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From Totò Riina to Al Capone and Joe Bonanno: the 10 bosses who made Cosa Nostra history

2022-08-11 19:24:22Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

 

From Totò Riina to Al Capone and Joe Bonanno: the 10 bosses who made Cosa
From the movie "The Godfather"

 

There have been many bosses like Salvatore Riina who managed to create mafia domes, but few managed to strike the state at the heart of government institutions as he did.

The history of the mafia is also the history of the criminal careers of some bosses who contributed to the expansion of Cosa Nostra.

Here are the stories of those who made mafia history.

-Salvatore Riina, the biggest boss of the Italian Cosa Notra

From Totò Riina to Al Capone and Joe Bonanno: the 10 bosses who made Cosa

"Gentlemen, you are making a mistake," was the statement Sicilian mobster Salvatore Rina told the police when he was arrested in January 1993 for crimes committed over more than 20 years as the boss of the Sicilian mafia. He was wanted for the murders of more than 100 people committed while climbing the criminal career ladder.

Known as "Toto", he started his career as a contract killer. Salvatore Riina begins to become very powerful after the fall of the boss of the "Corleones", Luciano Lixho, who is arrested in May of l974.

Don Toto's power, as some regretful people discover, reaches all the way to the USA, where in a few years the Corleone boss manages to make alliances with some of the most powerful "families" of the American "Cosa Nostra". He escaped in 1969 after being accused of triple murder. But this did not stop him from continuing the criminal activity and the mafia wars in Sicily in the 1980s, where thousands of people lost their lives, and managed to establish himself at the head of the organization.

In October 1993, despite efforts to claim that it was a case of mistaken identity, Riina was sentenced to life in prison; the most severe sentence given in Italy.

Rinna passed away two days ago at the age of 87.

 -Joe Masseria "The Boss"

In America they called him Joe Masseria, or "Joe the Boss", but his real name was Giuseppe Masseria.

At 43, originally from Italy's Trapani province, he earned a gangster reputation as "the man who dodged bullets", in memory of a mob attack from which he miraculously escaped unscathed, just two bullet holes in his his hat.

From 1920 he commanded the Morello gang, one of the most powerful clans in New York. His murder 11 years later, in 1931, was ordered by Lucky Luciano during the mafia war called "castellammarese", the Italian-American conflict for the leadership victory in New York, between the Maranzano family and the Masseria family.

-Joe Valachi, the "inventor" of Cosa Nostra

Joseph Valachi was the first repentant of the big ones, who spoke publicly about the existence of the mafia and defined it under the name "Cosa Nostra".

Originally from Romania, he lived in New York, where he worked as a driver for Gaetano Reina, the powerful clan of Joe Masseria. He became part of the mafia groups of Joe Masseria, Vito Genovese and Lucky Luciano against Neapolitan rivals.

His confessions led to the restructuring of the mafia organization and improving the rules. Valachi died of a heart attack following a suicide attempt in 1971.

His story inspired the character of Frankie Pentangeli in the film Il Padrino 2.

-Vito Genovese, the coin donor

The boss of the family, Vito Genovese, after immigrating to America in 1913, began his criminal career at the end of the First World War working in the service of Joe Masseria, with bosses of the caliber of Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello.

He returned to Italy at the age of 40, in 1937.

During the American military occupation he played the role of the translator of Colonel Poletti of the American army. During this period he lived in the region of Nola, province of Naples, where he issued silver coins to the crowd. He also financed the holidays in his country.

The chronicles also speak of a great generosity towards the church of his country. Genovese was imprisoned in 1959 and died in prison ten years later.

-Bernardo Provenzano, the ghost

From Totò Riina to Al Capone and Joe Bonanno: the 10 bosses who made Cosa

Bernardo Provenzano died on July 13, 2016 at the age of 83 from cancer. The Sicilian mafia boss has represented some of the darkest pages of Italian history in recent decades. As Toto Rina's right-hand man, he gave the order for the assassination in 1992, where judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino lost their lives at different times.

For 43 years in a row, he has been the mysterious capo of "Cosa Nostra". Bernardo Provenzano, or the so-called "zu Binnu", but also known by the nickname "u trattur", super boss as well as the longest-lived leader in the history of the mafia. His search lasted 43 years, so long that he was long considered a ghost. He was only found in the spring of 2006, when it was discovered that the super boss Bernardo Provenzano had taken refuge in a farm in Corleone, from where he communicated by letter with his associates. Provenzano started his career in the '50s, together with Salvatore Riina, becoming Luciano Liggio's most trusted man. since then he was the capo of Cosa Nostra and Corleone. Liggio said about him: "He shoots like God, he has the brain of a chicken." He took over the head of Cosa Nostra in the early 80s, after killing all his rivals. But if for a long time he was considered an unscrupulous killer, he was also declared the master of organizing dirty money laundering. And not only that: his closest associates have also brought to light his contacts with the political world.

-Frank Costello, the "prime minister" of Cosa Nostra

Frank Costello, pseudonym of Francesco Castiglia, was an Italian mobster, with American citizenship, associated with Cosa Nostra in the United States. Costello has been described as the "Prime Minister of the Gang" by the American press. In 1920 in the service of the Jewish gangster Arnold Rothstein together with Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Dutch Stulz and Jack Diamond were engaged in drug and alcohol smuggling. This was the time when Frank Costello became known as "The Prime Minister of the Gang" for his political connections with Tammany Hall, the New York Democratic Party Organization. With this connection he provided political protection for his illegal activities and the activities of his partners. In 1936 Luciano was arrested for exploitation of prostitution and sentenced to 35 years in prison. He continued to run his Family from prison through Lieutenant Vito Genovese, but the latter had to leave the United States to avoid murder charges. In 1954 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison for tax evasion, but he served only 1 year because the trial was overturned. But on March 2, 1957, he fell into the trap of Vincent Gigante, Genovese's assassin, who shot him in the head as he walked from the elevator to his Manhattan apartment. Costello managed to escape because he only suffered a scratch and decided to relinquish control of the Family. He died peacefully in 1973. who shot him in the head as he walked from the elevator to his Manhattan apartment. Costello managed to escape because he only suffered a scratch and decided to relinquish control of the Family. He died peacefully in 1973. who shot him in the head as he walked from the elevator to his Manhattan apartment. Costello managed to escape because he only suffered a scratch and decided to relinquish control of the Family. He died peacefully in 1973.

Frank Costello also inspired Vito Corleone in the movie "The Godfather".

Costello, like Corleone in the film, grew his power through relationships with powerful business and political figures. He is known as the "Prime Minister", for his diplomatic skills, including the blackmails and bribes he received.

Both the real character and the movie character survived the assassination attempts that were made on them. Marlon Brando, the actor who played Don Vito Corleone, stated that he heard Costello's recorded voice many times when the latter was in court.

-John Gotti, Hollywood mobster

He is widely regarded as the ultimate Hollywood-style criminal, a man who would walk into the courtroom and walk out again, innocent. The "Fashion Lord" was the crime boss of the Gambino family in the mid-1980s, and soon became known as the "Resistance Lord" because of his ability to avoid prison. Accusations, the common people said, did not solve anything in his case. That was until the FBI discovered a crusade organized by Gotti, causing him to be arrested and charged with various crimes, including smuggling and murder.

He was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment in 1992 and remained in prison until the day of his death from cancer a decade later.

-Carlo Gambino, most prominent

Carlo Gambino, head of the Gambino family. He was different in that he died at home, in bed, he just stopped breathing one day. Carlo Gambino came from a family that had been in the Italian mafia for centuries. He started doing contract killings as a teenager and, yes, as a teenager, he became a gang leader. But when Mussolini began to gain power, Gambino emigrated to the USA, where his cousin, Frank Costello, lived. He became the "strongman" of many mafia families, until in the end he joined Laki Luciano.

After the extradition of Laki Luciano in the 1940s, Alberto Anastasia took over, but Gambino thought it was his moment to shine, so he killed Anastasia in 1957. He styled himself The Boss and ruled all of New York with an iron fist. -York, until he died of natural causes in 1976. He was succeeded by his son-in-law, Paul Castellano, who was greatly assisted in this direction by John Gotti, who took over the leadership of the Gambino family. The contrast between Gambino and Gotti was great.

Gambino led an indecipherable existence, had no big mansion, didn't draw attention to himself by running around town with women.

-Al Capone, the crime lord

From Totò Riina to Al Capone and Joe Bonanno: the 10 bosses who made Cosa

The list of the most famous mobsters in history could not fail to include the person who is most likely on everyone's mind: Al Capone. For years it seemed that he was beyond the reach of the law. As the head of the Italian-American criminal empire in Chicago, he was guilty of countless crimes, ranging from gambling and prostitution, smuggling and drug trafficking, theft, bribery and murder. Despite his long criminal career, he became best known for the Valentine's Day Massacre during which seven prominent members of a rival gang were killed. Despite his many crimes, it was his smallest crime that led to his arrest: tax evasion. The lesser crime – and the light sentence given for it – saw him spend 7 years, 6 months and 15 days behind bars.

-Charles "Lucky" Luciano, the father of organized crime

Charles "Lucky" Luciano was the "father" who gave birth to organized crime. The New York City boss built the current model of the legendary mafia, turning petty criminal activity into an operating enterprise that ensured huge profits.

Together with his partner Meyer Lansky, Luciano created a board of directors. The Genovese family crime boss opened shops in New York's southeast neighborhood and began associating with the likes of Frank Sinatra, until U.S. Attorney Thomas Dewey charged Luciano with 62 counts of criminal prosecution.

He was extradited to Italy in 1946 and reappeared in Cuba the following year. But he never regained the status he once had and the life ending the life he once led. He died in 1962.

Joe Bonanno, the other mobster from the movie "The Godfather"

From Totò Riina to Al Capone and Joe Bonanno: the 10 bosses who made Cosa

20 years ago, he recounted his life with satisfaction: "Others are no longer like that so I can tell my life and theirs."

Others whether friends or foes made New York and America tremble. Frank Costello, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia, John Gambino, Joe Gallo, Lucky Luciano were in eternal struggle for the throne of the "Godfather of Godfathers".

During his 30 years as the boss of the Bonanno family, he was the only mobster who could not be accused of any crime.

Only when he was retired did 8 months. In 1980, Bonanno was arrested for obstruction of justice, and sentenced to 5 years in prison, but served 8 months due to health problems.

He almost ruled Cosa Nostra, but when the mafia peace fell apart he decided to leave New York and immigrate to Arizona. Since 1981 he lived alone in a big house. As an archivist that he was, he kept the documents of life. "It is not the life shown in newspapers or books. Nor does it resemble the theater invented by Mario Puzo. Even the movie with Marlon Brando I never wanted to see. I have faced life with the respect that my name has, and the pride of being part of the most reliable friends", he declared.

Giuseppe was not the first mobster in his family. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were honorable men and outlaws. Joseph Bonanno was handsome, elegant, soft-spoken. Studied in Castellammare. He often quoted Machiavelli. "New York of the 50s seemed to me like I was sitting on a volcano." 5 Italian-American families had control over everything. This is where the war began. 10 bloody years. In October 1964, a trap was organized for him. He got out of a cab on Park Avenue. It was raining, and two people shoot him in the arms. Bonano understands, he doesn't protest. For 19 months the FBI, Interpol, CIA and the Italian and French secret services try to understand if he is alive or dead. Only Billy, his son, finds out that he is okay. There is an agreement between them. They were supposed to meet every third Tuesday, at 8 in the evening, in a phone booth on Long Island. After a year, the phone rings and a voice that Billy doesn't recognize says: "He'll be back." It returns to May 17, 1966 at a time when the war between the clans had destroyed the Bonanno empire.

A gentleman in a hat and baggy black robes walked into room 318 of the Foley Square State Courthouse and said, “My name is Joseph Bonanno. I heard that you wanted to interrogate me". They do this for weeks. Joe does not answer to the Fifth Amendment. He is wearing the same jacket, the same shirt and everything else that he was wearing when he was sent away. Where? When they asked him this question, he laughed saying: "Who needs it now?".

Bonanno (known to everyone as Joe Bananas), died in 2002 at the age of 97, at his home. He left with many mysteries.

No capoband resembles him to this day. The whole underworld, in a slightly romantic way, died with him.

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