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NAME THAT GANGSTER
Posted By: Don Pope
NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/05/03 06:08 AM
starting a game where you have to name the gangster......
here goes
Q: was almost beaten to death by rival gang members and was considered lucky
Posted By: Tony Mosrite
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/05/03 02:21 PM
A: Charlie Lucky Luciano
Q: was known as "the man who could dodge bullets"
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/05/03 02:51 PM
A: frank costello?
Q: the first "capo de tutti capi"
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/05/03 03:44 PM
Maranzano foolishly proclaimed himself the first Capo di tutti Capi.
Q, The famous hit on knickerbocker Avenue involved which former boss killed with his cigar still in his mouth?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/05/03 04:37 PM
Carmine Galante.
Q. His son attended the US Military Academy at West Point.
Posted By: Disaffected
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/05/03 05:46 PM
A. Meyer Lanksy
Q. Who was the leader of Murder Incorporated in 1933?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/05/03 05:54 PM
no idea? who is it
Joe the Boss Masseria was the man who could dodge bullets....
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/05/03 11:23 PM
Founder of Murder, Inc., was Louis (Lepke) Bucholter.
Q. He was known as "the Artichoke King."
Ciro Terranova
Dont ask me how I know that...I dont know why we're all playing,Turnbull is going to stomp us.
Who was Nicky Santoro from Casino based on?
Posted By: Don Vercetti
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 02:00 AM
Tony "The Ant" Spilotro
Q: ended up getting his face scarred for commenting to a woman "You have a nice ass, and I mean that in a good way."
Posted By: Mike Sullivan
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 03:32 AM
A: Al Capone
Q: Suspected of Hiring guns to "do in" JFK.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 03:38 AM
A: marcello? (sp)
Q: the first to break omerta
Posted By: Disaffected
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 03:52 AM
A.Joe Valachi
B.Who killed Paul Castellano?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 06:11 AM
A: soldiers under john gotti
Q: was found thrown out a window of a hotel while under police protection.
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 07:09 AM
A. Abe "Kid Twist" Reles(if I remember correctly)
Q. Who Was known as the "Prime Minister" of the underworld?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 07:19 AM
A: i think frank costello
Q: murdered anastasia
Posted By: Don Vercetti
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 04:56 PM
Didn't Anastasia survive and just vanished?
Genovese and Carlo Gambino planned the hit but he was whack by two gunman while sitting in a barbershop.
Q. Al Capone arranged St. Valentines Day Massacre with him.
GoodFella
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 07:04 PM
Originally posted by goodfellaoggie:
Genovese and Carlo Gambino planned the hit but he was whack by two gunman while sitting in a barbershop.
To expand a little on that, the contract (on Anastasia) was given to Joe Profaci, the head of his own Family. He, in turn, farmed it out to the Gallo Brothers. Its never been officially established who the two shooters were, but its believed one of them was there at the hit.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 07:34 PM
Originally posted by goodfellaoggie:
Q. Al Capone arranged St. Valentines Day Massacre with him.
GoodFella
A. Machine Gun Jack McGurn.
Q. Where did Charlie Luciano die?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 09:03 PM
A: in sicily
Q: al capone's mentor while in new york
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 09:19 PM
A: Johnny Torrio
Q: Name the 3 "recipients" of Al Capone's baseball bat at the dinner in Cicero, Il. (Last names are OK).
Posted By: Don Vercetti
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 09:26 PM
A: Scalise, Anselmi, Giunta.
Q: Why was a contract put on Anastasia?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 09:27 PM
A: 1. John Scalise, 2. Albert Anselmi, 3. Joe "Hop Toad" Giunta.
Q: the only man police knew pulled a trigger in the st. valentines day massacre
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 09:29 PM
Originally posted by Don Vercetti:
A: Scalise, Anselmi, Giunta.
Q: Why was a contract put on Anastasia?
Damn u got it first oh well
A: so carlo gambino could take over
my question still remains
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 11:08 PM
Originally posted by Don Pope:
A: so carlo gambino could take over
my question still remains
You gotta get the right answer, first.
The hit on Anastasia was sanctioned by Meyer Lansky because Albert was gonna try to open up some gambling operations in Cuba. That would have taken away money from Lansky, and Meyer couldn't stand that thought.
To a lesser extent the hit on Anastasia was ordered because Albert ordered a "civilian" to be killed, and that would bring extra heat onto the Mob. The Commission sure as hell didn't want that, so they ordered Albert be executed.
The fact that Carlo Gambino would take over wasn't a motivating factor for Lansky. Vito Genovese thought he'd be able to manipulate Gambino (and soon found out that wasn't true), so Vito wanted Anastasia out of the picture, but the above reasons were the main ones for The Mad Hatter's demise.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 11:19 PM
Q: the only man police knew pulled a trigger in the st. valentines day massacre [/QB][/QUOTE
question still remains
Are you taling abot Machine Gun McGurn? Everyone knew he did it but the couldnt prove it. None of the SVDM gunmen were ever caught.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 11:43 PM
nope it was Fred "killer" Burke that it can be said with moral certainty that he pulled a trigger in the st. valentines day massacre.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/03 11:45 PM
Q: what gangster was nicknamed the "gentle don"?
Angelo Bruno. One of the Moustache Pete's.
Q. he was the New Jersey Mob Boss who some said Luca Brasi's character was based.
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/07/03 06:09 AM
Willie Moretti.
Q. He ran the LA mob when Bugsy Siegel came west to muscle in.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/07/03 07:11 PM
no idea, who is it?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/07/03 08:06 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. He ran the LA mob when Bugsy Siegel came west to muscle in.
A. Jack Dragna (seconded by Mickey Cohen).
Q. The real life character whose shirt had a fish in it when it was "delivered" to his Family in 1961.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/07/03 10:32 PM
lucabrasi! kidding have no idea
Dammit SC, you're really pissing me off. I know that guy and its on the top of my head, but for the life of me,I just cannot remember
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/08/03 12:45 AM
since no one knows it might as well tell us, and keep the game going.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/08/03 02:47 AM
OK.....the guy whose shirt was stuffed with a fish was Joe "Joe Jelly" Giorelli.
Giorelli was one of the Profaci Family hitmen who killed Albert Anastasia. He was later involved in the Gallo/Profaci war, and on August 18, 1961 he went fishing with four friends to Sheepshead Bay. He was never seen alive again, and his shirt, wrapped around a large fish was thrown into the street in front of his hangout. It was clearly a message that he was sleeping with the fishes.
I'll try another question:
Who was the guy that (really) got strangled in a bar (and survived) much like Frankie Pentangeli did in Part II? (Hint - He's from the same era as Giorelli).
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/08/03 05:54 AM
Your friend and mine, SC: Larry Gallo.
Q. In GFII, Michael tells Frankie, "Clemenza promised the Rosato brothers three territories in the Bronx...you refused." Then Frankie says, "The Rosato brothers, they're takin' hostages..." What real-life occurances were these bits of dialog modeled on? (Hint: SC alluded to them earlier.)
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/08/03 06:54 AM
A: the gallo/Profaci war
Q: Al Capones consigliere
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/08/03 05:59 PM
Tony Lombardo (according to the bio by John Kobler). Jake Guzik (according to Laurence Bergreen's bio).
Q. Who was Albert Anastasia's predecessor as boss of the family that eventually became the Gambinos?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/08/03 06:05 PM
A: carlo gambino
Q: suspected mob boss in connection with kennedy assasination.
Vince Managno who's body disapeared, his brother Philip was killed also but they left his body to be found.
Q. What mob boss was arrested in sicily for having a black market operation during WWII?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/08/03 08:07 PM
Q: suspected mob boss in connection with kennedy assasination. [/QB][/QUOTE]
the answer was Marcello
A: Salvatore Reina?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/08/03 08:08 PM
Q: was killed only after 2 years as boss
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/09/03 01:29 AM
The mob boss who had the black market operation in Naples (not Sicily) after WWII was Vito Genovese. He did help the Allies after they landed in Sicily prior to invading the Italian mainland.
Several mob bosses died after a short time as Dons. I think you're referring to Carmine Galante, the most recent short-timer who was killed in office.
Q. Which mob boss was identified by Sen. Estes Kefauver as the top crime boss in America following his televised hearings on organized crime in 1950-51? (Hint: he wasn't Italian, and he wasn't Meyer Lansky.)
Don Pope I was ansering Turnbulls question Carlo Gambino took over after Albert A. his predecessor was Mangano.
Turnbull... Moe Dalitz?
If right who was killed as he drove his car and it is believed this was the first machine gun death in NYC?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/09/03 04:16 PM
Good guess, Mike's bodyguard, but the gangster who was identified by Kefauver as the top mobster in America was Abner (Longie) Zwillman, boss of the northern NJ rackets.
The first gangster killed by Tommygun fire in NYC was Capone's old mentor, Francesco Uole, aka Frankie Yale.
Q. Who was the only major mob boss to die in the electric chair?
Louis Buchalter
again dont ask
Who was Ace Rothstien from Casino based after?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/03 04:35 AM
A: frank rosenthal
Q: the character nicky santoro from casino based off of?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/03 05:44 AM
Anthony the Ant Spilotro.
Q. Which gangster build the Desert Inn in Vegas?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/03 05:51 AM
bugsy siegil? i know he built the flamingo
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/03 03:15 PM
Moe Dalitz built the Desert Inn.
Q. Which Don's son went to prison for credit card fraud?
[A] Joe Bonannos son William or {Billy}
[Q] Name of the person who led the westies
in the 70s and early 80s?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/03 05:15 PM
A. Jimmy Coonan.
Q. What mobster did Lana Turner's daughter Cheryl kill with a knife?
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/03 05:44 PM
I'm gonna butcher the spelling of the name here...Johnny Strompanto, Stromapanto, Strompatano, something like that.
Anyway, I know I'm close enough to be allowed a question. This one is too easy for you, though, TB. But you can give me the correct spelling of Johnny's last name.
Q. One of three brothers, he was the "Crazy" one.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/03 06:53 PM
Originally posted by plawrence:
Q. One of three brothers, he was the "Crazy" one.
Curly.
A. I think you might mean "Crazy" Joe Gallo.
Q. On June 28, 1971, the scene with Mike and Kay in the hotel room was shot. Which real life wiseguy was shot in Columbus Circle that same day?
BTW - Lana Turner's boyfriend was Johnny Stompanato.
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/03 07:55 PM
A. Joe Columbo
Q. His fingers became TV stars
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/03 09:17 PM
someones fingers became tv stars?
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/03 09:27 PM
In a manner of speaking, yes.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/03 09:35 PM
are you talkin about the spoof of the godfather the thumbfather or something?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/03 11:03 PM
Originally posted by plawrence:
Q. His fingers became TV stars
A. That would be Frank Costello. He refused to let his face be televised, so the cameras focused on his hands when he testified during the Kefauver hearings in the early 50's.
Q. August 6, 1902, Arthur Flegenheimer was born in the Bronx. Under what name did he become famous?
Posted By: Don Vercetti
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/03 11:24 PM
A: Dutch Schultz
Who had a heart attack when meeting a man to make a biography about himself?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/11/03 01:25 AM
Charlie Luciano.
Q. Which Don had his wife's first husband killed in order to marry her?
(Note to plawrence: Johnny Stompanato.)
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/11/03 05:57 AM
damn i know this one, just cant think of the name
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/11/03 08:46 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Charlie Luciano.
Q. Which Don had his wife's first husband killed in order to marry her?
(Note to plawrence: Johnny Stompanato.)
A. Vito Genovese? I think I'm right, if so.
Q. The would be assassin of Frank Costello.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/11/03 11:54 AM
Originally posted by The Iceman:
Q. The would be assassin of Frank Costello.
A. Vincent "The Chin" Gigante. Luckily for Costello, Gigante's aim was no better than his later act of dementia.
Q. Shot to death in a drugstore phonebooth in 1932, this mob killer was supposed to have killed Lucky Luciano on "The Night of Sicilian Vespers".
Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll or Call...
Q. This boss was called to a commsion meeting and fined $500,000 and stripped or his title as boss, he dies soon after.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/11/03 03:32 PM
Joe Magliocco.
Q. Which mob boss arranged his own arrest on a gun charge?
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/11/03 03:48 PM
Joe Bonnanno?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/11/03 04:13 PM
Originally posted by plawrence:
Joe Bonnanno?
Nope. Try again.
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/11/03 04:35 PM
Wasn't there something with Joe where he arranged to get himself arrested because he thought there was a contract out on him?
Or is the incident I'm thinking of the answer to your question.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/11/03 06:45 PM
Following the famous Mob convention in Atlantic City in 1929, Al Capone decided it would be healthy for him to take a powder for a while. He arranged to be arrested in Philadelphia for carrying a concealed weapon. He served a year in a Pa. prison while things settled down.
Bonanno claimed that he was kidnapped by his cousin, Stefano Magaddino, because he refused a Commission invitation to explain his role in a plot against Carlo Gambino and Tommy Lucchese. Others believe he faked the kidnapping so he could avoid several federal indictments against him. What you're probably thinking of: he came out of hiding by suddenly appearing before a federal judge in NYC, saying: "My name is Joseph Bonanno. I understand you want to ask me some questions." By that time, the disloyal elements in his family were in chaos.
New question: What was mobster Joe Adonis's real name?
Guiseppe Doto
What is ironic about Al Capone's brother James' job?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/12/03 02:04 AM
His brother, "Two-Gun Hart," was a federal Prohibition agent. They reconciled later.
Q. What was the name of the Brooklyn Irish mob that was chasing Capone before his hasty departure for Chicago?
Are you talking about Richard "Peg-Leg" Lonergan? If so- What year was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre? (sorry,cant think of anything harded)
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/12/03 03:58 AM
A: st.valentines 1929
Q: know as the armorer of gangland
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/12/03 06:02 AM
Peter von Frantzius.
(The Irish mob that was chasing Capone in Brooklyn was the White Handers.)
Q. Who was known in the 1920s as "King of the Gamblers" and was the inspiration for a character who appeared in the novel, "The Great Gatsby"?
Arnold Rothstien??
Q.This mob boss was a cheif strategist for Joe Maseria in the Castelemaresse war. He was killed before the war ended. He had a deformed hand.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/12/03 05:11 PM
Peter (the Clutch Hand) Morello.
Q. What was Machine Gun Jack McGurn's real name?
Vincenzo Gibaldi
What was Frankie Yale's real name?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/12/03 11:47 PM
Francesco Uole.
Q. Who was the "blond alibi"?
McGurn's girlfriend, Louise Rolfe
What day was Jack Zuta killed?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/13/03 02:52 AM
Originally posted by Don Sonny Corleone:
What day was Jack Zuta killed?
A. July 31, 1930.
Q. February 14th holds a special place in Mob folklore. In 1929 it was made famous for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. In 1936, one of the shooters of "the Massacre", "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn was shot dead. What mob boss died (in prison) on that date in 1969?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/13/03 05:56 AM
Vito Genovese. (BTW: McGurn wasn't one of the actual Massacre shooters--that's why he had the "blond alibi.")
Q. Which Mob boss committed suicide by shooting himself along a railroad track?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/13/03 07:56 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
(BTW: McGurn wasn't one of the actual Massacre shooters--that's why he had the "blond alibi.")
Mea culpa. The word "shooter" should have been "planner".
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Which Mob boss committed suicide by shooting himself along a railroad track?
Johnnie Torrio . . .
Q. he started as a Driver and Bodyguard for Al Capone. and was later identified with Frank Sinatra and shared the same mistress with JFK.
GoodFella
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/14/03 05:09 AM
ahhhh i know this one cant think of it tho
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/14/03 05:43 AM
Originally posted by goodfellaoggie:
[quote]Originally posted by Turnbull:
[b]
Q. Which Mob boss committed suicide by shooting himself along a railroad track?
Johnnie Torrio . . .
Q. he started as a Driver and Bodyguard for Al Capone. and was later identified with Frank Sinatra and shared the same mistress with JFK.
GoodFella [/b][/quote]Sam Giancana.
Sorry, 'twasn't Torrio who killed himself along a railroad track. Try again, please.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/14/03 07:43 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Which Mob boss committed suicide by shooting himself along a railroad track?
Al Caboose? (I, for one, give up).
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/14/03 07:59 AM
if that is correct......
Q: what 2 gangsters were the only gay ones in history (not italian not in america)
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/14/03 04:37 PM
Originally posted by Don Pope:
Q: what 2 gangsters were the only gay ones in history (not italian not in america)
Only
two gay gangsters
in history??? I don't think so. In recent American Mafia annals (no pun intended), John D'Amato and Tony Francesehi were gay. A gay rumor centered around Da Bull for a while, but I don't believe it--probably circulated by those he ratted out.
Q. What legitimate business did Joe Bonanno own in Wisconsin?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/14/03 08:42 PM
i didnt of any others, but i was talking about the kray twins in england
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/15/03 01:19 AM
turnbulls question still remains.....
Q. What legitimate business did Joe Bonanno own in Wisconsin? [/QB][/QUOTE]
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/15/03 05:55 AM
Originally posted by Don Pope:
i didnt of any others, but i was talking about the kray twins in england
I thought only Fat Reg was gay.
Still waiting for answer to: What legitimate business did Joe Bonanno own in Wisconsin?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/15/03 10:05 AM
it was on this DVD documentary with robert stack hosting, they say they were both gay.
Grande cheese co.
Q. This boss is believed to have killed Carlo Tresca, who wrote an italian newspaper and was an anti faccist.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/15/03 05:29 PM
Carmine Galante.
Q. What event led the US government to make a deal with Charlie Luciano: better treatment in prison and eventual release and deportation, in return for labor peace on NYC's docks?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/15/03 07:27 PM
A. The sinking of the Normandy in New Yorks docks. It's possible that the sinking was actually the work of some of Charlie's boys to get the government to go to him for help. But that's another story.
Q. What event lead to the eventual retirement of Johnny Torrio?
He was shot, some believe by his "nephew" Al Capone.
Q. Was the boss preceeding Tommy Luchese.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/15/03 08:45 PM
is it frank costello?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/15/03 11:52 PM
Tom Reina, then Tommy Gagliano, were Lucchese's predecessors.
Johnny Torrio retired after being gravely wounded in a hit attempt by Hymie Weiss, succesor to Dion O'Banion.
Q. Who was Bugsy Siegel's right-hand man in California?
Mickey Cohen.
This mobster was the one who picked up Joe Bonanno from a florida jail when he came to the country n the 20's...he worked for Steve Magaddino.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/17/03 01:22 AM
Willie Moretti.
Q. In what Havana hotel did Charlie Luciano meet with fellow gangsters in his first return from Europe after being deported in 1946? (Hint: The hotel is mentioned in GFII.)
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/18/03 01:48 AM
Well, since no one has replied in 24 hours:
Charlie Luciano met with the other guys in Havana's Hotel Nacional.
Q. What Sicilian town did Salvatore Maranzano, and his successor, Joe Bonanno, hail from?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/18/03 02:49 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. What Sicilian town did Salvatore Maranzano, and his successor, Joe Bonanno, hail from?
A. Castellammare del Golfo.
Q. Speaking of Bonanno, to which fellow Mob leader's daughter did his son, Salvatore, marry?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/18/03 05:22 AM
Rosalie Profaci Bonanno was Joe Profaci's niece.
Q. What was Dutch Shultz's real name?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/18/03 08:49 AM
A. Arthur Flagenheimer
Q. Who first broke the Mafia's code of Omerta(easy one the only thing I could think of)
Joseph Vallachi. . .
Q. he is George Raft's friend in Hollywood.
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/18/03 02:27 PM
Bugsy Siegel.
Q. Which singer was Sam Giancana's mistress for a while?
Phylis McGuire.
Q. This #2 man from the Buffalo Ny family was voted man of the year in the early 50's as well as owning the largest taxi co. in Buffalo.
He was discovered at Apalachin, the first known assocaiton between him and any mobsters.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/18/03 08:05 PM
John Montana.
Q. Who ran the offshore gambling boat rackets in Los Angeles in the Thirties and Forties?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/20/03 01:25 AM
Well, since there was no answer in more than 24 hours, the answer to the question about LA's gambling boats is: Tony (the Admiral) Cornero.
Q. What was Joe Profaci's "legitimate" business?
I am so not good at this kind of trivia, because I am not as knowledgeable as the rest of you. However, I have a good question I want to ask, so I will take a stab in the dark at this one.
TIS
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/20/03 10:29 PM
Originally posted by The Italian Stallionette:
I'll say olive oil!!
Give that lady a ceeegar!
TIS, you get to ask the question now.
LMAO
Are you kidding??? Ha ha. Now everytime the question is to name the legitimate business of a gangster, I'll say "olive oil".
Ok, this is probably gonna be gravy for most of you, but here goes:
What gangster was nicknamed "The Waiter" and if you know, what gangster was he connected with?" TIS
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/20/03 11:45 PM
Paul "The Waiter" Ricca was associated with the Chicago mob. He ran it for a while after Frank Nitti committed suicide. (TIS: He waited on you, me, plawrence, SC, JG and Lori last September at Carmines's last September
.)
Q. Who succeeded Ricca as boss of the Chicago mob?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/21/03 01:08 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Who succeeded Ricca as boss of the Chicago mob?
A. Anthony "Big Tuna" Accardo. (I guess he waited on Saladbar @ Carmine's :p ).
Q. Name this NYC mobster (pictured below):
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/21/03 03:34 AM
Originally posted by SC:
Q. Name this NYC mobster (pictured below):
A. That would be Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno. of the Genovese crime family.
Q. Who was the original head of what became the Lucchese crime family?(if this has already been asked then ooops.
)
Posted By: Tony Mosrite
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/21/03 04:28 AM
A: Tom Gagliano
Q: Got to know a mobster after tell him to "Fuck off" when they first met each other
Tony,
Lord knows I don't belong on this thread, but once again will guess. You say he got to know a mobster. I'll take a shot....Frank Sinatra?
Ok, ok, maybe I can't get lucky twice.
TIS
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/21/03 05:32 AM
Young Meyer Lansky said it to young Charlie Luciano.
Q. Who was the mentor of Meyer Lansky, Charlie Luciano and Frank Costello?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/21/03 05:33 AM
i think that seems about right, theres no one else i could think of
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/21/03 05:34 AM
oops i mustve typed this as you were typin ur post.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/21/03 05:35 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Young Meyer Lansky said it to young Charlie Luciano.
Q. Who was the mentor of Meyer Lansky, Charlie Luciano and Frank Costello?
i beleive either masseria or maranzano
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/21/03 09:05 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Young Meyer Lansky said it to young Charlie Luciano.
Q. Who was the mentor of Meyer Lansky, Charlie Luciano and Frank Costello?
A. I'm thinking it was Arnold Rothstein.
If so then here's my question.
Q.It's a 2 parter. Part one how many children did John Gotti and his wife have? 2nd part what happened to one of his children?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/21/03 05:44 PM
2, one got hit by a car.
still waiting for the correct answer to other question.
Don Pope, what other question are you talking about? What Family is turnbull the head of? ;)That one?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/22/03 02:19 AM
Q. Who was the mentor of Meyer Lansky, Charlie Luciano and Frank Costello?
that was the question
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/22/03 06:46 PM
Iceman was right, Arnold Rothstein was mentor to Luciano, Lansky and Costello.
Gotti had three kids: Vicki (author), John Jr. (professional dunce), Frank (accidentally killed by neighbor's car).
Q. Although Joe Bonanno was not arrested at the Apalachin meeting, the police said they arrested him. What caused that mistake?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/23/03 05:52 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Iceman was right, Arnold Rothstein was mentor to Luciano, Lansky and Costello.
Gotti had three kids: Vicki (author), John Jr. (professional dunce), Frank (accidentally killed by neighbor's car).
Turnbull you might be right probably are. But I always thought John Gotti had 5 kids. 2 girls, and 3 boys the youngest of which died.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/23/03 03:37 PM
Originally posted by The Iceman:
Turnbull you might be right probably are. But I always thought John Gotti had 5 kids. 2 girls, and 3 boys the youngest of which died. Iceman, I stand (partially) corrected: Gotti had four kids. The one I missed was a daughter, Angela.
Question about Bonanno and Apalachin still stands.
Gaspare DiGregorio was caught at the party/meeting and had none of his own ID on his person.
Instead he had Joe drivers license, which Joe had asked his brother in law to renew, for him when he went to Sicily.
Gaspare was identified as Bonanno, although Bonanno claims he was not present.
Q. This long time Bonanno capo died of a heart attack druing a celebretory dinner after Joes apearance after his kidanpping/disapearance.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/23/03 06:52 PM
Joseph Notaro.
Q. Who was the first Don of what is now the Genovese family who wasn't Siclian?
(Note to Mike's Bodyguard: Do you think that DiGregorio was the model for the joke about the guy who was drummed out of the Mafia for stupidity--they sent him to blow up a car, he burned his lips on the tailpipe?
)
Sure enuff...unfortuantely for Bonanno he was relatively unkown to most of the other people in NYC when his jelousy was used by Steve Magadino to challange Bonanno's leadership when Joe tried to plant Bill in his administration.
Maseria then Luciano then Costello then Genovese...Vito was not Sicillian, nor was Costello, Charlie was and I would belive the Joe the Boss was as well so my guess would be that it was Costello.
Q. This powerfull Profaci capo went by the nick name "Jiggs"?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/24/03 05:37 AM
Nicholas "Jiggs" Forlano.
Q. What "legitimate" job did Joe Columbo use as cover?
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/24/03 08:48 AM
Real Estate Broker, I believe.
If correct,
He took a dive at the Half Moon Hotel
Abe Reles . . .
Q. he was the only Mafia who was sent to the electric chair.
GoodFella
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/24/03 10:31 AM
A. Lious "Lepke" Buchcalter(sp?)
Q. Once put out a hit on John Gotti.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/24/03 05:25 PM
Vincent (the Chin) Gigante.
Q. How did Bugs Moran die?
(Note to plawrence on Columbo's "legit" job: The NYTimes interviewed Columbo's nominal boss, Joseph Cantalupo, who owned the realty company that employed him, and asked how a lowly real estate salesman like Columbo could earn enough money to buy a lavish country estate. "Mr. Columbo has the sincerest group of customers," Cantalupo replied. "No one ever tries to cheat him out of a commission."
)
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/24/03 05:34 PM
A: on a ten year stretch at leavenworth for a bank robbery, eventually died in prison of cancer in 1957.
Q: on july 1st 1928, he was driving down 44th street in brooklyn when a black sudan forced him to the curve men got out and riddled his car with bullets.
Frankie Yale
What was Al Capone's Alcatraz prison #?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/24/03 08:05 PM
#85.
What was Charlie Luciano's real legitimate business after he was deported to Italy?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/24/03 08:38 PM
he owned a club or a bar
when and where did luciano die
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/24/03 11:43 PM
He died at the Naples airport in 1962, waiting to meet his biographer.
Q. What incident led to Machine Gun Jack McGurn planning the St. Valentine's Day Massacre?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/25/03 12:15 AM
A. Machine Gun Jack McGurn himself was almost gunned down by Morans gunmen.
Q. (assuming i'm right about the previous question) What mobster is said to have been directly involved with the JFK assassination?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/25/03 01:19 AM
Two are most often mentioned: Carlos Marcello and Sam Giancana.
Q. How did Vincent (the Chin) Gigante get his nickname?
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/25/03 02:36 AM
Didn't it have something to do with a boxing career?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/25/03 03:15 AM
is it cuz he has a really big chin?
He was said to have taken too many shots to the chin during his boxing career...
Q. this mob boss served as boss from the 20's to the 70's and was a member of the commision during that tenure,,,
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/25/03 05:42 AM
The Chin got his name because his first name is pronounced, in Italian, as Vin-CHEN-zo.
The long-serving Don was Stefano Magaddino.
Q. What was Magaddino's "legitimate" business?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/25/03 11:10 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
The Chin got his name because his first name is pronounced, in Italian, as Vin-CHEN-zo.
Depends on who you listen to. I've seen stories stating the moniker comes from his prominent chin (and this theory makes most sense to me - wiseguys love to make reference to physical traits), and also stories alluding to the fact his nickname came from his boxing career (ie. he had a weak chin and was knocked out a lot - this is less likely because he had a decent boxing record).
Magaddino's business was funeral parlors.
Q. What was special in reagrds to Christmas and the Mafia esp in times of conflict.
Merry Christmas
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/25/03 02:59 PM
Originally posted by SC:
[ I've seen stories stating the moniker comes from his prominent chin (and this theory makes most sense to me
Jay (The Chin) Leno?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/25/03 04:24 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Jay (The Chin) Leno?
Yup, and don't forget he was the reporter who was questioning Hyman Roth when Roth was shot. :rolleyes:
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/25/03 04:59 PM
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mike's Bodyguard:
Q. What was special in reagrds to Christmas and the Mafia esp in times of conflict.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/27/03 05:36 PM
since no one has replied in more than 24 hours i guess you should just give the answer and a new question.
The Mob was suppossed to have an informal agreement that any conflict taking place dutring the holiday season would be temporarily put on hold until after the holidays, so the conflcitng parties could enjoys the holidays with their respective families.
New Q.
This mobster took his name in honor of his good looks.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/28/03 08:07 PM
Giuseppe Doto (aka Joe Adonis).
Q. Where was Dutch Shultz gunned down?
October 23, 1935 in the Palace ChopHouse bathroom
What was his real name?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/28/03 09:15 PM
Originally posted by Don Sonny Corleone:
October 23, 1935 in the Palace ChopHouse bathroom
What was his real name?
The Palace Chop House was in Newark, NJ
A. His birth name was Arthur Flegenheimer (we're already repeating questions).
Q. Speaking of shootings, where was Albert Anastasia shot?
Posted By: Beth E
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/28/03 09:58 PM
I know the answer to this but can't give it
because I don't know a thing about the mafia, so I wouldn't have a question to ask. This is one trivia game I'm no good at. Darn!
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/28/03 10:13 PM
Originally posted by Beth E:
I know the answer to this
You
should know the answer to this one... you stayed right across the street from the site.
Posted By: Beth E
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/28/03 10:16 PM
Yup, I'm smart! But not smart enough to think of a question. I even got a picture of the place.
Posted By: Beth E
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/28/03 10:29 PM
Ok, a little birdie came by and whispered a question in my ear. Honest! We have smart birds in Baltimore.
A. I've heard this hotel named 2 different things. I say Park Central. Although in the past I've heard it referred to as Park Sheraton or simply Sheraton. Either way, he died in the barber shop.
Q. His nickname is "Kid Blast".
Galione Albert
Who was Little Lollipop?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/31/03 12:48 AM
no one has replied in more than 24 hours so post answer and new question.
Yes oh fearless leader[bows]
It was Joseph Carna
New question-Why was Lucky Luciano exiled to Sicily?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/31/03 06:04 PM
he helped out the americans during the war by guarding the bayline. so instead of keeping him in prison they sent him to italy for good
Q:name the gangsters killed on st.valentines day.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/01/04 04:27 PM
Pete and Frank Gusenberg, Reinhardt Schwimmer, Adam Heyer, Al Weinshank, James Clark, Johnny May.
Q. Where did Machine Gun Jack McGurn hole up with Louise Rolfe to establish his alibi in the shooting?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/01/04 07:17 PM
i beleive he was with her in a hotel room.
if correct
Q: on june 20th 1947, he was shot 3 times in the head in his house.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/01/04 08:10 PM
Bugsy Siegel.
Q. In whose home was Siegel shot?
(Note to Don Pope: McGurn's hole-up was in the Hotel Stevens.)
TB,
If I remember correctly from the movie, wasn't he shot in his own home??? I might be wrong, it's been a long time since I've seen the movie.
God, if I'm right, I'll have to think hard of a good question to keep up with you pros.
TIS
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/01/04 09:22 PM
yea i thought it was in his own home?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/01/04 10:40 PM
Yes, It was in his own home.
Been waiting for another question, but no one posted another so here goes ( don't know if this was posted over the last five pages as i only read 3 of them and if it was I apologize ) :
Who was the shooter that Botched a hit on Frank Costello?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/01/04 11:21 PM
vincent the chin gigante
Q: who were the shooters in maranzanos hit?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/02/04 05:51 AM
There's considerable mystery about how many (4?5?6?) men were involved in Maranzano's assassination. They only certainty was that they were led by Samuel (Red) Levine. Earlier, Joe (the Boss) Masseria was assassinated by Bugsy Siegel, Giuseppe (Joe Adonis) Doto and Abraham (Bo) Weinberg. Both hits were ordered by Charlie Luciano and arranged by Meyer Lansky.
Q. In whose house was Bugsy Siegel killed (not his own house--the movie had it wrong).
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/02/04 06:01 AM
every info site and research site said he was killed in his own home?
Posted By: Beth E
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/02/04 06:02 AM
Everything I've read said the same thing. Did the home perhaps belong to his mistress?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/02/04 10:49 AM
Siegel was shot in the home of Virginia Hill, his mistress.
Siegal was shot w/a high powered rifle from
behind,blew his eye out,hit 2 other times
but did not matter he died instantly.
He was sitting on Hills sofa reading
the news paper.
{Q}What was the name of the lounge-bar
that Roy Demeo used to execute his
victims and what was the nick name
that his 2 soldiers were given,they
were the ones who eventually killed
Demeo.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/02/04 04:41 PM
Originally posted by eddietheplumber:
{Q}What was the name of the lounge-bar
that Roy Demeo used to execute his
victims and what was the nick name
that his 2 soldiers were given,they
were the ones who eventually killed
Demeo.
The Gemini Lounge (on Troy Avenue, Brooklyn). DeMeo's killers (Joey Tester and Anthony Senter) were known as "The Gemini Twins".
Q. This member of a NY based Family was nicknamed "Quack-Quack".
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/02/04 05:01 PM
Angelo Ruggiero.
(Kudos to SC on Virginia Hill
)
Q. What was the nickname of Angelo Bruno's successor, who was blown up by a bomb at his home?
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/02/04 07:56 PM
My source for info on the Philly mob tells me it was Phil Testa, but she doesn't know his nickname
Who succeeded Testa, and what was
his nickname?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/02/04 08:01 PM
nicky scarfo, but i dont know his nickname tho.
Q: this mob boss also had some rackets in new jersey
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/02/04 08:34 PM
"Little Nicky"
Any number of mobsters could be the correct answer to your question.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/02/04 08:36 PM
the current mob boss of the genevese
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/02/04 10:56 PM
guess ill make a new question
Q: what mob boss has never served a prison term?
Posted By: Beth E
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/02/04 11:27 PM
Carlo Gambino?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/02/04 11:52 PM
Part of my question still stands: What was Phil Testa's nickname?
(His successor was Nicodemo (Little Nicky) Scarfo.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/03/04 03:38 AM
Originally posted by Beth E:
Carlo Gambino?
thats correct
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/03/04 03:39 AM
turnbulls question still stands
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Turnbull
[QB] Part of my question still stands: What was Phil Testa's nickname?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/03/04 06:33 AM
Originally posted by Don Pope:
Part of my question still stands: What was Phil Testa's nickname?
A.Phil "Chicken Man" Testa.
I can't think of a question at this time. So someone else feel free to pose a new question.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/03/04 06:47 AM
Q: what important mob moss was paul castellano cousins with?
DON-Carlo Gambino
{Q} How many times was little
Nicky Scarfo jr.shot
by Joey merlinos'crew
[he also survived the hit]
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/03/04 11:39 PM
"Several" times is what the newspapers recorded.
Q. Name the UK-born gangster who started out under Capone and was for many years in charge of the Chicago Outfit's labor rackets.
14 TIMES AS IT GOES IF ANY ONE CARED-
QUESTION STILL STANDS
Q. Name the UK-born gangster who started out under Capone and was for many years in charge of the Chicago Outfit's labor rackets.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/05/04 10:26 PM
A: frank nitti
Q: he was shot outside sparks steakhouse
Posted By: Beth E
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/05/04 11:13 PM
Would that be Paul Castellano?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/05/04 11:15 PM
you are correct
Posted By: Beth E
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/05/04 11:22 PM
In that case I'll ask an easy question.
Q. What fictional tv character is said to be based on Nicky Scarfo, Jr.?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/05/04 11:29 PM
Christopher Moltisanti on "Sopranos."
My question about the UK-born gangster who ran the labor rackets for the Chicago Outfit still stands. He wasn't Frank Nitti.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/07/04 06:11 AM
Since no one has answered in more than 24 hours:
Murray (The Camel) Humphries.
Q. Who gave Capone the scars on his face?
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/07/04 08:44 PM
A. Gallucio because he insulted his sister!
p.s. Don Pope - Accardo (Outfit) never served a prison sentence either. They're my two favourite gangsters!
Here's a tough one (come on turnbull!)
Q: What memeber of Giancanas Outfit in the sixties was alledgedly a shooter in the JF Kennedy assasination?!
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/07/04 08:55 PM
probably wrong, Jack Ruby?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/08/04 12:01 AM
Here is a direct quote from Ralph Salerno, widely considered the Justice Department's No. 1 expert on organized crime, on Giancana's supposed "invovlement" in the Kennedy hits:
The FBI had very extensive coverage on the leaders of organized crime in Chicago, with Sam Giancana and others. They tape recorded him in the Armory Lounge, which he sort of made his own personal headquarters. Sam Giancana doesn't show any foreknowledge at all. After the fact, in a discussion, he's talking with one of his accomplices about Oswald, and they said "What kind of guy was he?" And Sam says "I don't know what kind of guy he was, but he was a pretty good marksman." Now that doesn't sound like the comment of a man who had retained the man he was surprised to find was such a good marksman.
Q. In what upstate New York town did Meyer Lansky control gambling?
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/08/04 12:07 PM
A: Saratoga
No, although Giancana controlled and directed Rubys actions, he was not a shooter!
According to brother Chuck Giancana, a shooter by the name of Chuck "needles" Nicoletti was the assasin. Giancana was directly involved in the assasination and after becoming the Outfits boss, began working with Cuban exiles and the CIA in an attempt to kill JFK.
Q: what famous Chicago rat was found chopped up inside a 55 gallon drum in Florida after apparently telling a grand jury about the White/Black hand (CIA/mafia) ops in the early sixties?
Johnny Roselli, who was identified by Bill Bonanno as the shooter of JFK in his book Bound by Honor.
Q. This Chicago bigwig took his name from a man he killed in Italy.
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/08/04 05:21 PM
A: Paul "the waiter" Ricca
Q: Organised the Apalachin meeting?
{A}Was it not vito genovese who wanted the
meeting?I think his motive was to get
the ok on the drug dealing and also get the ok
on killing carlo gambino?????
Q WHAT was the name of the bar-lounge
gambling joint in florida run by
dominick napolitano and donnie brascoe
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/08/04 08:05 PM
A. King's Court.
Q. Which Don married his first cousin?
{A} Was it not carlo gambino?
{Q} Name the meat company started
by Paul Castallano and later given
to his son Paul jr.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/09/04 01:32 AM
A. Dial Poultry.
Q. Which Don married his first cousin? (Wasn't Gambino.)
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/09/04 02:07 AM
paul castellano
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/09/04 05:18 AM
Right, Done Pope!
Now, how about posing a question?
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/09/04 10:25 AM
OK I'll pose one instead!
Q: name 3 high-profile women Sam Giancana has been linked with.
Uhmm... Santo Trafficante, John Roselli and Jack Ruby.
Marylin Monroe, Judy Cambell, and Phyliss McGuire.
Q. This mob bosses daughter married Joe Valachi.
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/09/04 05:44 PM
A: Gaetano Reina
Q: This "crazy b@st@rd" from Chicago used to enjoy torturing and killing his bosses enemies using an ice-pick
Mad Dog DeStephano.
This mob boss was replaced as head of one of the five NYC families because he was considered to be too close to the slain Salvatore Maranzano. He was eventually killed twenty years later.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/09/04 08:13 PM
Frank Scalise.
Q. This head of a longshoreman's union had a brother who was a Don (and who spelled his last name differently).
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/09/04 09:52 PM
Was that Anthony Anastasia?
Q: was killed for wanting to 'hit' a prosecutor (which was against the rules of the mob in those days) in the 1930's
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/09/04 11:33 PM
Dutch Shultz.
Q. Who was the prosecutor he wanted to whack?
(Note to Accardo: You're right, but Tony spelled his name "AnastasiO.")
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/10/04 04:56 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Dutch Shultz.
Q. Who was the prosecutor he wanted to whack?
(Note to Accardo: You're right, but Tony spelled his name "AnastasiO.")
Thomas A Dewey.
Al Capone sometimes went by this nickname(hint not scarface) what was the nickname? Bonus points what does it mean?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/10/04 06:02 AM
A. "Snorky" (means "elegant," supposedly).
Q. What business did he list on his business card?
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/10/04 05:03 PM
A: furniture dealer
Q: Mob boss who was first to decree that the 'outfit' will have nothing to do with narcotics
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/10/04 05:23 PM
If by "outfit" you mean the Chicago mob, it's your namesake.
Q. In the mid and late '80s, Rudy Giuliani, as US Attorney, brought RICO indictments against four of the five NY Dons. Which one wasn't indicted. Why?
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/10/04 06:54 PM
Turnbull: Wrong it was his boss - Ricca!
A: Castellano because he was killed before the trials
Q: Who is the present boss of the Gambino crime family?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/10/04 07:55 PM
peter gotti
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/10/04 08:04 PM
Accardo: Wrong, Castellano was indicted but didn't go to trial because he was killed.
My question stands: Which of the five Dons wasn't indicted in Giuliani's RICO blitz, and why wasn't he indicted?
Posted By: Don Tissinno
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/11/04 09:29 PM
So are we stuck on this question?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/11/04 10:49 PM
Ok, since it's more than 24 hours:
Vincent (Chin) Gigante was the only Don who wasn't indicted in 1985 in the Great Giuliani RICO Blitz. Two reasons: 1) Gigante had secretly taken over the Genovese Family in '81 after Fat Tony Salerno had a stroke, but the Feds still thought Salerno was in charge; 2) Gigante had started his "mentally incompetent" act.
New question: What was Joe Columbo's "legitimate" job?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/11/04 10:51 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
My question stands: Which of the five Dons wasn't indicted in Giuliani's RICO blitz, and why wasn't he indicted? [/QB]
the boss of the bonanno family at that time, he wasnt indicted because he didnt go to the meeting with all the dons
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/11/04 10:52 PM
oops, nevermind
Posted By: Don Tissinno
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/12/04 05:38 AM
A: Real Estate Salesman
Q: In GFII Roth refers to the Lakeville Road boys. What real mob did this refer to?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/12/04 03:50 PM
He meant the Mayfield Road gang from Cleveland: Big Al Polizzi, Moe Dalitz, Sam Tucker and Morris Kleinman.
Q. Roth refers to "Eddie Levine of Newport." Who was the real-life equivalent?
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/12/04 04:11 PM
Didn't think there was a real-life equivalent, that he was ficticious but could it have been Carlos Marcello?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/12/04 08:17 PM
No, not Marcello (although Marcello did business with Meyer Lansky, Roth's real-life equivalent). Any other guesses or answers about "Eddie Levine of Newport"?
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/12/04 08:22 PM
Wasn't there a Jewish guy that was a big wheel with the mob in California. Mickey Cohen, maybe?
EDIT: I looked up Mickey Cohen on the 'Net. That's my guess.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/13/04 02:30 AM
OK: "Eddie Levine of Newport" was really Eddie Levinson of Lexington, KY, a city that served as Cincinnati's vice hub. Levinson was one of Lansky's partners in Cuba.
Q. Who succeeded Dion O'Banion as head of Chicago's Northside gang?
Posted By: Don Tissinno
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/13/04 04:57 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
OK: "Eddie Levine of Newport" was really Eddie Levinson of Lexington, KY, a city that served as Cincinnati's vice hub. Levinson was one of Lansky's partners in Cuba.
Q. Who succeeded Dion O'Banion as head of Chicago's Northside gang?
Lexington never seemed to me to be a vice hub...even though it has the horse racing....on the contrary, Newport/Covington Ky has always been the fleshpot because the bluebloods kept the vice out of the Queen City. Hmmmmm
A: Bugs Moran
Q: What mobster left the east to start a gambling haven in Hot Springs, Arkansas and what is he more well known for?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/13/04 05:42 AM
Originally posted by Don Tissinno:
Lexington never seemed to me to be a vice hub...even though it has the horse racing....on the contrary, Newport/Covington Ky has always been the fleshpot because the bluebloods kept the vice out of the Queen City. Hmmmmm
A: Bugs Moran
Q: What mobster left the east to start a gambling haven in Hot Springs, Arkansas and what is he more well known for?
You're right, Don Tissinno--I meant Covington, not Lexington. My error.
Owney Madden, NYC beer baron and proprietor of the Cotton Club, left NYC after Prohibition to pursue gambling in Hot Springs.
My earlier question still stands: Who succeeded Dion O'Banion as leader of Chicago's Northside gang (wasn't Bugs Moran, it was the guy before him)?
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/13/04 10:34 AM
A: Hymie Weiss
Q: Who managed to get Paul Ricca out of jail after 3 years when he was supposed to have served 10? He was not a member of the Outfit.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/13/04 03:23 PM
A complicated story, but: Ricca got 10 years for extortion. He also had tax evasion and mail fraud cases pending against him, which prevented him from being paroled. Eugene Bernstein, a tax lawyer, arranged to pay off the tax debt, so that case was dropped. Then Paul Dillon, a Missouri lawyer who was tight with the Kansas City Pendergast machine that sponsored Harry Truman's career, arranged for the mail fraud case to be dismissed (supposedly by promising Truman's Attorney General, Tom Clark, that he'd be named to a Supreme Court seat). Then Dillon supposedly arranged for the parole board to spring Ricca.
New question: Ricca's extortion conviction stemmed from Mob domination of the Movie Projectionists' Union. Which gangster was the original corrupter of that union (hint: New Yorker)?
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/13/04 04:19 PM
Good, but Tom Clarke would have done!
I believe Ricca took control from some unions previously controlled by New York families so I wud say Luciano? Do I deserve to ask another question?!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/13/04 07:53 PM
Actually, Louis (Lepke) Bucholter first penetrated the Projectionists Union.
Go ahead, Accardo: You always ask good questions.
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/14/04 02:47 PM
Thanks Turnbull! Here's an easy one though (coz I don't think I deserve one after not being specific enough on the last Q!)
Q: What famous mobsters death was strikingly reminiscent of the murder of one Moe Green in Godfather I?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/14/04 03:14 PM
Bugsy Siegel.
Q. Which Hollywood actor was a pal of Siegel's, and had been a driver and go-fer for gangsters before becoming an actor?
Geogre Raft
Q. Frank Sinatra's close friend in the Mob, also known as "Momo"
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/14/04 03:45 PM
Sam Giancana.
Q. Which NJ mobster allegedly helped Sinatra get out of his contract with Tommy Dorsey, and thus served as the model for Luca Brasi?
Willie Moretti??
If right then, Who was the gangster who beat his former partner almost to death with a baseball bat, and then after said partner recovered let him back into his crew.
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/14/04 06:34 PM
Turnbull: sorry, wrong!
Although Moe greens character was undoubtably based on 'Benny', the question was about his death. Benny died in his home whereas Albert Anastasia was murdered in a barbershop. I suppose it was a kinda trick Q when u think about it!
MB: The only two gangsters I know who ever used baseball bats were Al Capone and 'Joe Batters' himself. Was it any of these?
Accardo, the key to Moe Green getting killed was him being shot in the eye. When Seigel was shot he was also shot in the eye.
Nope on the guess about the bat
HINT: this made man of one of the five families did hid deed in Florida...
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/14/04 07:41 PM
Fair enough but it wasn't just one shot to the eye like in GF I, it was about 5 shots with one just happening to blow that portion of his face off! I guess I should have mentioned the setting of the murder but that would have given it away I think!
Haven't got a clue about the baseball gangster but that story does seem vaguely familiar! Turnbull........?!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/04 05:37 AM
Tommy Agro of the Gambino family beat up Joe (Dogs) Iannuzzi with a baseball bat, then let him back. Dogs turned rat and helped the FBI.
Q. Who were the three (repeat, three) men that Capone beat with a baseball bat?
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/04 10:24 AM
A: Well there are the obvious two feared Sicillian assasins - Anselmi and Scalise and there was the less known Joseph Guinta. Al killed them after realising they were conspiring against him.
Q: For what two Outfit bosses did "Mooney" Giancana start his career off by being their driver?
he was the Driver/Bodyguard of Al Capone.
Q. he is the first and only Mobster who was electrocuted in an electric chair.
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/04 04:58 PM
A. Louis (Lepke) Bucholter.
Q. Who was Lepke's partner and second-in-command?
[Note to Accardo: Anastasia died in a barber chair; Moe Green died on a massage table.)
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/04 05:31 PM
Goodfella there were two bosses I wanted (and stated in the question!).
Good luck, I'm off for the weekend now, have a good one guys!
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Who was Lepke's partner and second-in-command?
... Moe Green died on a massage table.
Jacob Shapiro?
If so- What was Lucky Luciano's real name?(and I'm not looking for Charlie)
BTW-Moe Green isnt real :p
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/04 11:56 PM
Salvatore Lucania.
Q. What was Frank Costello's real name?
(Gosh, Moe Green isn't a real person????
)
Francesco Castiglia
What was found 10 feet fron Bugsy Seigal when he was killed?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/17/04 03:38 AM
his eye
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/17/04 05:08 AM
Your turn to ask a question, Don Pope.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/17/04 03:56 PM
Q: this mob boss was shot by an afican-american in the middle of a public place.
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/17/04 06:07 PM
Originally posted by Don Pope:
Q: this mob boss was shot by an afican-american in the middle of a public place.
Joe Colombo
Q - Who was the exiled head of the Sicilian Commission later to become a Turncoat?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/18/04 05:10 AM
Tommaso Buscetta.
Q. Which Sicilian Mafia boss in the early years of the last century established ties with the New York Mafia?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/18/04 12:43 PM
Vito Cascio Ferro
Q - Who was the street boss of the Sicilian faction of the Bonanno Family in the late 70's/80's?
PS. Turnbull I realised I mixed up Badamenti and Buscetta in my last question. But you did get the answer I was looking for. Badalamenti was the exiled head, Buscetta was the high ranking turncoat.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/18/04 03:17 PM
Caesar Bonventre.
Q. Which Mob family did the Bonannos ally themselves with via son Bill's marriage?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/18/04 08:38 PM
the colombos
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/18/04 11:29 PM
Originally posted by Don Pope:
the colombos
They weren't called the Columbos at the time.
What was the name of the family that the Bonannos allied themselves through son Bill's marriage?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/19/04 01:30 AM
was the boss of the family then Joseph Magliocco?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/19/04 06:57 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
[quote]Originally posted by Don Pope:
[b] the colombos
They weren't called the Columbos at the time.
What was the name of the family that the Bonannos allied themselves through son Bill's marriage? [/b][/quote]It was known as the Profaci family at the time.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/19/04 05:46 PM
ask a question Iceman
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/20/04 05:15 AM
Originally posted by Don Pope:
ask a question Iceman
Knew I forgot something.
Ok here it is.
Q. Al Capone had his one time friend, and former employer, not to mention sometime shooter Frankie Yale killed. Why?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/20/04 06:05 AM
A. Capone was using Yale to truck booze from the East to Chicago. Yale was stealing Capone's booze and claiming he'd been hijacked.
Q. Where did Capone finish out his one-year sentence for carrying a gun?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/20/04 06:16 AM
A. Philadelphia I'm thinking. If I'm right then here is my question.
Q. How was Al Capones older brother Frank killed? (easy one I know, the first thing that popped into my head)
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/20/04 10:44 AM
A: He was killed by Chicago cops when he was about to take out his gun and shoot them!
Q: 1936 - Lucky Luciano was sentenced to a prison term of 30-50 years. Why?!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/20/04 03:25 PM
A. Running prostitution rackets.
Q. Name the two prisons where he served his sentence.
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/20/04 05:42 PM
A: Sing Sing (where part of Analyze That with De Niro was filmed!) and Clinton state. Actually he wasn't in Sing Sing too long so the other one is Great Meadow.
Q: What Ricca-controlled stooge was used to assasinate the mayor of Chicago in an open motorcade (reminiscent of something eh?!) back in the thirties?
Posted By: Accardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/22/04 04:34 PM
OK since no-one has come up with an answer the answer is: Guiseppe Zangara (who assasinated Anton Cermak in 1933)
Q: How many bosses were present at the Appalachin meetin?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/22/04 04:40 PM
I couldn't tell you how many bosses but there was roughly 60 arrests of upper echelon members made.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/22/04 08:13 PM
Q. Great Meadow was one of the two prisons where Luciano served time. What was the other? (It was neither Sing Sing nor Clinton.)
(Note to Accardo and Turi: The New York bosses who were present at the Apalachin meeting were Joe Profaci, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino and Vito Genovese. However, Lucchese escaped through the woods and wasn't arrested. Joe Bonanno and Stefano Magaddino, two other New York bosses (the latter was the boss of Buffalo, NY and eastern Canada) weren't at the meeting--they were nearby in Endicott, NY. The NY newspapers never identified any out-of-towners, presuming that their names wouldn't be of interest.)
Posted By: DonTeflon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/04 01:03 AM
A: New Jersey's Trenton State Prison
Q: This gangster was convicted on April 2,1992 for 14 counts of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, loansharking, racketeering, obstruction of justice, illegal gambling, and tax evasion.
John Gotti?
If so: How did Tommy Luchese lose his finger?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/04 05:02 AM
Supposedly he lost it in an accident in a factory.
Q. In what prison besides Great Meadow did Charlie Luciano serve his sentence before being deported (not Trenton State).
Posted By: DonTeflon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/04 05:07 AM
Gotti is correct.
A: Tommy Luchese lost his finger in an industrial accident in 1919.
Q: Where did Tommy Luchese get the "Brown" portion of his nickname, "Three-Finger-Brown?"
Sorry Turnbull...guess we posted at the same time. Looks like I had the wrong answer also to your question. Oops.
Posted By: DonTeflon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/04 05:15 AM
The only other thing I can come up with is either Dannemora, or US Federal Prison
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/04 02:51 PM
Originally posted by DonTeflon:
The only other thing I can come up with is either Dannemora, or US Federal Prison
Dannemora is correct, i've just came across it on a dvd of mine this morning and you've beat me to it. Ask away.
Posted By: DonTeflon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/04 11:26 PM
Q: This old mobster had the nickname "LORD HIGH EXECUTIONER"
Originally posted by DonTeflon:
Q: Where did Tommy Luchese get the "Brown" portion of his nickname, "Three-Finger-Brown?"
There was a picther Mordecai Brown who only had 3 fingers. DT's question still stands-
Originally posted by DonTeflon:
Q: This old mobster had the nickname "LORD HIGH EXECUTIONER"
I know the answer, I can see the guy's face, I just cant remember his name.
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/24/04 05:26 AM
Originally posted by DonTeflon:
Q: This old mobster had the nickname "LORD HIGH EXECUTIONER"
A. That would be Albert Anastasia.
Q. The only high ranking member to pay for his crimes in the electric chair?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/24/04 05:36 AM
A: Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/28/04 03:02 PM
Q: the most ruthless sicilian mob boss, who took over the corleone family in sicily.
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/28/04 03:09 PM
Has to be Salvatore "Toto" Riina who had the two judges Falcone and Borselino blown up.
Q, The Docile Don?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/31/04 06:20 PM
C'mon it's easy. Ok another clue but same question.
Q, The Docile Don, also known as the Gentle Don?
Posted By: Beth E
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/01/04 01:20 AM
Angelo Bruno?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/01/04 01:54 AM
Perfect Beth, it's probably a bit close to home for you. You question babe.
Posted By: Beth E
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/01/04 01:29 PM
Q. Who's nickname is "Jack The Dropper"?
Posted By: DonTeflon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/03/04 11:49 PM
A: Nathan Kaplan aka "KID DROPPER"
Q: Who had the nickname "The Prime Minister of Crime ?"
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/04/04 01:46 AM
Frank Costello.
Q. Who was John Gotti's first consigliere after he assassinated Paul Castellano?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/04/04 01:51 AM
sam gravano
Don Pope, start asking questions after you answer them. :rolleyes: :p
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/04/04 02:48 AM
No, Gotti's first consigliere wasn't Gravano. Who was he?
Posted By: joltinjoe05
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/04/04 03:33 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
No, Gotti's first consigliere wasn't Gravano. Who was he?
Was it Frank Loco?
I remember that name from a book...
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/04/04 05:36 AM
No, it was Frankie DiCicco.
Q. Where was Crazy Joe Gallo gunned down?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/04/04 04:20 PM
in some parade in the middle of town, by an afican american assasin
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/04/04 05:35 PM
Originally posted by Don Pope: (about where Joey Gallo was gunned down)
in some parade in the middle of town, by an afican american assasin
You may be thinking of Joe Colombo. "Crazy" Joe Gallo was shot in the old Umberto's Clam House in Little Italy, a short distance away from the location used to film the scene of Vito Corleone being shot in the street (a year earlier).
Joey Gallo's last meal was here:
Q. What did Albert Anastasia, Vito Genovese and Joe Adonis have in common on April 15, 1931?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/05/04 01:29 AM
A. They allegedly assassinated Joe (the Boss) Masseria in a restaurant in Coney Island, Brooklyn. (Others say that the shooters were Adonis, Bugsy Siegel and Abraham "Bo" Weinberg.)
Q. Who led the hit squad that assassinated Salvatore Maranzano five months later? (I mean the shooters, not the guy who ordered it.)
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/06/04 05:16 AM
Well, since more than 24 hours went by: Samuel (Red) Levine led the Maranzano shooters.
Q. Who took over Maranzano's family after he was killed?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/06/04 06:31 AM
frank costello
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/06/04 08:51 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Who took over Maranzano's family after he was killed?
Charles Luciano.
If I'm correct.
Q. Of the 7 men killed in the St Valentines day massacre, how many of them were George "Bugs" Morans men?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/06/04 04:14 PM
Iceman: Joe Bonanno took over Maranzano's family. But to give credit to you where due: Charlie Luciano, who had taken over Masseria's family, became the de facto capo di tutti capi (the position Maranzano presumed) by forming the Commission.
A. to Moran question: Six of the seven men killed in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre were Moran's men. The seventh, Reinhardt H. Schwimmer, was an optomotrist who liked hanging out with criminals.
Q. Where was Capone at the time of the massacre?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/06/04 05:17 PM
enjoying the luxury of his mansion in miami florida
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/07/04 04:28 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Iceman: Joe Bonanno took over Maranzano's family. But to give credit to you where due: Charlie Luciano, who had taken over Masseria's family,
Duh that's right. I got Maranzano, and Masseria mixed up.
enjoying the luxury of his mansion in miami florida
To be even more precise. Al Capone was in a meeting with the DA of Dade County Florida at the time. Thus establishing an air tight alibi.
I'm not sure how Turnbull wanted that question answered. so anyone can feel free to pose a new question.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/07/04 05:19 AM
Both Don Pope and Iceman were right about Capone.
Q. What is Sammy Da Bull's real first name?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/07/04 09:16 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Both Don Pope and Iceman were right about Capone.
Q. What is Sammy Da Bull's real first name?
A. Salvatore.
Q. How did John Gotti come to aquire the nickname "The Teflon Don"?
Easy one, the first thing that came to mind.
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/07/04 02:31 PM
Because charges against him never stuck.
Q, Which notorious New York gang was John Torrio, Al Capone and Lucky Luciano et al. all a part of in their youth?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/07/04 05:35 PM
the black hand
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/07/04 06:31 PM
I'm afraid not Don Pope, but keep trying.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/07/04 06:38 PM
The Five Pointers.
Q. Who was Torrio's uncle who brought him to Chicago?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/07/04 07:10 PM
Big Jim and I can't remember how to spell his last name Collosimo
Q, Who were the three Capos whacked that opposed Sonny Black in the Bonanno Family?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/08/04 01:32 AM
A. Anthony (Sonny Red) Indelicato, Dominick (Big Trin) Trinchera and Philip (Philly Lucky) Giaccone.
Q. Who did Salvatore Maranzano hire to whack Charlie Luciano?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/08/04 02:20 AM
Mad Dog Coll, lucky Luciano anticipated the hit and struck first.
Q - Who was the acting star of the high profile case of extortion that emerged last year?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/08/04 05:41 AM
A. Steven Segall.
Q. Which mob guy was killed by a movie star's daughter in the Fifties?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/09/04 12:33 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
A. Steven Segall.
Q. Which mob guy was killed by a movie star's daughter in the Fifties?
A.Johnny Stompanato.
Q. Who was known as the "Clay Pigeon of the Underworld"
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/12/04 05:35 AM
A. Jack "Legs" Diamond.
Q. Name the Puerto Rican drug dealer whose testimony put Vito Genovese in prison for good.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/13/04 05:06 PM
Since no one has answered in more than 24 hours:
The Puerto Rican drug dealer who set up Vito Genovese was Nelson Cantellops.
Q. Where did Genovese die?
In prison of natural causes right?
What does the RICO law stand for?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/14/04 05:46 AM
Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization.
Q. Who was the truckdriver whom Gotti assaulted, and who refused to testify against him?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/19/04 05:45 AM
Since no one has answered in several days: The truckdriver who was assaulted by Gotti and conveniently "forgot" the identity of his assailant was Romual Piecyk.
Q. What was the name of Gotti's Queens headquarters "social club"?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/19/04 09:50 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. What was the name of Gotti's Queens headquarters "social club"?
A. The Bergen Hunt and Fish Club.
Q. What was the name of the bar owner who was present at the attempted (strangulation) hit on Larry Gallo that served as the basis for the attempt on Frankie Pentangeli?
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/19/04 09:59 PM
Originally posted by SC:
The Bergen Hunt and Fish Club.
Spelled, incorrectly, "Bergin".
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/20/04 01:22 AM
Originally posted by SC:
[QUOTE]Q. What was the name of the bar owner who was present at the attempted (strangulation) hit on Larry Gallo that served as the basis for the attempt on Frankie Pentangeli?
Uh...I was afraid you were going to ask that question, SC.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/20/04 08:07 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
[quote]Originally posted by SC:
[b] [QUOTE]Q. What was the name of the bar owner who was present at the attempted (strangulation) hit on Larry Gallo that served as the basis for the attempt on Frankie Pentangeli?
Uh...I was afraid you were going to ask that question, SC.
[/b][/quote]Hint: The name is prominent in "The Godfather".
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/21/04 04:26 PM
Originally posted by SC:
Q. What was the name of the bar owner who was present at the attempted (strangulation) hit on Larry Gallo that served as the basis for the attempt on Frankie Pentangeli?
Since this wasn't answered in a few days I'll give the answer and another question. The answer is Charlie Clemenza.
Q. Name the District Attorney responsible for Lucky Luciano's imprisonment in 1936, and later (as governor of New York) in 1946 for his freedom from prison.
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/21/04 04:38 PM
Thomas Dewey
Q) The West Coast mobster to become mob informant and infamously even released secrets of Sinatra?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/22/04 01:42 AM
I'm guessing you're referring to Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratiano, although Sinatra was tight with Mickey Cohen and knew Bugsy Siegel.
Q. Speaking of Sinatra: what East Coast mobster was the model for Luca Brasi?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/23/04 05:13 PM
It's been a long time, so: The East Coast mobsster on whom Luca Brasi is based was Willie Moretti, who allegedly muscled bandleader Tommy Dorsey into releasing Sinatra from a binding contract.
Q. Which Gotti associate had been ratting him out since 1971, and was killed 17 years later?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/24/04 03:59 PM
Willie Boy Johnson? My Gotti related knowledge has deteriorated, I havn't read anything on him for about a year now.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/25/04 05:39 AM
Right, Turi! Now, ask a question.
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/25/04 01:25 PM
Cheers Turnbull, thought I'd better get the A-OK first.
Q, Said to be still running the Cupola in Sicily, who is the aged man that has been on the run for roughly 40 years?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/25/04 03:01 PM
Bernardo Provenzano.
Q. Who did the US Commission appoint as boss of the Bonannos after they deposed Joe?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/25/04 03:41 PM
Di Gregorio
Q, Bruno Indelicato is married to the daughter of which infamous Lucchese Wiseguy? (Just found this one out myself a few weeks ago).
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/25/04 04:02 PM
He married Kathy Burke, daughter of Jimmy "The Gent" Burke of "Goodfellas" fame.
Q. What was Al Capone's wife's name?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/25/04 04:14 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. What was Al Capone's wife's name?
Mrs. Capone?? :p
His wife's name was Mae.
Q. Speaking of Big Al's family, what was his son's name?
Albert but he went by Sonny.
What was Arnold Rothstien's brother Harry studing to be?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/26/04 05:22 AM
Rabbi.
Q. What character in a famous novel of the Twenties was based on Arnold Rothstein?
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Rabbi.
Q. What character in a famous novel of the Twenties was based on Arnold Rothstein?
Ans: Mr Big ?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/26/04 02:20 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. What character in a famous novel of the Twenties was based on Arnold Rothstein?
I'll take a guess: The Great Gatsby???
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/26/04 02:53 PM
Yes, he was "Meyer Wolfsheim" in "The Great Gatsby."
Your turn for a question, SC.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/26/04 06:27 PM
OK, speaking of gangsters in mainstream society, which mobster had the distinction of being included on Time magazine's 100 "Builders and Titans of the 20th Century" list?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/26/04 07:37 PM
Charlie Luciano.
Q. In what Cuban hotel did Luciano call a Commission meeting after he was exiled to Italy?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/26/04 08:26 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. In what Cuban hotel did Luciano call a Commission meeting after he was exiled to Italy?
A. Luciano checked into The Hotel Nacional in October, 1946 and held the "summit" meeting on December 22nd.
Q. At that "summit" it was decided someone would have to die. Who??
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/26/04 11:49 PM
Bugsy Siegel.
Q. What was the weapon that killed Bugsy?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/28/04 03:05 AM
a gun
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/29/04 05:30 AM
The gun was a .30 M1 carbine.
Go ahead, Don Pope--ask a question.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/29/04 05:47 AM
Q: This man made it a law in his mafia family not to speak his name at all.
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/29/04 02:34 PM
The Chin.
Q - Another and the more more popular term for 18th Amendment
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/29/04 03:35 PM
Prohibition.
Q. When was the 18th Amendment repealed?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/29/04 03:44 PM
'33 methinks
Q - Who was the favoured Corleonesi hitman later to become head of the clan before Riina took over due to his predecessors arrest?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/29/04 03:54 PM
I'm a little confused by your time sequence here, Turi. Luciano Liggio was Riina's predecessor; Bernardo Provenzano was his successor. Assuming one of these is the correct answer:
Q. Name the New York City police detective who was murdered by the Mafia in Sicilyn early in the 20th Century.
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/29/04 04:04 PM
My question was terribly wrote, Liggio was the answer I was looking for.
It was an Italian named cop I remember that much. The one linked with Vito Cascio Ferro? Joe someone...
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/01/04 05:32 AM
Close enough, Turi--it was Joseph Petrosino. Ask a question.
Posted By: Don Luciano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/01/04 08:24 PM
I just wanna say...i thought i was clued up when it come to either Cosa Nostra or The Sicilian mafia, having read a stupid amount of books etc etc
But you guys know your shit!!! There have been very few questions on this topic that i've been able to answer with ease. From now on i think i'm gonna post here........it definitley gonna improve my knowledge of OC!!
Word.
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/04/04 01:28 PM
Q, He took on the Cleveland Wiseguys and was later found in pieces due to a car bomb?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/04/04 01:35 PM
Originally posted by Don Luciano:
I just wanna say...i thought i was clued up when it come to either Cosa Nostra or The Sicilian mafia, having read a stupid amount of books etc etc
But you guys know your shit!!! There have been very few questions on this topic that i've been able to answer with ease. From now on i think i'm gonna post here........it definitley gonna improve my knowledge of OC!!
Word.
Yeah, Turnbull and SC really know their Wiseguy info. It's probably because they're really old and live in Mafia central city NYC.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/04/04 05:13 PM
Originally posted by Turi Giuliano:
Yeah, Turnbull and SC really know their Wiseguy info. It's probably because they're really old and live in Mafia central city NYC. I will cop a plea to being really old. SC can speak for himself.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/04/04 06:17 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
I will cop a plea to being really old. SC can speak for himself.
Uhhh, I'll let my lawyer, Turnbull, answer that.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/04/04 08:06 PM
Originally posted by SC:
[quote]Originally posted by Turnbull:
[b]
I will cop a plea to being really old. SC can speak for himself.
Uhhh, I'll let my lawyer, Turnbull, answer that. [/b][/quote]You hear that, Turi? From now on, you deal with Turnbull!
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/04/04 11:54 PM
Haha good one
I was just messing guys.
By the way, the earlier question still stands.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/05/04 05:11 AM
Danny Greene.
Q. What big-time Prohibition-era Cleveland gangster later built hotels in Las Vegas?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/06/04 03:11 PM
I'm guessing with Dalitz. It rings a bell somewhere he was from Cleveland. I'll refrain from posting a question until confirmation is made upon this.
Moe Dalitz is correct,he was the leader of
the mayfield-road mob in little Italy,
just east of cleveland.
[Q]-what was the name of the electronics
firm run by the bruno-scarfo family.They
designed and sold modern day video-poker
machines,George Freslone was one of the
associates?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/06/04 04:52 PM
SMS Vending Manufacturing.
Q. Who was Angelo Bruno's immediate successor as head of the Philadelphia mob?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/06/04 06:31 PM
Nicky Scarfo
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/06/04 08:06 PM
Originally posted by Don Pope:
Nicky Scarfo
Not Scarfo. Please try again.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/06/04 10:18 PM
phil testa
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/06/04 11:27 PM
Right, Don Pope! Your turn...
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/06/04 11:39 PM
this man gave valachi a sicilian message, kissing him on both cheeks while in prison, letting valachi know that the man knew he was a rat and was gonna get rid of him.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/07/04 05:35 AM
Vito Genovese.
Q. Which Genovese associate went to prison with Vito on the same drug rap?
Wasn't it Valanchi? Because I know they were in the same prison. I dont know if thats right, so I wont ask another question.
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/08/04 03:03 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Vito Genovese.
Q. Which Genovese associate went to prison with Vito on the same drug rap?
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante.
I won't ask a question, due to this may be wrong.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/08/04 04:13 PM
Gigante is right! Iceman's turn...
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/08/04 04:51 PM
hey turnball,who was the boss of the Cinisi,sicilyfamily. I met him about 25yrs ago. nice old man!
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/08/04 07:49 PM
Originally posted by Domenico:
hey turnball,who was the boss of the Cinisi,sicilyfamily. I met him about 25yrs ago. nice old man!
Gaetano Badalamenti? So you met him, was he on the run then?
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/08/04 08:09 PM
Turi,you're right. My parents are from there.I've been there 6 times my self.I went to Turi's grave andCorleone.
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/08/04 08:26 PM
Excellent, I'm very envious of you. JG, the moderator and owner of this site (also the Don)runs a host of other sites including the Official Mario Puzo site. Check out some of Puzo's photos to relieve a few memories.
http://www.jgeoff.com/puzo/photoalbum/photoalbum.html
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/08/04 11:04 PM
i guess ill make a question...
Q: got his nickname when he was a kid by goin after some kids who stole his bike
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/08/04 11:13 PM
is it that RAT ,SAMMY the BULL?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/08/04 11:17 PM
your correct! your turn..
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/09/04 12:07 AM
Name or phrase used for old time mobsters?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/09/04 06:23 AM
moustache petes
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/09/04 06:47 PM
How about a question, DP?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/09/04 08:39 PM
Q: He was considered the last of the moustache petes
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/09/04 09:50 PM
HEY,DP im pretty sure its BONANNO. If so.... what family did 'FUNZI' TIERI belong to?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/09/04 09:58 PM
Salvatore Maranzano was the last of the moustache petes.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/10/04 05:49 AM
Frank (Funzi) Tieri was with the Genovese mob.
Q. On what rap was Al Capone convicted, and served a year in jail, prior to going away for tax evasion?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/10/04 06:19 AM
contempt?
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. On what rap was Al Capone convicted, and served a year in jail, prior to going away for tax evasion?
I think it was for carrying a concealed weapon.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/11/04 05:18 AM
I think your right. Post a question Don sonny.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/11/04 05:20 PM
Don Sonny's right! Please post a question.
(BTW: Capone arranged his own arrest on the weapons charge in Philadelphia following the famous Mob "convention" in Atlantic City in 1929, as a way of staying out of the spotlight. Some say the other mobsters ordered him to lie low "or esle.")
What mob boss was supposedly involved in the Kennedy murder? (if you chose to believe that route)
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/12/04 03:12 AM
Good ? if you say mob boss i'd have to go with more than one. 1.CARLOS MARCELLO 2.SANTOS TRAFFICANTE 3.SAM GIANCANA then there's always JOHN ROSELLI and JIMMY HOFFA Q.Who took over after HOFFA?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/12/04 03:17 AM
wasnt it jimmy hoffas son?
if so, what mob boss retired after a failed assasination?
Frank Costello
Who shot at him, and what did he say to him?
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/12/04 03:23 AM
Hey DP it was not the son it was FRANK FITZSIMMONS.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/12/04 03:24 AM
Vincent Gigante, He said "Hey Frank!"
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/12/04 03:25 AM
oh oops,
Q: what mob boss is currently head of the philly mob?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/12/04 01:28 PM
It's one of the Merlino brothers, Joey I think. Didn't the other one go into the witness protection program?
According to an informants confession based on what Tony Pro Provenzano told him, where does Hoffas body lie?
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/12/04 06:17 PM
I think Giant stadium,if i'm right....Q. name of Gotti's second lawyer?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/12/04 06:46 PM
If you mean the lawyer who took his defense after Bruce Cutler was disqualified, his name is Albert Kreiger. (Gerald Shargel was the other half of the Cutler duo.) Ron Kuby also had some Gotti action at one point.
Q. Who represented Gotti in the plea-bargain he got for the McBratney murder?
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/12/04 07:13 PM
HEY TURNBALL; i dont know the answer but just wanted to say that i congratulate you on your knowledge of the mob!....'di saluto DON TURNBALL'...YOU the MAN!!!
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/13/04 12:55 AM
Gotti's lawyer in the plea bargain was ROY COHN. Q.Name of driver who killed GOTTI'S SON?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/13/04 04:11 PM
John Favara
Q, sticking with this, what was the name og Gotti's son that was killed?
And also my last question was answered incorrectly. According to Tony Pro, Hoffas body is supposed to be in the Florida Everglades.
[a] frankie
[Q]-WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE STRIP CLUB-
JUICE BAR OWNED BY VINNIE [OCEAN]IN NEW-YORK?
HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE DECALVACANTE CRIME
FAMILY IN JERSEY.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/13/04 05:04 PM
A. Wiggles.
Q. What was the name of the Brooklyn club where Larry Gallo was garotted (the model for the Pentangeli scene in GFII)?
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/15/04 01:35 AM
I'M going to skip Don Turnball's question since nobody's answered back. Q.what famous mobster was known to say "most kids are brought up nice and taught to go to yale or harvard,...me, i was brought up like a mushroom"? CIAO A TUTTI!!!!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/15/04 03:45 PM
Frank Costello.
I'll give the answer to the bar where Larry Gallo was garroted: Sahara Lounge. (Probably only SC would have gotten that one because he corrected me earlier when I posted incorrectly that it was the Elegant Lounge.)
Q. Name Larry Gallo's two mobbed-up brothers.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/15/04 03:57 PM
is one of them crazy joe gallo?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/15/04 04:04 PM
Yes, can you name the other one? (Hint: his nickname was "Kid Blast".)
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/15/04 04:32 PM
Are Larry and Louie the same guy?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/15/04 05:34 PM
No, and Louie isn't the name I was looking for.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/15/04 06:48 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
No, and Louie isn't the name I was looking for.
My crystal ball is showing me, "Albert".
Q. We just missed a birthday - What former Gambino bigwig was born March 12, 1945 in Brooklyn, NY? (Hint: he's still alive, but many Gambino wiseguys would like to change that).
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/15/04 07:06 PM
A.the rat...SAMMY the BULL.........Q.When Frankie DICICCO got blown up, who was standing next to the car?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/15/04 08:36 PM
wasnt it gotti?
Posted By: Domenico
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/15/04 09:11 PM
NO ,it was not GOTTI ..rip ;i'll wait to answer because im sure SC or Don Turnball know.btw..the bomb was intended for gotti.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/16/04 05:53 AM
Frank Bellino.
Q. What was the name of Paul Castellano's live-in goumad?
if its what i understand about Goumad i think its Gloria Olarte.
Q. what's Wreak Havoc? sp? (with my personal interest why i ask this Q.)
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/16/04 04:47 PM
A. Some scholars think "Mafia" is an abbreviation of a command given by Giuseppe Mazzini, a Nineteenth Century Sicilian revolutionary and probable Mafia guy, to "wreak havoc" across the countryside. I'm not sure that's the answer you're looking for, GF, but if it is:
Q. What well-known poultry magnate did Paul Castellano shake down?
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/16/04 06:15 PM
The only poultry magnate I can think of is the Mayor Koch look-alike, Frank Perdue.
If so,
A former baseball player, Mordecai Brown, had a nickname which was adopted by this gangster
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/16/04 11:46 PM
Tommy Lucchese.
Q. In what town did Meyer Lansky have his Florida gambling base? (Hint: not Miami.)
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/17/04 02:52 AM
Ft. Lauderdale?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/17/04 05:36 AM
No, it was Hallandale.
Q. What Illinois town did Capone dominate when things got too hot for him in Chicago?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/17/04 02:40 PM
I can't answer your question Turnbull, but I thought the earlier question regarding to "Wreck Havoc" was an FBI strategy in relation to hassling Wiseguys within the Castellano clique.
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/17/04 03:15 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. What Illinois town did Capone dominate when things got too hot for him in Chicago?
Cicero.
This current Philly mobster's nickname is "Skinny"
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/17/04 03:40 PM
Hmm, I thought of Cicero but thought it was IN Chicago and therefore not applicable as the answer. I guess my Illinois geography needs improvement.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/17/04 08:11 PM
Joseph (Skinny Joey) Merlino.
To go the opposite extreme: what immense NYC mobster turned rat, was shot several times, and lived?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/19/04 05:17 AM
Since no one answered in 24 hours: The name was Fat Pete Chiodo.
Q. What mob boss had his son-in-law killed because he beat up the boss's daughter?
Paul castellano. . .
Q. who is Paul Castellano's bodyguard who let the bar owner suck his dick in front of the costumers.
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/22/04 11:13 PM
Tommy Bilotti.
Q. Who was the victim, later turned traitor because of that humiliation?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/26/04 02:35 AM
Since no one has answered in so long: It was Joe (Dogs) Ianuzzi.
Q. On what Staten Island, NY, street was Paul Castellano's lavish home, nicknamed "the White House"? (Hint: the street has "death" in its name in German.)
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/30/04 12:35 AM
To keep this thread going: Castellano's mansion was on Todt Hill Road.
Q. What was Capone's wife's name?
Mae/May/Mai I dont know how to spell it.
How did Mad Dog Coll die?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/30/04 06:14 PM
Shot dead in a phone booth.
Q. Which gangster planned to kill special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey, and was himself killed on Charlie Luciano's order?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/30/04 07:02 PM
Dutsch Schultz
Q: Which Genovese-capo was know as "Jimmy Blue Eyes"
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/30/04 07:50 PM
Vincent Alo (aka Johnny Ola in GFII).
Q. In what New York State resort town did Meyer Lansky run gambling?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/01/04 04:04 PM
Since no one has replied in two days: Lansky ran gambling in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Q. What was Frank Costello's born name?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/01/04 07:31 PM
Francesco Castaglia
Who was Al Capone's friend in New York and later turned enemy (when capone was in Chicago). He was the first man who's shot by a tommy gun in New York.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/02/04 01:39 AM
Francesco Uale (aka Frankie Yale).
Q. What was the name of the Irish gang that was gunning for Capone just before he left Brooklyn for Chicago ca. 1919-1920?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/02/04 10:25 PM
White Hand Gang
Q: Wich Sicilian mafiaboss (on Sicily) was/is also known as 'the pope'?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/02/04 11:36 PM
Michele Greco.
Q. Which Mafia Don was both a cousin and brother in law of his predecessor?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/03/04 09:32 AM
Paul Castellano
Q: what was Sonny Black's real name?
Napolitano Dominick. . .
Q. Jimmy Burke in GoodFellas?
GoodFella
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/03/04 04:40 PM
you're right but it was Dominick Napolitano or do you ment that?(no good english)
A: I think you made a mistake. Jimmy Conway is his name in the movie and Jimmy Burke was his real name. Or is his real name not really Jimmy Burke.
I dont make a question cause i'm not sure if i'm right. So the next can make a question
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/03/04 08:22 PM
Q: this man was killed by his own bodyguards
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/04/04 03:11 PM
Carmine Galante.
Q. What famous Italian anarchist was murdered in the US on Vito Genovese's orders (allegedly by Galante)?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/06/04 04:53 AM
Since no one has answered: the anarchist was Carlo Tresca.
Q. Which Mob boss had a brother who ran the NY longshoremen's union?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/06/04 11:37 AM
what is a longshoremen's union? I'm dutsch so...
Anyway I think the answer is Albert Anasatasia or not?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/06/04 01:13 PM
You're right: Albert Anastasia's brother, Tough Tony Anastasio(sp) was the boss of the International Longshoremen's Union. (Longshoremen are dock workers who load and unload ships.)
Your turn to ask a question.
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/06/04 03:12 PM
Q: Why does Salvatore Luciano changed his first name into Charlie?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/07/04 03:41 PM
Because no one answered. He changed it because he thought 'Sal' was a name for a girl. He did it when he was in jail after he was arrested for peddling morfine and heroine i think
Q: Luciano Leggio once said:'He had the brains of a chicken but shoots like an angel'
Which Sicilian mafioso does he mean?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/07/04 07:19 PM
Bernardo Provenzano.
Q. What was the name of the original Mafia family in New Orleans (the first in the US)?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/09/04 04:46 AM
Since no one has answered in more than 24 hours: The New Orleans family was Matranga.
Q. To what Illinois town did Capone move his headquarters after a reform mayor was elected in Chicago?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/09/04 03:50 PM
cicero
How many bullets were shot into Giancana's head?
The whole gun- 6 bullets
Who was The Gang Who Couldnt Shoot Strait supposedly modeled after?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/09/04 10:29 PM
Gambinos.
Q. Who was Carlo Gambino's predecessor as head of that family?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/09/04 11:59 PM
A: Paul Castellano
Q: who succeded john gotti as boss
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/10/04 05:05 AM
Sorry, Don Pope--Castellano was Gambino's successor. I asked who was Gambino's predecessor.
Wasnt it Anistasia? If so...
What was the name of the place were Anistasia was killed.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/04 04:42 AM
Yes, it was Anastasia. He got it in the barbershop of the Park Sheraton Hotel in NYC.
Q. What was the name of the gang that the teenaged Sammy Gravano ran with?
Posted By: Goodfella 69
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/04 05:21 AM
A: the Rampers
Q: Which famous mafioso would not take the contract on Roy DeMeo given by Paul Costellano because even he was too frightend of DeMeo and his crew? This man would also go on to become the boss of the Gambino family later down the road.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/04 03:11 PM
According to Mustain and Capeci, it was Gene Gotti.
Q. Who did John Gotti tell reporters was the real boss of his family?
Posted By: Goodfella 69
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/04 04:03 PM
Turnbull im not sure but didnt he tell reporters that he himself was the boss of his family... his wife and kids, lol.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/04 10:28 PM
It was one of his wittier moments, GF:
Asked by reporters if he was the boss of the Gambino Family, Gotti replied, "I'm a member of the Gotti family--my wife, Vickie, is the boss."
You were close enough, so please ask a question.
Posted By: Goodfella 69
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/12/04 11:22 PM
okay
...
Q: Why did Albert Anastasia apparently change his last name from Anastasio to Anastasia?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/13/04 05:38 PM
That his family wouldn't be embarrassed by his criminal behavior, when they read it in the paper or something
Posted By: Goodfella 69
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/13/04 07:07 PM
Correct, ask a question.
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/13/04 08:21 PM
What is the name of the mafia from Calabria?
Like Cosa Nostra is the mafia of Sicily and the Camorra is from Napoli.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/14/04 04:59 AM
'Ndrangheta.
Q. What was Joe Columbo's "legitimate" job at the time of his shooting in 1971?
He was the head of the Colombo yougurt company. :p Every time I see thouse commercials I think of the Colombos.Actually, he was head of the Italian American Civil Rights Union or something like that.
Why did Frank Costello walk out of the Kefauver hearings?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/15/04 02:07 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. What was Joe Columbo's "legitimate" job at the time of his shooting in 1971?
Colombo was a salesman for the Cantalupo Realty Co. in Brooklyn.
Q. A small time Brooklyn hood named Frank Gallucio gained a certain immortality in mob folklore by doing what?
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty he was the guy who Scarred Scarface. If so, my question from above still stands.SC- Thanks, my mind was elsewhere
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/15/04 05:09 AM
Yes, Galuccio was the guy who scarred Scarface
.
Costello walked out of the Kefauver Committee meeting because he'd been humiliated (when asked what he did for his country, he replied, "I pay my tax" and everyone laughed). He then decided he wasn't going to answer any more questions--landing him in jail for contempt of Congress.
Q. After the hearings concluded, who did Kefauver say was the biggest gambling gangster in America?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/23/04 08:32 AM
Turbull,
no one knows the answer so.....
maybe you could tell us and ask a new question
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/23/04 03:59 PM
Sorry for letting this thread dawdle, Juventus.
The guy whom Keefauver identified as the biggest gambling gangster in America in 1951 was Abner (Longy) Zwillman of Newark, NJ, a former Prohibition era rumrunner and then gambling kingpin with a vast "legitimate" empire to cover his criminal activities.
New Q: We all know that Tony Soprano of "Sopranos" sees a psychiatrist. Which real-life Mafia Don saw a psychiatrist?
Frank Costillo, and I feel really stupid about the Zwillman thing, I just read some stuff about him.
What kind of business did Mickey Cohen's parents own?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/24/04 04:45 AM
Grocery store. Mickey claimed to be a tailor.
Q. What nautically nicknamed gangster ran gambling ships from LA harbor in the Thirties and Forties?
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/29/04 05:16 AM
I think it was Jack Dragna, no?
By the way, Turnbull and Juve, you guys' knowledge is amazing and very fun to read.
If my Dragna was right, here's my question:
Who owned Cafe Biondo in New York?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/29/04 03:47 PM
Welcome, Letizia, and thanks for the kudo
.
Cafe Biondo was owned by Joe (Butch) Corrao, a capo in the Gambino family.
Continuing in the vein of Mob-owned Little Italy eateries:
Q. Who owned CaSaBella?
Posted By: Don Zaluchi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/07/04 09:25 PM
mike sabella
who was lefty ruggieros capo after sabella was reduced?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/07/04 10:43 PM
Dominick (Sonny Black) Napolitano.
Q. Which Five Families Don as a youngster lived with an uncle who wanted him to be a barber?
Joe Bonanno.
Q. This Bonanno capo died at a party celebrating Bonanno's reappearance after his alleged kidanpping.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/13/04 07:07 PM
Joseph Notaro.
Q. On whose national TV show did Joe Columbo appear on behalf of his Italian-American Civil Rights League?
Dick Cavet
Q. How and why was Joe Columbo's father killed?
Colombo's father and a female freind were stragnled to death and left in the back of their car.
Anothy Colombo was fooling around with someone he was not supposed to be and thus was killed.
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/04 04:20 PM
Because I like this topic very much I ask a new question:
Which Sicilian don, was the head of Villalba and Mussomeli?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/04 07:20 PM
Giuseppe Genco Russo.
Q. What well-respected judge was killed, along with his wife and bodyguards, by a bomb set by the Corleonese?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/03/04 12:42 PM
Turnbull, I thought the answer on my question was Calogero Vizzini, and not Genco Russo. But now I don't know, cause for a guy with your knowledge.....
But maybe your right, Maybe Genco Russo took over after Calogero Vizzini. I don't know much about Genco Russo..
A: Paolo Borsellini
Q: This man always wanted brand new, clean toilets..
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/03/04 02:16 PM
Originally posted by UK Vercetti.:
george michael
:D
I don't know nothing about George Micheal, but it could be you're right:)
But I mean a criminal.
It was easy to spot his hideouts after he'd left them. They were all buildings with shiny new bathrooms.
Posted By: WiseguyRon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/03/04 05:51 PM
A:
Pablo Escobar
q:
who was the successor of Tommy Eboli
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/03/04 06:54 PM
Welcome WR!
a: Funzi Tieri
q: Everybody knew the scene(in the godfather part 1) of Micheal talking to Kay at the wedding about Johnny Fontane and the bandleder.
Jhonny Fontane was Frank Sinatra
But who made the bandleder an offer he can't refuse in real-life?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/04/04 04:46 AM
The singer was Frank Sinatra, the bandleader was Tommy Dorsey and the guy who made him the offer was Willie Moretti.
Q. Speaking of singers: At what Mob boss's son's wedding did Tony Bennett sing?
Carlo Gambino(if my memory serves me right.
)
Q. he was killed in the barbershop.
GoodFella
Goodfella, it was Joe Bonanno's son, Bill's wedding that Tony B sang.
Your question is who was killed in a barbershop.
A. Albert Anastasia.
Q. This mob boss had some digits missing from one of his hands from an accident in a factory when he was young. He even had a nickname based on this.
Tommy Lucchese
What was his nickname?(sorry, cant think of a harder one at the moment)
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/04/04 05:43 PM
His nickname was Three Finger Brown.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/04/04 07:09 PM
Your turn to ask a question, Juventus.
(BTW: Tony Bennett sang at Bill Bonanno's wedding. BUT: A couple of years before he died, Gambino attended a wedding, and the bandleader played "The Godfather Waltz" when Don Carlo got up to dance with his wife. Lotsa coglione.)
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/05/04 09:01 AM
Q: Luciano (around 17 years old) offered this kid protection. This kid didn't agree and fight Luciano. They become partners.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/05/04 04:14 PM
Meyer Lansky.
Q. What steamship was the key to Luciano's eventual release from US prison and then exile to Italy?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/05/04 05:38 PM
It was the SS Normandie but...:
The ship Normandie was sabotaged, and the US government thought that there were German spies who sabotaged the SS Normandie. Actually, the Anastasia-brothers did it. But the US government asked Luciano to protect the waterfronts. He did. It was save.
But, it wasn't enough for the US government to let Luciano go. He olny got more priveliges.
Then, the allies were gonna invade Sicily. The US government asked Luciano for help again. He agreed. Luciano's underboss Vito Genovese, who was fled to Sicily because of a murder helped Luciano. It was he who gained the trust of the Sicilians bosses. Because the help of the Siciian mafioso it was no problem for the allies to succesfully take over Sicily. The allies were the mafioso very gratefull. They give them high political jobs. Per example, Don Calogero Vizzini became mayer of Villalba.
Because of helping the allies with the invading of Sicily, Luciano was released and deported to Italy.
Q: He was the man who betrayed Luciano, when he was on Cuba in 1946. He told it to the government. Luciano wasn't allowed to go outside Italy.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/05/04 07:15 PM
Vito Genovese.
Q. What was the name of the Italian anarchist writer whom Genovese ordered Carmine Galante to assassinate, in order to ingratiate himself with Mussolini?
(BTW: Many writers now believe that the French liner Normandie was accidentally set on fire by a careless workman, whose torch set fire to a bunch of burlap bags. But the US Navy commander of the Port of NY, Capt. "Red" Heffernan, believed it was due to "sabotage" by dockworkers of Italian and German ancestry. This story was picked up by Joseph (Socks) Lanza, boss of the waterfront, who told it to Meyer Lansky and Albert Anastasia. Lansky checked with Luciano, then made a deal with Murray Gurfein, special prosecutor Thomas Dewey's chief assistant. The deal was that Luciano would get better treatment in prison, and be released early, in return for his keeping "peace on the docks." The docks were peaceful, Luciano was transferred from Dannemora to Great Neck Prison, and was exiled in 1946.)
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/05/04 09:33 PM
A: Carlo Tresca
Q: He also had the nickname Dodge Bullets.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/06/04 12:35 AM
Joe (the Boss) Masseria.
Q. What was the name of the restaurant where he was killed?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/06/04 09:05 AM
A: It was his favorite restaurant the Nuova Villa Tammaro in Coney Island.
Q: This man told Luciano that Maranzano planned to kill him (Luciano) and Genovese. He later become a don in New York.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/06/04 10:48 PM
Tommy Lucchese.
Q. Which Don's brother is a priest?
Joe Profaci.
Q. This gangster was rumored to be the boss of his family right after the Castelemaresse war, but when Maranzano was killed his fmaily decided they would replace him, since he was a close Maranzano friend with someone els so as not to anger Luciano.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/08/04 02:49 PM
Frank Scalise.
Q. Which Don's brother is a priest? (No, it's not Profaci--the Don is a current Don, though he's in jail.)
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/11/04 08:29 AM
A: Vincent Gigante.
Q: Vincent Gigante was sent to (unsuccessfully) whack this man. (not just another "nobody" failed hit, by the way)
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/11/04 08:44 AM
A: Frank Costello
Q: This Irishman is killed by Gotti in order of Carlo Gambino. Some Irish scum whacked Carlo's nephew.
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/11/04 08:58 AM
A: James McBratney
Q: He had a twisted hand from a bullet wound.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/11/04 10:47 PM
Peter "The Clutching Hand" Morello.
Q. Who assembled the shooters who killed Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano (hint: he wasn't there, and he wasn't Charlie Luciano).
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/13/04 05:02 AM
Since no one has answered in more than 24 hours:
Meyer Lansky, Charlie Luciano's boyhood chum (and fellow protege of Arnold Rothstein) put together both hit squads, though he did not pull a trigger.
Q. Who was the Mob guy (not a Don) who ran the boxing rackets in NYC in the late Forties and early Fifties?
Frankie Carbo?
Q. This gangster was the successor to Gaspare Digregorio as the leader of the dissident faction revolting against Joe Bonanno's leadership?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/13/04 05:13 PM
Sciacca
Turnbull, If Mike's Bodyguard and I are right:
Q: Who was the succesor of Frank Scalise as Don of the (today known as) Gambino-family?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/13/04 06:38 PM
Vincent Mangano.
Q. Who was known as "the Artichoke King"?
Ciro Terranova
Who were the players Henry Hill and co paid off for the Boston point shaving deal?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/14/04 04:58 AM
Ernie Cobb, Rick Kuhn and Jim Sweeney.
Q. Which Chicago gangster was part owner of a flower shop?
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/14/04 06:24 PM
Turnbull...the flower shop owner was Dion O'Banion.
Restaurants always play a major role in "the life"...and often a bigger part in "the death."
Name the suburban restaurant where the driver of a former Chicago boss met his demise.
My first post on perhaps the best forum I've ever seen!
tony b.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/16/04 02:11 PM
Tony, since no one has answered in almost 48 hours, why don't you post the answer and ask another question?
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/16/04 08:42 PM
I was probably too vague. I was thinking of Chuckie English, Momo's driver, who was gunned down in the parking lot of Horwath's restaurant in suburban Elmwood Park.
Let's do another Chicago one, also in my neighborhood...I'll be more specific.
This guy survived a mob hit in a theater parking lot because the bullets used on the job didn't fire properly. Name the guy and, for an extra 2 points vig, name the movie theater!
tony b.
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/17/04 09:46 PM
A. Ken Eto outside the Montclare Theater.
Someone else step to the plate with a new question. Clearly I've brought the topic to a screeching halt!
tony b.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/04 05:05 AM
Easy one:
Which singer was Sam Giancana's mistress?
Phyliss McGuire.
Q. Lets keep it in Chicago.
This non-Italian gangster was nicknamed because of his ability for counting money fast.
MB- Would that be Greasy Thumb Guezek(sp)? I dont know if thats right so I wont post a question.
What is Sam Giancana's real name?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/20/04 04:43 AM
Momo Salvatore Giancana.
Q. Which gangster had a sister named after a princess of Italy?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/21/04 04:52 AM
Since no one has answered in 24 hours:
Al Capone (his sister's name was Mafalda).
Q. Which former Don's daughter is a published author?
John Gotti's daughter is an author I believe.
Also didn't Toni Giancana publish a book as well? I think you meant Gotti.
Either way in case I'm correct.
Q. What gangster was killed by his girlfriends daughter?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/21/04 06:59 PM
Johnny Stompanato, by Cheryl Crane, Lana Turner's daughter.
Q. Which gangster's son graduated from West Point?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/21/04 08:36 PM
I'm not sure but wasn't it Meyer Lansky?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/22/04 12:55 AM
Meyer Lansky is correct. Your turn, Juventus:
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/27/04 04:47 AM
Juventus seems to have disappeared.
Q. Which Prohibition-era beer baron's real name was Arthur Flegenheimer?
Dutch Schultz
Q. nicknamed "Big Pauly".
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/27/04 03:04 PM
Paul Castellano.
Q. Which Gambino capo owned a restaurant, "Cafe Biondo," in NY's Little Italy?
Joseph "Joe Butch" Corrao(if this is right . . .)
Q. Ace Rothstein's(Casino) name in real life.
GoodFella
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/27/04 06:40 PM
A: Frank "lefty" Rosenthal
Q: Nicky Santoros character is based off what real gangster?
Tony the Ant Spilotro.
Who hung himself in his basement in 1959?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/28/04 12:58 AM
Abner (Longie) Zwillman.
Q. Whose hands (and only his hands) were televised during the Keefauver hearings in 1951?
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/28/04 05:17 AM
A. Frank Costello
Q. He controlled the Teamster's Central States Pension Fund and was gunned down in a hotel parking lot in suburban Chicago in 1975.
tony b.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/28/04 10:54 PM
Alan Dorfman.
Q. This New York union president was a brother of a Mafia Don, but spelled his last name differently.
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/29/04 05:23 AM
A. Albert Anastasia and his brother Tony Anastasio.
If that's correct...here's an easy one...
Q. Even the Laborer's International Union acknowledges that organized crime has infiltrated its locals, particularly the local that represents the City of Chicago Streets and Sanitation workers. And that would be Local (number please...)
tony b.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/29/04 02:51 PM
1001.
Q. This movie industry labor racketeer was blown up in a car bombing in 1955.
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/29/04 07:11 PM
A. Willie Bioff.
Q. Let's stick with the unions ("Now we have the unions, we have the gambling; an' they're the best things to have."). He ruled the Laborer's Union in Chicago for nearly an entire generation, dodging at least two attempts on his life. It's as if he walked around with a big "X" on his back!
tony b.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/30/04 12:36 AM
A. Joe Lombardo.
Let's move it beyond Chicago:
Q. (easy one): What was Joe Adonis' real name?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/30/04 12:43 AM
A: Guiseppe Doto
Q: It was alleged that this famous gangster ratted some friends out when he was a teenager
I'm thinking Lucky, but I'm not 100% sure.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/30/04 04:45 AM
your correct! post a question
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/30/04 06:01 AM
Turnbull...Joe Lombardo was the incorrect name. The correct answer is Frank "Frankie The X" Esposito.
"...and the countdown rolls on."
tony b.
YoTonyB- Is that a question?
If Not- What was Lansky's real last name, and where was he born?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/01/04 04:36 AM
Maier Suchowljansky from Grodno, Russia.
Q. Who was mentor to Lansky, Charlie Luciano and Frank Costello?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/01/04 08:02 AM
A. Arnold Rothstein
Q. this is a 2 parter.
Part 1-This gal was referred to as the "Blonde Alibi" Why was that?
Part 2-What was her name?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/01/04 02:20 PM
Louise Rolfe was "the blond alibi." She was Machine Gun Jack McGurn's mistress, and she and McGurn holed up in a Chicago hotel during the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in order to establish that McGurn wasn't present at the shooting.
Q. Who was the only man that Capone killed with his own hands after he left Brooklyn? (Hint: it wasn't Scalisi, Anselmi or Giunta, who were still breathing after he baseball-batted them and were dispatched by his bodyguards.)
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/02/04 06:40 AM
I'm back..I couldn't get on the net cause my pc didn't work...
But TB i'm not sure but i think the answer is Big Jim Colosimo...Some people say Frankie Yale killed him others say it was Al Capone..
But i'm not sure.....
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/02/04 03:39 PM
Originally posted by juventus:
But TB i'm not sure but i think the answer is Big Jim Colosimo...Some people say Frankie Yale killed him others say it was Al Capone..
But i'm not sure.....
Welcome back!
Good guess, Juventus, but most people now think Yale, not Capone, killed Colosimo. Laurence Bergreen Capone's most recent biographer, believes Capone wasn't even in Chicago at the time of Colosimo's murder.
Question still stands:
Q. Who was the only man that Capone killed with his own hands after he left Brooklyn? (Hint: it wasn't Scalisi, Anselmi or Giunta, who were still breathing after he baseball-batted them and were dispatched by his bodyguards.)
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/04/04 02:47 PM
Since no one has answered:
The guy Capone killed was Joe Howard, a local gangster who slapped around Jake (Greasy Thumb) Guzik, Capone's close pal, and then insulted Capone when he confronted Howard.
Q. (Timely one): Which Don was known for his Fourth of July fireworks displays?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/04/04 03:46 PM
John Gotti?
If so...
Q: what outside boss wanted gotti dead?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/04/04 07:01 PM
A. The Chin.
Q. Who planned the Castellano/Bilotti hit and was named Gotti's consigliere?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/04/04 10:25 PM
A: Deciccio
Q: bullet went around this gangsters head, then retired
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/04/04 10:43 PM
Frank Costello.
Q. This Irish mobster was hired to kill Charlie Luciano.
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/05/04 06:46 PM
A: Vincent Mad Dog Coll
Q: This man killed Coll (not personally)
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/05/04 10:48 PM
A. Probably Dutch Schultz (though Coll was in a phone booth talking to Owney Madden, who also wanted him dead, when he was machine-gunned).
Q. Who ordered Dutch Schultz killed?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/06/04 01:02 AM
A: Charlie Luciano
Q: The first american Don
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/06/04 04:58 AM
Joseph Macheca of New Orleans.
Q. Who was the first New York Don who was not born in Sicily?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/06/04 06:03 AM
A: Thomas Luchesse
Q: The first don ever assassinated
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/06/04 01:24 PM
No, Lucchese was born in Sicily.
Repeat Q. Who was the first NY Don who wasn't born in Sicily? (Hint: Not necessarily born in the US.)
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/06/04 01:55 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
No, Lucchese was born in Sicily.
Repeat Q. Who was the first NY Don who wasn't born in Sicily? (Hint: Not necessarily born in the US.)
Pauli Castellano?
What gangster failed an attempted hit on Frank Costello?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/06/04 03:20 PM
The answer to both questions (first non-Sicilian NY Don and failed attempt on Frank Costello) is Vito Genovese, born in Naples. The Chin pulled the trigger on Uncle Frank, but Don Vitone gave the order.
Q. What was Lupo the Wolf's real name?
Ignazio Lupo
Q. he dumped his wife for Gloria Olarte.
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/07/04 12:36 AM
Lupo's name was Ignazio Saietta.
A. Paul Castellano.
Q. Who was Castellano's consigliere?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/07/04 02:43 AM
A: Deciccio
Q: who were the two underbosses for carlo gambino
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/07/04 04:54 AM
No, Frankie DeCicco wasn't Castellano's consigliere. Please try again.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/07/04 05:31 AM
thomas bilotti?
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/07/04 06:27 AM
No, wasn't it Gallo? Can't remember his first name. Joe?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/07/04 04:41 PM
No I def dont think it was Joey Gallo.
Posted By: Joe Cago
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/07/04 05:25 PM
It was Joe N Gallo no realtion to Crazy Joe.
By thew way hi I'm new, cool site!.
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/07/04 05:59 PM
post a question Joe Cago
Posted By: Joe Cago
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/07/04 06:03 PM
I beleive Letizia had the answer first...
If I may.
Who was the only gangster to sue the FBI?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/08/04 01:57 AM
Congrats, Letizia B. and Joe Cago, it was Joe N. Gallo
(No relation to the famous Gallo Bros. of Profaci war fame.)
The Don who sued the FBI was Joe Columbo.
Q. On whose TV show did Columbo appear on behalf of his Italian American Civil Rights League?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/08/04 08:31 PM
Dick Cavet
Can't think of a question
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/09/04 12:35 AM
Originally posted by juventus:
Dick Cavet
Can't think of a question
Aw, c'mon, Juventus, you're one of the best posters here
We
need you to post a question!
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/09/04 03:13 AM
ill post one!
Q: This gangster was reffered too as a little girl.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/09/04 04:30 AM
Sam Giancana (by Bobby Kennedy).
Q. Which NYC Don married a Jewish woman?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/11/04 04:54 AM
Well, since more than 24 hours have passed without an answer:
Frank Costello married a Jewish woman.
Q. Which Don had a woman's husband murdered in order to marry her?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/11/04 02:26 PM
That will be Vito Genovese.
What importance was George Pape to the Gotti/Giacalone case?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/11/04 03:25 PM
A. Pape was a juror listening to that case, and he arranged for himself to be "bought", assuring a victory for Gotti.
Q. Next week (July 18th) marks the 8th anniversary of something happening to Gotti while he was serving time in the federal penentiary in Marion, Illinois. What happened to Gotti that day?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/11/04 03:46 PM
I'm assuming that it was the incident where Gotti took a beating. I can't think of any other documented happenings.
Q - Sticking with Gotti. Who was said to have said to the late Dapper Don "I'm sorry to hear that" after he was announcing his pride that his son had been Made?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/11/04 04:26 PM
The Chin.
Q. (Staying with Gotti): Why was his close pal Angelo Ruggiero called "Quack-Quack"?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/11/04 10:55 PM
He talked a wee bit too much, known for being a bit of a blabbermouth.
Easy question. What's the common name for the popular wall street stock scam?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/12/04 12:09 AM
"Pump-and-dump."
Q. Name the Wales-born gangster who ran labor rackets for the Chicago Outfit into the Seventies.
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/12/04 12:55 PM
Tom Jones
Q: WHo was Capone's right hand man?
Posted By: Joe Cago
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/12/04 04:48 PM
If I could try to answer Turnbulls question.
Murry " The Camel" Mumphreys?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/12/04 05:02 PM
THANK you, Joe Cago! Your turn to ask a question:
Posted By: Joe Cago
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/12/04 05:37 PM
Oops Humphreys not Mumphreys...
Q. What boss had elective surgery for a penile implant?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/12/04 11:04 PM
Excellent moniker Cago, I've almost finished the Valachi Papers and it's been a real good read.
That will Castellano, one of the many reasons embarrassing the Family and maybe even contributing to his downfall.
Q, Who is rumoured to still head the Cupola today whilst apparantly still being in hiding for nearly 50 years?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/13/04 04:42 AM
Bernardo Provenzano.
Q. Where was Al Capone imprisoned on his tax rap before he was transferred to Alcatraz?
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/13/04 07:38 AM
Atlanta Federal Pen
How many times was Carlo Gambino arrested?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/13/04 04:23 PM
At least five times: for larceny and for bootlegging before WWII, for masterminding a hijacking that Gotti was also arrested for (in 1969), and at least twice for immigration violations.
Q. Who were Gambino's two underbosses at the time of his death?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/13/04 06:07 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Who were Gambino's two underbosses at the time of his death?
A. Its debatable if Gambino had two underbosses at the time of his death. Aniello Dellacoce held the title, replacing Joe Biondo in the mid '60's. My guess for a second underboss (IF there was one) would be Paul Castellano.
Assuming that answer is correct -
Q. Aniello Dellacroce was stepped over (for the second time) when Gambino selected Castellano to succeed his as Boss of the Family. When was the first time Dellacroce was stepped over?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/13/04 06:55 PM
When Gambino succeeded The Mad Hatter in 1957.
Q. Who was The Mad Hatter's predecessor?
Posted By: Joe Cago
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/13/04 10:17 PM
Vincent Mangano. Both Vince and Phil, his brother were killed by AA.. Vince's body was never found.
Q. This NYC boss had a hit on Carlo Gambino, and succeded in having his look alike brother acutally shot. Who was he?
Posted By: Turi Giuliano
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/14/04 03:21 PM
Paul Gambino was shot at but lived after Maranzano ordered all the top guys with Masseria to be whacked.
Q, The opening line to Bruce Springsteen's Atlantic City are about a hit on a Wiseguy. Who is it?
"Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night, and they blew up his house too...".
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/14/04 07:04 PM
Phil (Chicken Man) Testa.
Q. Who was the Chicken Man's predecessor and what was his nickname?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/14/04 08:09 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Who was the Chicken Man's predecessor and what was his nickname?
A. Angelo Bruno, "The Gentle Don".
Q. Sticking with the Philly mob, who preceeded Bruno? (Hint: its a little tricky).
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/14/04 08:43 PM
A: Nicky Scarfo
Q: staying on philly, who was behind Bruno's killing.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/14/04 09:00 PM
Not so fast.....Scarfo came after Angelo Bruno; the question still stands.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/15/04 12:28 AM
Joseph Ida was Angelo Bruno's predecessor.
Sticking with Atlantic City:
What political boss (not Mob boss) hosted the famous 1929 gangster convention in Atlantic City?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/15/04 06:52 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Joseph Ida was Angelo Bruno's predecessor.
Technically, Bruno's predecessor was Antonio Pollina, who was named by Joseph Ida as the new boss (in 1959). For a short time Pollina, as the boss, plotted against underling Bruno, causing Bruno to visit with Carlo Gambino. Gambino, friendly with Bruno, showed his muscle and named Bruno as the Philly boss. Pollina realized what the situation was and acquiesced. (I said it was a tricky answer).
Turnbull's question still stands.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/16/04 03:50 PM
Thanks for the details, SC.
Since no one has answered in more than 24 hours:
Enoch (Nucky) Johnson, the Democratic boss of Atlantic City, hosted the famous Mob convention there in 1929. Keeping with AC:
Q. What happened to Al Capone after the convention?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/16/04 04:16 PM
Im not positive but wasnt he arrested?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/16/04 04:23 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. What happened to Al Capone after the convention?
A. He got himself arrested (on purpose) in Pennsylvania.
Q. Staying with the convention, which mobster "honeymooned" there in AC during the convention?
Edit: Oooops, sorry, DP, you got in there ahead of me with your answer while I was typing mine.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/16/04 07:03 PM
Meyer Lansky.
Q. What did the kid Lansky say to the kid Luciano the first time they met that led them to become lifelong friends and allies?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/17/04 03:54 PM
Lansky told him to "fuck off."
Luciano wanted Lanksy to pay protection-money.
Q:This man (kid at the time) was robbing his landlady at the age of 14.
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/20/04 08:07 AM
Because nobody answered in (about) 3 days:
The answer is Frank Costello
Q: Dont know one
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/20/04 01:25 PM
I'll post one:
Q. Name the gangster who ran gambling ships out of Los Angeles harbor in the Thirties and Forties and earned the nickname "The Admiral"?
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/20/04 03:49 PM
A. That's Tony Cornero, one of the pioneers of Las Vegas!
Q. Which Chicago gangster nearly roasted himself when the torch he was using to cut-up a car ignited a reserve fuel tank? The car in question was allegedly used in the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
tony b.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/20/04 07:17 PM
Vincent Moretti.
Q. Why was Tony Accardo called "Big Tuna?"
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/20/04 09:10 PM
A: The press gave him that name because of the 400lb tuna fish he caught at Wedgeport in Nova Scotia.
Q: This gangster was alleged to have whacked over 200 people in his mob career.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/20/04 10:40 PM
More than one gangster fits that description, but I'll say Albert Anastasia.
Q. What did The Chin say to Frank Costello just before shooting him in the head?
Hey Frank, this is for you....or something to that effect.
How did Ray Patriarca die?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/21/04 03:48 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
More than one gangster fits that description, but I'll say Albert Anastasia.
Q. What did The Chin say to Frank Costello just before shooting him in the head?
ill accept that but I was going for Roy Demeo
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/21/04 05:26 AM
Turnbull, the guy you named was on the wrong end of a torch in a similar massacre beginning in February of 1978...but it wasn't the correct answer.
The answer I was looking for was "Tough Tony" Capezio. Many historical accounts have him on the blow torch after the the St. Valentine's Day Massacre cutting up the car.
tony b.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/23/04 07:10 PM
Raymond Patriarca died of cardiac failure at the home of a much-younger woman who refused to identify herself, leading one to suspect, ahem, that the real cause of death was "overactivity" for a man of 76.
Q. What did Al Capone die of?
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/23/04 10:38 PM
A: Syphilis
Q: who was the first mob boss ever to survive a failed assasination attempt?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/25/04 03:19 PM
Antonio Matranga in New Orleans.
Q. Which gangster is reputed to have said, "We only kill each other"?
Bugsy Siegel
Q. he is the "Lord High Executioner"
GoodFella
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/25/04 06:46 PM
A: Albert Anastasia
Q: Prime minister of the underworld
Frank Costello
Q. he is Big Paulie. . .
GoodFella
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/26/04 02:14 AM
A: Paul Castellano
Q: Considered the most powerful Don
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/26/04 06:51 PM
If you mean the most powerful Don ever, I'd say Vito Cascio Ferro. If you mean most powerful in America after Prohibition, I'd say either Charlie Luciano (created and ran the Commission) or Carlo Gambino (had biggest family and most wealth, stayed out of prison).
Q. Which gangster ran the Mayfield Road Gang in Cleveland during Prohibition, and later went on to build several hotels in Vegas and was named "Man of the Year" in Vegas?
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/26/04 07:39 PM
A. Was that Moe Dalitz? If correct...
Q. The powerful entertainment attorney in Hollywood was one of Chicago's contacts on the West Coast.
tony b.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/26/04 11:22 PM
Sid Korshak.
Q. Which high-powered NY lawyer was hired by Carlo Gambino to defend Gotti in the McBratney murder case?
Posted By: plawrence
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/26/04 11:56 PM
I'm guessng it was Slotnick, he of the famous "ham sandwich" quote.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/27/04 04:54 AM
No, it wasn't Barry Slotnick. Repeat:
Which high-powered NY lawyer did Carlo Gambino hire to defend Gotti in the McBratney murder?
Posted By: Don Marco
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/27/04 05:20 PM
I think it was Roy Cohn. He was his lawyer before Bruce Cutler took over later on.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/28/04 04:32 AM
Right, Don Marco! Your turn to post a question:
Posted By: don vencent
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/09/04 02:53 PM
What family sammy the bull was frist in?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/09/04 03:44 PM
Columbo.
Q. What family was Henry Hill with?
Posted By: don vencent
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/09/04 04:42 PM
The lucchese. who host the frist crime meeting?[forgot what they call it]
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/09/04 11:10 PM
Originally posted by don vencent:
who host the frist crime meeting?[forgot the what they call it]
If you mean the first US "convention" of Mob bosses from all over the US, it'd be the 1929 Atlantic City meeting. The nominal host was Enoch (Nucky) Johnson, the political boss of Atlantic City. The Mob host is a bit murky--either Johnny Torrio of Chicago or Abner (Longy) Zwillman of New Jersey, depending on the source you read.
Don Vito Cascio Ferro hosted an important meeting of New York City Mafiosi around 1908, but it wasn't a nationwide "convention."
Q. Who ordered Dutch Schultz's murder?
Lucky(?) because Dutch was going after Dewey.
I'm not sure if I'm right,so I wont post a question
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/10/04 01:53 PM
Originally posted by Don Sonny Corleone:
Lucky(?) because Dutch was going after Dewey.
I'm not sure if I'm right,so I wont post a question
You're right. Ask a question.
What was Dasher Abbandando convicted of that sent him to the electric chair?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/11/04 05:00 AM
Frank (the Dasher) Abbandando was executed for the murder of George Rudnick.
Q. Who led the hit squad that whacked Dutch Schultz?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/13/04 05:51 PM
Since no one has responded:
Charlie (The Bug) Workman led the squad that whacked Dutch Schultz.
Q. Who was Albert Anastasia's predecessor as Don of what is now the Gambino family?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/15/04 10:13 AM
A: Vince Mangano
Q: Who was Anastasia's succesor as boss of the Gambino-family
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/15/04 02:03 PM
Carlo Gambino.
Q. Who was known as "The Artichoke King"?
Posted By: M.M. Floors
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/15/04 03:47 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Founder of Murder, Inc., was Louis (Lepke) Bucholter.
Q. He was known as "the Artichoke King."
Asking the same questions
This man knows so much that he doesn't even know whether he asked it already or not.
(Terranova by the way is the answer, but Turnbull ask another question please)
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/16/04 04:46 AM
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/16/04 02:31 PM
Frankie Yale?
Q: Who was Accardo's succesor as boss of the Chicago Outfit?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/16/04 02:57 PM
Giancana.
Repeat earlier Q:
Who was the boss of Chicago's Unione Siciliana who died, clearing the way for Capone to whack Dion O'Banion? (It wasn't Frankie Yale, who was one of O'Banion's murderers.)
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/16/04 05:02 PM
A. Mike Merlo, the only one who didn't die from "unnatural causes!"
Q. Who succeeded Merlo as president of Unione Sicilione in Chicago?
tony b.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/16/04 10:47 PM
Angelo Genna.
Q. Which Gambino soldier had an aunt who worked in the NYC Police Dept. criminal records office, and gave info to her nephew?
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/17/04 02:52 AM
"Big Gus" Sclafini
What unlikely person helped out U.S. Naval Intelligence during WWII?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/17/04 04:23 AM
Charlie Luciano.
Q. Who was the Mafia boss of the NYC docks at that time?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/18/04 02:54 PM
Since no one has ansered:
Joseph (Socks) Lanza was the boss of the NYC docks at the time that Luciano made his deal on behalf of US Naval Intelligence.
Q. Name the two NY State prisons that Luciano served time in for his prostitution conviction before being deported.
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/19/04 06:36 AM
Dannemora and... was it Great Meadow or Grand Meadow?
Who used the (wide-open for bugging) Ravenite Social Club as a meeting place?
(easy one, I know... I'm not feeling creative)
Posted By: don vencent
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/19/04 03:53 PM
John Gotti Q. Who was boss of las vegas and later beat to death by bats [real name]
Tony Spilotro (although I dont think he was ever the boss)
If so-Where did Capone claim to serve in WWI?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/20/04 12:41 PM
France?
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/28/04 12:23 AM
What's going on, gentlemen? 7 days and no reply; France must be the right answer. What do you say?
Oh this game kinda got pushed down the page and I forget to check on it
I was looking for the Lost Batalion(sp)Im not sure if they were ever in France or not.
Your question juventus
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/06/04 04:37 AM
Since no one has posted a new question in almost a week:
Q. What was Paul Castellano's legitimate business?
Meat
Q. He's the Canary who can sing but cannot fly.
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/06/04 03:20 PM
Abe (Kid Twist) Reles.
Q. What was the name of the hotel from which he couldn't fly?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/06/04 08:16 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. What was the name of the hotel from which he couldn't fly?
A. The Half Moon Hotel (in Coney Island).
Q. Carlo Gambino died of a heart attack on October 15, 1976. Is it true he was watching a Yankee game on tv at the time?
Posted By: scarfacetm
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/06/04 10:11 PM
yes its true
what was Frank Salemme's nickname
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/06/04 11:41 PM
Originally posted by scarfacetm:
yes its true....
what was Frank Salemme's nickname
Actually its not true. Its popular folklore, and Gambino liked the Yankees, but there was no game scheduled that day (look it up).
A. Salemme's nickname was "Cadillac".
Q. Speaking of nicknames, what was mob boss Thomas Lucchese's nickname, and WHY was he called that?
Posted By: scarfacetm
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/06/04 11:47 PM
Originally posted by SC:
Actually its not true. Its popular folklore, and Gambino liked the Yankees, but there was no game scheduled that day (look it up).
Carlo Gambino died of a heart attack while watching the New York Yankees game at his modest summer home in Long Island on Oct. 15, 1976. His successor was Paul Castellano.
Posted By: scarfacetm
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/06/04 11:53 PM
he was called three fingers brown because he only had 7 fingers
how and what year did frank capone die
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/07/04 12:01 AM
Originally posted by scarfacetm:
Carlo Gambino died of a heart attack while watching the New York Yankees game at his modest summer home in Long Island on Oct. 15, 1976.
There was no game played that day. The Yanks won the league series on the 14th (beating Kansas City), and the World Series started on the 16th (against the Cincinnati Reds).
Like I said, it was just "folklore".
Posted By: scarfacetm
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/07/04 12:10 AM
never hurd it before till you questioned it plus bein born in the late 80s and not being big on the yankees wouldnt know the games in 76
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/07/04 12:22 AM
To get back to the question on the table:
Capone died of tertiary syphillis on January 27, 1947.
Q. What was Capone's wife's maiden name?
Posted By: scarfacetm
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/07/04 12:30 AM
wrong capone i was refering to his brother frank
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/07/04 01:17 AM
A. Frank Capone was shot to death by police in 1924.
Q. September 10th marks an infamous anniversary in mob history. What happened that day in 1931?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/07/04 04:17 AM
That's when Salvatore Maranzano was assassinated in his office.
Q. (Repeat of earlier Q): What was Capone's wife's maiden name?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/08/04 07:15 AM
A. Mae Coughlin(although the spelling may not be correct) If I'm not correct she was 2 years older than Al as well. But that's not really needed here.
Q. This man was said to have more brains for breakfast, than Al Capone had all day. (if that's been asked before then my apologies, I haven't been reading this thread for awhile)
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/08/04 03:51 PM
Tony Accardo.
Q. What was Ralph Capone's nickname?
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/08/04 04:00 PM
A. Ralph "Bottles" Capone supervised the operation of several soft drink bottling plants.
Q. On the night of his murder, what would be the answer if you had asked Sam Giancana, "What's cookin'?"
tony b.
Sausages . . .
Q. who is Sam's partner in the fishingboat business(Tuna)?
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/09/04 12:41 AM
Anthony (Big Tuna) Accardo.
Q. Who were the Mayfield Road gang?
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/09/04 04:20 AM
A. The Milano brothers were the Mayfield Road gang, Cleveland's real-life "Lakeville Road boys."
Q. Who was the mobster Allen Glick first approached about financing the construction of casinos in Las Vegas?
tony b.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/09/04 04:39 AM
Allen Glick, who was not a mobster, first approached Alan Dorfman of the Teamsters' Central States Pension Fund about a $62M loan so that his Argent Corp. could buy (not build) the Fremont and Stardust Hotels. He also was a pal of Frank (Lefty) Rosenthal, the gambling handicapper who ran the casino at the Stardust (and skimmed for the Mob); and Anthony (the Ant) Spilotro, who ran rackets in Vegas and murdered for the Mob.
Q. Which Mob lawyer became Mayor of Vegas?
Oscar Goodman, he played himself in the movie "Casino."
Q. he put a rival's head in a vise and squeezed his eyeballs out. OUCH!
GoodFella
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/09/04 08:16 PM
A. If you're referring to the incident that led to the
"M&M Murders," and depending on what the source of your information is, it was either Tony Spilotro or "Mad Sam" DeStefano that put Billy McCarthy's head in a vise in order to extract information from him.
Turnbull...some stories have Glick first approaching Frank Balistrieri from Milwaukee, but probably through Dorfman.
Q. In Chicago, he's a funny guy. Funny how? Funny like a clown. Who's known as "The Clown?" I'm certain it's for his sense of humor...
tony b.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/10/04 04:36 AM
Joey "The Clown" Lombardo.
Q. Which NYC Don murdered his lover's husband so he could marry her?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/10/04 05:07 PM
I'm not sure but...was it Vito Genovese?
If i'm right: Who was nicknamed: La Belva (the animal) and U Curtu (The Short/the little man)?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/11/04 04:46 AM
Salvatore (Toto) Riina.
Q. What was Charlie Luciano's nickname for Vito Genovese?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/13/04 02:59 PM
Since no one has answered:
Charlie Luciano referred (sneeringly) to Vito Genovese as "Don Vitone."
Q. Which Gambino capo ran a coffeehouse called Cafe Biondo in Little Italy?
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/14/04 12:27 AM
Joseph Corrao
Who turned everyone against Frank Costello?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/15/04 05:02 AM
Vito Genovese unseated Frank Costello by forcing him to retire after "The Chin's" unsuccessful hit in 1957.
Q. Who did Senator Kefauver identify as the nation's number-one gambling gangster following his famous two-year hearings on organized crime?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/20/04 04:45 AM
Since no one's responded in five days:
Senator Kefauver named Abner (Longy) Zwillman as the nation's top gambling czar.
Q. What Mob witness showed only his hands on Kefauver's televised hearings?
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/20/04 05:03 AM
A. Frank Costello (I think you asked, and I answered, this same question a couple of months ago!)
Q. His suburban Chicago home was burglarized while he vacationed in Palm Springs.
tony b.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/21/04 04:04 PM
Tony Accardo.
Q. Which gangster actor was hired as a greeter at one of pre-Castro Havana's casino hotels?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/22/04 09:29 PM
Since no one has answered in 24 hours:
George Raft was a greeter in Havana.
Q. Which well-known actor was permitted to hang with the Columbo family in NYC in preparation for his filmed role as a major gangster?
Posted By: don vencent
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/22/04 09:35 PM
Al pacino
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/23/04 03:42 PM
No, not Al Pacino. Repeat:
Q. Which well-known actor was permitted to hang with the Columbo family in NYC in preparation for his filmed role as a major gangster?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/24/04 04:57 AM
Congrats on the right answer, GF!! Your turn...
Q. Who is Nicky Santoro in real life?
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/24/04 05:30 PM
Anthony (the Ant) Spilotro.
Q. What does Oscar Goodman (Nicky's lawyer in "Casino" and the real-life Ant's lawyer) do for a living now?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/27/04 04:43 AM
Since no one has answered:
Oscar Goodman, The Ant's lawyer, is now mayor of Vegas.
Q. Name the two men who took over the Flamingo Hotel in Vegas within an hour of Bugsy Siegel's assassination.
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 10/01/04 10:40 PM
I just know they were Lansky's people... I don't know their names, though, but I think they were Jewish names. Also that the murder took place in his Hollywood bungalow.
It's been a while with no response; maybe a new question is in order, TB.
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 10/02/04 05:28 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Since no one has answered:
Oscar Goodman, The Ant's lawyer, is now mayor of Vegas.
Q. Name the two men who took over the Flamingo Hotel in Vegas within an hour of Bugsy Siegel's assassination.
Moe Sedway, & Gus Greenbaum?
Posted By: don vencent
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 10/02/04 03:12 PM
What family was sonnie black in
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 10/02/04 04:17 PM
Bonanno.
Q. What was Sonny Red's real name?
(Note to Iceman: You were right!)
Alphonse Indelicato(sp)
What family were the real Goodfallas guys with?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 10/04/04 12:07 AM
Originally posted by Don Sonny Corleone:
Alphonse Indelicato(sp)
What family were the real Goodfallas guys with?
The real Goodfellas guys were with Paul Vario, a capo in the Lucchese family.
Q. Who was the boss of the crew that John Gotti originally hooked up with as a teenager? (Hint: it wasn't Neil Dellacroce.)
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 10/20/04 12:58 AM
Let's revive this sucker! You around, TB?
I (obviously) don't know the answer to the last one, though I don't know if anyone else does. I could look it up, but that'd be cheating.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 10/20/04 01:38 AM
Ok, Letizia.
The boss of Gotti's crew when he was a teenager was Carmine Fatico.
Q. What was the name of the truckdriver who was beaten by Gotti and suffered a "memory loss" when asked to testify against him ("I Forgotti")?
The truckdriver was actually a refrigerator repairman, Romual Piecyk. Although, in the movie "GOTTI" we see him portrayed as just a truckdriver.
Q: Who was convicted at the age of 18 of peddling heroin and morphine?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/23/04 05:54 AM
Charlie Luciano.
Q. Who sent Capone to Chicago from Brooklyn?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/23/04 08:26 AM
Frankie Yale.
My question providing I got the previous one right.
Why was Frankie Yale later whacked by capone?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/23/04 04:06 PM
Capone believed Yale was cheating him by claiming that booze Yale was supposed to be shipping to Chicago had been hijacked.
Q. Which mob rat was known as "the canary who could sing but couldn't fly"?
Abe "Kid Twist" Reles . . .
Q. he is the BEER Baron.
GoodFella
Beer Baron is Dutch Schultz
Who is the guy who first started to bring cocaine in the U.S.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/24/04 06:17 AM
Originally posted by The Irish Mafia 28:
Beer Baron is Dutch Schultz
Who is the guy who first started to bring cocaine in the U.S.
Cocaine was legally available in the US in over-the-counter drugs into the 20th century. Coca-Cola's original formula may have included some extracts from the coca leaf.
But to your question: Don Vito Cascio Ferro first established a Sicilian/NY drug connection. Arnold "King of the Gamblers" Rothstein also was an early, big-time dealer importer of opium, heroin and cocaine.
Q. Who took over the Flamingo Hotel after Bugsy Siegel's assassination?
Wasnt it Lansky? I am probably wrong though, so I wont post a new question.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/24/04 11:03 PM
Originally posted by Don Sonny Corleone:
Wasnt it Lansky? I am probably wrong though, so I wont post a new question.
No, it wasn't Lansky. Repeat:
Q. Who took over the Flamingo Hotel after Bugsy Siegel's assassination?
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/25/04 07:29 AM
Originally posted by The Iceman:
[quote]Originally posted by Turnbull:
[b] Since no one has answered:
Oscar Goodman, The Ant's lawyer, is now mayor of Vegas.
Q. Name the two men who took over the Flamingo Hotel in Vegas within an hour of Bugsy Siegel's assassination.
Moe Sedway, & Gus Greenbaum? [/b][/quote];)
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/26/04 02:33 AM
Kee-rect!
Your turn...
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/26/04 10:41 PM
Well I copy/pasted from the last time that was answered, but okay, I'll post a question.
onetime head of Murder Inc. who killed over 100 people but got electrocution for the murder of a candy store clerk.
Pittsburgh Phil aka Harry Strauss (if not Phil then my second guess would be Lepke Buchalter, but I'm pretty sure about guess #1)
What day was he (Strauss) killed?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/27/04 01:50 AM
June 12th 1941 in the Electric Chair!
What was the name of the bar where Roy DeMeo and his gang hung out and carried out many of thier brutal murders?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/27/04 05:40 AM
Gemini Lounge.
Q. What was the name of the candy store in Brooklyn that was Murder Inc.'s headquarters?
Posted By: YoTonyB
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/27/04 06:52 AM
A. Midnight Rose's
Q. The name of the tavern that served as Sam Giancana's headquarters in quiet suburban Forest Park, Illinois.
tony b.
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/27/04 09:11 AM
Originally posted by Don Sonny Corleone:
Pittsburgh Phil aka Harry Strauss (if not Phil then my second guess would be Lepke Buchalter, but I'm pretty sure about guess #1)
What day was he (Strauss) killed?
It was guess #2... carry on.
Originally posted by YoTonyB:
A. Midnight Rose's
Q. The name of the tavern that served as Sam Giancana's headquarters in quiet suburban Forest Park, Illinois.
tony b.
A) The good ole Armory Lounge.
Q) Name the establishment that Frank Sinatra owned but was taken away from him after the aforementioned Sam Giancana was spotted there.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/30/04 12:17 AM
Cal-Nevada Lounge.
Q. Which Don had his future wife's husband murdered so he could marry her?
Vito Genovese. . .
Q. "we only kill each other." who said this famous line?
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 11/30/04 05:43 AM
Bugsy Siegel.
Which Don famously said that his wife was the boss of his family?
Gotti, right?
If so-Who was Filippo Buccola's successor?
If not-its proof I'm losing my mind.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/01/04 06:10 AM
Raymond Patriarca.
Q. Which Mafia guy ran the NYC fight rackets in the '40's and '50's? (Hint: not a Don).
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/03/04 02:37 AM
Since more than 24 hours have passed without an answer:
Frankie (Mr. Gray) Carbo ran the fight rackets.
Q. Who was known as "the Artichoke King"?
I think thats the 4th time you've asked that question, and I no longer have to look it up on Google
Cicero Terranova
How many times was Legs Diamond reportedly shot?
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/03/04 04:27 AM
You look them up on Google?! Cheater. Now who's overrated?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/03/04 05:15 AM
Legs Diamond was shot as many as 17 times, by some accounts.
Q. Which Dutch Shultz associate was one of the killers of Joe (the Boss) Masseria?
Posted By: M.M. Floors
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/04/04 01:39 PM
A: Bugsy Siegel
Q: Real name of 'Kid Twist' (and for the die-hards: how did he get the name Kid Twist?)
Abe Reles . . .
Q. was the only mob boss ever to die in Electric Chair.
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/05/04 05:57 AM
Louis (Lepke) Buchalter.
Repeat of earlier Q: Which Dutch Shultz associate was one of the killers of Joe (the Boss) Masseria?
(Note: Bugsy Siegel was one of the killers, but he wasn't associated with Dutch Shultz--the guy I'm looking for was one of Shultz's top lieutenants.)
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/05/04 11:07 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Louis (Lepke) Buchalter.
Repeat of earlier Q: Which Dutch Shultz associate was one of the killers of Joe (the Boss) Masseria?
(Note: Bugsy Siegel was one of the killers, but he wasn't associated with Dutch Shultz--the guy I'm looking for was one of Shultz's top lieutenants.)
The hit squad consisted of : Bugsy Siegal, Joe Adonis, Albert Anastasia and Vito Genovese.
I believe that Adonis was originally a LT. For Shultz.
Q: Who was known as "Lupo The Wolf"?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/04 05:44 AM
Ignazio Saitta.
Repeat of earlier Q: Which Dutch Shultz associate was one of the killers of Joe (the Boss) Masseria?
(Note: Bugsy Siegel and Joe Adonis were two of the killers. But they weren't associated with Dutch Shultz--the guy I'm looking for was one of Shultz's top lieutenants. Giuseppe Joe Adonis Doto was with Luciano.)
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/06/04 09:26 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Ignazio Saitta.
Repeat of earlier Q: Which Dutch Shultz associate was one of the killers of Joe (the Boss) Masseria?
(Note: Bugsy Siegel and Joe Adonis were two of the killers. But they weren't associated with Dutch Shultz--the guy I'm looking for was one of Shultz's top lieutenants. Giuseppe Joe Adonis Doto was with Luciano.)
Turnbull,
The four that I mentioned above were the killers of Masseria, right?
The only other Dutch Shultz right hand man that I can come up with is Bob Hewlett.
Turnbull, I thought that I had the Luciano and co. history pretty down pat, but you got me stumped on this one!
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/07/04 05:15 AM
DC, there are several versions of the Masseria hit squad. But the most-often mentioned shooters are three: Bugsy Siegel, Joe Adonis and...Abraham (Bo) Weinberg, Dutch Shultz's top shooter.
Q. Who led the squad that assassinated Salvatore Maranzano?
Posted By: don vencent
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/07/04 03:04 PM
bugsel siegel
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/07/04 04:49 PM
No, Siegel wasn't involved in Maranzano's assassination.
Repeat Q: Who led the hit squad in Maranzano's assassination?
Posted By: scarfacetm
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/07/04 07:48 PM
lucky luciano
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/08/04 02:02 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull
Repeat Q: Who led the hit squad in Maranzano's assassination?
Originally posted by scarfacetm:
lucky luciano
No.
It was Red Lavine and Bo Weinberg led by Vincent " Mad Dog " Coll.
Don Cardi
Posted By: scarfacetm
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/08/04 03:09 AM
Originally posted by Don Cardi:
[quote] Originally posted by Turnbull
Repeat Q: Who led the hit squad in Maranzano's assassination?
Originally posted by scarfacetm:
[b] lucky luciano
No.
It was Red Lavine and Bo Weinberg led by Vincent " Mad Dog " Coll.
Don Cardi
[/b][/quote]that would depend how far he means led it considering luciano employed the hit squad to do the hit and theoratically the person who employs them is the leader due to the fact he tells them who to kill how to kill em and all the other info theyd need.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/08/04 05:43 AM
DC is right: Red Levine led the Maranzano hit squad.
To your point, Scarface: Charlie Luciano ordered both hits (Masseria and Maranzano). He reached for his boyhood chum, Meyer Lansky to organize the assassinations. He didn't want to use his own guys because the victims might have recognized them. Lansky put together both hit squads. But neither Luciano nor Lansky was present at the actual murders.
DC, it's your turn to ask a question...
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/08/04 10:11 AM
Q : Who were the hitmen who shot and killed Albert Anastasia?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/09/04 01:14 AM
Larry and Crazy Joe Gallo are usually credited with the Anastasia hit. But other sources credit Stephen Grammauta, Stephen Armone and Arnold Wittenberg.
Q. (easy one): Who shot but didn't kill Frank Costello?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/09/04 03:09 AM
Vincent " The Chin " Gigante.
Q : What is the name of the person who allegedly slashed Al Capone's face for making a remark about his sister, thus giving him the nickname scarface? ( He later went on to be one of Al's bodyguards!)
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/09/04 03:44 AM
Frank Galluccio.
Q. Which Capone was killed in '24 during the Cicero elections?
Tony Montana? Nope sorry wrong thing
Frank Gallucio
Why did he slice young Al?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/09/04 09:31 PM
Originally posted by Don Sonny Corleone:
Frank Gallucio
Why did he slice young Al?
Al supposedly made some kind of a remark about the guy's sister.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/09/04 09:46 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Frank Galluccio.
Q. Which Capone was killed in '24 during the Cicero elections?
Frank Capone
What gangster worked as a bar tender and a bouncer at a Coney Island Bar called "Harvard Inn"?
Don Cardi
Don Cardi
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/04 08:29 AM
Originally posted by Don Cardi:
[quote]Originally posted by Turnbull:
[b] Frank Galluccio.
Q. Which Capone was killed in '24 during the Cicero elections?
Frank Capone
What gangster worked as a bar tender and a bouncer at a Coney Island Bar called "Harvard Inn"?
Don Cardi
Don Cardi
[/b][/quote]Al Capone?
I won't pose a question, since I'm not entirely sure on my answer.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/10/04 09:08 AM
Iceman, your answer is correct, so go ahead and post a question.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/13/04 11:50 PM
OK Iceman, I'll pose a question.
Q :After The Stardust Hotel's original owner Tony Cornero died, who did the Chicago mob put in his place as thier front man to run the Stardust?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Don Pope
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/14/04 04:25 AM
A: Frank Rosenthal
Q: Who was Frank Rosenthals friend "Nicky Santoros"(casino) real name?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/14/04 05:45 AM
Anthony (the Ant) Spilotro.
Q. Which gangster said, "We only kill each other."
Ben "Bugsy" Siegel
Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti headed the Chicago Outfit after Capone "went away", what was the event that ended his tenure as boss?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/14/04 05:07 PM
Suicide.
Who arranged the shooting of Johnny Torrio?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/15/04 01:06 PM
Wasn't it Hymie Weiss?
Because i'm not sure i wont post a new question...
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/16/04 08:07 AM
Originally posted by Don Cardi:
OK Iceman, I'll pose a question.
Q :After The Stardust Hotel's original owner Tony Cornero died, who did the Chicago mob put in his place as thier front man to run the Stardust?
Don Cardi Don Pope replied that it was Frank Rosenthal. That answer is wrong, sorry.
The correct answer was a con man by the name of John Factor, who happened to be the brother of makeup mogul Max Factor.
Don Cardi
Originally posted by Don Cardi:
....makeup mogul Max Factor.
Don Cardi I have a hard time believeing that is a name. Reminds me too much of a guy named Max Power.
"Great name"
"Thanks, I got it off a hairdryer"
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/17/04 04:15 AM
Juventus, you were right about Hymie Weiss. Please post a question.
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/17/04 08:01 PM
This famous communist was killed by the same mafiafamily as his father was in. The family was the family of Cinisi (Sicily)..
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/18/04 07:37 PM
Originally posted by juventus:
This famous communist was killed by the same mafiafamily as his father was in. The family was the family of Cinisi (Sicily)..
A : Peppino Impastato and Giuseppe Impastato?
Don Cardi
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/19/04 01:16 PM
You're right. Post a new question don cardi
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/19/04 04:31 PM
Originally posted by juventus:
You're right. Post a new question don cardi
Thanks!
Q : What is the real name of the Columbo Soldier, known as "Sonny Pinto" who was one of the shooters of Crazy joe Gallo?
Don Cardi
Posted By: scarfacetm
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 12/20/04 05:29 AM
Carmine Diabiase?
if so my question is:
what did colombo soldier frank falanga say when he was charged with RICO?
No clue. I'm gonna get this topic moving again.
Q: Who was the gangster who became a cop and was close friends with Sam Giancana?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/22/05 01:01 AM
Michael Corbitt.
Q. Where did the Mayfield Road Gang operate?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/22/05 01:23 AM
The East Side Of Cleveland. Also known as Cleveland's Little Italy.
What was Frank Costello's real name?
Don Cardi
Francesco Castiglia
In the Kefauver Comittee hearing, Costello told TV cameras to focus on what?
Posted By: XDCX
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/22/05 03:18 AM
His hands
Who's the gangster pictured in my avatar?
Posted By: DonGenco
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/22/05 06:11 AM
A:Jimmy Burke (otherwise known as Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas)
Q:Joe Adonis' original name was:
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/22/05 06:38 AM
Giuseppe Doto.
Q. Following the Keefauver hearings, which gangster did Keefauver name as the number-one gambling czar in America?
Frank Costello
Which gangster has a memorial museum in his name?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/05 12:09 AM
No, it wasn't Costello. Repeat: After the Kefauver hearings, who did Kefauver say was America's top gambling czar?
Posted By: XDCX
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/05 01:29 AM
Was it "Bugsy" Siegel?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/05 06:42 AM
Nope. The gambling czar named by Kefauver was Abner (Longy) Zwillman, boss of Newark, NJ.
Q. Who was alleged to have shot and killed Big Jim Colosimo?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/05 11:16 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Nope. The gambling czar named by Kefauver was Abner (Longy) Zwillman, boss of Newark, NJ.
Q. Who was alleged to have shot and killed Big Jim Colosimo?
Frankie Yale? Or was it Al Capone? I say Frankie Yale, am i right?
Posted By: M.M. Floors
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/05 12:37 PM
I thougt it wasn't sure who did it...but that it indicates Frankie Yale..so Juventus is right.
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/05 02:43 PM
OK..
In which family was Sonny Franzese the underboss?
Posted By: XDCX
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/05 03:57 PM
The Colombos.
Which famous Don allegedly pulled the trigger on Tommy "Two-Guns" De Simone?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/05 09:36 PM
Gotti, according to one story.
Q. Who was Gotti's first capo?
Posted By: XDCX
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/23/05 11:27 PM
Was it Frank De Cicco?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/24/05 06:40 AM
No, it wasn't DiCicco. I mean when he first joined the then-Anastasia family, before he was made.
Posted By: XDCX
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/24/05 06:07 PM
My last guess: Carmine Fatico?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/24/05 10:00 PM
Fatico is right! Congrats! Your turn...
Posted By: XDCX
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/25/05 03:43 AM
Wow! I never shoulda gotten that
.
Easy one:
What famous mafia Don's real name is Gaetano Reina?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/25/05 07:12 AM
Did you mean Tom Reina, predecessor of Tommy Lucchese?
If so:
Q. What was the first Vegas hotel that Bugsy Siegel muscled into? (Hint: not the Flamingo.)
Posted By: XDCX
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/25/05 07:42 AM
Was it the El Rancho Vegas? I know the El Rancho was the first casino built on the Vegas strip, so I'm assuming Bugsy muscled in on it. Could be wrong.
If so...
While he's not a gangster, per se, who is really the one to be credited for "inventing" Las Vegas?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/26/05 12:18 AM
I'm thinking that you mean Moe Dalitz, but he was a gangster--during Prohibition, he ran the Mayfield Road Gang that shipped oceans of booze across Lake Erie. Wilbur Clark also is a "pioneer" of Vegas, though many historians think he just fronted for the Mob. Senator Pat McCarren also is sometimes called "father" of Vegas.
Assuming one of the above is who you had in mind:
What was the first Vegas hotel that Bugsy Siegel muscled into? (Good try on El Rancho--he tried to muscle in there but was rebuffed. The hotel I have in mind was his next move.)
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/26/05 01:47 AM
I'm glad this is back up and running!!
El Cortez was the first one they muscled into, right?
If so:
What was the name of the hotel that publicly rejected Siegel's offer to buy in, at the very beginning? (Hint: Liberace's first Vegas gig)
Posted By: XDCX
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/27/05 06:20 PM
Well dammit, I think you stumped me! Judging that Turnbull hasn't replied, you mighta gotten him too!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/28/05 12:57 AM
El Cortez was the right answer.
El Rancho Grande was the first hotel Siegel tried to get into and was rejected (and the owners lived to tell about it).
Q. What Hollywood sexpot was gangster Longie Zwillman's mistress until Howard Hughes took her away (and lived to tell about it). Hint: it wasn't Ava Gardner or Kathryn Hepburn.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/28/05 01:43 AM
Virginia Hill
What Mafia Captain was given the contract to have Philip "Philly Lucky" Giaccone, Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato, and Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera killed?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/28/05 06:47 AM
Salvatore Vitale, Joey Massino's brother in law.
Repeat of earlier Q: What Hollywood bombshell did Howard Hughes take away from Abner (Longy) Zwillman and live to tell about it? (It wasn't Virginia Hill, either--she was Bugsy Siegel's mistress, and he took her from Joe Adonis.)
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/28/05 11:15 AM
(For some reason I thought that Hill had also had an affair with Hughes before Adonis, but she was not a hollywood bombshell anyway).
Was it Gloria Swanson?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/28/05 10:00 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
El Rancho Grande was the first hotel Siegel tried to get into and was rejected (and the owners lived to tell about it).
I guess mine wasn't the first, then.
I was thinking of the Last Frontier (hence Liberace's first Vegas gig). I guess it was ONE of the first.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/29/05 07:08 AM
The movie star who was Zwillman's and later Hughes's mistress was the famous "Blond Bombshell": Jean Harlow.
Q. Which two gangsters took over the Flamingo Hotel within an hour of Bugsy Siegel's assassination?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/29/05 11:54 AM
Moe Sedway and Gus Greenberg
What is the name of the hitman who it is rumored carried out the contract on Bugsy Siegel?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/29/05 05:53 PM
When you say "rumored," DC, you're opening up a very wide door, because no one knows for sure who pulled the trigger. In descending order of liklihood:
1. Luciano and Adonis ordered the hit because they suspected Bugsy and Virginia had stolen some or most of the $5-6 million they fronted for the Flamingo. The triggerman may have been Frankie (Mr. Gray) Carbo, who was one of the triggers for the Harry (Big Greenie) Greenbaum hit that Bugsy planned earlier. Carbo, who later ran the fight rackets for the Mob in NYC, would have had a personal incentive to kill Bugsy as well: eliminate someone who could have ratted him out on the Greenie hit. The movie "Bugsy" implies that Mickey Cohen may have pulled the trigger, but I doubt it.
2. LA Mafia boss Jack Dragna organized the hit in revenge for Bugsy's muscling in on his rackets. He got permission from Luciano to proceed. If that were the case, it'd validate the claim of Eddie Cannizzaro, who (much later) claimed to be the triggerman.
3. The Berman brothers did it--they were among the dozens of investors to whom Bugsy sold thousands of points in the Flamingo, but they had the muscle to do something about it.
4. Virginia Hill's brother, Chick, did the deed. Chick supposedly hated Bugsy and was known to own a .30 MI carbine, the type of rifle identified as the murder weapon. But so did several hundred thousand others.
5. The Chicago Mob ordered the hit because Hill was their eyes and ears in the West, and Bugsy abused her. I doubt it--she gave as good as she got, and probably abused Bugsy.
Assuming one of the above is the answer you were looking for:
Who assassinated Italian anarchist Carlo Tresca on Vito Genovese's orders?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/29/05 06:44 PM
Frankie Carranzo was the name I was looking for. It was rumored that Jack Dragna gave the contract to a Frankie Carranzo.
The answer to your question above is Carmine Galante.
Q: Who were the two hitmen that killed
Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/29/05 09:51 PM
Joey Massino and Ronald Filocomo.
Q. Who was the Puerto Rican drug dealer whose testimony sent Vito Genovese to prison?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/29/05 10:27 PM
Nelson Cantellops.
What Brooklyn mobster was the first man ever convicted under the RICO act?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/30/05 07:46 AM
Frank (Funzi) Tieri.
Q. Which of the five NYC Dons was not charged in a RICO indictment in the famous Commission case?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/30/05 10:17 AM
Paul Castellano and Neil Dellacroce died before the government could sentence them...But Dellacroce wasn't a NYC boss so I would go for Paulie Castellano...
But I don't know if that is what you mean..
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/30/05 09:05 PM
It's true that Castellano was charged in a RICO indictment but was killed before he was tried. But that's not what I meant. Let me try again:
Q. In the Commission case, four of the five NYC Dons were charged in RICO indictments. One Don was not charged. Who was he?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/30/05 11:53 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
It's true that Castellano was charged in a RICO indictment but was killed before he was tried. But that's not what I meant. Let me try again:
Q. In the Commission case, four of the five NYC Dons were charged in RICO indictments. One Don was not charged. Who was he?
I believe that In the "Commission Case" John Gotti was NOT charged with Rico. As said above Castellano was originally charged, but did not live to face trial, and at that point Gotti was the New Don and had not been named in the original charge.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/31/05 08:45 AM
Or was it Vincent Gigante? Wasn't he already made the boss before the trials, but no one knew about it yet? I may be wrong, but I think it is said that he was appointed when Tony Salerno got sick, right before the charges were ever brought up.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/01/05 01:43 AM
Turnbull, I believe that both Zia and I are correct. The Bosses charged in the commission case were :
Anthony Salerno, boss of the Genovese family.
Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino family.
Anthony Corallo, boss of the Lucchese family.
Philip Rastelli, boss of the Bonanno family.
Gennaro Langella, boss of the Colombo family.
Don Cardi
Are you going to ask a question?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/01/05 03:33 AM
Originally posted by The Irish Mafia 28:
Are you going to ask a question?
As soon as Turnbull gives the nod to me or Zia!
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/01/05 06:46 AM
Sorry for the delay:
Vincent (the Chin) Gigante was who I was thinking of. He wasn't charged in the Commission case because he was considered non compos mentis. He got away with the crazy act until fairly recently. Gotti was charged at the same time jointly with Mr. Neil, but Mr. Neil died the same day the trial was to start, and the government had to separate Gotti's case from Neil's.
Zia's turn...
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/01/05 07:35 AM
Which boss ordered several unsuccessful hits on his main competitor, Mickey Cohen?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/01/05 09:09 PM
Jack Dragna.
Q. Why was LA mobster Tony Cornero called "the Admiral"?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/02/05 01:02 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Jack Dragna.
Q. Why was LA mobster Tony Cornero called "the Admiral"?
Cornero was in the bootlegging business and used a small fleet of boats to run his liquor. His specialty was overseeing the transfer of illegal liquor from ships, waiting off the coasts in international waters, to smaller boats that he owned that would then bring the liquor to desolate areas of shorline, hence becoming known as "The Admiral." After prohibition he eventually transformed those ships, that he had once used for bootlegging, into floating casinos.
Q: What are the names of the two Chicago Gangsters who were charged with the theft of a 45 carat diamond from a London jewelry store which eventually became known as " The Mob's Crown Jewel"?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/02/05 01:40 AM
Joseph (Witherhand) Scalise and Arthur (the Genius) Rachel.
Q. Who was Capone's first boss when he arrived in Chicago from Brooklyn? (Hint: not Torrio.)
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/02/05 02:05 AM
Big Jim Colosimo.
Q : What former Brooklyn New Yorker moved on to become the crime boss of Rhode Island?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/02/05 07:02 AM
Frank (Butsey) Morelli.
Q. What notorious NY Mob boss befriended Fat Vinny Teresa in prison?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/02/05 09:04 PM
Teresa served time at La Tuna Penitenciary with Joe Valachi.
What Los Angeles gangster courted actress Lana Turner only to meet his demise at the hands of Lana Turner's daughter?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/02/05 10:14 PM
Johnny Stompanato
Which gangster friend of the Hearst family was asked to help get Patty Hearst back after she was kidnapped by the SLA?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/03/05 01:24 AM
Mickey Cohen
Q : What was the name of the midget who was a member of The Gallo crew?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/03/05 01:48 AM
Armando (Punchy) Iliano. I remember reading a story about the Gallos going to the mattresses in '61 during their war with Profaci. A Look Magazine reporter visited them (Crazy Joe was a publicity hound even then) and encountered Punchy. "What's he doing here?" asked the reporter. "He's our dwarf," replied Crazy Joe, as if, "Doesn't your magazine have a dwarf? Doesn't everyone?" I loved it!
Repeat of earlier Q: What Mob boss did Fat Vinnie Teresa serve time with? (Valachi wasn't a boss.)
(Note to DC: Mickey
Cohan?? Was he a Yankee Doodle Dandy?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/03/05 01:54 AM
No Turnbull, that was George M. Cohan!
Maybe your confusing James Cagney, known to be a gangster with Mickey Coh
e n!
Yes, Valachi was not a boss, sorry, was it Vito Genovese? If it is right, then please take my turn, if it is not, than I will pick door number 3!
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/03/05 07:01 AM
Uh, choose door #3, DC...
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/03/05 09:51 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. What notorious NY Mob boss befriended Fat Vinny Teresa in prison?
A. Carmine Galante.
Q. Al Capone was born on January 17, 1899. What "gift" did he get from the government on his 21st birthday?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/03/05 11:41 AM
The Government enacted the Prohibition laws.
Q : How many times was Arnold Rothstein convicted of a crime?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/04/05 03:58 AM
None.
Q. Meyer Lansky applied for Israeli citizenship but was turned down. Name another Jewish gangster and associate of Lansky's who did get Israeli citizenship.
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/05/05 08:13 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
None.
Q. Meyer Lansky applied for Israeli citizenship but was turned down. Name another Jewish gangster and associate of Lansky's who did get Israeli citizenship.
The only one I can think of is Benny Siegal although I'm sure I'm wrong so I will not pose a question.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/05/05 02:01 PM
Turnbull, this question was a tough one. So from what I've read about Lansky and co. throughout several books, and being that he was made a member of the ADL of B'nai Israel, I am going to have to
guess that it was
Moe Dalitz But I will not post a question until you give the go ahead.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/06/05 01:48 AM
The answer is: Doc Stacher.
Q. Which Mafia Don was deported to Guatemala, but eventually came back to the US?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/06/05 01:47 PM
Carlos Marcello
Q : What mob boss is alledged to have ordered the hit on Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Beth E
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/06/05 02:36 PM
Anthony Provenzano???
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/06/05 02:58 PM
Originally posted by Beth E:
Anthony Provenzano???
No. Provenzano was actually given the order by this mob boss.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/06/05 10:16 PM
Russell Bufalino (although Tony Pro may have had a hand in it).
Q. Who was "the canary who could sing but couldn't fly"?
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/06/05 11:01 PM
Abe Reles
Who did the above work for?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/07/05 06:28 AM
Murder, Inc.
Q. Reles and another Murder Inc. hitter turned rat for the Brooklyn DA at the same time. Who was the other rat?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/07/05 10:03 PM
Dukey Maffetore.
Q : Abe Reles became a master at using a specific weapon when carrying out a contract for murder inc. What was that weapon?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/08/05 01:26 AM
Ice pick.
Is it just me, or are his murders somehow more gory than others'? Even if they're described with fewer words and details, everytime I've read about his murders, I shudder at just the thought.
I'm fast running out of good questions...
Q: What hotel did he "fall" from?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/08/05 11:57 AM
The Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island, Brooklyn New York.
oh, and he didn't just fall, he actually flew like a canary out the window!
Q : Who was known as the "Al Capone Of Los Angeles?"
Don Cardi
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/09/05 09:53 PM
Jack Dragna
Who succeeded Jack Dragna as the L.A. boss?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/10/05 05:27 AM
Frank DeSimone.
Q. Which Mob boss was known as "The Plumber"?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/10/05 10:56 PM
Sam Decavalcante aka Sam The Plumber.
Q : Why was he known as The Plumber?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/10/05 11:29 PM
He owned a plumbing supply business.
Q. Why was Richie "The Boot" Boioardo, Newark Mafioso of the Twenties and Thirties, called "The Boot"?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/12/05 05:05 PM
Since no one has answered in more than 24 hours:
Richie The Boot Boioardo got his nickname because he did all his business out of a phone boot'. I'm not kidding.
Q. Who was the triggerman who shot Dutch Schultz and was left stranded by his cohorts, who drove away without him?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/12/05 05:36 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Who was the triggerman who shot Dutch Schultz and was left stranded by his cohorts, who drove away without him?
I'll take a stab, errr, I mean a shot at this, Charlie "The Bug" Workman?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/13/05 05:50 AM
You get the cigar, SC! Your turn...
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/13/05 06:34 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
You get the cigar, SC! Your turn...
OK, speaking of a cigar, what New York biggie was shot to death on July 12, 1979 clutching a cigar in his mouth?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/13/05 02:31 PM
Carmine Galente.
Q: What was his nickname?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/13/05 03:26 PM
Lilo.
Q. Who ran the fight rackets for the Mob in NYC in the Forties and Fifties?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/05 11:44 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Who ran the fight rackets for the Mob in NYC in the Forties and Fifties?
Being that The Chin was a boxer during that era I'm gonna take a guess and say : GENOVESE?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/16/05 05:58 AM
No. The guy who ran the fight rackets for the Mob was Frankie (Mr. Gray) Carbo.
Q. Which Bonanno Family capo ran a restaurant in Little Italy that had his name in its title?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/19/05 06:04 AM
Since no one has answered: Bonanno capo Mike Sabella ran CaSabella.
Q. Which Gambino capo ran a restaurant in Little Italy?
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/19/05 06:27 AM
Joe "Butch" Corrao?
I don't know if that's who you meant, so I won't post a question.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/19/05 11:57 PM
Yes, that's the right answer. Your turn...
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/20/05 08:06 PM
Who ratted on John Gotti to save his own skin?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/20/05 08:15 PM
Da Bull.
Q. Which Gotti associate was exposed as a government informant at one of Gotti's trials, and then was supposedly forgiven by Gotti, only to be whacked by him later?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/20/05 11:59 PM
Willie Boy Johnson
What Bonnano capo was tried and found guilty for the murder of Willie Boy Johnson?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/21/05 12:31 AM
Vincent Giattino
Judith Campbell was one of John F. Kennedy's "women." She was also a famous gangster's mistress-- whose?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/21/05 01:58 AM
Sam Giancana.
Q. What (female) entertainer also was close to Giancana?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/21/05 02:35 AM
Phyllis McGuire
Q : What Gangster who owned the "Cotton Club" was nicknamed " The Duke"?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/21/05 04:35 PM
Owney Madden.
Which Irish gangster was hired to kill Lucky Luciano?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/23/05 04:01 PM
Since no one has answered in two days:
Vincent (Mad Dog) Coll was hired by Salvatore Maranzano to kill Charlie Luciano. (BTW: Luciano struck first: he asked his boyhood pal, Meyer Lansky, to put together a hit squad to whack Maranzano. They dressed as Treasury agents, entered his office in NYC's Grand Central building, flashed badges, and demanded to see his books. They shot and stabbed him to death as he complied. As they fled down the stairs, Coll was in the lobby, waiting for an elevator to take him to Maranzano's office for his final instructions before whacking Luciano. That's how close it was--and that's one of the reasons they called him "Lucky."
)
Q. Which long-time Mafia Don was Joe Bonanno's cousin?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/24/05 12:00 PM
Stefano Maggadino
Q: Who did the commission replace Bonnano with when he ( Bonnano ) failed to appear in front of the commission?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/24/05 06:09 PM
Gaspar De Gregorio.
Q. What was the name of the street in Brooklyn where Bill Bonanno was ambushed?
Posted By: Fame
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/25/05 12:31 PM
Troutman.
Who waged war against Profaci in 1960?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/25/05 03:54 PM
The Gallo brothers.
Q. Name the three Gallo brothers.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/25/05 04:01 PM
Larry, Joey and Albert.
What Gambino Captain was the President of The ILA's Local 814?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Fame
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/25/05 04:26 PM
Frank Scollo.
Who died right after that line was spoken : "Get him,Sal!"
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/25/05 04:37 PM
Originally posted by Fame:
Frank Scollo.
Who died right after that line was spoken : "Get him,Sal!"
Sorry, try again. You are
close , but no cigar.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Fame
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/25/05 06:18 PM
Anthony Scotto.
Who died right after that line was spoken : "Get him,Sal!"
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/25/05 07:38 PM
Carmine Galante.
Q. What "Alice in Wonderland" character lent his name to a Mob boss?
Posted By: Fame
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/26/05 01:24 AM
Albert "The Mad Hatter" Anastasia.
Who became the chief drug source for Mussolini's foreign minister and son-in-law?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/26/05 03:34 PM
Vito Genovese
Q: What Broadway "crooner" was rumored to have been kidnapped by Vincent " Mad Dog " Coll?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Fame
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/26/05 04:16 PM
Rudy Vallee
Which movie star was the alleged victim of a 700,000$ extortion plot?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/26/05 11:52 PM
Steven Segall.
Q. Which famous gangster actor worked for the Mob in NYC in the Twenties?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/28/05 05:24 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Steven Segall.
Q. Which famous gangster actor worked for the Mob in NYC in the Twenties?
This is just a guess but is it George Raft? I won't post a question in case I'm wrong.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/28/05 05:42 AM
Raft is right, Iceman. Your turn...
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/28/05 06:32 AM
Ok this is a real easy one I'm running out of ideas for questions.
Q. What boss was whacked on 12/16/85-Bonus where was he whacked?
Posted By: Letizia B.
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/28/05 09:52 AM
Paul Castellano, outside Sparks steakhouse.
Easy one again: Who was the chicken king who was associated with Castellano?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/28/05 03:26 PM
Frank Purdue.
Q. (Continuing in a poultry vein:) Who was Angelo Bruno's successor as Don of Philadelphia?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/01/05 05:13 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Frank Purdue.
Q. (Continuing in a poultry vein:) Who was Angelo Bruno's successor as Don of Philadelphia?
Phil "Chicken Man" Testa?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/01/05 05:07 PM
Right again, Iceman. Your turn...
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/02/05 07:16 AM
Q. Who was killed in what has become known as the Handshake murder?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/02/05 04:03 PM
Dion O'Banion.
Q. Who was O'Banion's successor as the leader of the North Side gang?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/03/05 04:21 AM
Hymie Wiess?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/03/05 06:10 AM
Yes. Your turn again...
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/03/05 07:15 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Yes. Your turn again...
Unbelievable for some reason I always get him and Frank the schemer mixed up in terms of who took power next.
Another easy one.
Q. Considering why the St. Valentines day massacre was ordered, why can it be considered a failure?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/03/05 07:52 AM
Originally posted by The Iceman:
Q. Considering why the St. Valentines day massacre was ordered, why can it be considered a failure?
A. Its principle target, "Bugs" Moran, escaped being killed.
Q. Another survivor of a failed hit was Frank Costello. The "Prime Minister" survived an assassination attempt in 1957 and lived another 16 years (in retirement). Shortly after his death the doors of his mausoleum were blown off their hinges. What mob leader ordered this to be done?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/03/05 04:27 PM
Vito Genovese.
Q. Who pulled the trigger on Costello?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/03/05 06:56 PM
Nope. Genovese pre-deceased Costello.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/03/05 07:41 PM
Originally posted by SC:
Nope. Genovese pre-deceased Costello.
Oops, I rushed to answer without reading the last part of your question, SC.
Carmine Galante was rumored to have blown the doors off Costello's mausoleum.
Q. Who pulled the trigger on Costello?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/04/05 01:37 AM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante
Where was Al Capone when The St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place?
Don Cardi
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/04/05 04:39 AM
Originally posted by Don Cardi:
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante
Where was Al Capone when The St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place?
Don Cardi He was in his sunny Italy of the new world Florida that is. He was in a meeting with the DA of Miami although not sure what county that falls under.
Q.It was said that this man had more brains before breakfast than Al Capone had all day. What man were they referring to?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/04/05 05:48 AM
Tony Accardo.
Q. Who did Capone regard as "the only friend I can really trust"? (HINT: not Torrio.)
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/05/05 12:07 PM
Frank Nitti?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/05/05 02:13 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Who did Capone regard as "the only friend I can really trust"? (HINT: not Torrio.)
Was it Jake "Greasey Thumb" Guzik?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/05/05 11:49 PM
Guzik is correct! Your turn, DC...
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/06/05 08:41 AM
What Arnold Rothstein bodyguard was also a former featherweight champion of the world?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/07/05 11:12 AM
Hint : He was also known as "The Little Champ."
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/07/05 11:34 PM
Abe Attell.
Q. What character in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is modeled on Rothstein?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/07/05 11:43 PM
Meyer Wolfsheim who was played by Howard Da Silva.
What Philadelphia Boss " Helped" Arnold Rothstein win a half million dollars on the famous Dempsy/Tunney boxing match?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/08/05 03:54 PM
Max (Boo-Boo) Hoff.
Q. What Philadelphia labor racketeer later moved to Chicago, became an ally of Capone, and founded a racing wire?
Originally posted by SC:
[quote]Originally posted by The Iceman:
[b] Q. Considering why the St. Valentines day massacre was ordered, why can it be considered a failure?
A. Its principle target, "Bugs" Moran, escaped being killed.
Q. Another survivor of a failed hit was Frank Costello. The "Prime Minister" survived an assassination attempt in 1957 and lived another 16 years (in retirement). Shortly after his death the doors of his mausoleum were blown off their hinges. What mob leader ordered this to be done? [/b][/quote]Charles O'Banion was the main target of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/11/05 08:40 PM
Originally posted by Peter_Clemenza:
Charles O'Banion was the main target of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.
O'Banion had been dead for 4½ years when the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place.
My sources seem to be incorrect then. Thankyou for your help, SC.
Posted By: Bugster
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/12/05 02:59 AM
I always thought Bugs Moran was the principal target of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/12/05 06:40 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Max (Boo-Boo) Hoff.
Q. What Philadelphia labor racketeer later moved to Chicago, became an ally of Capone, and founded a racing wire?
Was it Moses Annenberg?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/14/05 04:13 AM
Yes, DC. Your turn...
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/14/05 11:52 AM
What were the real names of the two men also known as "The Two Tonys", who held up The Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/15/05 05:18 AM
Anthony Brancato and Anthony Joseph Trombino.
Q. Who started and named the Flamingo Hotel (hint: before Bugsy Siegel).
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/15/05 05:16 PM
Was it Mickey Cohen?
I believe it was Lansky
If so: What mobster was Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls supposedly based on?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/16/05 06:05 AM
No, the originator of the Flamingo wasn't Lansky, and he wasn't even a gangster.
Question still stands.
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/16/05 08:33 PM
Is it Thomas Hull? I thought he made the El Rancho but maybe it was Flamingo...He wasn't a mafioso, that's for sure.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/16/05 09:23 PM
Billy Wilkerson.
What top mafia figure controlled The Dunes for many years?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/17/05 04:25 AM
Moe Dalitz was the originator, but he wasn't in the Mafia.
Frank Costello owned a big piece of the Dunes, and so (later) did Raymond Patriarcha.
Q. What was the name of Dalitz's Cleveland bootlegging gang in the Twenties?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/17/05 12:40 PM
I was reffering to Patriarca.
The name of the gang was The Mayfield Road Gang.
( I believe that in GFII Johnny Ola makes reference to the old Lakeville Road Boys which was based on the real life Mayfield Rd. Gang.)
Q : Who was the original founder/leader of that gang?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/18/05 05:50 AM
I'm thinking that you're thinking Big Al Polizzi.
Q. Who was Meyer Lansky's "Sicilian messenger boy"?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/18/05 10:38 AM
I know that's the man Johnny Ola is based on..
I thought his real name was Vincent Alo..
A'm i right?
If so my Q: Which Sicilian mobboss was a nephew of the famous Carlo Gambino?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/19/05 05:16 AM
Alo is right.
John Gambino.
Q. What was Paul Castellano's home in Staten Island called?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/19/05 08:06 AM
The White House
Q)Whick Lucchase Capo was given a $250 fine when he should have received a 15 year jail sentance?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/19/05 01:38 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Alo is right.
John Gambino.
Q. What was Paul Castellano's home in Staten Island called?
John Gambino is a nephew of Carlo Gambino but i thought he wasn't a boss. I ment Salvatore Inzerillo...
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/19/05 01:44 PM
Originally posted by DE NIRO:
The White House
Q)Whick Lucchase Capo was given a $250 fine when he should have received a 15 year jail sentance?
Need to answer mine!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/20/05 04:28 AM
George Zappola.
Q. Name the two NYC Dons who did not go to prison on RICO charges related to the famous "Commission" case.
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/21/05 12:35 PM
Turnbull-Mine isn't right
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/22/05 03:45 AM
Originally posted by DE NIRO:
Turnbull-Mine isn't right What's the right answer?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/22/05 01:08 PM
It was Paul Vario,says in the first few Pages of WiseGuy
New One
Who was John Gotti's First Unbderboss!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/23/05 04:40 AM
Frankie DiCicco (who may have been consigliere, but Gotti never got the distinction straight).
Q. Which member of Gotti's crew was part Native American and ratted him out?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/23/05 11:59 PM
Willie Boy Johnson
Who spilled the beans to Carlo Gambino about Joe Bonanno's and Giuseppe Maggliocco's plot to "whack" Carlo Gambino, Thomas Lucchese and Stefano Maggaddino ?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/24/05 04:09 AM
Joe Columbo.
Q. What Wales-born gangster ran the labor rackets for Capone and his successors?
Murray “Curly” Humphries
Which gangster had been buried under a tennis court in the book Wiseguy?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/01/05 12:21 PM
It's been more than 1 week new question
Q)Which Family do Sammy Gravano origanly work for!
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/01/05 12:31 PM
Gravano originally was with the Columbo family.
Q : What Gambino Capo sponsered Gravano when he came over to the Gambino family?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/01/05 03:53 PM
Toddo Aurello.
Q. Which former Gravano crew member recently was convicted of traveling to Arizona to kill him?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/03/05 02:38 PM
Since no one has answered in several days:
Thomas (Huck) Carbonaro is the former Gravano crew member who was assigned to try to whack Gravano in Arizona.
Q. Which Don had a second residence in Tucson, AZ?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/03/05 03:17 PM
Joe Bonanno
Q: Who headed up the Broadway Mob (the most powerful Prohibition bootleg gang in Manhattan)?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/04/05 03:14 PM
Joe Adonis.
Q. Who became Charlie Luciano's lifelong friend and ally after telling him to "go f*** yourself"?
Posted By: Moscarelli
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/05/05 07:10 PM
A: Meyer Lansky
Q: What was the reason for Paul Castellano's only arrest?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/05/05 07:32 PM
A)He was arrested on RICO Charges
Q)What was the Original Name of the Colombo Crime family!
Posted By: Moscarelli
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/05/05 07:40 PM
Originally posted by DE NIRO:
A)He was arrested on RICO Charges
Q:)What was the Original Name of the Colombo Crime family!
Wrong, he was arrested for a spontaneous robbery at a carnival far before he was Don of the Gambino Family.
Though, to answer your question, was it Profaci? If so, I'll let someone else ask a question.
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/05/05 07:52 PM
Thats was Right
Q)Which Gangster's in John Gotti's Bargin Crew where known as the Fist(5 including Gotti)
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/06/05 12:38 AM
Sammy Gravano, , Frank DeCicco, Armand Dellacroce, Robert Dibonardo and John Gotti.
Who arranged for Big Paul and Billotti to come to Sparks for a meeting?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/06/05 02:15 PM
Frank DiCicco and James Failla.
Q. How many men were shooters in the Castellando/Bilotti hit?
(Note to Junior: Castellano was arrested three times--the spontaneous robbery, the RICO indictment and at the Apalachin, NY, meeting in '57.)
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/06/05 03:01 PM
2 Shooters and 2 back up Shooters
Q)Who sent Al Capone to Chicago!
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/06/05 03:24 PM
Originally posted by DE NIRO:
2 Shooters and 2 back up Shooters
Q)Who sent Al Capone to Chicago!
DeNiro, according to the Testimony of Sammy the Bull Gravano, there were actually 4 Gunman who carried out the actual hit, 4 backup shooters around the corner, and Gravano and Gotti sat as the other two additional backups to the first 8.
But to answer your question anyway :
Frankie Yale.
Go ahead, post another question my friend.
Don Cardi
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/06/05 03:37 PM
ok
Q)Who was in charge of the Brooklyn Waterfront in the 40's and 50's
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/06/05 10:50 PM
Anthony " Tough Tony " Anastasia.
Gangster Louis Alterie is sometimes credited with inventing the "One Way Ride," by what gangster is is the one who really created " The One Way Ride?"
Don Cardi
Posted By: Darulerric
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/07/05 12:47 AM
wasnt it Albert Anastasia, i may be wrong
Earl wiess aka Hymie
i dont know if this was asked but
Q: What gangster provided drugs for Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Ciano.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/07/05 12:59 AM
Originally posted by Darulerric:
wasnt it Albert Anastasia, i may be wrong
Albert was "behind" the scenes. His brother Tony was the man in charge of the ILA.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/07/05 01:11 AM
Originally posted by Darulerric:
Earl wiess aka Hymie
i dont know if this was asked but
Q: What gangster provided drugs for Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Ciano.
Vito Genovese
What gangster turned informer helped the F.B.I. crack the infamous case of the 1964 murders of 3 Mississippi civil rights workers?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Darulerric
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/07/05 01:47 AM
o dam i was talking to someone about this the other day, i cant remember his first name but his last name was
scarpa
Q: This gangster succeeded the first boss of organized crime in California?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/07/05 04:35 AM
Jack Dragna, who succeeded Joseph Ardizzone.
Q. Who took over the Flamingo Hotel in Vegas right after Bugsy Siegel was assassinated?
Posted By: dapperdon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/08/05 06:48 PM
Gus Greenbaum took over the Flamingo.
My question: By what name was Tommy Lucchese commonly known as?
A. 3 Finger Brown!
Q. Who was Whitey Bulgers right hand man?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/08/05 10:44 PM
Steve Flemmi.
Q. Who was Johnny Torrio's right-hand man before Capone arrived in Chicago and rose in his organization?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/05 04:25 AM
Since no one has answered in more than 24 hours:
Jake (Greasy Thumb) Guzik was Torrio's right-hand man. He became Capone's mentor in Chicago.
Q. In which Newark, NJ restaurant was Dutch Shultz gunned down?
Posted By: JustMe
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/05 12:04 PM
You mean this?
It happened on October 23, 1935 in the Palace Chop House.
Q Easy one: his real name and nationality.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/05 03:15 PM
Arthur Flegenheimer, of German/Jewish ancestry.
Q. What was Frank Costello's real name?
Posted By: Moscarelli
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/05 04:34 PM
A: Frank Castiglia
Q: Which mobster died in an airport parking lot?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/05 06:56 PM
Charlie Luciano.
Q. Which NYC Don traced his family back to noblemen in Pisa?
Posted By: Moscarelli
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/05 08:30 PM
I think it was Carlo Gambino...
If so, then...
Q: What was Paul Ricca's real name?
Paul Ricca's real name was Felice de Lucia
Q. Where was "Paul Ricca" born?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/05 11:18 PM
Naples Italy
Q : What gangster was the mastermind of what became known as the infamous " Hollywood Extortion Case?"
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/05 11:31 PM
Frank Nitti and Ricca were the top mobsters in the trial, but others (Johnny Roselli, Willie Bioff) were tried, too.
Q. (repeat of earlier): What NYC Don traced his ancestry to noblemen in Pisa? (wasn't Gambino.)
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/19/05 12:24 PM
John Gotti
Q)What Nationallity was Big Pauls Maid,Nadia!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/19/05 01:31 PM
Columbian. (And her name was Gloria Olarte.)
Q. Repeat of earlier: Which NYC Don traced his ancestry to noblemen in Pisa? (Gotti's grandfather was from Naples.)
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/19/05 09:47 PM
Turnbull, not really sure, but for some reason Joe Columbo comes to mind. Am I correct?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/20/05 04:57 AM
It was Joe Bonanno.
New Q: Name the civilian who tipped the NYC cops to the whereabouts of escaped bank robber Willie (The Actor) Sutton, and who was then whacked on orders of Albert Anastasia?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/20/05 11:03 PM
Arnold Schuster.
Q: What two mob bosses were suspected to have conspired with teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa in the alledged planning of the execution of President John F. Kennedy?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/21/05 03:55 PM
Carlos Marcello and Sam Giancana are the ones who are most often mentioned.
Q. Who was known as "the gentle Don"?
Angelo Bruno
Q. he loves ice cream so much and this is one of his business.
GoodFella
okay, its Mickey Cohen. . .
Q. the only mob boss to die in the electric chair?
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/25/05 07:08 PM
Lepke Bucholter.
Q. What was the name of the Brooklyn candy store that was the headquarters of Murder, Inc.?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/26/05 03:17 PM
"Midnight Rose's"
What was the name of the restaurant that played host to the final meal for Joe "The Boss" Masseria?
Bonus : What was the exact address?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/26/05 03:39 PM
Nuova Villa Tammaro, better known as Scarpato's, in Coney Island.
Q. What was the name of the office building where Salvatore Maranzano was assassinated?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/26/05 04:04 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. What was the name of the office building where Salvatore Maranzano was assassinated?
A. The 230 Park Avenue building was first known as "The New York Central Building", then "The New York General Building" and now "The Helmsley Building". (If you're a fan of art-deco you MUST go inside).
Q. Staying with "where", where did Abe Reles learn to fly?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/26/05 04:07 PM
Originally posted by Don Cardi:
What was the name of the restaurant that played host to the final meal for Joe "The Boss" Masseria?
Bonus : What was the exact address?
2715 West 25th Street
See question above this post ^
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/26/05 04:07 PM
At the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island.
Q. Where did Johnny Roselli learn to swim?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/26/05 04:16 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Where did Johnny Roselli learn to swim?
A. In the bay off Miami. (don't know the name of the bay).
Q. What did Philip Mangano and Joe "Jelly" Giorelli have in common? (ten years apart)
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/27/05 12:23 AM
They took their last swims in Sheepshead Bay.
Q. What did Philip Mangano and his brother, Vincent, have in common, other than being siblings and fellow mobsters?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/27/05 01:28 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. What did Philip Mangano and his brother, Vincent, have in common, other than being siblings and fellow mobsters?
A. They said "Goodbye" to The Mad Hatter on the same day.
Q. Who was Vincent's underboss?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/27/05 04:34 AM
The Mad Hatter.
Q. Who was The Mad Hatter's underboss?
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/27/05 07:21 AM
Carlo Gambino?
I won't pose a question in the case I'm wrong.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/27/05 04:06 PM
Depends on the time. It could be Frank Scalise and it could be Gambino.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/27/05 04:12 PM
Gambino was who I had in mind.
Iceman: you were right, it's your turn...
Posted By: The Iceman
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/27/05 05:47 PM
What family was Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski associated with?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/27/05 10:00 PM
The Gambino Family
What Genovese Capo was in Umberto's Clam House the night that Crazy Joe Gallo was shot there, and claimed that he never saw a thing?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/28/05 04:33 AM
Matty (the Horse) Ianniello.
What was the name of the restaurant run by Gambino capo Joe (Butch) Corrao?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/29/05 01:44 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Matty (the Horse) Ianniello.
What was the name of the restaurant run by Gambino capo Joe (Butch) Corrao?
Are you talking about "Cafe Biondo?" or "The Hawaiian Moonlighter's Club?"
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/29/05 04:38 AM
Biondo. Your turn, DC...
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/29/05 07:54 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Biondo. Your turn, DC...
What Capo was tried, convicted and served only 2 years for bribing a New York City Water Commissioner, and upon his realease became the boss of The Lucchese family?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/29/05 11:56 PM
Tony "Ducks" Corralo.
Q. What was the Water Commissioner's name?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/30/05 02:08 AM
James Marcus
How did Corallo get the nickname "Tony Ducks?"
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/01/05 04:57 AM
Because he ducked so many indictments and convictions.
Q. How did Ruggiero "Richie the Boot" Boiardo of Newark, NJ, get his nickname?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/10/05 12:10 PM
Looks like nobody knows
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/10/05 06:51 PM
Sorry for taking so long.
Ruggiero "Richie the Boot," Boioardo, Mob boss of Newark, NJ, got his nickname because he did business out of a phone "boot'".
New Q. Who shot "the Boot" five times and later became an ally?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/11/05 01:06 PM
Was it Abner Zwillman
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/11/05 03:23 PM
Yes! Your turn...
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/13/05 12:10 PM
Q)What was the name of the restaurant that Paul Castellno and his driver were killed outside of.
Posted By: Don Smitty
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/13/05 01:57 PM
SPARKS.
What kind of a gun was his bodyguard Billoti carrying when they were shot?
DS
Your sources are incorrect. Thomas Bilotti was not carrying a weapon on the night he and Paul Castellano were both shot.
What was the name of the car Thomas Bilotti drove to the retaurant on the night he and Paul Castellano were both shot?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/13/05 05:45 PM
Lincoln Town Car.
Q. Which gangster had a sister named after a Princess of pre-Mussolini Italy?
Posted By: Don Smitty
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/13/05 05:45 PM
Originally posted by Peter_Clemenza:
Your sources are incorrect. Thomas Bilotti was not carrying a weapon on the night he and Paul Castellano were both shot.
I never claimed that he did have a gun, and you gave the RIGHT answer!
DS
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/13/05 10:46 PM
My Q. stands:
Which gangster had a sister named for the pre-Mussolini Princess of Italy?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/17/05 04:54 AM
Since no one has answered:
Al Capone's sister was named Mafalda, after the Italian princess.
Q. What was Capone's son's nickname?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/17/05 10:23 AM
"Sonny"
( his nickname was the inspiration for Puzo's nickname for Santino Corleone ).
What was Chicago mobster Jimmy Torello's nickname?
Don Cardi
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/17/05 02:29 PM
The Turk
Q)Who was the first offical boss of the Gambino family!
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/17/05 03:06 PM
Salvatore D'Aquila
How did Carmine Persico get the nicknames " Snake " and "Immortal?"
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/17/05 03:29 PM
"Immortal" because he was allegedly shot 15 or 20 times and lived to tell about it. "Snake" because he was little and sneaky--though no one ever called him "snake"--"Junior" was his preferred nom de guerre.
Q. Who were "The Big Six"?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/17/05 04:15 PM
Meyer Lansky, Joe Adonis, Frank Costello, Tony Accardo, Jake Guzik, and Longy Zwillman.
Who were the seven original members of "The Commission?"
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/17/05 07:23 PM
Luciano, Mangano, Profaci, Bonanno, Gagliano, Magaddino and Capone (although he may have been represented by Nitti or later, Accardo).
Q. Who was the first chairman of the Commission?
Charles Luciano.
I may be wrong, so I will wait until my answer has been confirmed as correct.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/17/05 09:50 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Luciano, Mangano, Profaci, Bonanno, Gagliano, Magaddino and Capone (although he may have been represented by Nitti or later, Accardo).
You are the man Turnbull, you leave no stoned unturned! I really enjoy your knowledge and appreciate that you share it with us!
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/18/05 12:43 AM
Originally posted by Peter_Clemenza:
Charles Luciano.
I may be wrong, so I will wait until my answer has been confirmed as correct.
According to Joe Bonanno, in his autobiography, "A Man of Honor," the first chairman was Mangano. I believe him: It was typical of Charlie Luciano's businesslike attitude that he insist that someone else be the "chairman." Luciano arranged to have Salvatore Maranzano whacked because he pissed off all the Mafiosi when he declared himself "capo di tutti capi" and demanded a tribute from every Mafioso in NYC. Luciano naturally assumed the leadership of the Five Families after that, but he was smart enough not to make the same mistake Maranzano made. Mangano's "chairmanship" was a figurehead position--everyone knew that Luciano was the top Mob guy.
New Q: Who kidnapped Joe Bonanno?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/18/05 01:23 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q: Who kidnapped Joe Bonanno?
Well according to Joe Bonnano, he was kidnapped by Nino Maggadino and his son Peter Maggadino, under the orders of his own cousin Stephano maggdino. However it is believed that he actually faked his own kidnapping to avoid both a subpoena from a federal grand jury, and the wrath of the commission.
How did Waxey Gordon get the nickname "Waxey?"
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/18/05 05:02 AM
Originally posted by Don Cardi:
Well according to Joe Bonnano, he was kidnapped by Nino Maggadino and his son Peter Maggadino, under the orders of his own cousin Stephano maggdino. However it is believed that he actually faked his own kidnapping to avoid both a subpoena from a federal grand jury, and the wrath of the commission.
I believe that, too. Bonanno's disappearance was just a bit too convenient, just a bit too well timed. And if Magaddino did kidnap him, would he have let him live? :rolleyes:
How did Waxey Gordon get the nickname "Waxey?"
Don Cardi [/QUOTE]
He started life as a pickpocket, and he was said to be so good at lifting wallets that they seemed to be "coated with wax." (I bet it was really because he never cleaned his ears.
)
Q. Whose credit card did Bill Bonanno borrow that got him a big prison sentence for wire fraud?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/23/05 04:02 PM
Since no one has answered: Bill Bonanno borrowed Don Torrillo's credit card, landing him in prison for wire fraud.
Q. Who was Paul Castellano's consigliere?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/23/05 04:50 PM
Joe Gallo
Not Crazy Joe Gallo
, but Joseph N. Gallo.
How many Bosses did he serve under as Consigliere and who were they?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/05 12:33 AM
Three: Gambino, Castellano and Gotti (prior to Da Bull).
Q. Name two NYC Mafia Dons who were proteges of Arnold (The Brain) Rothstein.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/05 02:46 AM
Not 100% sure, so I won't post a question. I'm thinking :
Luciano, Genovese and Lucchese.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/05 04:36 AM
It was Luciano and Costello, but since you got Charlie, you post a question, DC:
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/05 05:39 PM
Thank you TB!
WHat was the name of the restaurant where Willie Moretti was killed?
Don Cardi
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/05 05:51 PM
Joe's Restaurant
What was Vito Genovese first arrest for and what year!
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/05 09:09 PM
Originally posted by DE NIRO:
Joe's Restaurant
Close DE NIRO, but not exactly the name!
Don Cardi
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/26/05 01:24 PM
The actual name of the place was " Joe's Elbow Room." Pretty good DeNiro, so your question stands.
DENIRO'S Question was :
Originally posted by DE NIRO:
What was Vito Genovese first arrest for and what year!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/27/05 04:47 AM
1917, gun possession.
Q. Which famous Italian journalist did he order assassinated?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/27/05 11:16 AM
Carlo Tresca
Why did he order a hit on this journalist and who was the alleged triggerman?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/27/05 02:28 PM
Most accounts say he did it to ingratiate himself with Mussolini, whose protection he needed when he fled to Italy after being indicted for murder. Carmine Galante was the triggerman.
Q. Where did he spend his final days?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/30/05 06:39 AM
In his office?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/01/05 01:08 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Where did he ( Genovese ) spend his final days?
He spent the last ten years of his life in an Atlanta Federal Prison.
Q: What was Genovese sent to prison for?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/01/05 03:46 PM
Narcotics violations. Lansky and Costello used a drug dealer to set him up.
Q. What was the dealer's name?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/01/05 10:31 PM
Nelson " Mellon" Cantelops
What was the state troopers name who was credited with initiating the raid on the infamous " Appalachian" meeting?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/05 03:00 PM
Edgar Croswell.
Q. Which Don wasn't arrested at the meeting, but was identified incorrectly as one of the arrested people? And why?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/06/05 06:55 PM
Since no one has answered:
Joe Bonanno wasn't at the meeting--he stayed several miles away in a motel, and sent his second in command, Gaspar DiGregorio. But, several months earlier, Bonanno had given his driver's license to DiGregorio to renew while Bonanno was on "vacation" in Italy (he was really in Sicily, meeting with Charlie Luciano and some Sicilians to set up a dope smuggling operation). DiGregorio stuck Bonanno's license in his wallet--and promptly forgot about it. When he was nailed at the Apalachin meeting, the cops lifted his wallet, found Bonanno's license in it, and reported that "Joseph Bonanno" had been arrested. (DiGregorio probably was the inspiration for the old joke about the guy who was drummed out of the Mafia for being too dumb: they sent him to blow up a car, he burned his lips on the tailpipe
)
New Q: Which famous singer performed at Bill Bonanno's wedding?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/06/05 08:21 PM
i know there was a group called The Four Lads,am i right
or was it a solo singer
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/06/05 10:40 PM
Originally posted by DE NIRO:
i know there was a group called The Four Lads,am i right or was it a solo singer I had in mind a solo singer. You're right about the Four Lads.
So you gave a correct answer. Care to pose a question?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/07/05 04:25 AM
Thank You
Q)What did gambino capo,Robert DiBernardo specialise in!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/07/05 04:31 AM
Pornography.
Q. Who was Gambino's predecessor as Don?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/07/05 04:48 AM
A)Paul Castellano
Q)What was the name of the mechanic who was assulted by John Gotti in 1984,and went to court for in 1986
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/07/05 10:29 AM
Romaul Piecyk.
What was the name of the Gambino associate who was indicted along with Gotti for alledgedly assualting Piecyk?
Don Cardi
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/07/05 11:46 AM
A)Frank Colletta
Q)What was the name of the dock Carlo Gambino arrived at in 1921
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/07/05 03:30 PM
He arrived in Norfolk Va. Assuming that's the answer you were looking for:
Repeat of earlier Q: Who was Gambino's predecessor as Don?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/07/05 10:11 PM
Was it Ablert Anastasia
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/07/05 10:43 PM
Yes. Your turn...
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/07/05 11:17 PM
q)Which famous boss called the Apalachin meeting in 57!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/08/05 12:29 AM
Vito Genovese.
Q. Whose home hosted the meeting?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/08/05 02:18 AM
A)Joseph Barbara
Q)What was the names of John Gotti's Attorneys!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/08/05 04:24 AM
Bruce Cutler and Gerald Shargel.
Q. Who was the unfortunate neighbor who accidentally killed Gotti's son Frank?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/08/05 04:34 AM
A)John Favara
Q)When Gotti was in Charge how many crew's was there in the Family!
A: 23
Q: What's the name of 'the sicilian' in Mario Puzo's book named 'the sicilian' and what was the connection with THE GODFATHER?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/08/05 03:08 PM
Salvatore Giuliano, a real-life bandit and political force in postwar Sicily. His connection to the Godfather was fictitious.
Q. A well-known Don's brother ran the NYC waterfront union rackets. Name him. (5-point bonus if you spell his name correctly.)
Posted By: M.M. Floors
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/08/05 03:18 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Salvatore Giuliano, a real-life bandit and political force in postwar Sicily. His connection to the Godfather was fictitious.
Political force?! What do you mean with that....I don't see any link between Guliano and Political Force
Sorry for interupting the game...
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/08/05 03:21 PM
Anthony "Tough Tony" Anastasio brother of Albert Anasatsia.
What position of office did he hold and for what Union Local?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/08/05 07:02 PM
Local 1814 of the International Longshoreman's Assn. (and a five-point bonus for the "o")
.
Q. Frankie (Mr. Grey) Carbo is famous for running the Mob's fight rackets in NYC in the Forties and Fifties. Whose earlier West Coast murder was he involved in as a contract shooter?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/08/05 08:26 PM
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegal
What leader of a gang known as "The Garfield Boys" went on to later become a Capo in The Columbo Family?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/09/05 03:29 PM
Originally posted by M.M. Floors:
[quote]Originally posted by Turnbull:
[b] Salvatore Giuliano, a real-life bandit and political force in postwar Sicily. His connection to the Godfather was fictitious.
Political force?! What do you mean with that....I don't see any link between Guliano and Political Force
Sorry for interupting the game... [/b][/quote]The biography at the link below explains Giuliano's ties to the right-wing Sicilian separatist movement:
http://salvatore-giuliano.biography.ms/
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/09/05 03:33 PM
Originally posted by Don Cardi:
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegal
What leader of a gang known as "The Garfield Boys" went on to later become a Capo in The Columbo Family?
Don Cardi A. Carmine (Da Snake) Persico.
Q. (Repeat of earlier Q.): Frankie (Mr. Grey) Carbo is famous for running the Mob's fight rackets in NYC in the Forties and Fifties. Whose earlier West Coast murder was he involved in as a contract shooter? ('twasn't Siegel.)
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/09/05 04:46 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
[quote]Originally posted by Don Cardi:
[b] Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegal
What leader of a gang known as "The Garfield Boys" went on to later become a Capo in The Columbo Family?
Don Cardi A. Carmine (Da Snake) Persico.
Q. (Repeat of earlier Q.): Frankie (Mr. Grey) Carbo is famous for running the Mob's fight rackets in NYC in the Forties and Fifties. Whose earlier West Coast murder was he involved in as a contract shooter? ('twasn't Siegel.) [/b][/quote]It has been reported over the years that Jack Dragna personally took out Bugsy, but I also read that Frankie Carbo has been suspected of personally carrying out the hit on the orders of Lansky.
If Dragna was the answer that you were looking for, then please post another question as I already posted one in response to your original question and I did not provide the answer that you were looking for.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/09/05 07:06 PM
The answer I was looking for was: Harry (Big Greenie) Greenberg. Carbo was one of three shooters. The others were Whitey Krakauer and Allie (Tick Tock) Tannenbaum. Bugsy Siegel went along but didn't shoot.
Q. Whose family did Sammy Da Bull join before going to the Gambinos?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/10/05 02:15 AM
Sorry about my answer to the other question that you posted TB, I totally misunderstood the question.
As for your Gravano Question :
I believe that he was with the Columbos. However he was not happy there and someone from the Gambino family actually had to pay for him to be released from the Columbos.
I will not post a question until you tell me if what I remember is correct.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/10/05 04:23 AM
Right, DC! Your turn...
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/10/05 02:05 PM
Thank you TB!
Q : What three gangsters were alledged to have organized the original "French Connection" drug pipeline?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/10/05 02:46 PM
I'm guessing it was Bonanno, Magaddino and Luciano, starting with their famous 1957 meeting in Sicily. But I'll wait until you confirm or deny...
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/10/05 04:37 PM
Actually the Luciano part is right. But it is alledged that the other two were a young Carmine Galante and Montreal mob boss Frank Petrula.
But please post a question anyway TB.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/10/05 05:17 PM
Thank you, DC!
Q. Which Don was known as "the Prime Minister"?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/10/05 08:26 PM
Frank Costello
How did he earn that nickname?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/11/05 12:28 AM
Because of his peerless ability to bribe politicians and judges--and the political power he wielded as a result.
Q. Whose murder was ordered by Albert Anastasia for informing the police about the whereabouts of a famous bank robber?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/11/05 01:11 AM
Arnold Shuster
What was the name of that infamous bank robber?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/11/05 03:47 PM
Willie "the actor" Sutton.
Q. Which Don killed his lover's husband in order to marry her?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/11/05 08:28 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Willie "the actor" Sutton.
Q. Which Don killed his lover's husband in order to marry her?
Wasn't it Vito Genovese?
I won't post a question.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/11/05 10:07 PM
Right again! Your turn...
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/12/05 10:52 AM
OK.
What Gangster was nicknamed " Joey The Blond?"
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/12/05 04:32 PM
Crazy Joe Gallo.
Q. What was his brother Albert's nickname?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/13/05 01:50 AM
Kid Blast
What was Frank Illiano's nickname?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/13/05 04:15 AM
Punchy.
Q. On what Brooklyn street did Carlo Gambino live?
Navy Street
Q:What gang was Sam Giancana apart off?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/13/05 08:41 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. On what Brooklyn street did Carlo Gambino live?
Originally posted by TheSicilian123:
Navy Street
Turnbull's question is a little difficult to answer because its so general. Gambino had at least three addresses in Brooklyn and I'm not so sure that Navy Street was one of them.
Gambino lived in The Bronx (604 E. 182nd St.) when he married his wife in 1926. Shortly after that he moved to the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn and changed his address there twice in the next few years (1692 83rd St. and 8302 17th Ave.). He eventually ended up on Ocean Parkway (2230 O.P.) where he spent the last years of his life. I THINK thats the answer Turnbull was going for.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/14/05 04:49 AM
Yes, the Ocean Parkway address (which I passed many times) was the one I was looking for. Your turn, SC...
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/14/05 06:05 AM
Q. Which NYC don's body was exhumed 10 days after he died in order for authorities to check to see if he had been poisoned? (He really died of a heart attack).
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/15/05 12:12 AM
Charlie Luciano.
Q. Which world-famous American singer died in Italy--supposedly killed on orders from a Mafia Don?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/15/05 12:23 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Charlie Luciano.
Not the answer I was going for - was Charlie Lucky exhumed???
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/15/05 02:15 AM
SC - Wasn't it Vito Genovese? He died of a heart attack in prison but they suspected that he was poisoned.
If my answer is correct, then I forfiet my turn to Turnbull and his question stands.
Turnbull's Question - Which world-famous American singer died in Italy--supposedly killed on orders from a Mafia Don?
Don Cardi
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/15/05 03:27 AM
Originally posted by Don Cardi:
SC - Wasn't it Vito Genovese? He died of a heart attack in prison but they suspected that he was poisoned.
I don't think Genovese was exhumed from his grave for an additional autopsy either.
Let me give two hints towards the answer I think is correct:
1. The FBI taped two wiseguys talking about this death and their claim that it was orchestrated by Joe Bonnano.
2. It happened a month after John Kennedy was killed.
Guisepe Magliocco ?
He's the only person I read of that died of a heart attack around the time of Kennedy's assasination.
if I'm correct let Turnbull's question stand
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/15/05 04:11 AM
Originally posted by DonMichaelCorleone:
Guisepe Magliocco ?
if I'm correct let Turnbull's question stand
Thats the answer! He died December 28th in a Long Island, NY hospital. A week after his funeral he was dug up and tested for poisoning. (They didn't find any).
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/15/05 04:28 AM
Well done, SC and DSC! I stand corrected...
Repeat:
Q. Which world-famous American singer died in Italy--supposedly killed on orders from a Mafia Don?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/15/05 02:56 PM
I'm getting a bit of stimulation (ahem!) to post the answer to this question, so here goes:
A. Mario Lanza.
The famous operatic tenor and movie star had his career cut short by heart problems and continuous battles with obesity. He moved to Italy in the late Fifties. Periodically, he underwent a bizarre weight reduction treatment that put him into an induced coma for weeks at a time. He died during his last treatment, in 1959. The story went around that Charlie Luciano had asked Lanza to sing for him at some affair or occasion, and Lanza refused. So, the story goes, Luciano arranged for Lanza's doctors to make sure he didn't survive the treatment.
Q. Which Mafia guy had Frank Sinatra as the singer at his daughter's wedding?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/15/05 05:54 PM
Willie Moretti
What Gotti Underboss was involved in the killing of Roy Demeo?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/15/05 11:19 PM
Nino Gaggi.
Q. Who planned (repeat, planned) the Castellano/Bilotti hit?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/16/05 12:10 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Nino Gaggi.
Q. Who planned (repeat, planned) the Castellano/Bilotti hit?
TB, Nino Gaggi was not the answer that I was looking for. Was Gaggi ever an underbosss to Gotti?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/16/05 01:51 AM
Originally posted by Don Cardi:
[quote]Originally posted by Turnbull:
[b] Nino Gaggi.
Q. Who planned (repeat, planned) the Castellano/Bilotti hit?
TB, Nino Gaggi was not the answer that I was looking for. Was Gaggi ever an underbosss to Gotti?
Don Cardi
[/b][/quote]Oops, you're right: Gaggi died before Gotti became Don. I think that the answer you were looking for was: Da Bull. Castellano ordered the DeMeo hit, Gravano was rumored to be in on it. He wasn't an underboss then, but he was under Gotti.
If I'm right, my question stands to be answered.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/16/05 01:08 PM
TB, with all due respect, Da Bull is incorrect also. Frankie DeCicco was Gotti's original underboss until he was blown up in his car. While DeCicco was still under Big Paul he played a big part in the demise of Roy Demeo.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/16/05 02:27 PM
Ok, it's your turn to ask another question...
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/16/05 02:37 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Ok, it's your turn to ask another question...
That's ok TB, your question stands.
Here was Turnbull's question :
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Nino Gaggi.
Q. Who planned (repeat, planned) the Castellano/Bilotti hit?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/16/05 02:56 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Nino Gaggi.
Q. Who planned (repeat, planned) the Castellano/Bilotti hit?
Angelo Ruggierio and John Gotti initiated the idea.
Frank DeCicco and Sammy Gravano were presented with the idea.
But I believe that the actual planners were :
Frank DeCicco, Eddie Lino, Vincent Artuso, Salvatore Scala, Anthony Rampino, Angelo Ruggiero, Joseph Watts, Iggy Alogna, John Carneglia, Dominick Pizzonia and Sammy Gravano.
It has been rumored the Robert DeBinardo aka DB was also involved in the planning. But in Gravano's book, I don't remember him mentioning DB.
When Frank DeCicco was blown up in the car, who was that bomb really meant to take out?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/16/05 03:58 PM
Gotti.
Q. Who was the bomber?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/16/05 05:06 PM
Herb Pate
He just recently was released frorm prison.
Who ratted him out?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/17/05 04:54 AM
Anthony (Gas Pipe) Casso.
Q. How did he earn his nickname?
Because either him or his father stole gas and then sold it to people at a discount.
Who tried to kill Pete Chiodo's sister?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/20/05 12:32 AM
Richard (the Toupe) Pagliarulo.
Q. Which well-known poultry magnate did Paul Castellano extort?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/20/05 01:09 AM
Frank Perdue
What gangster and his crew once saved 6 kids from a burning apartment building and were hailed by the press as heroes for doing so?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/20/05 05:02 AM
I want to say Crazy Joe Gallo, but I'll wait to see if you confirm it, DC...
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/20/05 01:56 PM
It's your turn sir!
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/20/05 05:51 PM
What Jewish organization once asked for Crazy Joe's help?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/20/05 10:08 PM
The Jewish Defense League.
What was the name of Joe Columbo's organization that was supposed to represent discrimination against Italians?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/21/05 05:03 AM
Italian American Civil Rights League.
Q. Who was the fake TV cameraman who shot Columbo?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/21/05 10:30 AM
Jerome Johnson
Don Carlo Gambino's son Tommy married a rival mob boss's daughter. Who was that mob boss?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/21/05 03:27 PM
Tommy Lucchese.
Q. Which Gambino soldier's aunt had a government job and leaked info to the Mob?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/23/05 03:14 PM
Since no one has answered:
Augustus (Big Gus) Sclafani's aunt, Mildred Russo, worked in the Records department of the NYPD and leaked info to her nephew.
Q. Which Bonanno capo owned a restaurant in Little Italy?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/23/05 07:03 PM
Was it Robert Lino Jr. ?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/24/05 09:49 PM
Not who I was thinking of. I was thinking of Mike Sabella, owner of CaSabella.
Q. What disease did Lefty Ruggiero (Brasco's sponsor) suffer from?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/25/05 01:43 AM
Greed!
Actually he died of Cancer.
What was the name of the Club that they ( Brasco, Sonny and Lefty ) opened on the West Coast Of Florida?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/26/05 03:31 AM
King's Court.
Q. How did Sonny Black get his nickname?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/27/05 01:15 PM
He had Jet Black Hair and always wore black clothing.
I will not post a question until TB confirms if this is the correct answer or not.
Don Cardi
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/08/05 04:08 AM
Mods-Can i post a question as nobody has confirmed the correct answer
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/08/05 07:03 AM
DC gave the correct answer (Sonny Black dyed his hair black). But I learned in another thread that he's traveling. Why don't you post one, DeNiro?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/09/05 05:36 AM
Thanks.
Q)Which Sicilian Gangster lost his virginaty at the age of
8 to a prostitute who ran a roadside stall!
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/18/05 01:52 PM
Originally posted by DE NIRO:
Thanks.
Q)Which Sicilian Gangster lost his virginaty at the age of [b]8 to a prostitute who ran a roadside stall! [/b]
Was it Luciano Liggio/Leggio?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/23/05 12:24 AM
No sorry
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/04/05 02:50 AM
The Answer was Thomas Buscatta Im surprised Turnbull Didn't get that-Some one else can start a question
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/08/05 11:13 AM
I just read in in the book Cosa Nostra on my vacation...I knew i read it somewhere but i forget who it was:)
New Question:
This NYC Mobboss loves killing so much that even afther becoming boss of his family he still murder people himself?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/11/05 08:37 AM
Originally posted by juventus:
I just read in in the book Cosa Nostra on my vacation...I knew i read it somewhere but i forget who it was:)
New Question:
This NYC Mobboss loves killing so much that even afther becoming boss of his family he still murder people himself?
Since nobody answered in more than 3 days:
It was Carmine The Snake Perisco.
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/11/05 04:39 PM
Q: What Nyc put a hit on a storeowner for Informing the Police aobut the whereabouts ofa famous bank robber.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/11/05 05:31 PM
Albert Anastasia.
Q. Who was the victim, and who was the criminal he ratted out?
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/11/05 07:07 PM
Arnold Shuster was the victim and Willie Sutton was the Bank robber
In what year did Carlo Gambino immigrate illegally to the United States?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/12/05 07:15 AM
1921.
Q. What career did Joe Bonanno's uncle suggest to him when he immigrated to the US?
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/12/05 01:11 PM
He wanted him to learn how to be a barber, to learn the trades
Q: What was one of the DIRTY ways that the F.B.I. made a case against Bonnano in Tuscon?
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/12/05 03:36 PM
TURNBULL!!!!!!!!!!!
Where are you????
We need your knowledge, it's no fun without it
:p
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/18/05 01:32 PM
Well it's been 6 days since I posted that last question so I'm guessing nobody is going to take a stab at it, so the answer is when Joe Bonnano was living in Tuscon Arizona in the late 70's and early 80's according to himself in his Autobiography"Man of Honor" the FBI would not leave him or his family alone and was always trying to build a case against him.. Well the DIRTY job I was talking about was that the FBI got permission to take Joe's trash and examine all of it
, and they eventually built a case against the long time Don by painstakingly piecing his personal notes back together, which were in Italian, English, and Sicilian from his childhood town, I believe the case was dismissed because there was no way to interpret these notes the way they were suppossed to...We all know what something means in Italian and especially in one of the many dialects from Sicily that it doesn't always translate straight into English.....That book I thought was a great read, I suggest it to anyone...The FBI really harrassed this old man in retirement, but that could be what he wants you to believe ahhaah
Joe Batters
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/20/05 08:07 AM
OK, i'm reading the Bonanno book right now but Í just start it.
Please post a new question Joe Batters.
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/22/05 01:36 PM
What Chicago hood that loved to mingle with Hollywood folks was teamed up with the CIA in the 60's to oust Castro from Cuba and actually went on Missions and on one occasion was thrown from a boat and lost at sea for three days before he was rescued???
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/22/05 04:13 PM
Johnny Roselli?
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/22/05 05:07 PM
Ding DIng Ding Ding....Right on Juventus
Man I didn't think anyone would get that for a while...
Good job!!
Joe Batters
P.S. Rosselli was very patriotic, at one of his court hearings the Judge refused to let him wear his Military uniform....haha I saw a pic of him wearing it in a book, it was quite a sight
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/22/05 06:34 PM
OK Thanks,
Why was Anthony Corallo called Tony Ducks?
Originally posted by juventus:
OK Thanks,
Why was Anthony Corallo called Tony Ducks?
Was he the one who was trying to smuggle or some word like that Ducks from Canada into the U.S.?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/22/05 07:28 PM
Originally posted by DonMichaelCorleone:
[quote]Originally posted by juventus:
[b] OK Thanks,
Why was Anthony Corallo called Tony Ducks?
Was he the one who was trying to smuggle or some word like that Ducks from Canada into the U.S.? [/b][/quote]No, sorry.
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/22/05 08:35 PM
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/22/05 08:47 PM
Was it because early in his career he was aquitted from a lot of cases against him.?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/22/05 09:50 PM
Yes you're right, it was because he was succesfully for so many years 'ducking' convictions (Mafia Encyclopedia: Carl Sefakis).
Your turn Joe Batter!
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/23/05 04:41 PM
What Chicago Boss stole his name from a man he killed in Sicily?
Joe Batters
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/24/05 07:33 AM
Originally posted by Joe Batters:
What Chicago Boss stole his name from a man he killed in Sicily?
Joe Batters I'm not sure but was it Paul Ricca?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/03/05 09:29 AM
Was I right, Joe Batters?
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/05/05 05:11 AM
sorry
Yeah you were right on the money
Your turn
Joe Batters
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/06/05 08:59 PM
Who saved Joe Kennedy from the Purple gang back during prohibition?
Joe Batters
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/07/05 06:55 AM
Supposedly Sam Giancana.
Q. What did the young Meyer Lansky say to the young Charlie Luciano that made them lifelong friends?
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/07/05 07:38 AM
F*ck Off????
I believe thats right...Let me know Turnbull
Joe Batters
I think it was "fuck you!".
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/07/05 06:47 PM
He said, "Go f*** yourself," but I count both of you as right. Someone care to post a question?
Posted By: Joe Batters
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/07/05 07:15 PM
Sure
What Chicago big shot and scamming genius knowing his meeting place was bugged opened up each meeting with Welcome ladies and Gentlemen and anyone who is listening to a meeting of the Chicago Underworld?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 10/08/05 09:03 AM
Originally posted by Joe Batters:
Sure
What Chicago big shot and scamming genius knowing his meeting place was bugged opened up each meeting with Welcome ladies and Gentlemen and anyone who is listening to a meeting of the Chicago Underworld?
Tell us, Joe Batters...I want to know this one
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/07/06 09:04 PM
To keep this topic alive:
Q: He was the succeser of the Mangano-brothers
Albert Anastasia.
He taxed every member of his Family for $25 each week.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/13/06 11:18 PM
Joe Profaci
This gangster was killed for refusing to give Joe Profaci a $50,000 tribute.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/14/06 01:44 AM
Frankie "Shots" Abbatemarco.
Q. This gangster killed Shots.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/14/06 04:17 AM
The Gallo Brothers.
What are the names of the two brothers who are alleged to have been the shooters in the hit on Crazy Joe Gallo?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/06 02:00 AM
Originally posted by Don Cardi:
The Gallo Brothers.
What are the names of the two brothers who are alleged to have been the shooters in the hit on Crazy Joe Gallo?
Don Cardi I believe the actual shooter was Joe (Joe Jelly) Gioirelli, but the Gallos were behind it.
You're probably thinking of the Ianniello brothers, Bobby and Matty the Horse, as the guys who shot Joe Gallo. Another account has the shooters as Carmine DiBiasi and two others named Cisco and Benny.
Q. Name the three Gallo brothers.
Posted By: Mignon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/06 03:47 AM
1. Joe
2. Larry
3. Albert
Q. Where was the barbershop where Albert Anastasia had his last shave?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/06 07:59 AM
Park Sheraton Hotel.
Q. What was Anastasia's connection to the International Longshoremans Union?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/06 02:00 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Another account has the shooters as Carmine DiBiasi and two others named Cisco and Benny.
Those were the names of the brothers that I was looking for.
And to answer your last post :
Albert Anastasia's brother, Tough Tony, controlled the waterfront.
What two gangsters attempted to kill Larry Gallo by trying to strangle him to death in the Sahara lounge?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Mignon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/06 02:53 PM
Not 100% sure but is it:
Carmine "The Snake" Persico and Sally D'Ambrosio??
Albert Anastasia's brother, Tough Tony, controlled the waterfront.
DC what was Tough Tony's last name (assumed last name I should say) I always forget.
Thanks
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/06 04:10 PM
Anastasi
O He kept it slightly different than his brother Albert.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/06 04:11 PM
Originally posted by Mignon:
Not 100% sure but is it:
Carmine "The Snake" Persico and Sally D'Ambrosio??
Chu got it Mang! Post chore question mang!
Don Cardi
Posted By: Mignon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/06 05:24 PM
OK here goes:
Where did Crazy Joe Gallo have his last meal?
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/06 06:55 PM
Originally posted by Mignon:
OK here goes:
Where did Crazy Joe Gallo have his last meal?
Umberto's Clam House
Carmine Persico Senior was soldier in the ???crime-family.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/06 10:00 PM
Profaci/Columbo family.
Q. What is his son's name?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/15/06 11:18 PM
Alphonse.
What two nicknames was Carmine Persico known by?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/16/06 01:00 AM
"The Snake" and "Junior."
Q. In what way did Persico distinguish himself from the other Mob boss defendants during the Commission trial?
Originally posted by Turnbull:
"The Snake" and "Junior."
Q. In what way did Persico distinguish himself from the other Mob boss defendants during the Commission trial?
he didnt have a lawyer?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/16/06 07:14 AM
Right, DMC! He defended himself.
Your turn...
Who was Paul Castellano's lover and what was she to him?
Posted By: Mignon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/16/06 04:49 PM
house keeper, Gloria Olarte???
Originally posted by Mignon:
house keeper, Gloria Olarte???
yup, your turn mig.
Posted By: Mignon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/16/06 05:06 PM
Post one for me ok Thanks
Posted By: juventus
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/16/06 09:32 PM
Originally posted by juventus:
[quote]Originally posted by Mignon:
[b] OK here goes:
Where did Crazy Joe Gallo have his last meal?
Umberto's Clam House
Carmine Persico Senior was soldier in the ???crime-family. [/b][/quote]Mine wasn't right, it wasn't the Colombo-family.
Carmine 'the Snake' Persico's father was part of this crime-family.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/18/06 06:59 PM
I accidentally delted Turnbull's post as I was trying to quote him with the question that he asked and edited/deleted it instead of quoting it. I'm soooo sorry about that TB.
Turnbull had answered the last question giving the answer as The Genovese Family. Then he asked :
"What was the name of Carmine Persico's gang when he was a teenager?"
The name of the gang was The Garfield Boys.
What non made associate eventually became Persico's personal bodyguard?
Don Cardi
Note : Again, I apologize Turnbull.
Hugh "Apples" MacIntosh, a member of Carmine Persico's Crew in the Colombo Family who couldn't be "Made" because his father wasn't Italian.
Which Boss of the Decavalcante Family in New Jersey once served as John Gotti's bodyguard?
John "Jackie Nose" D'Amico.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/18/06 07:11 PM
Since no one has posted a question in several days:
Q. Who was the "blond alibi"?
Louise Rolfe.
Where was Jack McGurn murdered?
Originally posted by Peter_Clemenza:
Louise Rolfe.
Where was Jack McGurn murdered?
A bowling alley?
I will post another question.
Which Irish gang were the first organized criminals in New York to control the unions?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/25/06 05:51 AM
If I take "first" literally, I'd have to say either the 40 Thieves or the Dead Rabbits going back to the mid-1800's.
Q. Name the Welshman who ran the union rackets for the Chicago "Outfit" into the Fifties.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/29/06 05:48 AM
Since no one answered in several days: The answer is Murray The Camel Humphreys.
Someone else post a question.
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/29/06 04:55 PM
Q)Which Gangster was known as "the Mad Hatter"
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/30/06 01:14 AM
Albert Anastasia.
Q. Who was the "civilian" who Anastasia ordered whacked because he ratted out a bank robber?
Posted By: Goodfella 69
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/04/06 04:17 AM
Arnold Schuster.
Question: what other nickname did former chicago outfit boss tony accardo have other than "Joe Batters"?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/05/06 04:20 AM
Big Tuna.
Q. Name the truckdriver who couldn't identify Gotti when he took the witness stand in Gotti's assault trial (as in "I Forgotti").
Wasn't it a refrigerator repairman that refused to testify against John Gotti for assault?
I may be wrong, so I won't name anyone yet.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/05/06 04:18 PM
Yes, but give his name.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/05/06 04:27 PM
C'mon Pete, he was a big burley Polish man.
Don Cardi
All I can find is Piecyk. I don't know if his surname is acceptable or not.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/06/06 10:37 PM
Romual is his first name.
Post a question, Peter.
Which New York Boss fled to Naples, Italy to avoid the possibilities of facing a murder charge and while in Italy, got involved with Benito Mussolini and became the main drug source for Count Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/07/06 12:15 PM
Vito Genovese
Which Lucchese Crew member in the 50's had a false leg!
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/09/06 11:09 AM
Originally posted by DE NIRO:
Which Lucchese Crew member in the 50's had a false leg!
Hint.Think of a charecter from Goodfellas
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/11/06 09:29 AM
Tuddy Vario
Someone else post one
Posted By: Franklin
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/12/06 09:37 AM
Which Capo, was called the Pope?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/12/06 01:08 PM
Paul Castellano
Which Gangster took the Tommy Gun to Chicago!
Posted By: Franklin
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/12/06 02:01 PM
No not Castellano, Michele "the Pope" Greco
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/12/06 04:33 PM
Originally posted by DE NIRO:
Paul Castellano
Which Gangster took the Tommy Gun to Chicago!
Peter von Frantzius, a gun dealer, was the first to bring the Thompson to Chicago. The first gangsters to use them were the Saltis-McErlane Gang.
Q. What former Capone ally was murdered in Brooklyn with a Tommygun?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/13/06 12:41 PM
Was it Joe "Pollack" Saltis
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/13/06 03:59 PM
No, it was Frankie Yale.
Q. Who succeeded Dion O'Banion as leader of the Northside Gang?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/13/06 06:45 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Who succeeded Dion O'Banion as leader of the Northside Gang? [/QB]
Hymie Weiss.
What was the name of his gang while he was "
working" for the Chicago Tribune?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Toni_corleone
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/13/06 09:50 PM
The North Siders ?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/14/06 03:40 AM
Originally posted by Toni_corleone:
The North Siders ?
Yes.
Post a question.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Toni_corleone
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/17/06 09:31 PM
This man became a rat after hearing his boss complain about him over an FBI tape. (Hint he was an underboss)
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/18/06 01:23 PM
Sammy Gravano.
Q. This "nature boy" Don talked to trees.
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/15/06 04:20 PM
A. Vincent "The Chin" Giganta
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/15/06 10:11 PM
Ok, Stavka, you post a question...
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/16/06 04:10 PM
This mobster has roots in the the home of the Michigan of the Wolverines - how do you like them odds?
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/28/06 04:40 PM
Guess we'll just keep last question on the back burner, so speaking of burners -
This Hell’s Kitchen Gambino associate and brutal killer spent some of his free time trying to whack Fat Tony Salerno; in a rare circumstance in the world of organized crime he’s doing time along with his wife, who pulled a 15 year stretch for facilitating her husband’s racketeering operations.
A Jackson Pollock he wasn’t, but he left his own artistic splash of sorts in the form of the spattered blood of more than 30 murder victims claimed by his crew.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/28/06 07:30 PM
I'm guessing it was the Westies' Jimmy Coonan.
Q. This Vietnam veteran stood guard with a rifle poised in a window when Paul Castellano had a Commission-type meeting at a home in Staten Island soon after he succeeded Carlo Gambino.
Dominick Montiglio.
Which Capo of the Gambino Family first worked in his father's barber shop, after graduating from high school?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/30/06 12:03 AM
Anthony (Nino) Gaggi, Montiglio's uncle.
Q. Which well-known personality from TV commercials did Paul Castellano shake down?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/30/06 09:51 AM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
Q. Which well-known personality from TV commercials did Paul Castellano shake down?
Frank Perdue.
What Chicago mobster was nicknamed "Joey Doves" and why was he givien that name?
Don Cardi
Joseph Aiuppa was given the nickname "Joey Doves" after he had been arrested transporting mourning doves unlawfully across state lines.
Who was the supposed gunman who shot Frank Scalise at a New York fruit-stand?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/30/06 04:45 PM
Jimmy Squillante.
Q. What was Scalise's alleged offense that led to his assassination?
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/30/06 05:46 PM
A: It wasn’t so much that the Mad Hatter was against selling mob memberships for $50,000 – probably more likely that he was upset he wasn’t getting a cut or that he failed to think of it first. Missing heroine, that Scalise was responsible for, provided a good back up excuse.
Q: This hit man, and supposed Murder Inc affiliate, got his nick name from a failed murder attempt that ultimately ended successfully after he ran around a city block catching his intended victim successfully a second time, from behind.
Dasher Abbandando.
Which member of the Mafia faction from Buffalo hosted the Apalachin meeting?
Posted By: Franklin
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/01/06 01:54 AM
Joe Barbara
Which mafia killer was called after his father, the shoemaker??
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/01/06 02:44 AM
Tony Accardo.
This enforcer for the Columbo family murdered a state witness when he was only 17 years old. But before the authorities could charge him for the crime, his older brother, another infamous gangster, took the rap for him by confessing to the murder that his younger brother had comitted. Who is he? And as a Bonus who was the older brother?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/01/06 03:11 PM
Carmine (The Snake) Persico did the hit; his brother Alphones took the rap.
Q. What was Joe Columbo's "legitimate" job before he got shot?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/01/06 03:32 PM
I know that 'early' in his mobster career he worked for a meat company. But I believe that later on, during his civil rights movement stuff, he was listed as being employed by Cantalupo Reality on 86th street in brooklyn.
I won't post a question until you tell me if this is the answer that you are looking for.
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/02/06 03:15 PM
You are correct, sir!
An additional factoid about Columbo's real esate career:
The NYTimes did some in-depth articles about the Italian American Civil Rights League. They interviewed Joseph Cantalupo, Columbo's "employer." They asked how a lowly real estate salesman like Columbo could afford a lavish, upstate NY estate. Cantalupo replied, with a straight face:
"Mr. Columbo is our best real estate salesman. He has the most sincere group of clients. No one ever tries to cheat him out of a commission." :rolleyes:
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/02/06 04:19 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
"Mr. Columbo is our best real estate salesman. He has the most sincere group of clients. No one ever tries to cheat him out of a commission." :rolleyes:
Perhaps he should have answered " Mr Columbo is our best real estate salesman. No one would ever DARE to try and cheat him out of a commission!"
Q : What mob boss claimed to have earned his living working as a tomato salesman?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/02/06 10:31 PM
Carlos Marcello.
Q. Which Mob boss listed himself in the telephone book under his own name, as an "Antique Dealer"?
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/03/06 01:08 PM
A: The Chicago phone book Listed one A.Capone, 7244 S. Prairie, he at least carried a business card noting his capacity as a dealer of antiques.
Q: He was the second boss of what has been dubbed the “Mickey Mouse Mafia” – and to this day, the only West Coast boss to ever have a seat on the commission.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/03/06 02:59 PM
Jack Dragna.
Q. Who led the effort in the Commission to oust Joe Bonanno as head of his family?
Sam Giancanna?
I won't ask another question until Turnbull confirms my answer as correct.
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/05/06 06:03 PM
I would have thought it might be any or all of Carlo Gambino, Stefano Magaddino, or Tommy Lucchese - each Bonanno consipired to kill along with his then boss Joe Profaci.
Gambino would certainly be the 700 gorilla of the group.
In anycase, it was not a very welcome move for any boss.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/05/06 07:07 PM
According to Bonanno in his autobiography, it was Magaddino, his cousin, "out of jealousy," though you can just bet Carlo Gambino was in on it, as well as Tommy Lucchese.
Peter, why don't you go ahead and post a question anyway?
Which New York Boss ordered his former plumbing contractor and his wife to be murdered, after the contractor had been expected to become a key witness in the Boss's second income tax evasion trial in 1955?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/24/06 02:18 PM
Albert Anastasia.
Q. Who was "the canary who could sing but couldn't fly"?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/25/06 01:31 PM
Was it Abe "Kid Twist" Reles
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/25/06 01:45 PM
Yes! Your turn...
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/25/06 03:08 PM
In what year was the infamous St Valentine's Day massacre?
February 14, 1929.
Which Brooklyn mobster raped a young woman after he unsuccessfully tried to seduce her?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/25/06 07:22 PM
Meyer Shapiro, subsequently killed by Abe (Kid Twist) Reles, boyfriend of the woman.
Q. Which Mafia Don murdered a man so he could marry his widow?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/26/06 02:52 PM
Was it Vito Genovese!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/26/06 04:07 PM
Yes, your turn...
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/26/06 05:41 PM
Which New York Crime family was consided a joke in the late 80's and early 90's and apparentley cause no threat to the FBI and the crime team made this family joint investigations with the colombos!!!!
Posted By: Ayperi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/26/06 06:39 PM
Here's an easy one
Which don said "Life is so beautiful" right before he died?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/26/06 09:55 PM
Originally posted by DE NIRO:
Which New York Crime family was consided a joke in the late 80's and early 90's and apparentley cause no threat to the FBI and the crime team made this family joint investigations with the colombos!!!!
Cathy you need to answer my question before you post your own
Mine still stands
Was it the Lucchese Family?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/27/06 07:10 PM
Nope try again
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/29/06 08:48 AM
Thats Correct
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 07/30/06 03:46 PM
DMC, please post a question to keep the thread going.
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/09/06 08:45 PM
I'll post a new one!
Who was the first Don in the Five Familes to Flip!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/09/06 10:45 PM
Thanks, DeNiro! And you posted a tough one, given the Rat Parade in the Mafia over the last decade:
You might argue that Joe Bonanno was the first due to publication of his autobiography, "A Man of Honor," in 1983. Even though he'd "retired" to Arizona after the Bananna Wars, he still had influence in his former family. And though Bonanno had not formally flipped to the police, Rudy Giuliani, then US Attorney for the Southern District of NY, used Bonanno's book as the basis of the famous "Commission Case" that put most of the NYC Dons away for 100 years.
You might also argue that Junior Gotti, by pleading guilty to racketeering charges in 1998, was the first to "flip." But it's not altogether clear that Junior was really in charge of the Gambinos, or whether it was wishful thinking on his and his father's part. Also, the police found a ton of damning evidence at Junior's home that helped convict others. But whether or not he led them there deliberately, or whether it was just because of his own stupidity, isn't clear, either.
I'd say the first indisputable head of a NYC Mafia family who flipped while he was a Don was Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso of the Lucchese's.
Q. Which famous NYC Don ratted out a partner in a drug deal as a young man?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/09/06 10:48 PM
Was It Carlo Gambino!
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/10/06 04:29 AM
No, not Gambino. Wanna try again?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/11/06 05:03 PM
OK, the famous NYC Don who ratted out a partner in a drug deal as a young man was Charlie Luciano.
Q. Which NYC Don was known as "the Prime Minister"?
Originally posted by Turnbull:
OK, the famous NYC Don who ratted out a partner in a drug deal as a young man was Charlie Luciano.
Q. Which NYC Don was known as "the Prime Minister"?
Frank Costello, due to his exstensive legal connections.
Q: Which Sicilian gangster was the first to enlighten authorities about all aspects of a Mafioso, becoming an informant and testifying against many of his former colleagues? (Easy One).
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/13/06 05:07 AM
Do you mean Joe Valachi? He was a Napolitano, not Siciliano.
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/14/06 06:46 PM
This former Newark NJ bootlegger, supposedly got his name from his height, though mistress Jean Harlow would have to be asked to get the definitive answer. He would go on to have shares in operations in Cuba, Vegas, Miami and several Hollywood production houses. His final resting place is the cemetary of Temple B'nai Abraham.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/14/06 10:59 PM
Abner "Longy" Zwillman, named by the Kefauver Subcommittee as America's number one gambling czar.
Q. Name the Essex County (NJ) prosecutor's office investigator (later NJ Governor) who investigated Zwillman's apparent suicide in 1959.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/17/06 01:52 PM
Since no one has answered:
The Zwillman investigator and former Governor was Brendan Byrne.
Q. What was Ralph Capone's (Al's brother's) nickname?
A. Bottle, bec of his bottled water business.
Q. he is nicknamed Big Tuna.
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/17/06 07:04 PM
Tony (Joe Batters) Accardo.
Q. What member of the Genna gang in Chicago was known as "Il Cavaliere" because he was a graduate of the University of Palermo and taught mathematics before coming to America and joining the gang?
Guiseppe Nerone.
Which Chicago Outfit Boss was given the nickname "Diamond Jim" because he frequently dressed in a white suit and wore diamond pins, rings, and other jewelry?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/20/06 03:52 PM
Big Jim Colosimo.
Q. Which NYC Boss was known (politely, among a lot of less-polite names) as "Don Umberto"?
Albert Anastasia.
Which Chicago Outfit mobster was known as "Bottles" amongst his friends because his infamous brother had hired him to work in one of his soft drink bottling plants?
Posted By: anthony lee
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/22/06 04:16 PM
Ralph Capone
Who was the soldier who later became a Capo in the Donnie Brasco story?
Ralph Capone (i answered this before. hehe)
Q. he is al capone's mentor
GoodFella
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/22/06 04:24 PM
Al Capone had three mentors: Frankie Yale (in Brooklyn), Johnny Torrio and Jake Guzik in Chicago.
Q. What did Capone and Vito Corleone have in common as fathers?
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/22/06 06:41 PM
A: Their Oldest sons were both called “Sonny” – though Capone’s “Sonny” was an Albert , while Vito’s was a Santino
Q: Which “Old School” mobster was ironically assassinated at an eatery that would be roughly translated as “Tammoro’s New Place”?
Bonus: In spite of Hollywood and other glamorous engines, who are now alledged to be the hit men?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/23/06 02:53 PM
Stavka, I'm going to guess that you're referring to Joe (the Boss) Masseria, even though I can't seem to make a connection betwen the name of the restaurant (Scarpato's) and "Tammoro's New Place." The identity of the three assassins jumps around, but I think there's a consensus on Benny Siegel, Joe Adonis and Albert Anastasia. I've also read accounts that put Vito Genovese and/or Abraham (Bo) Weinberg in place of Adonis and/or Anastasia.
I won't post another Q until I hear from you.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/23/06 05:47 PM
Originally posted by Turnbull:
I can't seem to make a connection betwen the name of the restaurant (Scarpato's) and "Tammoro's New Place."
TB, I think the full name of the restaurant was Scarpato's Nuova Villa Tammaro. (2715 West 25th Street, Coney Island - just 4 short blocks from your favorite hotel, The Half Moon).
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/23/06 05:58 PM
the Coney Island eatery was “Nuovo Villa Tammaro”, not Scarpato’s, but I wasn’t there, I didn’t see anything…. Gerardo Scarpato was the owner, who may have well seen it all; he was murdered the fall of that same year.
The NYPD released a recent report indicating Sam Pollocia, and Johnny “Silk Stocking” Giustra (both Frankie Yale associates) were the trigger men. Pollocia disappeared almost immediately, and Giustra was murdered later that summer.
My guess would be the only mob guys willing to take the credit for that murder were ones who didn't do it, and thus could never be prosecuted. (but still earn points for the final new arrangement)
It wouldn’t have been the first significant murder by this hit team, they were strong suspects in what out of town job as well?
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/23/06 06:00 PM
Didn't Reles take his dive off/out of the Half-Moon?
Rough Neighborhood.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/23/06 06:31 PM
Originally posted by stavka:
Rough Neighborhood.
Its also the area in which Al Capone got his scar (in a bar owned by Frankie Yale). Don Cardi, plawrence, Sr. Vitelli and I attended a ballgame there last month.... its a little different now.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/23/06 09:34 PM
Only places I hung out at in Coney Island were the Villa Nathan's and Casa Shatzkin.
My question:
Q. Who inherited Masseria's family?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/24/06 10:31 AM
Salvatore"Charlie Lucky" Luciano"
Who is the most powerful family in New Jersey
The DeCavalcante Family.
Which Chicago Outfit mobster and principal assassin in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, originally known as Vincenzo Gibaldi, changed his name shortly after entering the United States?
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/24/06 01:33 PM
With one of the stranger name adoptions, that would be "Machinegun" Jack McGurn
Who are the current holders of the the title, "The Detroit Family"?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/24/06 02:20 PM
Jack Tocco and Tony Zerilli.
Q. Who was Meyer Lansky's "Sicilian messenger boy"?
Jimmy Alo
Q. he is the Beer Baron.
GoodFella
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/24/06 04:54 PM
The most obvious answer is Homer Simpson, but I supposed Arthur Flegenheimer, aka Dutch Shultz would qualify a close second….
Q:Everybody knows Fat Tony, but who are the other members of the Legitimate Businessman's Social Club?
Q: He may have been the highest placed informer in the classic Chicago outfit, pretty low for a fish, and one that probably shouldn’t play with matches?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/24/06 10:24 PM
The real Fat Tony Salerno hung out at the Palma Boys Social Club and never watched the Simpsons. :p
Q. Who was Frank Nitti's partner in running the Chicago Outfit while Capone was in Federal prisons?
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/24/06 11:00 PM
...but T - you never answered my second legit question?
so I let that stand, but I'd say Jake Guzick would be the best guess for your question.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/25/06 04:42 PM
Originally posted by stavka:
...but T - you never answered my second legit question?
I can't figure it out...
Posted By: stavka
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/25/06 08:12 PM
Mike "the pike" Heitler - was a pretty consistent police informer, for professional gain, even when he was absorbed by The Outfit.
That didn't work out too well for him
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/14/07 12:51 AM
Its been a long time but i always liked this games.
Q)Which New York family at there peak was the biggest importer of Olive oil.(And it wasn't Corleone
)
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/14/07 01:29 AM
Joe Profaci was Mr. Olive Oil.
Q. Who was the "Artichoke King"?
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/14/07 01:39 AM
A: Ciro Terranova
Q: Genovese boss known as "Tommy Ryan"
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/14/07 05:59 PM
Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli.
Q. Which Mob boss's bodyguard was known as "Apples"?
John Gotti.
What the alleged reason for Frank Scalise being murdered?
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 12:16 AM
He was selling membership into his family (Buttons for sale)
Black numbers kingpin that Laurence Fishburne's HOODLUM was based on ?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 01:41 AM
Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson.
Repeat of earlier Q.: Which Don's bodyguard was nicknamed "Apples"?
Carmine Persico.
Which boss committed suicide because he was being forced to act as a scapegoat for other mafiosi when they were suspected that they were going to be indicted for extortion?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 04:36 PM
Frank (The Enforcer) Nitti.
Q. Which Mob boss murdered a husband so he could marry his wife?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 04:55 PM
Vito Genovese
Which Gotti Captain specialised in car theft and selling them on in the middle east?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 05:01 PM
Roy DeMeo and his boss, Anthony (Nino) Gaggi ran this racket under Paul Castellano.
Q. What was Castellano's "legitimate" business?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 05:12 PM
He actually had two. Meat/Poultry and Cement.
What gangster was known as the "Clay Pigeon Of The Underworld?"
Don Cardi
Posted By: Mignon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 06:48 PM
Jack "Legs" Diamond????
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 07:21 PM
Give the little lady a hand!
You're up Mama!
Don Cardi
Posted By: Mignon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 07:33 PM
Who is known as "Abbadabba"
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 08:50 PM
Who is known as "Abbadabba"
Fred Flintstone?
No, just kidding.
A: Otto Berman
Q: What infamous gangster did Abbadabba work for?
Don Cardi
Posted By: DonPacino
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 08:56 PM
Dutch Schultz
Who was known as The Dapper Don?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 09:30 PM
Dutch Schultz
Who was known as The Dapper Don?
John Gotti.
Q: What gangster confessed to providing funds to Richard Nixon's election campaign in 1946?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Mignon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 09:48 PM
Who is known as "Abbadabba"
Fred Flintstone?
Don Cardi
That was funny.
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 09:58 PM
Mickey Cohen
Who was known as "The Godfather Of Las Vegas" ?
Posted By: Mignon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/15/07 11:58 PM
Bugsy Siegal???
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/16/07 12:42 AM
Nope
Posted By: Mr_Nick
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/16/07 01:29 AM
oscar goodman
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/16/07 01:37 AM
Nope
Posted By: Mr_Nick
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/16/07 01:49 AM
tony accardo
Posted By: Mr_Nick
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/16/07 02:11 AM
When the Bonanno hierarchy found out about Pistone, how come only Sonny Black was murdered, and not Lefty?
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/16/07 02:21 AM
Welcome to the boards Mr. Nick
Sorry, but your Accardo answer is not the correct answer to the question.
As for the question that you asked here about Lefty and Sonny Black, perhaps you'd be better served starting a NEW topic in this thread asking that question. It's a very interesting question that is sure to arouse some discussion. But some who may have the answer might not see it in this 'name that gangster' topic because they don't look in here to play the game.
Who was known as "The Godfather Of Las Vegas" ?
Moe Dalitz
Q : What mobster did "Rat Packer" Frank Sinatra help to become an Israeli citizen?
Don Cardi
Posted By: Mr_Nick
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/16/07 02:29 AM
sam giancana
Posted By: Mr_Nick
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/16/07 02:30 AM
I can do well with photo's, but the last two questions were tough.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/16/07 02:43 AM
Sorry, wrong mobster.
Nick, there is another game in this thread with pictures that are posted where you have to name the gangster in the picture.
You should check it out.
I'll present the question again :
What mobster did "Rat Packer" Frank Sinatra help to become an Israeli citizen?Don Cardi
Posted By: Unclelooney
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/07/07 06:31 PM
The real Fat Tony Salerno hung out at the Palma Boys Social Club and never watched the Simpsons.
Q. Who was Frank Nitti's partner in running the Chicago Outfit while Capone was in Federal prisons?
Paul "The Waiter" Ricca
Posted By: Unclelooney
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/07/07 06:32 PM
Sorry, wrong mobster.
Nick, there is another game in this thread with pictures that are posted where you have to name the gangster in the picture.
You should check it out.
I'll present the question again :
What mobster did "Rat Packer" Frank Sinatra help to become an Israeli citizen?Don Cardi
Doc Stacher
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/11/07 10:46 PM
Bumper
Does anybody want make a new question?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/12/07 01:34 AM
Yes, I'll post one that wasn't answered right last March:
Q. Who helped run the Chicago Outfit along with Frank Nitti after Capone went to Alcatraz for tax evasion? (It wasn't Paul Ricca).
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/12/07 11:53 AM
Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik and a young Tony Accardo.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/12/07 04:58 PM
WTG, DC!
Your turn...
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/13/07 03:40 AM
What mobster ordered that the doors of Frank Costello's tomb be blown off their hinges?
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/13/07 01:31 PM
A: Carmine Galante
Q: Which Bonanno wiseguy is married to Jimmy Burke's daughter?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/17/07 12:26 PM
Anthony Indelicato
Which famous chicago wiseguy was nicknamed "Curly"
Posted By: chopper
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/19/07 11:00 AM
Murry Humpherys
Which comedian did Sam Giancana have the CIA bug his room?
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/19/07 02:39 PM
A: Jackie Mason (although I'm not sure the CIA was involved)
Q: Who was John Gotti's first mentor-capo? (not Dellacroce)
Posted By: chopper
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/19/07 09:45 PM
Carmine Fatico?
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/19/07 10:20 PM
Yes--Carmine "Charlie Wagons" Fatico.
Post a question.
Posted By: chopper
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/19/07 10:22 PM
Who was the boss of Chicago before Johnny the fox Torrio?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/19/07 10:25 PM
James "Big Jim" Colosimo
What was the name of the famous vessel that was sabotage at the new york docks during the war.
Posted By: chopper
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/19/07 10:29 PM
S. S. Normandie
Where was Al Capone born?
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/19/07 10:40 PM
Brooklyn
Where and when did Al Capone die
Posted By: chopper
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/19/07 10:44 PM
Palm Island, Florida January 24th 1947
where was Al Capone Buried?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/21/07 05:56 PM
Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Chicago. (Interestingly, he was first buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, then moved secretly to Carmel, where he reposes with many of his former enemies--Dion O'Banion, "Schemer" Drucci, Hymie Weiss and the Genna Bros.)
Q. What Chicago gun dealer was known as "the armorer of gangland"?
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/21/07 06:01 PM
A: Peter Von Frantizius
Q: What North Side gang member was known as "The Schemer."
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/21/07 06:33 PM
Vincent Drucci.
Q. What famous comedian was nearly killed by a knife-wielding Machine Gun Jack McGurn?
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/21/07 07:48 PM
A: Joe E. Lewis
Q: Who played him in the movie?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/22/07 01:35 AM
Which movie?
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/22/07 01:18 PM
THE JOKER IS WILD (I just gave away the answer).
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/21/08 08:46 PM
Ill try and get this back on track.
What was Tony Accardo's nickname.
Posted By: O_Pazzo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 02/22/08 05:13 PM
Joe Batters
Who were the alleged gunmen during the "Sonny Red" Indelicato murder
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/09/08 06:56 AM
Frank Lino, Gerlando Sciascia, Vito Rizzuto, and "Sonny Black" Napolitano
who was the underboss of the Bonanno crime family under boss Phillip Rastelli?
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/12/08 01:39 AM
no one knows?
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/18/08 11:07 PM
COME ON
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/19/08 12:13 AM
Take it easy, it's Joe Massino.
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/19/08 12:54 AM
No it wasn't, Massino, was Caporegeme
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/19/08 06:14 PM
Rastelli never really had an underboss per se. He was in prison for a long time, and while he was away, Carmine Galante was maneuvering to be the Bonanno boss--actually declared himself the boss. Massino was a caporegime, along with a cast of others: Dominic (Big Trin) Trinchero, Alfonse (Sonny Red) Indelicato, Dominick (Sonny Black)Napolitano and, after Galante was whacked, Cesare Bonventre. Sal Catalano actually became acting boss for a very short while, but he was disqualified because he was a Sicilian--in a bizarre twist, only an American born Mafioso could be the boss. Massino and Napolitano whacked Big Trin and Sonny Red. Then Sonny Black was whacked after the Donnie Brasco affair, then Bonventre was whacked on Massino's orders. That left him the last man standing under Rastelli when Rastelli got out of prison; and therefore, his underboss.
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/19/08 08:50 PM
well, I was actually looking for Nicky Cigars/Glasses/Little Nicky, who did serve as his Underboss
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/19/08 08:52 PM
but sense you gave me all that information, I realize I should have been more specific, so your turn TB
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/19/08 10:22 PM
How did Richie (the Boot) Boioardo, Mafia boss of Newark NJ, get his nickname?
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/19/08 10:41 PM
I think in THE BOYS FROM NEW JERSEY, it was written that he preferred to kick and stomp people to death, in a literal sense, hence the nickname. But I'm not 100% sure, TB.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/20/08 12:57 AM
It's a lot less grim than that, PB. He was called "the Boot" because he conducted his business from a phone boot'.
Seriously.
Your turn...
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/05/08 09:49 PM
I'll Go
Who was the boss that Al Capone was trying to whack at the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/05/08 10:17 PM
George (Bugs) Moran.
Q. Who were the four Capone shooters in the massacre?
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/06/08 06:55 AM
Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn,Joseph Guinta, John Scalise, and Albert Anselmi?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 04/06/08 05:08 PM
There is a lot of controversy about who pulled triggers in that massacre--but all are agreed that McGurn wasn't one of them. He planned the massacre mainly in revenge for having nearly been killed in a trap laid by Moran's two chief thugs--the Gusenberg brothers. He sold Capone on the idea by convincing him that Moran could be erased in the same hit. To protect himself, McGurn holed up in a hotel with his mistress Louise Rolfe (known as "the blonde alibi"), and kept calling for room service at the time of the shooting to reinforce the alibi.
According to Capone's most recent biographer, Lawrence Bergreen, the shooters were Fred (Killer) Burke, Albert Anselmi, John Scalise and Pasquale (Patsy) Lolordo.
Q. What was the name of the Brooklyn Irish gang that was after young Capone, precipitating his flight to Chicago?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/18/08 07:02 AM
The White Hand, led by Denny Meehan, then William Lovett, then Richard Lonergan.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/18/08 06:59 PM
Great! Your turn to post a question...
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/22/08 10:39 AM
Who was the only free gangster that came out of the Donnie Brasco situation?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/22/08 05:00 PM
Not sure I know what you mean by "free gangster" but: John (Boobie) Cerasani, a member of Dominic "Sonny Black" Napolitano's crew, was acquitted of charges stemming from Brasco's testimony. He was later convicted of bank robbery.
Q. Which Bonanno captain owned a restaurant in Little Italy?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/23/08 11:32 AM
Richard Cantarella?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/08 09:48 AM
it was definately Frank Coppa
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/08 04:26 PM
Q. Which Bonanno captain owned a restaurant in Little Italy?
A: Mike Sabella, who was later demoted to soldier, owned CasaBella on Mulberry Street. Decent food, at best, but I'll leave the review for the food thread.
Q: Which Jewish gangster took over funding for THE DESERT INN when Wilbur Clark ran out of money.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/08 05:35 PM
Moe Dalitz.
Q. Why was Ruggiero (Richie) Boiardo, Newark NJ's Mafia boss, known as "Da Boot"?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/08 06:03 PM
Because he used to hit people with them.
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/08 06:13 PM
Moe Dalitz.
Q. Why was Ruggiero (Richie) Boiardo, Newark NJ's Mafia boss, known as "Da Boot"?
A: A bit of a misnomer, it's because he would only speak on pay phones in phone "boots."
Q: What Bonanno soldier is married to Jimmie Burke's daughter?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/08 07:05 PM
Anthony Bruno Indelicato.
Q. Name the part-Native American who was an associate in the Gambino family.
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/08 07:13 PM
A: Willie Boy Johnson
Q: Which over zealous prosecutor got him killed?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/08 08:12 PM
John Gleeson.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/24/08 10:10 PM
No, it was Diane Giacalone.
Q. What was Johnson's FBI code name?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/25/08 08:15 AM
The Navajo.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/25/08 05:40 PM
It was Source Wahoo.
You post one...
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/27/08 10:15 PM
Okay, back on track.
Q: Which Jewish gangster was found hanged, prior to his scheduled appearance at the McClellan Senate Committee hearings on organized crime in 1959.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 05/28/08 01:51 AM
Abner (Longy) Zwillman.
Q. Who was the Essex County prosecutor who investigated Longy's death, and who then went on to higher office?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/01/08 03:34 PM
Dewey?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/01/08 04:58 PM
No, it was Brendan Byrne, who later became Governor of NJ.
Someone else post a question...
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/01/08 05:07 PM
Someone else post a question...
Ok, I'll post one :
What mobster was married to the daughter of mob boss Gaetano "Tommy" Reina?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/01/08 05:26 PM
Joe Valachi.
Q. Which Mafia Don's son went to West Point?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/01/08 06:18 PM
Joseph Bonannos?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/01/08 10:18 PM
No, Tommy Lucchese's son Baldassere.
You ask a question...
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/01/08 10:58 PM
What were the names of Galantes bodyguards?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/08 11:49 AM
Give up?
The bodyguards were Joseph Bonanno and Joseph Profaci.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/08 11:54 AM
What were the names of Galantes bodyguards?
Give up?
The bodyguards were Joseph Bonanno and Joseph Profaci.
Huh??
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/08 12:03 PM
Thought you were the expert?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/08 03:51 PM
What the fuck are you talking about?
Take some friendly advice and don't disrupt this game in this thread with your foolishness.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/08 04:03 PM
how about if i told you they were Ceasre Bonventre and amato baldassare.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/08 04:06 PM
Thats more like it.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/08 04:10 PM
Just wanted to wake people up!
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/08 04:12 PM
You wanna change your name to "Alarm Clock"??
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/08 04:19 PM
No way, we could change it to Chicago Typewriter - I'm a pro at handling that thing. Know what I mean?!
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/08 04:22 PM
A Chicago typewriter puts people to sleep. You said you wanted to wake up some people.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/08 04:25 PM
Its in the wording - look deeper at its meaning.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/02/08 09:06 PM
Heres a new one:
Name Chin Gigantes "breakfsat club"?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/03/08 03:28 AM
Benny "Eggs" Mangano.
Q. Which Capone golfing partner was also a triggerman at the famous St. Valentine's Day massacre?
Posted By: Mignon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/03/08 07:48 PM
Jack (Machine Gun) McGurn??
Posted By: DE NIRO
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/03/08 08:45 PM
If im right he organised this, but he wasn't at the shooting spree..Maybe im wrong
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/03/08 10:27 PM
It was Fred "Killer" Burke. And yes, McGurn planned and organized the hit but wasn't present at the hit.
Q. Who were Bugs Moran's top gunsels?
Posted By: Mignon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/04/08 11:52 AM
It was Fred "Killer" Burke.
Sorry he was my next guess.
Posted By: Don_Vincenzo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/06/08 01:27 AM
It was Fred "Killer" Burke. And yes, McGurn planned and organized the hit but wasn't present at the hit.
Q. Who were Bugs Moran's top gunsels?
Frank and Pete Gusenberg?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/06/08 06:30 PM
Right! Your turn...
Posted By: Don_Vincenzo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/07/08 05:16 AM
Hmm...let me think here...
Who was the getaway driver who lost his nerve during the Joe Masseria hit?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/07/08 01:41 PM
Ciro Terranova.
And Turnbull, it was Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano and John "Sausage" Barbata who was Chins "Breakfast Club".
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/07/08 02:37 PM
Q. Which Acting Boss has just currently been arrested in a round up?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/08/08 02:34 PM
Give up?
It was Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioelli.
Here's another one!
Q. Who was Virginia Hills successor as bagwoman for the mob??
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/08/08 11:05 PM
Give up??
It was Ida Devine.
Another one: Who is the current Boss for the Los Angeles Mafia??
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/08/08 11:24 PM
Give up?
It is Peter John Milano.
Who is the gangster that I am describing?:
I was born in the 1940's.
I have dyslexia.
I got involved in construction and the Boss loves it.
I was present at a double murder in 1985.
Posted By: Don_Vincenzo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/09/08 02:03 AM
Sammy "The Bull" Gravano
Only man to escape Attica Prison in New York, also a freelance hitman for the Genovese family.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/09/08 02:38 AM
Your right!
Here's another one:
I used to shoot hawks.
I sold drugs.
I became a leader - a Underboss.
I ratted out 2 corrupt cops.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/09/08 04:16 PM
Give up?
It was "Gaspipe" Casso.
Here's another one:
I am a Capo.
I rose against my greedy Boss.
I have a lion in the basement.
My bodyguard is Greek.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/09/08 10:43 PM
This is too easy!
Its Joseph "Crazy Joey" Gallo.
Q. Who was the Boss of Philadelphia after John Avena?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/09/08 11:32 PM
I think you're missing the point of this type of game. The idea is for you to ask a question and let someone else answer it.
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/10/08 08:08 PM
I think you're missing the point of this type of game. The idea is for you to ask a question and let someone else answer it.
...and, as co-moderator of this board, I'm telling you, Mini: we don't want any more of your "give up?" and "this is too easy" attitude--on this or any other board here. This is the best site on the web in large part because we maintain a high level of civility and respect for each other. Our Don, Geoff, has graciously allowed you to be a guest here. He's warned you, SC has warned you, now I'm warning you: calm the f**k down and behave yourself.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/11/08 07:37 PM
Q. Who was the Boss of Philadelphia after John Avena?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/14/08 03:29 PM
This is why I acted like I did - this game is dead!
The question is: Who was the Boss of the Philadelphia Mafia after John Avena?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/14/08 03:32 PM
Maybe nobody wants to deal with the person asking the questions.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/14/08 03:34 PM
....or no one knows the answer?
Do you know the answer?!
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/14/08 03:51 PM
....or no one knows the answer?
Do you know the answer?!
You haven't yet posted a question that we don't know the answer to. You're being ignored.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/14/08 04:16 PM
I have its been here for days.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/14/08 10:14 PM
The question is: Who was the Boss of the Philadelphia Mafia after John Avena?
Fredo Corleone?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/14/08 11:13 PM
Your Playing! This question is'nt false, a trick or a lie.
You want me to tell you?
Posted By: Mignon
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/15/08 03:40 AM
Joseph "Bruno" Dovi???
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/15/08 01:59 PM
Yessssssss!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/16/08 01:46 AM
Your Playing! This question is'nt false, a trick or a lie.
You want me to tell you?
Fredo went to Philadelphia to learn the horse racing business!
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/16/08 09:32 AM
You think the Godfather is real?!
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/08 02:16 AM
You think the Godfather is real?!
Yes. I do. Why would you think that it's not?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/08 02:20 AM
It's a film!
Some of it is based on reality though: Luca Brasi death is very similar to that of the Gallo brother who was nearly strangled.
Posted By: Don Cardi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/08 12:47 PM
It's a film!
Some of it is based on reality though:
Some of it!!!
It's a true story! Don Corleone lived on Todt Hill on Staten Island!
I can't believe that you really think that it's just a movie!
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/08 09:36 PM
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/08 09:43 PM
Just go away. No one wants to interact with you here.
Don Cardi is one of the board members with the most tenure and a lot of support, and there you go being a smart ass with him.
If I were a mod, you'd have been gone a long time ago.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/08 10:24 PM
But Corleone does'nt live on Todt Hill.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/08 10:35 PM
I just looked it up - he did live on Todt Hill.
He must know Castellano then.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/08 11:15 PM
I'll go. I've enjoyed posting.
Good luck to all of you.
Byeeeeee.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/08 11:33 PM
But Corleone does'nt live on Todt Hill.
I just looked it up - he did live on Todt Hill.
He must know Castellano then.
I'll go. I've enjoyed posting.
Good luck to all of you.
Byeeeeee.
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/08 11:39 PM
Oh, he's clearly insane, a regular shrink couldn't even help him. He needs to . . . like . . . go to Vienna and get studied at the institutional level.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/08 11:43 PM
OK....OK.... he's gone. Nothing to see here. Please move on.
[/cop]
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/08 11:56 PM
Okay, back to normal, so I'll re-start the thread with an easy one.
Q: What was the name of Henry Hill's bar on Queens Boulevard?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/18/08 11:59 PM
The Todt Hill Inn??
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 12:01 AM
Fucking wiseass!
You tell me to let it go, then . . .
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 12:03 AM
Sorry.... I got carried away.
It was The Suite. But that ain't a gangster, it's a place.
[/ball busting]
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 12:06 AM
Correct.
Now someone ask a question and let's keep this thread on track.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 12:10 AM
OK... I was arrested for the first time on May 15, 1957 on disorderly conduct (a gang fight) charges. Those charges were later dismissed. Who am I?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 01:31 AM
John Gotti.
Q. I convinced the FBI to take me to the Second Avenue Deli for a corned beef sandwich after I was arrested on RICO charges.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 06:18 AM
Give us a clue!
It's alright, you won't hear that kind of peep out of me.
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 06:37 AM
I thought you were leaving?
ummm... a shot in the dark but Meyer Lansky?
man, leave it to Turnbull to come up with a impossible question
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 06:47 AM
ummm... a shot in the dark but Meyer Lansky?
That would've been my guess because of the deli, but I don't think he was ever involved with RICO charges.
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 07:25 AM
if that is wrong, I am stumped
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 07:28 AM
When I think of RICO, I'm thinking Persico, Salerno, Corallo, Rastelli and Tieri. It might be Funari or Santoro.
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 01:44 PM
A: It was Paul Castellano who talked FBI agents Kurins and O'Brien into stopping at the Second Avenue Deli on his way to be arraigned.
Q: What was Meyer Lansky's favorite Miami deli?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 01:46 PM
Q: What was Meyer Lansky's favorite Miami deli?
Wolfie's??
Posted By: pizzaboy
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 02:27 PM
Q: What was Meyer Lansky's favorite Miami deli?
Wolfie's??
Correct.
Your turn.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 04:29 PM
Q. I was indicted in the same 1990 case as John Gotti and Sammy Gravano. I was convicted of directing the Family's gambling and loan sharking operations in Connecticut. I started serving my sentence in Allenwood, PA in 1996.
Who am I?
Posted By: Turnbull
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 04:38 PM
Frank Locasio.
Q. I originally brought Donny Brasco into the Bonanno Family.
(Congrats to PB on the Castellano answer.
)
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 04:39 PM
Uh Oh.... got a wrong answer there. My question still stands.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 04:41 PM
Tony Mirra
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 04:42 PM
SC it was Thomas Gambino.
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 04:44 PM
SC it was Thomas Gambino.
Correct. Your turn for a question.
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 04:48 PM
Q. I am a bookmaker who turned government witness. I died in 2002.
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 04:51 PM
Tommy Delgiorno?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 04:54 PM
Try again!
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 05:01 PM
John Daffin?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 05:02 PM
Try again!
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 05:05 PM
It is such a vague question, there could be 100s of answers
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 05:07 PM
Want a clue?
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 05:08 PM
*sighs* sure
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 05:09 PM
My Capo was "Patty Specs".
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 05:12 PM
George Fresolone?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 05:13 PM
Correct. Your turn!
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/19/08 05:17 PM
Halla Freakin' luya
**********************
I am a member of the New Jersey mafia, From 1961 to 1965, I became the subject of an FBI investigation known as the "Goodfella Tapes"
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/20/08 12:06 AM
Sam DeCavalcante.
Q. I am in the Genovese Family. I was shot in 1994, and after my flipping to get revenge I joined the Program.
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/20/08 03:42 PM
Joe Valachi?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/20/08 03:45 PM
Clue: One of the shooters was Fortunato.
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/22/08 02:22 AM
lets get a new one....
Who is is presently the official boss of the Bonanno Family?
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/22/08 02:23 AM
Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano.
The other answer was Michael "Cookie" D'Urso.
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/22/08 02:26 AM
yep, and for 10 extra points
who is the current
ACTING boss of the Bonanno Family
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/22/08 02:30 AM
Salvatore "The Iron Worker" Montagna.
Q. Who is the Acting Boss for the Lucchese Family?
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/22/08 02:31 AM
Stephen "Wonderboy" Crea
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/22/08 02:34 AM
Q. Who was Ligambi's first Consigliere?
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/22/08 02:37 AM
George Borgesi
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/22/08 02:40 AM
That was Merlinos. It was Michael Lancelotti, it's ok though, here's another one!
Q. Who is now the street boss of the Lucchese Family?
Posted By: Santino Brasi
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/22/08 02:43 AM
Matthew "Matt" Madonna
Posted By: MiniMafiaBoss
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/22/08 02:46 AM
He's the Consigliere. DiNapoli is the Underboss, while Migliore is the street boss.
Q. Who was the Colombo Acting Boss who was arrested two weeks ago?
Posted By: HairyKnuckles
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 01/06/12 09:14 PM
Any interest in reviving this oldie but goodie thread?
If there is, whoever post the right answer asks a new question, provided that the answer is correct.
This could be fun...
Q - Joseph N. Gallo was a Gambino Crime Family consiglieri for more than 20 years. But what was his middlename?
Posted By: Camarel
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/29/12 03:52 PM
Any interest in reviving this oldie but goodie thread?
If there is, whoever post the right answer asks a new question, provided that the answer is correct.
This could be fun...
Q - Joseph N. Gallo was a Gambino Crime Family consiglieri for more than 20 years. But what was his middlename?
I don't think anyones doing this anymore but it looks fun so
A - Nicholas
Q - Who was lucar brasi based on?
Posted By: LuanKuci
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/29/12 06:12 PM
Labelled as a contemporary rising start within the Gambinos:
Posted By: HairyKnuckles
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/29/12 09:42 PM
Any interest in reviving this oldie but goodie thread?
If there is, whoever post the right answer asks a new question, provided that the answer is correct.
This could be fun...
Q - Joseph N. Gallo was a Gambino Crime Family consiglieri for more than 20 years. But what was his middlename?
I don't think anyones doing this anymore but it looks fun so
A - Nicholas
Q - Who was lucar brasi based on?
Albert Anastasia? Is that correct?
Posted By: SC
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/29/12 09:59 PM
This entire thread is being moved to the Games sub-forum.
Posted By: Camarel
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 06/30/12 01:51 PM
Any interest in reviving this oldie but goodie thread?
If there is, whoever post the right answer asks a new question, provided that the answer is correct.
This could be fun...
Q - Joseph N. Gallo was a Gambino Crime Family consiglieri for more than 20 years. But what was his middlename?
I don't think anyones doing this anymore but it looks fun so
A - Nicholas
Q - Who was lucar brasi based on?
Albert Anastasia? Is that correct?
No it was willie moretti
Posted By: Mastronardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 08/13/12 06:43 PM
What Gambino associate had a picture of John Gotti on his wall when his nieces found him dead?
Posted By: DeMeo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 09/04/12 08:35 PM
What Gambino associate had a picture of John Gotti on his wall when his nieces found him dead?
Was it Angelo Ruggiero's son?
Posted By: Mastronardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 10/26/12 02:45 PM
What Gambino associate had a picture of John Gotti on his wall when his nieces found him dead?
Was it Angelo Ruggiero's son?
It was Richard Gomes.
Who's the most retarded lucchese associate that was featured on a recent documentary?
His name is sal Clemente or something I saw a video on youtube guy is retarded you think the discovery channel would find another bum off the street that could at least talk properly
Posted By: Mastronardo
Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER - 03/29/13 12:03 AM
Labelled as a contemporary rising start within the Gambinos:
Frank Cali.