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Daniel John Patrick Greene (November 14, 1933 – October 6, 1977) was an American mobster in Cleveland, Ohio, whose conflicts with the Cleveland crime family of the Italian-American Mafia ended in Greene's murder in 1977.
Apr 2, 2014 · Known as "The Irishman," Danny Greene was one of most notorious crime figures in the Midwest. He even took on the entire mafia in his quest for power.
Oct 30, 2021 · Danny Greene, the Ohio mobster known as the “Irishman,” liked to attribute his precarious survival to the luck of the Irish. He rose to power in the Cleveland organized crime syndicate with his ruthless reputation as a fighter and later as a bomber.
- William Delong
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Mar 29, 2022 · The Cleveland 50: Mobster Danny Greene Assassinated. A longtime fixture in the pages of Cleveland Magazine, the mob boss died via a car bomb. How the notorious mobster met his end — and what it meant for us.
- Erick Trickey
Feb 15, 2011 · At the center of this incredible situation — The Mob War and The Leak — was the sloppy and amateurish bombing murder of Daniel John Patrick Greene, a bizarre and megalomaniacal gangster and an FBI informant. Greene defied all the rules of the game and lived on myth and on borrowed time — until last October.
Aug 15, 2010 · Legendary Cleveland gangster Danny Greene, killed in a wave of grisly mob car bombings in the 1970s, is now the subject of a new movie starring Ray Stevenson, Val Kilmer and Christopher Walken.
Written by Hensleigh and Jeremy Walters, it is based on the life of the Irish-American gangster Danny Greene, and was adapted from the book To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia by Rick Porrello.
