- Tattaglia crime family
The Tattaglia family is one of
New York City 's criminalFive Families (The Godfather) . They are well known to be involved in prostitiution run from the St. Sebastian Hotel inBrooklyn . They were the first family to begin working withnarcotics sometime in the 1930s.In the 1940s, the Tattaglias began to gain power after being supported by drug kingpin
Virgil Sollozzo , even managing to gain a vital toehold intoLittle Italy, Manhattan , crippling theCorleone family 's empire. They also managed to takeVito Corleone out of the picture by sending him into hospital.Their luck would not last for long however, as
Bruno Tattaglia was killed by Corleoneenforcer s and Sollozzo was murdered during a peace talk withMichael Corleone . This act made Don Tattaglia declare a state of mob war against Don Corleone, having been secretly backed up byEmilio Barzini .After being forced into a stalemate, Tattaglia and his allies set up
Sonny Corleone for assassination, avenging Bruno's death. Vito, having recovered, called a meeting of theThe Commission (mafia) and swore that he would not fight Tattaglia.This peace came just in time, as the Tattaglia family had been massively crippled by the war. However, after Vito Corleone died of a heart attack,
Michael Corleone sentRocco Lampone to the St. Sebastian Hotel, where he murdered Don Tattaglia and the prostitute he was with.The new regime
Phillip Tattaglia was suceeded by his brother Rico, who was unused to his brother's business and nearly brought the Family into bankruptcy before he died, although of natural causes in 1961 after stepping down. The Family then became property of
consigliere Osvaldo Altobello, who became a strong ally to the Corleone Family.In 1980, the Tattaglias were finally crushed when Altobello betrayed Michael Corleone to Don Liccio Lucchesi in Italy and the corrupt members of the
Vatican Bank . Corleone poisoned Altobello with a packet of cannoli thatConnie Corleone (Altobello's godaughter), had given him for his birthday.The Family
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Underboss -Bruno Tattaglia , Johnny Tattaglia
*Consigliere - Freddie Nobile
*Caporegime s- Tony Bianchi, Luigi Fusco, Donnie Marinelli
*Soldatis-Mikey Saleri, Squeegie McNeese, Luigi Bonetti, Rocky Della BarcaIllegal Activity
*Prostitution
*Narcotics
*NightclubsDons
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Philip Tattaglia 1931-1955
*Rico Tattaglia 1955-1962
*Osvaldo Altobello 1962-1980The Tattaglia family, along with the Barzini family, is believed to be the rival of the Corleones. The two families conspire in the film, notably for the murder of Santino "Sonny" Corleone.
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