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Gaspare Messina (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɡaspare mesˈsiːna]; August 7, 1879 – June 15, 1957) founded the New England Mafia that would later be known as the Patriarca crime family. He immigrated to Brooklyn from Sicily with his wife in 1905.
Apr 1, 2023 · Gaspare Messina was the most powerful mafioso in Boston from around 1916, when Gaspare Di Cola, Boston’s “Lemon King,” was killed, until his retirement in 1932. He received Nicola Gentile in 1921, and served as the provisional boss of bosses for the last months of the Castellammarese War.
Apr 19, 2018 · Gaspare Messina was one of the first Italian mob bosses in Boston and a co-founder of the New England Mafia. Learn about his life, career, and legacy in this article from The NCS Crime Family News.
Gaspare DiCola acted as boss of the Boston family until his assassination on September 21, 1916. This allowed Gaspare Messina, a Sicilian mobster who had close ties to Bonanno crime family in New York City, to become the new boss.
Gaspare Messina was a Sicilian immigrant who became the \"rappresentante\" of the Boston Mafia in 1916 and the American Mafia boss of bosses in 1930-31. He was involved in the Castellammarese War, the Gustin Gang murders and the Neptune Oil Corporation.
In 1924, Gaspare Messina decided to step down as Boston’s mafia boss, and (of all things) work as a businessman in a grocery store on Prince Street in Boston’s North End. It’s at this point when all Hell breaks loose.
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May 23, 2024 · NCS. On this day in 1957 the founder of the New England Crime Family, Gaspare Messina died of natural causes at the age of 77. He founded what is now known as the Patriarca Crime Family, back in 1916, but the family under Messina was as no where near as powerful as the Partriarca’s are today.
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