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Sep 12, 2023 · The autocratic reign of self-proclaimed boss of all bosses Salvatore Maranzano came to a bloody end 92 years ago this month. A progressive faction of underworld gangsters were setting the stage for a violent preemptive strike against the last of two warring criminal overlords.
Salvatore Maranzano (Italian: [salvaˈtoːre maranˈtsaːno]; July 31, 1886 – September 10, 1931), nicknamed Little Caesar, [1] was an Italian-American mobster from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss who led what later would become the Bonanno crime family in New York City.
Salvatore Maranzano was married to Elizabetta Minore with whom he reportedly had four children. After his death, he was buried in Saint John's Cemetery, Queens, New York.
- It Started as The Castellammarese Clan
- Bonanno Was Just 26 When He Took Over The Family
- Bonanno’s Absence Led to The Banana War
- Joseph Massino Took Over in 1991
- 2017 and 2018 Saw More Bonanno Family Arrests
The Bonanno family can be traced back to Castellammare del Golfo, a town in Sicily, where the clan was founded by Giuseppe Bonanno and his older brother, Stefano. Their younger brother, Salvatore, married Catherine Bonventre and they had Joseph Bonanno, who would go on to head up the family for over three decades. In 1930, a war broke out between t...
According to Bonanno’s New York Times obituary, he was just 26 years old when he took over running the Maranzano crime family — which would become known as the Bonanno crime family. The New York Times reported that Bonanno acknowledged the other Mafia families in the Commission, but always said that the Five Families in New York were its most impor...
In the year and a half that Bonanno was MIA, control of the Bonanno family was up for grabs. Gaspar DeGregorio, a Bonanno soldier, took seized control despite Joseph’s son, Bill Bonanno’s claim to the leadership. It eventually led to a split in the family between those who were loyal to Bill and those who were loyal to DiGregorio. The Commission su...
After the turbulent 1970s and 1980s, which saw many Mafia members end up dead or in prison, Massino took over and started running things very differently. He closed down the Bonanno family social clubs and started doing business much more secretively. He also changed the family’s name to the Massino family. By 1998, he was the only New York mafia b...
In 2017, the FBI arrested several members of the Bonanno family for narcotics trafficking. Then just a few months later, in January 2018, eight more members were arrested on racketeering and extortion charges. Michael Mancuso has been the head of the family since 2013. He was in prison at the time, serving a sentence for the murder of associate Ran...
Aug 11, 2019 · News, notes, articles and book excerpts from authors of crime history.
Jul 31, 2018 · The criminal boss Salvatore Maranzano, who became the head of organised crime in New York City after the so-called Castellammarese War of 1930-31, was born on this day in 1886 in Castellammare del Golfo in Sicily. Maranzano’s position as ‘capo di tutti capi’ - boss of all bosses - in the city lasted only a few months before he was killed ...
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Sep 6, 2024 · Salvatore Maranzano was an American gangster of the Prohibition era and leader among the old-country-oriented Italians, known as “Moustache Petes,” many of whom were former members of the Sicilian Mafia and Neapolitan Camorra.
