Harry Millman (2024 - 1937)

Organized Crime Figure. One of the most prominent members of Detroit’s “Purple Gang”, he was part of a younger generation of Jewish youths in Detroit’s North End who sought to emulate the older, established members of the of the Purple Gang. Harry Millman was a handsome, tough, hard drinking young man who rose to prominence […]

Irving Milberg (2024 - 1938)

Organized Crime Figure. A member of Detroit’s Purple Gang, he was born and raised in Brooklyn along with several other Purples including Abe Axler, Eddie Fletcher, Sam Abramson, and Isadore Cantor. First coming to Detroit in late 1923 to fight in the Oakland Sugar House War, he soon became one of the Purple Gang’s top […]

Michele Merlo (1880 - 1924)

born January 4, 1880 in Sambuca Zabut, Sicily Mafia figure. Chicago labor leader whose death precipitated the city’s infamous 1920’s gangster war

Jack McGurn (2024 - 1936)

He was a killer at the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago, Illinois.

Frank McErlane (1894 - 1932)

Organized Crime Figure. Chicago gangster of the bootlegging 1920s. Credited with being the first to use a submachine gun in gang warfare. He was thought to be one of the machine gunners in the St. Valentines Day massacre of 1929, Chicago, Illinois.

John May (1894 - 1929)

Gangster. A member of Bugs Moran crime gang, he was a victim of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago, Illinois. The other victims were Reinhardt Schwimmer, Frank Gusenberg and his brother Peter Gusenberg, Adam Meyer, Albert Weinshenker and Albert Kachellek. On January 19, 1929, Al Capone gangster Patsy Lolordo and his wife, Aleina, were […]

Hattie May (1887 - 1969)

Wife of Gangster, John May.

Joseph Masseria (1886 - 1931)

Gangster. Murdered by four mafia gunmen: Albert Anastasia, Vito Genovese, Joe Adonis and Benjamin Siegel. Joseph (Joe the Boss) Masseria’s Mafia Family was the most powerful Organized Crime Family in New York City from the start of prohibition until the out break of the Castellammarese war in 1930. During the Castellammarese war he came into […]

Salvatore Maranzano (1886 - 1931)

Organized Crime Figure. He instigated the 1929 to 1931 “Castellammarese War” amongst New York City, New York organized crime factions. He was briefly the undisputed leader of the entire mafia organizations in New York until he was murdered on the orders of younger crime figures like Meyer Lansky and Charles “Lucky” Luciano.

Philip Mangano (1898 - 1951)

Capo in the Mangano Mafia Family of Brooklyn, NY. The Mangano Family was named after Philip’s older brother Vincent who was the Boss of the Family from 1931 until his death. On April 19,1951, Philip was found shot to death in a marsh near Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn, NY. His brother Vincent disappeared that same […]

Harry Maione (2024 - 1942)

Organized Crime Figure. He was part of the “Murder Inc.”, a group of professional assassins who worked solely for the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s.

Seymour Magoon (1970 - 1970)

Gangster. He was part of the Murder Incorporated a group of professional killers who worked solely for the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s. The killers received assignments and payments to murder total strangers in the New York area or anywhere in the country, murdering anyone selected by the syndicate board. Murder, Inc. was destroyed […]

Joseph Magliocco (1898 - 1963)

Organized Crime Figure. Took control of the Profaci Organized Crime Family after the death of his brother-in-law and boss of the family, Joseph Profaci on June 6, 1962. He ran the family until he died of a heart attack in December 1963. After his death Joseph Colombo became boss and the family still bears his […]

Michael Maggio (1889 - 1959)

Organized Crime Figure. Old-time Mafia Don from Philadelphia, who was prominent from the 1920s until his death in 1959. He sponsored future Philadelphia Organized Crime Boss Angelo Bruno for membership into the Philadelphia Family during the 1930s. He died of natural causes at age 69.

Owen Madden (1891 - 1965)

Organized Crime Figure. Nicknamed “Owney”. Born in Liverpool, England, he came to the United States with his family in 1903 and took over New York’s “Gophers” gang when he was only 18 years old. He founded the famous Cotton Club. Madden moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1935 and married local girl Agnes Demby after […]

Ignatius Lupo (1877 - 1947)

Lupo has been described as the most vicious Black Hand leader America has ever known. Lupo’s reign of terror stretched from the late 1800s until he was sentenced to thirty-years in prison in 1909. Using the influence of his relatives, the Morello’s and Terranova’s (both families were powerful Black Hand and Mafia leaders in New […]

Thomas Luchese (1899 - 1967)

Mafia Chieftain. The Luchese crime family of New York is named after him. Close friend of Lucky Luciano.

Lucky Luciano (1897 - 1962)

Lucky Luciano Organized Crime Figure. Born to Antonio and Rosalia Lucania, Lucky had four other siblings, Bartolomeo born in 1890, Giuseppe born in 1898, Filippia born in 1901, and Concetta. His father worked in a sulfur mine in Sicily. When Lucky was 10 years old, the family immigrated to the United States. They settled in […]

William Lovett (1894 - 1923)

Organized Crime Figure. He was the leader of a band of Irish gangsters (called the “White Hand”) in Brooklyn during the teens and 1920s. His gang dealt in extortion, loansharking, gambling and other criminal activities around the Brooklyn docks. During World War I Lovett earned the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions in France.

Carmine Lombardozzi (1913 - 1992)

Organized Crime Figure. He was a member of the Gambino Organized Crime Family in New York City, New York. A top money maker, he was involved in loan sharking and racketeering. In November 1957, he attended the infamous Commission meeting in Apalachin, New York, which was attended by over 100 organized crime figures of the […]

Antonio Lombardo (1891 - 1928)

Chicago gangster. Valued advisor of Al Capone. He became Capone’s consigliere after Johnny Torrio retired in 1927.

Jake Lingle (1891 - 1930)

Journalist, Mob Figure. A reporter for the Chicago Tribune, he covered the city’s organized crime beat during the bloody reign of Al Capone. He was not a writer but a “leg man”, someone who gathered information and phoned it in to the editor’s desk. On June 9, 1930, he was shot dead at close range […]

Thomas Licavoli (1904 - 1973)

Organized Crime Figure. Born in St. Louis, he and his family eventually moved to Detroit and began a large-scale liquor smuggling operation across the Detroit River. He was convicted along with Frank Cammerata of a concealed weapons charge in Windsor, Ontario and served three years in a Canadian prison. Upon his release he and his […]

Andrea Licato (1888 - 1920)

Organized Crime Figure. A member of the “Good Killers Society”, he was perhaps the most dangerous hitman for the Detroit mobs during the 1910s. He was tried and acquitted for the murder of Detroit Police detective Emmanuel Roggers, and eventually shot to the forefront of the Giannola-Vitale war by helping to betray his boss Tony […]

Joseph Lanza (1970 - 1968)

Oragnized Crime Figure. Known as “Socks” Lanza, he was a captain in the Frank Costello/Vito Genovese Organized Crime Family and held absolute power over the Fulton Fish Market, the largest fish distribution center on the East coast, in New York City. He founded the Sea Food Workers Union and the Fulton Market Watchmen and Patrol […]

Meyer Lansky (1902 - 1983)

Meyer Lansky One of the most powerful and richest of U.S. crime syndicate chiefs and bankers, who had major interests in gambling, especially in Florida, pre-Castro Cuba, Las Vegas, and the Bahamas. A Polish Jew born in Russia’s Pale of Settlement, Lansky immigrated with his parents to New York’s Lower East Side in 1911. By […]

Morris Kessler (1912 - 1935)

Organized Crime Figure. He was the chauffeur and bodyguard of Jewish mobster Joseph Amberg. On September 30, 1935, he and Amberg were lined up against the wall of a Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City, New York auto repair shop and machine-gunned to death by a rival gang.

Louis Kerzner (1904 - 1939)

Organized Crime Figure. On the orders of mobster Jacob “Little Augie” Orgen, he was hired to murder Jewish gang leader Nathan “Kid Dropper” Caplin, who had been Orgen’s arch rival in the union rackets of New York City, New York. On August 28, 1923 he carried out his task, shooting and killing Caplin as he […]

Albert Kachellek (1890 - 1929)

Organized Crime Figure. Also known as James “Jim” Clark, he was a gangster working for Bugs Moran that fell victim to the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago, Illinois (the other victims were Reinhardt Schwimmer, Frank Gusenberg and his brother Peter Gusenberg, Adam Heyer (aka Adam Meyer), John May and Albert Weinshank aka Albert […]

Wilfred Johnson (1935 - 1988)

Organized Crime Figure. He was an associate in the Gambino Organized Crime Family and close friend of mobster John Gotti. He was also a “Top Echelon” informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigations from 1966 until 1985. He provided the FBI information on John Gotti and other Gambino Family members (his code name was “Wahoo” […]