#Castellammarese War

[alfredsonger]

Albert Anastasia Escaped the Electric Chair to Die in a Barber Chair True Crime | True Crime Podcasts on Youtube | True Crime Documentary 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 Families of La Cosa Nostra through the first half of the 20th century. Along the way, he built a reputation as one of the Mob’s most feared killers. Anastasia was reportedly a member of Murder Incorporated, the kill-for-hire crew that worked for Charlie “Lucky” Luciano and others in the years of Prohibition. Anastasia was, according to reports, one of the four men in 1931 who assassinated Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria, a powerful Mob boss, in the bloody gang rivalry known as the Castellammarese War. Anastasia was charged in three murders – in 1928, 1932 and 1933 – but in each case, witnesses either disappeared or refused to testify. Two other high-level Mob informants, both under police custody, died before their testimony helped bring Anastasia to trial, in 1941 and 1942. During World War II, Anastasia joined the U.S. Army. He also reportedly helped engineer the deal that eventually allowed Luciano, then ostensibly serving a life sentence for multiple prostitution-related convictions, to get out of prison (and go into exile in Italy) in exchange for keeping the New York City docks free of wartime Nazi infiltration. Anastasia worked for the Army training longshoremen on the East Coast. In 1943, he received U.S. citizenship for his military service, and he was honorably discharged from the Army in 1944. Eventually, Gambino moved against his sometime family boss. Anastasia was gunned down while he was sitting in a barber chair in Manhattan. Gambino assumed the family leadership, which would eventually become known as the Gambino crime family.

[franciswhetsel]

Reading Man of Honor and despite knowing how the Castellammarese War ends, I'm still on the edge of my seat

[carlosroborto]

Part 3 - Albert Anastasia Escaped the Electric Chair to Die in a Barber Chair - Part 3

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 Families of La Cosa Nostra through the first half of the 20th century. Along the way, he built a reputation as one of the Mob’s most feared killers. Anastasia was reportedly a member of Murder Incorporated, the kill-for-hire crew that worked for Charlie “Lucky” Luciano and others in the years of Prohibition. Anastasia was, according to reports, one of the four men in 1931 who assassinated Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria, a powerful Mob boss, in the bloody gang rivalry known as the Castellammarese War. Anastasia was charged in three murders – in 1928, 1932 and 1933 – but in each case, witnesses either disappeared or refused to testify. Two other high-level Mob informants, both under police custody, died before their testimony helped bring Anastasia to trial, in 1941 and 1942. During World War II, Anastasia joined the U.S. Army. He also reportedly helped engineer the deal that eventually allowed Luciano, then ostensibly serving a life sentence for multiple prostitution-related convictions, to get out of prison (and go into exile in Italy) in exchange for keeping the New York City docks free of wartime Nazi infiltration. Anastasia worked for the Army training longshoremen on the East Coast. In 1943, he received U.S. citizenship for his military service, and he was honorably discharged from the Army in 1944. Eventually, Gambino moved against his sometime family boss. Anastasia was gunned down while he was sitting in a barber chair in Manhattan. Gambino assumed the family leadership, which would eventually become known as the Gambino crime family.

[kneworder]

well, what about the Lucky Luciano Gonnorhea story?

I am so glad you asked!

When the WWI draft began, all of his friends either had some kind of condition that exempted them or were too young to be drafted, but Lucky himself was shit out of luck. He was the prime age and in prime condition -- there was no chance he was getting out of going to war, unless he could come up with a good reason real quick.

But an opportunity soon presented itself: one of the girls at a local brothel was apparently passing around an STD without knowing. So Lucky went to that very brothel, out of his mind with fear of dying in the war, and hired that very girl.

The story goes that she started stripping and when he didn't do the same, she asked what was up. Apparently, he was so nervous about the whole affair, he very loudly declared, "I'VE COME TO GET THE CLAP," much to her amusement.

And he did. And instead of going to war, he built the entire basis for the Italian-American mafia.

[meyerlansky]

Headcannons for Charlie's, Meyer's and Benny's sleeping positions (i.e. stomach, back, etc)?

y e s

surprising literally no one, i’m the most convinced about my headcanons for meyer: especially in his teens and 20s, he isn’t comfortable falling asleep unless he has something directly at his back. he CAN, if he’s especially sleep deprived, but when he’s not passing out over a notebook because he’s been awake for 36 hours straight, he’s a side sleeper and he usually curls up very tightly in his sleep with his back against a wall. when he and charlie sleep in the same bed, it’s either the wall or charlie’s chest. 

charlie is a bed hog, and if he’s in bed alone he sprawls out, usually on his back [which means he snores a bit, not like chainsaw snores but they’re there]. if he and meyer are in bed, they either end up with meyer’s head on charlie’s chest or spooning, and it’s even odds who’s the big/little spoon as long as meyer’s against the wall. he is a much deeper sleeper than meyer, who takes forever to fall asleep and spins up to full awareness VERY quickly once he’s awake, whereas charlie’s out right away and isn’t fully awake til like noon most days.

i have fewer solid headcanons about benny, but my guess is he’s a wild card—he has a lot of restless energy even in his sleep and probably shifts around a bunch, which makes him super annoying to sleep with. once they’re married esta probably slings her leg over his legs like “will you PLEASE STOP fucking fidgeting it’s 3am” on a regular basis. boy could use a weighted blanket tbh.

[nerdaces]

Lucky Luciano

was an Italian-born gangster who operated mainly in the United States.

Luciano started his criminal career in the Five Points gang and was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate.

Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for the establishment of The Commission in 1931, after he abolished the boss of bosses title held by Salvatore Maranzano following the

Castellammarese War. He was also the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family.

[fancykraken]

Charlie Luciano

Send a character’s name to receive four different headcanons

Headcanon A:  realistic

Charlie’s very playful and loves to joke around. It’s a lot more obvious when he’s younger, but as he grows and matures into the big boss he is he has to put that aside, at least publicly. To the people he’s really close with (Meyer) he likes to make dumb jokes and keep things light or make sure not everything is doom and gloom. He knows he’s gotten a good joke off or  has been “dumb” when Meyer practically rolls his eyes out of his head or has dodge being smothered with a pillow or something.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

Girl scouts busting in on an orgy he was at. I’m not joking, I can’t make this shit up. The reason he was discovered staying in Cuba by the US government because he was participating in an ORGY in FRANK SINATRA’S HOTEL SUITE WITH FRANK SINATRA AND RALPH CAPONE AND A PACK OF GIRL SCOUTS CAPERONED BY A NUN ARRIVE TO GIVE SINATRA SOME KIND OF AWARD AT HIS HOTEL SUITE AND SOMEHOW GOT PAST SECURITY. A REPORTER WAS THERE TO DO A STORY ON SINATRA RECEIVING THE AWARD AND CHARLIE CAME OUT OF THE OTHER ROOM IN A SILK FUCKING ROBE AND THE REPORTER WAS LIKE “is that Lucky Luciano?!!!!!” So the reporter prints the stuff about Sinatra and also “oh yeah, Lucky Luciano was there too” so the US government was like “hold my beer.” I die every single time. 

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

The Ride in 1929 where he almost died really fucked him up for a good while. Like a lot of others in the fandom, I believe there were some not so nice things that happened to Charlie when he was younger either with Hampton Farms or climbing the ladder to gain favour with the Mustache Pete big bosses of the time or both. I think that the Ride would have dug up a lot of trauma from his past and combined with the new trauma he is in a pretty not good and fun place. He has to rely on Meyer and Benny more than ever and with the start of the Castellammarese War not far off things are intense. He doesn’t sleep or eat much because of all of it and when he’s well enough to get back into the world he has to put on his biggest game face ever because any sign of weakness is an automatic bullet in the head. Behind closed doors, he’s a mess and Meyer is the only one there to help drag him out of this hell he’s in until he can get back on his feet and go forward with the Commission.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

He has a flower garden that he likes to tend to (and have others tend for him). Each time he gets up in the morning he has his 800 shots of espresso and after feeding the dogs, including Meyer’s, he walks through the garden with the dogs trailing behind him inspecting everything and making sure all the flowers are doing alright. When he’s done he comes back in for breakfast and sits at the table where Meyer is reading the paper. “The birds of paradise are beginnin’ to bloom.” “I’m happy for you, Charlie.”

[crimeworlds-blog]

Charles "Lucky" Luciano,[1] Italian; born Salvatore Lucania[2] [salvaˈtoːre lukaˈniːa];[3] November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was an Italian-born gangster who operated mainly in the United States. Luciano started his criminal career in the Five Points gang and was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for the establishment of The Commission in 1931, after he abolished the boss of bosses title held by Salvatore Maranzano following the Castellammarese War. He was also the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family.

Topman

[mafiablogg]

Charles "Lucky" Luciano born Salvatore Lucania November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was an Italian-born gangster who operated mainly in the United States. Luciano started his criminal career in the Five Points gang and was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for the establishment of The Commission in 1931, after he abolished the boss of bosses title held by Salvatore Maranzano following the Castellammarese War. He was also the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family. In 1936, Luciano was tried and convicted for compulsory prostitution and running a prostitution racket after years of investigation by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. He was sentenced to 30 to 50 years in prison, but during World War II an agreement was struck with the Department of the Navy through his associate Meyer Lansky to provide naval intelligence. In 1946, for his alleged wartime cooperation, his sentence was commuted on the condition that he be deported to Italy. Luciano died in Italy on January 26, 1962, and his body was permitted to be transported back to the United States for burial. On January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect and Prohibition lasted until the amendment was repealed in 1933. The amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Demand for alcohol naturally continued, and the resulting black market for alcoholic beverages provided criminals with an additional source of income. On January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect and Prohibition lasted until the amendment was repealed in 1933. The amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Demand for alcohol naturally continued, and the resulting black market for alcoholic beverages provided criminals with an additional source of income. By 1920, Luciano had met many future Mafia leaders, including Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, his longtime friend and future business partner through the Five Points Gang. That same year, Lower Manhattan gang boss Joe Masseria recruited Luciano as one of his gunmen. Around that same time, Luciano and his close associates started working for gambler Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein, who immediately saw the potential windfall from Prohibition and educated Luciano on running bootleg alcohol as a business. Luciano, Costello, and Genovese started their own bootlegging operation with financing from Rothstein. Rothstein served as a mentor for Luciano; among other things, Rothstein taught him how to move in high society. In 1923, Luciano was caught in a sting selling heroin to undercover agents. Although he saw no jail time, being outed as a drug peddler damaged his reputation among his high-class associates and customers. To salvage his reputation, Luciano bought 200 expensive seats to the Jack Dempsey–Luis Firpo boxing match in the Bronx and distributed them to top gangsters and politicians. Rothstein then took Luciano on a shopping trip to Wanamaker's Department Store in Manhattan to buy expensive clothes for the fight. The strategy worked, and Luciano's reputation was saved. By 1925, Luciano was grossing over $12 million per year, and made a personal income of about $4 million per year from running an illegal gambling and bootlegging operations in New York that also extended into Philadelphia. After Luciano's secret trip to Cuba, he spent the rest of his life in Italy under tight police surveillance. When he arrived in Genoa on April 11, 1947, Italian police arrested him and sent him to a jail in Palermo. On 11 May, a regional commission in Palermo warned Luciano to stay out of trouble and released him. In early July 1949, police in Rome arrested Luciano on suspicion of involvement in the shipping of narcotics to New York. On July 15, after a week in jail, police released Luciano without filing any charges. The authorities also permanently banned him from visiting Rome.

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

Louis Riggiona, Castellammarese War

[alfredsonger]

Part 3 - Albert Anastasia Escaped the Electric Chair to Die in a Barber Chair - Part 3

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 Families of La Cosa Nostra through the first half of the 20th century. Along the way, he built a reputation as one of the Mob’s most feared killers. Anastasia was reportedly a member of Murder Incorporated, the kill-for-hire crew that worked for Charlie “Lucky” Luciano and others in the years of Prohibition. Anastasia was, according to reports, one of the four men in 1931 who assassinated Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria, a powerful Mob boss, in the bloody gang rivalry known as the Castellammarese War. Anastasia was charged in three murders – in 1928, 1932 and 1933 – but in each case, witnesses either disappeared or refused to testify. Two other high-level Mob informants, both under police custody, died before their testimony helped bring Anastasia to trial, in 1941 and 1942. During World War II, Anastasia joined the U.S. Army. He also reportedly helped engineer the deal that eventually allowed Luciano, then ostensibly serving a life sentence for multiple prostitution-related convictions, to get out of prison (and go into exile in Italy) in exchange for keeping the New York City docks free of wartime Nazi infiltration. Anastasia worked for the Army training longshoremen on the East Coast. In 1943, he received U.S. citizenship for his military service, and he was honorably discharged from the Army in 1944. Eventually, Gambino moved against his sometime family boss. Anastasia was gunned down while he was sitting in a barber chair in Manhattan. Gambino assumed the family leadership, which would eventually become known as the Gambino crime family.

[franciswhetsel]

oh my god first age castellammarese war au

i read a lot of books about the mafia as part of my research for TMWWB (obviously) and there is a silmarillion-level amount of name dropping and despite two years of this, i still cannot remember who anyone is 😤

[gaetanosdenver]

#BornOnThisDay Vito Genovese was born on November 21, 1897 – February 14, 1969) he was an Italian-born American mobster who mainly operated in the United States. Genovese rose to power during the Prohibition era as an enforcer in the American Mafia. A long-time associate and childhood friend of Lucky Luciano, Genovese took part in the Castellammarese War and helped shape the rise of the Mafia and organized crime in the United States. He would later lead Luciano's crime family, which was renamed the Genovese crime family in his honor. #MafiaHistory Join us today for early #HappyHour 4:30pm-6pm yummy #toDieFor Italian food and drink specials. Reservations always encouraged 🥂🍷🍽 (at Gaetano's Restaurant) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClO5CYHpBgi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[carlosroborto]

Part 1 - Albert Anastasia Escaped the Electric Chair to Die in a Barber Chair

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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6kj2JumhqE&t=11s ** Next, watch Part 3 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhXPorMk-IM 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 Families of La Cosa Nostra through the first half of the 20th century. Along the way, he built a reputation as one of the Mob’s most feared killers. Anastasia was reportedly a member of Murder Incorporated, the kill-for-hire crew that worked for Charlie “Lucky” Luciano and others in the years of Prohibition. Anastasia was, according to reports, one of the four men in 1931 who assassinated Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria, a powerful Mob boss, in the bloody gang rivalry known as the Castellammarese War. Anastasia was charged in three murders – in 1928, 1932 and 1933 – but in each case, witnesses either disappeared or refused to testify. Two other high-level Mob informants, both under police custody, died before their testimony helped bring Anastasia to trial, in 1941 and 1942. During World War II, Anastasia joined the U.S. Army. He also reportedly helped engineer the deal that eventually allowed Luciano, then ostensibly serving a life sentence for multiple prostitution-related convictions, to get out of prison (and go into exile in Italy) in exchange for keeping the New York City docks free of wartime Nazi infiltration. Anastasia worked for the Army training longshoremen on the East Coast. In 1943, he received U.S. citizenship for his military service, and he was honorably discharged from the Army in 1944. Eventually, Gambino moved against his sometime family boss. Anastasia was gunned down while he was sitting in a barber chair in Manhattan. Gambino assumed the family leadership, which would eventually become known as the Gambino crime family.

[drxcos]

[EXPLAINED] 1. What role did the Castellammarese War play in the evolution of the American M

[EXPLAINED] 1. What role did the Castellammarese War play in the evolution of the American M

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[greenpupper]

[EXPLAINED] 1. What role did the Castellammarese War play in the evolution of the American M

[EXPLAINED] 1. What role did the Castellammarese War play in the evolution of the American M

1. What role did the Castellammarese War play in the evolution of the American Mafia? Media Tool Learn about the Mafia & the Castellammarese War. What are the video’s main points? Is the video trustworthy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CWsvzI–eU 11 2. What is meant by the New Mafia? What if you were a government witness against the New Mafia? What would be your thoughts? Media Tool The Camorra…