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Giuseppe "Joe" Profaci (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe proˈfaːtʃi]; October 2, 1897 – June 6, 1962) was an Italian-American Cosa Nostra boss who was the founder of what became the Colombo crime family of New York City.
Learn about the life of Mafia boss and olive oil king Joe Profaci, one of the most powerful men in America during his time.
Giuseppe “Joe” Profaci was a New York La Cosa Nostra boss who was the founder of what is today known as the Colombo crime family. Established in 1928, this was the last of the Five Families to be organized.
Jun 2, 2024 · Joseph Profaci was one of the most powerful bosses in U.S. organized crime from the 1940s to the early 1960s. Twice arrested and once imprisoned for a year in his native Sicily, he emigrated to the United States in 1921 and, thereafter, though arrested several times, managed always to avoid prison.
In 1962, Joe Profaci died of cancer, leaving Joe Magliocco, his longtime underboss, as the new boss. The war continued on between the two factions. In 1963, Carmine Persico survived a car bombing and his enforcer Hugh McIntosh was shot in the groin as he attempted to kill Larry Gallo.
Joe Profaci was an Italian–American mafia boss, best known as the original founder of the notorious crime family known as the Colombo crime family. He was born and raised in Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
Apr 26, 2015 · Giuseppe “Joe” Profaci was born on October 2, 1897 in Villabate a province Palermo, Sicily. His life as a child is mostly unknown but he is suspected of having been associated with the Sicilian mafia and spent one year in a Sicily prison on theft charges.
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