Conspiracy to violate federal narcotics laws (1959)
Criminal penalty
15 years imprisonment (1959)
Vito Genovese (Italian:[ˈviːtodʒenoˈveːze,-eːse]; November 21, 1897 – February 14, 1969) was an Italian-born American mobster involved with the American Mafia. A long-time associate and childhood friend of Lucky Luciano, Genovese took part in the Castellammarese War and helped shape the rise of the Mafia as a major force in organized crime in the United States. He would later lead Luciano's crime family, which was later renamed the Genovese crime family in his honor.
Along with Luciano, Genovese helped the expansion of the heroin trade to an international level. He fled to Italy in 1937, and for a brief period during World War II he supported Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime for fear of being deported back to the U.S. to face murder charges. After returning to the U.S. in 1945, Genovese served as mentor to Vincent "the Chin" Gigante, the future boss of the Genovese family.[1]
In 1957, Genovese vied for the boss of bosses title by ordering the murder of Albert Anastasia and the botched hit of Frank Costello. Immediately following this, he called a mafia summit to consolidate his power, but the meeting was raided by police. In 1959, Genovese's reign was cut short as he was convicted on narcotics conspiracy charges and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. While he and his underling Joe Valachi were in prison together, Valachi killed an inmate he thought to be a hitman sent by Genovese. Valachi then became a government witness. Genovese died in prison on February 14, 1969.
^DeVico, Peter J. "The Mafia Made Easy: The Anatomy and Culture of La Cosa Nostra". (p. 186) Archived April 30, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
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control of the Luciano crime family (renamed the Genovese crime family) from Frank Costello, VitoGenovese wanted to legitimize his new power by holding...
prison cell with Costello's rival, VitoGenovese, Gigante became a caporegime overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers and associates based in Greenwich...
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unions. Anastasia was murdered on October 25, 1957, on the orders of VitoGenovese and Carlo Gambino; Gambino subsequently became boss of the family. Anastasia...
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control of the Luciano crime family, renamed the Genovese crime family, from Frank Costello, VitoGenovese wanted to legitimize his new power by holding...
Five Families, especially the Genovese crime family, which sought to control the Philadelphia crime family. VitoGenovese, an underboss at the time, assumed...
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Hatter" Anastasia, VitoGenovese, Alfred Mineo, Willie Moretti, Joe Adonis and Frank Costello. However, powerful Sicilian Don Vito Ferro decided to make...
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after the convention, following the arrest of VitoGenovese in 1959. As Genovese and many others of the Genovese crime family were under indictment, Catena...
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