Mustache Pete
As Mustache Pete members were the original Sicilian Cosa Nostra referred to the beginning of the 1900-years after New York City came.
Mustache translates Mustache . In rural Sicily, these beards were widespread at that time. Many Italian immigrants had strong ties to their old homeland and earned their income from importing Italian specialties. The term Mustache Pete came up for members of the Mafia - whether they wore a mustache or not.
The respective monopoly of their import activities has often already been enforced with classic mafia tactics such as intimidation , sabotage , physical violence, etc. In contrast to the younger Italian-Americans, the Mustache Petes cultivated their Sicilian roots and were particularly opposed to the illegal drug trade in opiates .
In particular Joe “The Boss” Masseria stood in the way of a reorganization of the American Cosa Nostra in New York City, and in the war of Castellammare many of the Mustache Petes, who stood on different sides, were killed or otherwise “frozen”.
This is how Joe Masseria ordered the assassination of Salvatore D'Aquila . Both had been immigrants from Sicily and both were the founding fathers of establishing Mafia families, or the Five Families in New York, which were later classified as Bonanno , Colombo , Gambino , Genovese and Lucchese .
This dispute was triggered, so to speak, by a late arrival "Mustache Pete"; Salvatore Maranzano did not leave Sicily until the end of the 1920s in order to enforce his influence there on behalf of Don Vito Cascio Ferro , who himself was in New York from 1901 to 1909, and wanted to become “ Capo di tutti i capi ” (boss of all Bosses ). Although he succeeded in the murder of Joe Masseria, which practically ended the "War of Castellammare", his far-reaching ambitions also led to his own murder.
Examples
The following people can be considered "Mustache Pete" :
- Giuseppe Aiello (1891–1930), the family imported olive oil, cheese and sugar.
- Salvatore D'Aquila (1878–1928), imported cheese and olive oil from Sicily.
- Giuseppe Bonanno († 1901), "Don Pepino", forefather of the Bonanno family in New York City.
- Salvatore Bonanno († 1915), "Don Turridu", returned to Italy in 1911.
- Salvatore Maranzano (1868–1931), born in Castellammare del Golfo in Sicily
- Joe Masseria (1879–1931), emigrated from Sicily in 1903 to avoid murder charges.
- Joseph Profaci (1897–1962), also called "Don Pepino", who practically had the monopoly on the import of olive oil to New York City
- Gaetano "Tom" Reina (1889–1930), born in Corleone, mastered the ice cream trade in the Bronx .
- Francesco Scalice (1893–1957), briefly head of the Gambino family; his nickname was "Don Cheese" because he traded in cheese .
- Ciro Terranova (1889–1938), practically had the import monopoly on artichokes for New York City.
literature
- Dagobert Lindlau: The mob. Organized crime research ; 1988 (first edition 1987); ISBN 3-455-08659-4
- Jerry Capeci: The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia ; 2002; ISBN 0-02-864225-2
- Carl Sifakis: The Mafia Encyclopedia ; 2005; ISBN 0-816-06989-1
- Selwyn Raab: Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires ; 2005; ISBN 0-312-30094-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Final Resting Place of Joe Masseria" ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.hollywoodusa.co.uk (English)
- ↑ Capcei, Jerry. The complete idiot's guide to the Mafia "The Mafia's Commission" (pg. 31-46)
