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- Louis "Louie the Lump" Pioggi (April 24, 1889 – May 15, 1969) was an American criminal and member of the Five Points Gang, known most prominently for the murder of Eastman Gang leader Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach and Vach "Cyclone Louie" Lewis. He appears in newspaper accounts and public records as Louis Poggi.
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Louis "Louie the Lump" Pioggi (April 24, 1889 – May 15, 1969) was an American criminal and member of the Five Points Gang, known most prominently for the murder of Eastman Gang leader Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach and Vach "Cyclone Louie" Lewis.
Dec 29, 2013 · Louis “Louie Lump Lump” Barone confessed to killing Albert Circelli in a dispute over a song sung by Rena Strober. Mobster Albert Circelli was killed. Strober finished to applause and sat...
Sep 29, 2022 · Because this December evening, soon after Strober finished what had become known among Rao’s regulars as “her song,” gunshots broke out: Louis “Louie Lump Lump” Barrone, 67, shot and killed...
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Jan 9, 2004 · Louis Barone, as the police would identify him, Louie Lump Lump to those who knew him from 116th Street, said he hadn’t even planned to bring the five-shot Smith & Wesson to Rao’s that night.
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Louis "the Lump" Pioggi (24 April 1889-15 May 1969) was a Five Points Gang member and the murderer of Max Zwerbach and Vach Lewis in 1908.
Louis Pioggi was born on 24 April 1889, and he worked as a hospital clerk in Coney Island, New York City. Pioggi later joined the Italian Five Points Gang under Paul Kelly, and he grew angry at Max Zwerbach due to a romantic rivalry. On 14 May 1908, Pioggi and a few Five Points Gang hitmen killed Zwerbach and Vach Lewis as they left a local restaur...
Feb 7, 2012 · On a December night in 2003, at Rao’s, the legendary restaurant on Pleasant Avenue in East Harlem, a man nicknamed Louie Lump Lump (pictured above) shot.
Jan 13, 2004 · Those were the first words Louie “Lump Lump” Barone said outside Rao’s restaurant when he was nabbed for last month’s fatal shooting in the famous East Harlem eatery. But Barone’s poker face...