Dana Truppiana Mob Times

Dana Truppiana Mob Times

Your source for history’s most infamous gangster’s life stories.

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November 28, 2023 54 mins

Nicolo Schiro - The original boss of the Bonanno family & survived wars with all the mafia bosses! Related Links: GoFundMe Link (Help us get a Private Investigator): https://www.gofundme.com/f/knxqc7-hel... Nicolo "Cola" Schiro (September 2, 1872 – April 29, 1957) was an early Sicilian-born New York City mobster who, in 1912, became the boss of what later become known as the Bonanno crime family. Schiro's leadership of the mafi...

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Part 2 - Meyer Lansky builds, and then loses, Cuba and the American Mafia! Related Links: GoFundMe Link (Help us get a Private Investigator): https://www.gofundme.com/f/knxqc7-hel... Maverick Files coverage of Billy Donahue murder: • Bizarre Reddit Posts from r/RBI Reddit post: / my_best_friend_was_killed_nobody_was_charg... Meyer Lansky Maier Suchowljansky was born in Grodno, Russian Empire (now Belarus), to a Polish-Jewish family...

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Maverick Files coverage of Billy Donahue murder:    • Bizarre Reddit Posts from r/RBI  

Reddit post:   / my_best_friend_was_killed_nobody_was_charg...  

Meyer Lansky Maier Suchowljansky was born in Grodno, Russian Empire (now Belarus), to a Polish-Jewish family who experienced antisemitism and pogroms from Imperial authoritie...

Carmine Persico - FINAL - Mafia Commission Trials, Colombo trials, and the war w Vic Orena

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Watch Part 1 here:    • Carmine Persico  - 'The Snake' played...  

Watch Part 2 here:    • Carmine Persico spit the bullet out o...  

Watch Part 3 here:    • Carmine Persico and his place in the ...  

The son of a law firm stenographer and a stay-at-home mother, Persico was a high school dropout who was part ...

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Carmine Persico and his place in the great Colombo Hits! - Part 3 BEFORE WATCHING THIS EPISODE!!:

Watch Part 1 here:    • Carmine Persico  - 'The Snake' played...  

Watch Part 2 here:    • Carmine Persico spit the bullet out o...  

The son of a law firm stenographer and a stay-at-home mother, Persico was a high school dropout who was part of a local street gang. His first arrest was at 17 in the fatal beating of another youth duri...

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Carmine Persico spit the bullet out of his mouth - and his protégé, Pauly 'Walnuts' Gualtieri!?

WATCH PART 1 FIRST:    • Carmine Persico  - 'The Snake' played...   The son of a law firm stenographer and a stay-at-home mother, Persico was a high school dropout who was part of a local street gang. His first arrest was at 17 in the fatal beating of another youth during a melee in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. When the charges were droppe...

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Part 1 - Carmine Persico - 'The Snake' played the biggest role in the first Gallo War The son of a law firm stenographer and a stay-at-home mother, Persico was a high school dropout who was part of a local street gang. His first arrest was at 17 in the fatal beating of another youth during a melee in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. When the charges were dropped, he was recruited to the world of organized crime — working in bookmaking and...

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Semion Mogilivich - The Brainy Don, Russia's Boss of Bosses, and FBI's top 10 most wanted! Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich is a Ukrainian-born Russian organized crime boss. He quickly built a highly structured criminal organization, in the mode of an American mafia family; many of the organization's 250 members are his relatives. He is described by agencies in the European Union and United States as the "boss of all bosses" of most Rus...

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Albert Anastasia Escaped the Electric Chair to Die in a Barber Chair - Part 3 True Crime | True Crime Podcasts on YouTube | True Crime Documentary **Before watching this episode, watch Part 1 here:    • Part 1 - Albert A...   Then, watch Part 2 here:    • Part 2 - Albert A...   Albert Anastasia (born “Anastasio,” the masculine form of the Italian name) was a mobster who came out of the tough streets of Lower Manhattan to run one of...

Albert Anastasia Escaped the Electric Chair to Die in a Barber Chair - Part 2 True Crime | True Crime Podcasts on YouTube | True Crime Documentary **Before watching this episode, watch Part 1 here:    • Part 1 - Albert A...   ** When you're done with Part 2, view Part 3 here:    • Part 3 - Albert A...   Albert Anastasia (born “Anastasio,” the masculine form of the Italian name) was a mobster who came out of the tough streets of Low...

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Albert Anastasia Escaped the Electric Chair to Die in a Barber Chair True Crime | True Crime Podcasts on Youtube | True Crime Documentary **After watching this video, watch Part 2 here:    • Part 2 - Albert A...   ** Next, watch Part 3 here:    • Part 3 - Albert A...   Albert Anastasia (born “Anastasio,” the masculine form of the Italian name) was a mobster who came out of the tough streets of Lower Manhattan to run one of the Five...

True Crime | True Crime Podcasts on Youtube | True Crime Documentary In this episode of True Crime Legacy, I will talk about Frank McErlane Francis "Frank" McErlane was a Chicago gangster and second-in-command of the Saltis-McErlane Gang in the 1930s, working with Joseph Saltis in the Chicago Beer Wars. He was the one who introduced the Tommy Gun to Chicago, and was known to be a brutal hitman. McErlane was born in Chicago to an Ir...

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"Mad Sam" Destefano - The psychopathic serial killer for the mafia - Part 2 **Watch Part 1 FIRST Before watching this episode* "Mad Sam" Destefano - The psychopathic serial killer for the mafia - Part 1:    • "Mad Sam" Destefa...   In the 1960s, Samuel “Mad Sam” DeStefano was one of the most vicious loan sharks in Chicago. He worked closely with the mob, brutally torturing anyone who failed to pay him back on time. However, DeStefa...

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"Mad Sam" Destefano - The psychopathic serial killer for the mafia - Part 1 *Watch Part 1 FIRST Before watching Part 2 episode When you are done with Part 1, head over to Part 2 to hear the COMPLETE story! "Mad Sam" Destefano - The psychopathic serial killer for the mafia - Part 2:    • "Mad Sam" Destefa...   In the 1960s, Samuel “Mad Sam” DeStefano was one of the most vicious loan sharks in Chicago. He worked closely with the mob,...

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True Crime | True Crime Podcasts on Youtube | True Crime Documentary In this episode of True Crime Legacy, I will talk about Domenic" Mick" Gatto. Domenic "Mick" Gatto (born 6 August 1955) is a professional mediator within the Victorian building industry; and a debt collector. Gatto was named as a standover man during the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry. A veteran of Melbourne's underworld, Mick Gatto i...

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Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero and Donny Brasco's friendship IN REAL LIFE | ( 2023) Benjamin Ruggiero was a mobster or ‘soldato’ hailing from the Bonnano crime family. The Bonnano crime family is one of the five families that dominate organized crime in the United States, particularly in New York City. Ruggiero served as a soldato, the first level in the hierarchy of the American as well as the Sicilian Mafia. He was also known by the n...

If you're a true crime fanatic, you won't want to miss this podcast! We'll take you on a journey through some of the most chilling cases in history and try to shed light on what really happened. Roberto Suárez Gómez, also known as the King of Cocaine, was a Bolivian drug lord and trafficker who played a major role in the expansion of cocaine trafficking in Bolivia. In his prime, Suárez made $400 million annually, was one of the maj...

“Queenie,” “Madam Queen,” “Madam St. Clair,” “Queen of the Policy Rackets” – whichever of the many nicknames you know her by, Stephanie St. Clair is one of the most formidable mobsters of the 20th century. St. Clair spent her criminal career rubbing elbows with New York’s famous figures, from leading civil rights activists to the fearsome heads of the mafia’s Five Families. With the “Godfather of Harlem,” Bumpy Johnson, as her hire...

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🌟Stefano "The Undertaker" Magaddino was an Italian-born crime boss of the Buffalo crime family in western New York. His underworld influence stretched from Ohio to Southern Ontario and as far east as Montreal, Quebec. Known as Don Stefano to his friends and The Undertaker to others, he was also a charter member of the American Mafia's ruling council, The Commission. Magaddino was born on October 10, 1891, in Castellammare del Golf...

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Joe Masseria, byname Joe The Boss, original name Giuseppe Masseria, (born c. 1887, Italy—died April 15, 1931, New York, N.Y., U.S.), leading crime boss of New York City from the early 1920s until his murder in 1931. Emigrating from Sicily at age 16, Masseria associated with a band of Italian killers and Black Hand extortionists and committed burglaries and other petty crimes, but in 1920 he began to create the power that gave him c...

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