Joe Masseria

Giuseppe "Joe The Boss" Masseria ( 1879 – April 15 , 1931 ) was an early Mafia don in the United States . Masseria controlled all organized crime in New York City from 1920 until his assassination by Lucky Luciano in 1931 during the Castellammarese War .

After emigrating to the United States in 1903 to avoid Murder charges in Sicily , Masseria became an enforcer for the Morello Gang in the Lower East Side of New York City. By 1920 , he had assumed command of the gang through a series of assassinations.

Salvatore Maranzano was sent with several other men from Sicily in 1927 to gain control of the American Mafia for Don Vito Cascio Ferro . Maranzano gained the support of a faction and declared war on Masseria, in what became known as the Castellemmarese War .

Masseria was killed on April 15 , 1931 by hitmen ( Joe Adonis , Albert Anastasia , Vito Genovese , and Bugsy Siegel ) acting on the orders of his top lieutenant, Lucky Luciano , ending the Castellemmarese War and briefly establishing Maranzano as Capo Di Tutti Capi "boss of all bosses".

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