Filippo Buccola

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Filippo "Phil" Buccola (born August 6, 1886 in Palermo , Sicily , † June 15, 1987 in Sicily) was a Sicilian-American mobster of La Cosa Nostra and head of the Boston Crime Family for around eight years , which he and the 1932 Providence Crime Family to create the New England Crime Family , later known as the Patriarca Family .

Life

Filippo Buccola immigrated to the United States from Palermo, Sicily, at the age of 32 . Like many Italian and Sicilian immigrants before him, he also moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he later became a combat promoter.

He later joined the Boston Crime Family, which was founded in 1917 by Gaspare Messina . Educated, wealthy and with close connections to the original Cosa Nostra from his hometown of Palermo, he rose quickly in the ranks of the Boston underworld during the Prohibition period and finally took over the role of the new head of the Boston Crime Family in 1924, after the death of Messina.

In the early 1930s, Buccola and his underboss Joseph Lombardo (a gangster from Boston's North End) fought against other ethnic gangs for territories. In December 1931, Lombardo murdered Frank Wallace , the head of the Gustin Gang from South Boston.

In 1932, Buccola united his family with the Providence faction of founder Frank Morelli , creating the New England Crime Family and Morelli eventually becoming Buccola's underboss.

He later eliminated the Jewish mobster Charles Solomon , who is now part of the Kosher Nostra , in order to make himself the most powerful man in Boston.

Buccola held command of the organization from New England until 1954, and in 1954 made Raymond Patriarca in charge after seeing himself too big a target for federal authorities.

Buccola retired to Sicily and died of natural causes in 1987 at the age of 101.

literature

  • Jerry Capeci: The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia . 2004, ISBN 0940159864
  • David Critchley: The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891-1931 , 2009, ISBN 0415990300

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Capeci, pp. 69-71
  2. ↑ Puleo p. 157
  3. ↑ a b DeVico pp. 124-127
  4. ↑ a b Ford p. 38
  5. ↑ Ford, pp.50-51
  6. ↑ Mark Silverman “Rogue Mobster” excerpt ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Crimemagazine.com Retrieved on 05-09-2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / crimemagazine.com
  7. ↑ Ford pp.231
personal data
SURNAME Buccola, Filippo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buccola, Phil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sicilian-American mobster
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo , Sicily
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1987
Place of death Sicily