Anthony Strollo

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Anthony C. Strollo , also known as "Tony Bender" (born June 18, 1899 in New York City , † April 8, 1962 in Fort Lee , New Jersey ) was a high-ranking American mobster of the La Cosa Nostra , who the activity is ascribed to three of the Five Families of New York City.

Life

Early years

Anthony Strollo was born into a Mafia family and was a cousin of Lenine Strollo , who was part of the Pittsburgh mob in Pennsylvania , and Dante Strollo , who was a mobster in Youngstown , Ohio . Anthony Strollo grew up in Manhattan near the Manhattan Bridge . During the alcohol prohibition , Strollo earned a respectable reputation as a bootlegger (alcohol smuggler) and contract killer . He served under Joe Masseria in the 1920s . In the war of Castellammare , however, he switched to Salvatore Maranzano's side and served under Joseph Bonanno , who succeeded Maranzano as boss, which is why the clan was classified under him as a Bonanno family .

With his partners Joe Valachi and Bobby Doyle he got into the gambling business and they initially started operating 20 slot machines.

Genovese family

After Maranzano's death, Strollo moved under the command of Lucky Luciano , who led the largest faction of the La Cosa Nostra , later classified as the Genovese family . This also made him a member of the National Crime Syndicate .

When Luciano had problems with Michael "Little Apples" Reggione , it was Strollo's partner Joe Valachi who murdered Reggione on November 25, 1932 together with Peter Maione . Strollo controlled gambling in Greenwich Village, New York . Luciano was imprisoned in 1936, helped Strollo, along with Capo Michael Coppola , Vito Genovese in the control of the clan. When Genovese fled to Italy in 1937, Strollo became a leading capo under Frank Costello . He ran a number of nightclubs in Greenwich Village ; including the Black Cat , The Hollywood and The 19th Hole . But there are also voices who saw the 19th Hole in the hands of Christopher "Christy Tick" Furnari of the Lucchese family , who also ran the Village Inn . However, Strollo worked with Carmine Fatico , a capo of the Lucchese family, and is said to have run a number of trendy bars with him, which were specially geared towards homosexual customers. Partner Joe Valachi ran the Greenwich Village nightclub.

On September 20, 1952, Eugenio Giannini was murdered in East Harlem by Joe Valachi , Fiore Siano , and Joseph and Pasquale Pagano on Strollo's instructions . In Valachi's nightclub, Stephen Franse was strangled to death by Valachi on June 19, 1953 because he was suspected of being a police informant.

In 1957 Costello was ousted as boss by Vito Genovese, who had returned in 1945, and Strollo took over the drug trade for the family. Strollo is said to have murdered Anthony Carfano , Costello's last high-ranking ally, on September 25, 1959, on behalf of Genovese . When Genovese was convicted of drug trafficking in 1959, Strollo met with his new boss Carlo Gambino , who was head of the Gambino family .

Strollo had good contacts with Carmine Galante and Joseph DiPalermo because of the drug trade . This trio dominated the heroin trade in New York at the time.

The end

On April 8, 1962, Strollo disappeared without a trace shortly after leaving his Fort Lee, New Jersey property. His body was never found. It will u. a. suspects that he was murdered on behalf of Genovese, as he was still in contact with Lucky Luciano . According to a thesis (by Luciano) it was Luciano and Meyer Lansky who had given the police a tip in 1959 to eliminate Genovese. There were also rumors that Strollo went into hiding to avoid various charges.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "AMERICAN MAFIOSO: Genovese Family Capo Regime" ( Memento from March 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ↑ Biography of Anthony Strollo ( memento of February 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on www.angelfire.com (English)

literature

  • Bernstein, Lee: The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America . Boston: UMass Press 2002. ISBN 1-55849-345-X
  • Capeci, Jerry: The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia . Indianapolis: Alpha Books 2002. ISBN 0-02-864225-2
  • Fox, Stephen. Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America . New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. ISBN 0-688-04350-X
  • Joey, David Fisher: Joey the Hit Man: The Autobiography of a Mafia Killer . New York: Thunder's Mouth Press 2004. ISBN 1-56025-393-2
  • Kelly, Robert J .: Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States . Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN 0-313-30653-2
  • Kwitny, Jonathan: Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace . New York: WW Norton 1979. ISBN 0-393-01188-7
  • Raab, Selwyn. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires . New York: St. Martin Press 2005. ISBN 0-312-30094-8
  • Sifakis, Carl:
    1. The Mafia Encyclopedia . New York: Da Capo Press 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
    2. The Encyclopedia of American Crime . New York: Facts on File Inc. 2001. ISBN 0-8160-4040-0
  • Valentine, Douglas: The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs . New York: RR Donnelly & Sons 2004. ISBN 1-85984-568-1
  • Winter-Berger, Robert N .: The Washington Pay-Off: An Insider's View of Corruption in Government . New York: Dell Publishing 1972.

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personal data
SURNAME Strollo, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strollo, Anthony C .; Bender, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mobster
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , USA
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1962
Place of death Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA