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  1. Salvatore Maranzano (Italian: [salvaˈtoːre maranˈtsaːno]; July 31, 1886 – September 10, 1931), nicknamed Little Caesar, was an Italian-American mobster from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss who led what later would become the Bonanno crime family in New York City.

  2. Salvatore Maranzano was an American gangster of the Prohibition era and leader among the old-country-oriented Italians, known as “Moustache Petes,” many of whom were former members of the Sicilian Mafia and Neapolitan Camorra. Reared in Sicily, Maranzano immigrated to the United States after World.

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  3. Sep 12, 2023 · Learn how Salvatore Maranzano, a Sicilian Mafia boss, was killed by his rivals in 1931 in a plot orchestrated by Lucky Luciano and other young turks. Explore the background, the motives, the methods and the aftermath of this pivotal event in American organized crime history.

  4. Mar 3, 2018 · Learn how Salvatore Maranzano, also known as \"Little Caesar\", became the boss of all bosses in the New York underworld and organized the Five Families of La Cosa Nostra. Discover how he was betrayed and killed by his former ally Charles Luciano in 1931.

  5. Learn about Salvatore Maranzano, a Sicilian-American mobster who became the boss of bosses in 1931. Find out how he rose to power, started the Castellammarese War, and was killed by his former allies.

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  7. Aug 5, 2023 · On September 10, 1931, the gunmen arrived in Maranzano's office and, after Lucchese singled the boss out, shot and knifed him to death. There might be no verifiable photographs of Salvatore Maranzano, but his influence on American Mafia was massive. Here's how it all ended for him.

  8. Salvatore Maranzano was an American mafia boss from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss, who led the Castellammarese War against his rival Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria and subsequently dethroned him as the mafia's capo di tutti capi ("boss of all bosses").

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