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May 4, 2024 · The boss of what became the Gambino family and the co-founder of Murder, Inc., Albert Anastasia was one of New York’s most feared mobsters before his assassination in 1957.
Albert Anastasia was an Italian–American gangster, hitman, and crime lord, who once controlled the organized crime industry in the US. Regarded as one of the deadliest criminals of all time in the US, he co-founded the modern American mafia.
Apr 16, 2013 · Find information on the life of Albert Anastasia, one of the most feared mobsters who headed the Murder Inc group, before running his own Crime Family.
Albert Anastasia (1902–1957) was a leading figure in organized crime activities on the New York City waterfront and in a group known as “Murder, Incorporated.”
Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was an Italian-American mobster, hitman and crime boss. One of the founders of the modern American Mafia, and a co-founder and later boss of the Murder, Inc. organization, he eventually rose to the position of boss in what became the modern Gambino crime family.
Sep 21, 2014 · Witnesses described the killing where Anastasia, a man with incredible strength, stabbed and strangled Joe with no regard for onlookers. Anastasia was convicted and sentenced to death. He was sent to the notorious Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York to await execution.
Mob boss Albert Anastasia is killed in a New York City barber shop in a murder planned by rival mobster Vito Genovese and Anastasia’s underboss, Carlo Gambino. Gambino takes over leadership of Anastasia’s crime family.
