SANTO SORGE
Santo Sorge was a powerful Sicilian mafioso residing in the United States. His exact role was never very clear to investigators. For scholars he was one of the great 'unknowns' of the Sicilian and Ame...
28 Sep 20248min
THE SUMMIT AT THE HOTEL DELLE PALME -PALERMO
THE SUMMIR AT THE HOTEL DELLE PALME -PALERMOBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-the-american-mafia--4722947/support.
23 Sep 202410min
JOE PROFACI
Joe Profaci, born Giuseppe Profaci, is considered the first mafia boss of the Colombo mafia family of New York. Giuseppe Profaci was born in Villabate in the province of Palermo on October 2, 1897. He...
19 Sep 20247min
BANANA'S WAR
From 1964 to about 1969, the last major war was fought in which a major Mafia crime family attempted to gain a position of supremacy over other organized crime families in America. If the plan had bee...
12 Sep 20249min
JOSEPH BONANNO 2° Part
In 1962 Bonanno, after the death of Joseph Profaci, one of his most faithful friends and allies, from cancer, together with his successor Joe Magliocco, thought of getting rid of the two most powerful...
6 Sep 20248min
JOSEPH BONANNO 1° Part
Joseph Bonanno, nicknamed "Joe Bananas" from a newspaper typo of the time, was a nickname he hated because it gave the idea that he was crazy. Bonanno was one of the most important Italian-American mo...
1 Aug 20248min
VINCENT ALO
They called him "Jimmy Blue Eyes". Alo was a key figure in New York's post-Prohibition Genovese Mafia family. He served as a liaison between the Sicilian-Italian mafia and Meyer Lansky's criminal orga...
16 Jul 20247min
