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Death in prison. Moran died of lung cancer a few months into his 10-year sentence at Leavenworth Federal Prison in Kansas on February 25, 1957, at the age of 63. Personal life. Moran married Lucille Logan Bilezikdian, with whom he had a son, John George Moran. She left him because of his criminal lifestyle.
Nov 9, 2009 · This rash of gang violence reached its bloody climax in a garage on the city’s North Side on February 14, 1929, when seven men associated with the Irish gangster George “Bugs” Moran, one of...
Feb 12, 2024 · The two rival gangsters engaged in a years-long turf war that culminated in the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929, when seven members and affiliates of Moran’s gang were violently killed in a garage — supposedly on Capone’s orders. But just who was Bugs Moran?
- Austin Harvey
Nov 13, 2009 · Four men dressed as police officers enter gangster Bugs Moran’s headquarters on North Clark Street in Chicago, line seven of Moran’s henchmen against a wall, and shoot them to death.
- Missy Sullivan
Moran, a one-time millionaire, was broke after a decade in the slammer, and his wife was long gone. He couldn't afford a lawyer, so the judge appointed Jack Patricoff to defend him.
George Moran was a Chicago gangster and bootlegger of the Prohibition era. He was a childhood friend and, later, right-hand man of Dion O’Bannion. Moran and Earl (“Hymie”) Weiss inherited O’Bannion’s gang in Chicago when the chief was killed in 1924.
The murders resulted from the competition for control of organized crime in the city during Prohibition between the largely Irish North Siders, headed by George "Bugs" Moran, and their largely Italian Chicago Outfit rivals led by Al Capone.
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