Ernest "The Hawk" Rupolo (1908 – August 24, 1964) was a New York mobster and hitman for the Luciano crime family, now the Genovese crime family. He would later turn informant and testify against then-capo and future boss Vito Genovese.
Ernest "The Hawk" Rupolo (1908 – August 24, 1964) was a New York mobster and hitman for the Luciano crime family, now the Genovese crime family. He would...
18-kilogram (40-pound) block of concrete. On August 24, 1964, the body of ErnestRupolo, aged 52, a trigger man who informed on Vito Genovese in 1944, was found...
Genovese crime family hitman-turned-informant ErnestRupolo in 1964 on the orders of Vito Genovese. Rupolo was shot and stabbed several times before his...
six months in prison for abandoning his wife and two young children. ErnestRupolo, Genovese crime family assassin March 17 – Raymond L. S. Patriarca,...
the Boccia murder by mobster Ernest "The Hawk" Rupolo, a former Genovese associate. Facing a murder conviction, Rupolo had decided to become a government...
hoodlum, LaTempa was pressured to support the testimony of hitman Ernest "The Hawk" Rupolo in the government's case against Vito Genovese for the 1934 murder...
Ferdinand "The Shadow" Boccia is abducted by Willie Gallo and Ernest "The Hawk" Rupolo after a dispute with Vito Genovese over a fixed card game. Boccia...