Prohibition-era gangsters

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 137. Chapters: Al Capone, Joseph Bonanno, Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel, Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, Salvatore Maranzano, Frank Costello, Dutch Schultz, Tommy Lucchese, John Ashley, Roger Touhy, Joe Masseria, Bugs Moran, Frankie Yale, Frank Nitti, Dean O'Banion, Arnold Rothstein, Owney Madden, Tony Accardo, Russell Bufalino, Frank McErlane, Max Greenberg, Vito Genovese, Joe Adonis, Sam DeStefano, Johnny Torrio, Jack Dragna, Joe Aiello, Charles Birger, John Patrick Looney, Louis Buchalter, Mad Dog Coll, Jack Diamond, Hymie Weiss, Nick Licata, Louis Campagna, Jack McGurn, Anthony Carfano, Edward J. O'Hare, Frank Rio, Bill Dwyer, Buster from Chicago, Jake Guzik, Vannie Higgins, Anthony D'Andrea, Myles O'Donnell, Bill Lovett, Richard Lonergan, John Scalise, Theodore Roe, Waxey Gordon, Fred Burke, Abner Zwillman, Peter Gusenberg, Jacob Orgen, Joseph Ardizzone, Frank Gusenberg, Alfred Mineo, Vincenzo Rao, John Lazia, William Colbeck, Vincent Drucci, Gaetano Reina, Settimo Accardi, Joseph Saltis, Steve Ferrigno, Moe Dalitz, Morris Rudensky, Louis Alterie, Tommy Gagliano, Antonio Lombardo, Mike Merlo, Nathan Kaplan, Frank Wortman, Joseph Dippolito, Stefano Magaddino, Sam Battaglia, Salvatore Todaro, Fred Goetz, Francis Cavanaugh, Ernesto Rossi, Frank DeMayo, Charles Solomon, Thomas Licavoli, Robert Carey, John "Pudgy" Dunn, Tom Dragna, David "Chippy" Robinson, John Mirabella, Jack Zuta, Danny Hogan, Albert Anselmi, William Egan, Tommy O'Connor, Rosario DeSimone, Samuel Morton, Gus Winkler, Walter Stevens, James McLain, James Cunniffe, Harry Rosen, John Duffy, Samuel Weiss, Salvatore D'Aquila, Claude Maddox, Pasqualino Lolordo, Leo Vincent Brothers, Vito Bonventre, Harry Keywell, Frank Wallace, Daniel O'Leary. Excerpt: Carlo "Don Carlo" Gambino, (August 24, 1902 - October 15, 1976) was a mafioso who became boss of the Gambino crime family, that still bears his name today. After the 1957 Apalachin Convention he unexpectedly seized control of the Commission of La Cosa Nostra in the US. Gambino was known for being low-key and secretive. Gambino served 22 months in prison (1938-39), and lived to the age of 74, when he died of a heart attack in bed, "In a state of grace", according to a priest who had given him the Last Rites of the Catholic Church. He had two brothers, Gaspare Gambino, who later married and was never involved with the Mafia, and Paolo Gambino, who was a caporegime in his brother's family. Gambino was a native of the town Caccamo in Palermo, Sicily. He was born to a family that belonged to the Honored Society. The Honored Society was slightly more complicated than the Black Hand of America, which was often confused with the American Mafia. The Black Hand, much like the pre-1920s Mafia, was a highly disorganized version of the real European mafia. Once Benito Mussolini chased a great deal of real mafiosi out of Italy, Italian-Americans such as Gambino benefited from the new, better-organized Mafia. Gambino began carrying out murder orders for new Mob bosses in his teens. In 1921, at the age of 19, he became a "made man", and was inducted into Cosa Nostra. He was later known as an "original". He was a cousin of Sicilian Gambino crime family mobster Paul Castellano. Gambino entered the United States as an illegal immigrant on a shipping boat. He ate nothing but anchovies and wine during the trip, and joined his cousins, the Castellanos, in New York City. There he joined a crime family headed by Salvatore "Tata" ...