Gaspare Messina (Italian pronunciation:[ˈɡasparemesˈsiːna]; August 7, 1879 – June 15, 1957) founded the New England Mafia that would later be known as the Patriarca crime family. He immigrated to Brooklyn from Sicily with his wife in 1905. Messina and his family arrived in Boston by 1915 and retired as head of the Boston Mafia in 1932. He was succeeded by Phil Buccola. Messina died on June 15, 1957, in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Rhode Island. Gaspare DiCola acted as boss of the Boston family until his assassination on September 21, 1916. This allowed GaspareMessina, a Sicilian...
crime family Boss 1930–1931 Succeeded by Joseph Bonanno Preceded by GaspareMessina Capo dei capi Boss of bosses 1931 Succeeded by Lucky Luciano as chairman...
family Boss c.1922–1931 Succeeded by Lucky Luciano Preceded by Salvatore D'Aquila Capo dei capi Boss of bosses 1928–1930 Succeeded by GaspareMessina...
– Frank Lanza in San Francisco, Stefano Magaddino in Buffalo, and GaspareMessina in New England. Schiro was also close to future Los Angeles boss, Nick...
ethnicities were also involved. The Patriarca crime family, founded by GaspareMessina in 1916, expanded during the 1920s but did not gain the upper hand...
as the Patriarca crime family after the retirement of previous boss GaspareMessina, with Joe Lombardo (not to be confused with the Chicago Outfit member...
Gaspare Conturla (died 1640) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Venosa (1638–1640). On 15 January 1638, Gaspare Conturla was appointed...
Sicilian mafioso involved in international narcotics trafficking GaspareMessina, Sicilian mafioso active as a "rappresentante" for the Sicilian underworld...
agricultural and industrial business sectors; in 1859 the Palermo entrepreneur Gaspare Ciprì had even founded a newspaper entitled Le ferrovie sicule and had...
including the coastal area up to Cefalù, and part of the territory of Messina, including the towns of Mistretta and Tortorici. Lo Piccolo allegedly made...
Rocco Dicillo and Antonio Montinaro; agents Paolo Capuzza, Angelo Corbo, Gaspare Bravo and Giuseppe Costanza survived. Salvatore Cancemi, who later turned...
(1946–2013) Gerlando Sciascia (1934–1999) Luigi Putrone (born 1960) Gerlandino Messina (born 1972) Maurizio Di Gati (born 1966) Salvatore Cuffaro (born 1958)...
January 1993, the remaining bosses, among them Giuseppe Graviano, Matteo Messina Denaro, Giovanni Brusca, Leoluca Bagarella, Antonino Gioè and Gioacchino...
di la Vicaria ("The Mafiosi of the Vicaria") by Giuseppe Rizzotto and Gaspare Mosca. The words mafia and mafiusi are never mentioned in the play. The...
(1578 – 7 April 1646) was a Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Messina (1626–1646). Biagio Proto de Rossi was born in Patti, Sicily in about 1578...
Leoluca Bagarella. According to a later confession by one of the kidnappers, Gaspare Spatuzza, they dressed as police officers and told the boy he was being...
before Lars Porsena, Museo regionale di Messina. 1646 – 1649, Adoration of the Shepherds, Museo Regionale di Messina. 1646 – 1649, St Cecilia, recorded in...
USA: Abrams Books. p. 343. ISBN 978-0810997981. Garabed Eknoyan, Natale Gaspare De Santo (1997). History of Nephrology 2: Reports from the First Congress...