- Alfred Mineo
Alfredo "Al Mineo" Manfredi (? -
November 5 ,1930 ) was a New York mobster who briefly controlled a strong mafia clan during theCastellammarese War . Mineo's organization would eventually become the present-dayGambino crime family .In the early part of the 20th century, New York had five Sicilian crime organizations. The area around the Brooklyn waterfront was controlled by an organization under mobster
Salvatore D'Aquila . As young man, Mineo became part of this gang. Around 1927, a major gang war, to be known as theCastellammarese War , broke out among the Sicilian clans. On one side was a clan consisting of immigrants from the Sicilian town ofCastellammare del Golfo , lead bySalvatore Maranzano . On the other side was a Neapolitan gang led by Joseph "Joe the Boss" Masseria. The D'Aquila clan was allied with Masseria. As with most gang conflicts, the dispute was over territory, money, and power.In 1928 Mineo took over the crime organization when D'Aquila was killed by gunmen belonging to Masseria. Mineo soon proved himself a powerful ally to Masseria, but soon became a target himself. On November 5, 1930, Mineo and his lieutenant
Steve Ferrigno , were shot down in the courtyard of an apartment building onPelham Parkway in theBronx . The gunmen, belonging to Maranzano, had been waiting to kill Masseria; Mineo was a target of opportunity.After Mineo's death, Francesco "Frank" Scalice became family boss. He immediately switched allegiance to Maranzano, who was emerging as the winner in the gang war. It has been theorized that Scalise had arranged a secret deal with Maranzano to murder Mineo and become the organization boss. On April 14 1931, Masseria was murdered in a Brooklyn restaurant and the Castellammarese War was over.
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Castellammarese War References
* [http://www.onewal.com/w-mineo.html The American "Mafia": Who Was Who ? - Al Mineo] (Accessed 19 Feb 2006)
* [http://www.geocities.com/americanmafioso/-castellammaresewar.html American Mafioso: The Castellammarese War] (Accessed 11 May 2005)
* [http://crimemagazine.com/gagliano.htm Gaetano Gagliano: The Quiet Don] by Allan May (Accessed 11 May 2005)
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