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Apr 29, 2022 · Four members and two associates of New York’s Genovese crime family were charged with multiple counts of racketeering in a superseding indictment unveiled by a federal court in New York, a U.S. Department of Justice statement said on Tuesday.
Sep 9, 2016 · Suave, shrewd, cunning and cruel, Vito Genovese’s tentacles stretched out across the globe from a tiny parcel of land in Manhattan’s bohemian Greenwich Village. Surrounded by clannish Sicilians on all sides and the Irish waterfront mob to the west...
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Vito Genovese (Italian: [ˈviːto dʒenoˈveːze,-eːse]; November 21, 1897 – February 14, 1969) was an Italian-born American mobster of the American Mafia.A childhood friend and criminal associate of the legendary Lucky Luciano, Genovese took part in the Castellammarese War and helped Luciano shape the new American Mafia's rise as a major force in organized crime in the United States.
- Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) Scorsese is up to his old tricks of making pearls out of swine. His gangster classic Goodfellas told the story of a rat fink bastard, Henry Hill, a Lucchese family associate who got 50 of his friends pinched after informing starting in 1980.
- Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) Russell Bufalino may have been inadvertently responsible for the public getting knowledge about the American Mafia. He came to the public eye in October 1963 when Genovese family soldier Joseph Valachi named his name on national television when he testified at the McClellan Senate hearings.
- Mob Boss Angelo Bruno (Harvey Keitel) Angelo Bruno brought order to chaos for the Philadelphia mob in a leadership that lasted a generation. Known as “the Gentle Don” or “the Docile Don,” Bruno was shot in the head while sitting in a car outside of his house on March 21, 1980.
- Phil Testa (Larry Romano) “Well they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night and they blew up his house too,” Bruce Springsteen sang on “Atlantic City.”
In 1945, Vito Genovese returned to America and life would never be the same for the mob...or for Joseph Valachi. Arrested in Italy by the United States Military Police as the ringleader of a massive black market operation, Genovese was returned to New York.
Aug 29, 2024 · In the upcoming film Alto Knights, Robert De Niro plays a dual role portraying Mob bosses Vito Genovese, left, and Frank Costello, right, as they are locked in a dispute over Mob leadership. Library of Congress, Jeff Spicer/Getty Images, Library of Congress
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