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A short story about the Italian Mafia bosses. Among the many cemeteries in New York there is one, which enjoyed great popularity among the members of the Mafia families. It is a Catholic cemetery of St. John (St. John) in Queens. The choice was purely geographical - of all Catholic cemeteries in New York is, at the time, was the closest to the areas densely populated by immigrants and Italy.





After death all are equal, so there may lie in the neighborhood of the former best friends and bitter enemies, the murderers and their victims, an informer who worked for the FBI and the head of a mafia family. Many of today's inhabitants of the cemetery have finished the course of life was a prison, someone died free, but with a bullet in the head, while others live on old age and died of a heart attack while reading a newspaper at home. Whatever was their end, the history of each almost finished the script for a Hollywood movie.

The most famous resident of the cemetery is Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1897-1962) - American Gangster №1, head of the clan Genovese / Luciano, the father of organized crime the US and one of the most powerful criminal leaders reorganized and created the first Mafia Commission.



Luciano worked all: bootlegging, drugs, gambling, prostitution, contract killings, etc. systematizing, organizing and turning it all into a profitable business. He owned a huge network of brothels in New York, he was the first of the bosses of the Mafia began to collaborate with criminals is not of Italian descent, he was one of the organizers of "Murder Inc." - the Italo-Jewish combat brigades engaged in murder on the orders of the Mafia, he established channels of delivery of drugs in the United States and offered to sell heroin at a discount among the residents of disadvantaged and black areas, thereby creating a market for the future.



In 1936, Luciano was convicted of numerous crimes and had to spend much of his life in prison, but the Second World and Luciano was useful exploration of the US Navy, becoming a mediator between mafia bosses control the territory and ports by US authorities. He also helped to establish relations with Italian mafia before the Allied landings in Sicily. As a result, in 1946 for his services to the country (like wild as it sounds), he was released from prison on condition of deportation to Italy (which was illegal, since Luciano is a US citizen). Dine at the last time on board the vessel standing in the port of New York, he left America for good. Back here he could have just lying in a wooden box.



In 1962, Luciano died of a heart attack at the airport of Naples, where he arrived for a meeting with an American producer Martin Gosh, who decided to make a documentary about him.



Luciano's body was driven in Naples in a big carriage drawn by eight horses and black horses left in a church while waiting for permission from the US authorities.



When permission has been obtained, the coffin was loaded on board the aircraft the airline Pan American World Airways and transferred to New York. At the airport, the former boss of the powerful New York met only two siblings and 50 employees of various law enforcement agencies. They accompanied the coffin was taken to the cemetery, which was placed in the family vault, which Luciano bought in 1935 for $ 25 000.



Salvatore Maranzano (1886-1931) - Mafia boss in Sicily.



In 1925 he moved from Italy to Brooklyn and became involved in bootlegging. When you have enough power and influence decided to climb to the summit of Mount Olympus mafia, which he needed to eliminate the main competitor - the then "boss of all bosses" Joe Masseria.



The protracted clashes between gangs called Kastellammarskoy War and lasted almost 4 years, killing 60 gangsters. All ended with the murder of Masseria, the attempt on which (according to one version) helped organize Lucky Luciano (at the time the slave Masseria). Meet and dine at your favorite restaurant Masseria - «Nuova Villa Tammaro» on Coney Island (it is the case today), they sat down to play cards. After winning two games Luciano went to the bathroom and at the same time entered the hall Bugsy Siegel (the one that will build a casino then the Flamingo in Las Vegas), Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia and Joe Adonis, Masseria shot pistols. After the elimination of competitors Maranzano appointed himself the "boss of bosses", has introduced a new mafia hierarchy (Boss, Underboss, Consigliere, Capo, Soldier) and formally divided New York among the five families.

Masseria with map in hand.



Maranzano was not long enjoyed the victory and received power. After just a month, he was killed right in his office on the 9th floor Helmsli Building. Work carried out three killer murders of members of the Corporation. One of them was the same Bugsy Siegel.



Customer attempt was Lucky Luciano, who turned out to be the real winner in this war. At the initiative of Luciano and to avoid bloodshed and conflicts in the future, the title of "boss of bosses" was abolished and the leadership passed to the Commission, which met the head of the most powerful families.

Joe Masseria is buried in Calvary in Queens, which filmed the funeral of Don Corleone in the first part Krstnogo father. Masseria in Boardwalk Empire.

Vito "Don Vito" Genovese (1897-1969) - 15 years, moved from Italy to New York and began his career as a petty crime: theft and collect money from the players. Once in the gang in Masseria moved to more skilled jobs such as racketeering, extortion and murder.



Together in Luciano he was involved in a conspiracy against the Masseria and was one of the direct perpetrators of his murder. After his arrest, Luciano became the boss of the family Luciano (Genovese), but only a year, because he committed the murder and active persecution by the New York Police Department, was forced to flee to Italy with two suitcases of money. There, paying $ 250 000, he received the patronage of Mussolini and started operations on drug trafficking and the black market. When the Allies landed in Sicily, the Genovese moves quickly to their side and begins to actively cooperate with the new government. While working as a translator for the US army, he sells the property stolen from the army. He was arrested by the military police, which the investigation found that he was wanted for murder committed on the territory of the United States, after deported to America, where he appeared before the court. Having secured it quickly solves the problem of eliminating all witnesses. The court found him not guilty. While he was on the run, was the head of the family, Frank Costello and Genovese had to wait for 11 years before he was able to regain power. In 1957 the Genovese organized the attempt on Costello's, and although it did not go well, he is still able to achieve the desired result. Costello realized that Genovese does not stop and retired after losing power in such a way, but save their lives. As soon as Don Vito took the place of the head of the family Luciano, then immediately he renamed it the Genovese. Luciano was already powerless to do anything.



The next target was Albert Anastasia, head of the family Mangano old partner Lucky Luciano, to which Genovese had a long personal dislike.

Anastasia.



To implement the conceived, he enters into an agreement with the slave Anastasia - Carlo Gambino, who in the case of death of the boss will take his place and become an ally of the Genovese. October 26, 1957, Albert Anastasia was killed in a barber shop, and became the head of the Gambino family.



But instead of an ally, Genovese found mortal enemy. Just one year Genovese was arrested in Atlanta allegedly in obtaining large quantities of heroin and was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a man his age meant a life sentence. The main witness in the case of Puerto Rican drug dealer played fine.



According to one version, it was Gambino agreed with Luciano, paid $ 100 000 Puerto Ricans that he lured to a meeting, and then Framed Genovese. Don Vito died in prison in 1969.



Albert Anastasia was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Carlo "Don Carlo" Gambino (1902-1976) - one of the most powerful Mafia bosses never graduated from high school, who had American citizenship and lived in the US illegally.



He was born in Sicily. In 1921 he moved to the United States illegally and immediately became a member of one of the Italian gang led by Salvatore D'Akila. Earning a lot of money on the first trade in alcohol during Prohibition, he moved to the trade in stolen food stamps during the Second World War. In 1957, after the murder of Albert Anastasia, he became head of the family Mangano, renaming it Gambino and making the most powerful in the United States. After coming to power, the influence of family has expanded to other cities, having been engaged in racketeering in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, San Francisco and Las Vegas. Gambino crime family controlled the whole Manhattan, and almost all the ports of New York. After his son married the daughter of the head of the family Lucchese, Gambino took control of the airport Kennedy.



Gambino has forbidden his people to have any dealing with the drug trade, as it attracted too much attention from the police. Violators of the ban would be killed. Interestingly, despite the numerous accusations and arrests, Gambino not a single day spent in prison.



In the 70 authorities have repeatedly going to deport him to Italy on the grounds that he had entered the US illegally, but for every hearing it brought on a wheelchair with an oxygen mask, and the doctor said that the patient only suffered another heart attack and health as bad that he is about to die. Once a decision is delayed, the patient immediately becomes much better. When trick doctors stopped working, the Gambino hired two influential senators, who promised life to pay $ 1 000 for each month that the Gambino hold in the United States. Gambino was a secretive, said little in public, and his house had no telephone. All the important orders he gave a nod, which negates any wiretap. In the end, just to annoy the Gambino crime, the police set a police van stuffed with listening devices right in front of his house. In the van round the clock duty officers in civilian clothes and wore the inscription on the board - "Audit Bureau of Organised Crime».

Gambino far right. In the center of Frank Sinatra.



Despite the huge influence and money, Gambino, as befits a real mafia don, lived very modestly. He had a small house on Ocean Parkway (google maps), where cranking out multi-million dollar deal and decide the fate of the people, and he has not traveled on a luxury Lincoln or Cadillac and Buick in the ordinary. All that he could afford the trappings of this custom license plate CG1. Don Carlo died of a heart attack while watching a baseball game on TV in his country house on Long Island (the same modest, and Brooklyn). At his funeral, attended by tens of thousands of people come from all over the country.



And not all were members of the Mafia. Just don it a lot of ordinary New Yorkers.



Joe Colombo (1923-1978) - the head of the Colombo clan, the youngest Mafia boss (41 year). He was the first in the history of the boss who was born in the United States, but not in Italy, and the first who did not avoid the publicity that ultimately his undoing. Colombo founded the League for the civil rights of the Italian-Americans and actively promoted at various events as her head.



In 1971, the League has helped in the filming of the first part of The Godfather, putting forward a condition that the film will not use the word "Mafia" and "Cosa-nstra." Ie Mafia asked the filmmakers not to call the mafia - a mafia. In the same year at Colombo was attacked, turning it into a vegetable. When Colombo came to the stage to address the 150,000th crowd gathered at Columbus Square at the Festival of Italian-American unity in it he fired several times a black pimp Jerome Johnson. The bullets hit the head and neck of a mafia boss.



Johnson was immediately caught by the police, but a few minutes later shot dead by unknown white man who take advantage of the panic and disappeared into the crowd. Colombo was completely paralyzed for life. Only in 1975, he began to distinguish between the people and was able to move one finger of his right hand. In 1978, he died of a heart attack.

To be continued ...

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