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The Cleveland crime family, also known as the Scalish crime family or the Cleveland Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Cleveland, Ohio, and throughout the Greater Cleveland area. The organization formed during the 1900s, and early leadership turned over frequently due to a series of power grabs and assassinations.
Jul 29, 2015 · Cleveland organized crime rose to prominence during Prohibition but faded following the mob wars of the late 1970s. Click through this photo gallery to read about key figures involved in the ...
In national underworld circles, the Cleveland mob has become another Cleveland joke. Will an outside crime family from Chicago or Detroit muscle in on the Cleveland group? It is a possibility that could lead to further bloodshed.
Long before the days of car bombings and Danny Greene, Cleveland's first criminal kingpins were locked in a bloody war for control of the city's rackets. From Cleveland Magazine, August 1978. Frank Osowski hunched his shoulders and shivered in the cold.
May 29, 2021 · CLEVELAND, Ohio – For years, Kevin McTaggart fought in Cleveland’s mob wars, doling out violence amid the push to control the city’s crime rackets. He served as Danny Greene’s close ally,...
Dec 28, 2021 · Ronnie Carabbia died Dec. 22 at the age of 92. To Northeast Ohio residents of a certain age, it was an end of an era. Carabbia was a notorious organized crime figure, best known as one of the men who'd killed Danny Greene during Cleveland's last big mob war in the late 1970s.
Cleveland and its surrounding areas have quite a long and colorful history when it comes to Mafia and Organized Crime. There are many facets to the “Cleveland Mob”… in their activities, violence, and connections to other Mafia cities.
May 7, 2021 · This is "Bomb City U.S.A.," a true story about organized crime, murder and a fight for control that left everyone dead or behind bars. First up, we're digging into Cleveland's most infamous...
The MAYFIELD RD. MOB, so named because they met frequently in the LITTLE ITALY section of Mayfield Rd., evolved into a powerful local crime syndicate in the 1920s and 1930s through bootlegging and illegal gambling.
Nov 27, 2023 · The Sugar Wars chronicles the life of the Lonardos' the first crime family in Cleveland, Ohio. On his deathbed, Angelo Lonardo comes out of hiding at 90 years old to tell the story of the...
