morello operated one of the largest and most power criminal empires in America.

  9. americanmafiahistory.com › joe-masseriaGiuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria - "The Man who could Dodge...

    Jun 22, 2015 · Both men were shot and killed in unusual circumstances and after their deaths, their families came under the control of Joe Masseria, now called Joe the Boss, the head of the largest mafia family in New York.