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    George Clarence "Bugs" Moran (/ m ə ˈ r ɑː n /; Adelard Leo Cunin; August 21, 1893 – February 25, 1957) was an American Chicago Prohibition-era gangster. He was incarcerated three times before his 21st birthday.

  2. 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...

  3. Bugs Moran was a convicted gangster who was active in the Prohibition-era Chicago. Check out this biography to know about his birthday, childhood, family life, crimes and other facts about him.

  4. Feb 12, 2024 · Bugs Moran was the leader of Chicago's North Side Gang during Prohibition — and likely the intended target of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

  5. 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. Moran became sole leader after Weiss was killed.

  6. Jun 21, 2024 · Disguising themselves as policemen, members of the Al Capone gang entered a garage at 2122 North Clark Street run by members of the George (“Bugs”) Moran gang, lined their opponents up against a wall, and shot them in cold blood.

  7. 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.

  8. Nov 13, 2009 · George “Bugs” Moran was a career criminal who ran the North Side gang in Chicago during the bootlegging era of the 1920s. He fought bitterly with “Scarface” Al Capone for control of...

  9. Apr 14, 2022 · Valentine's Day 1929 marks the most infamous gangster mass murder in history, when mobsters Al Capone, "Bugs" Moran, and others fought for their share of the profits from illegal activity in...

  10. George “Bugs” Moran, a top Chicago bootlegger and gangster rival of Al Capone, smiles for a photographer in the late 1920s. Seven members of Moran’s gang were gunned down, allegedly by Capone’s men, in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago in 1929.

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