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Prohibition Gangsters Facts: Fast Fact Sheet
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about the Prohibition Gangsters.
Who the Prohibition Gangsters? The Prohibition Gangsters
were violent mobsters who extended their
illegal activities in the 1920's through the
sale of intoxicating liquor.
What items were the Prohibition Gangsters
associated with? The violent Prohibition Gangsters
favored the Thompson submachine gun, or the
"Tommy Gun" as their weapon of choice. The
profits from organized crime led to a lavish
lifestyle of Prohibition Gangsters with expensive silk suits,
automobiles and diamond jewelry.
Where was the names of Prohibition Gangsters?
The names of famous Prohibition Gangsters
included Charles “Lucky” Luciano, Al
"Scarface" Capone, George “Bugs” Moran, Dutch Schultz
and Jack "Legs" Diamond, Louis "Lepke"
Buchalter, Vince Mangano, Frank Scalice and
Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia.
1920's Prohibition Gangsters
Facts for kids: List of Gangsters
Names
Many of the names of
1920's Prohibition gangsters and bootleggers are detailed on the
following list, a description of each of these mobsters can be found
in the facts file.
List of
Prohibition Gangsters Names Al "Scarface"
Capone ●
Dutch Schultz ●
Jack "Legs" Diamond ● Meyer
Lansky ● Benjamin
"Bugsy" Siegel ●
Charles “Lucky” Luciano ●
Vince Mangano ● Johnny
"The Brain" Torrio ● Frank
Costello ● Frank
"Wacky" Scalice ●
George “Bugs” Moran ●
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter ●
Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia ● Joe
Adonis ● Abner "Longy"
Zwillman ● Joseph
"Doc" Stacher ● Umberto
Valenti ● Giuseppe
"Clutch Hand" Morello ● Joe
Masseria ● Willie
"Two-Knife" Altieri ● "Wild
Bill" Lovett ● "Lupo"
Saietta ● "Machine
Gun Jack" McGurn ● Frankie
Yale ● Salvatore
"Toto" D'Aquila ● Earl "Hymie"
Weiss ● Paul "The
Waiter" Ricca ● Big Jim
Colosimo ● Frankie
La Porte ● Tony "Big
Tuna" Accardo ● "Joe"
Morello ● "Mad
Hatter" Maranzano ● Vince
"The Executioner" Mangano ● Carlo
Gambino ● "Mad
Hatter" Anastasia ●
List of
Prohibition Gangsters Names
1920's Prohibition Gangsters
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Additional facts can be found in the article about
Al "Scarface" Capone
and the Chicago Mafia.
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about the Prohibition Gangsters for kids
Prohibition Gangsters Fact 1:
The American branch of the mafia is called "La
Costra Nostra" (LCN)
Prohibition Gangsters Fact 2:
Many of the Crime bosses and Prohibition
Gangsters bought legal immunity by
administering bribes to police, government agents and politicians
Prohibition Gangsters Fact 3:
Wealthy Prohibition Gangsters favored expensive status symbol
automobiles such as Cadillacs, Packards, Chryslers, Duesenbersgs and
Rolls-Royce cars
Prohibition Gangsters Fact 4:
Customized cars with armor and devices such as
false floors and smokescreens were made for mobsters by crooked auto
dealers such as Joe Bergl and Clarence Lieder.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
5: Clothes worn by mobsters and
Prohibition Gangsters included
Trilby Hats (Fedora), well-tailored pinstriped suit,
Silk shirts and handkerchiefs, Suspenders, Gun Holster,
Spats, Black patent leather Wing Tipped Shoes and a Gun
Holster
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
6: Woman who associated with an American
Prohibition Gangster of the 1920s and 1930s were called gangster
molls or gun molls. An Italian American mafioso moll
were referred to as a comare (Italian for "godmother")
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
7: Gangsters Molls wore Fringed Beaded
Flapper dresses, short skirts with a hemline above the
knee and wore their hair cut as a bob. Accessories
included Charleston pearl beads, cigarette holders, and
feather headbands and feather boas. Silk or rayon
stockings were held up by garters.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
8: Weapons: Prohibition Gangsters and Mobsters used
knives, razors and guns. Their weapons included bombs, machine-guns
and the pineapple, the gangster adaptation of the WW1 hand grenade. Threats of being 'taken
for a ride' were made who did not agree to the demands of mobsters.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
9: Labor racketeering: Labor
racketeering involved the infiltration of gangsters into
legitimate business, commonly workers' unions, from
which Prohibition Gangsters gained power over politicians.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact 10:
Territorial disputes between the
gangs often transformed America’s cities into violent
battlegrounds
Prohibition Gangsters Fact 11:
Mobster slang: An informer was called
a stool pigeon or rat. A Machine gun was called a
typewriter, tommy or grind organ. A Lawyer was called a
Mouthpiece, mouth, lip or front.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
12: Members of the largely Italian-Jewish
National Crime Syndicate included Johnny "The Fox"
Torrio, Lucky Luciano,
Al "Scarface" Capone, Meyer
Lansky, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Frank Costello, Joe
Adonis, Dutch Schultz, Abner "Longy" Zwillman, Louis "Lepke"
Buchalter, Vince "The Executioner" Mangano, Frank
Scalice and Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia.
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Prohibition Gangsters Fact
13: The National Crime Syndicate was the
name given by the newspapers to a an organized crime
syndicate established at a meeting to coordinate the
activities of bootleggers. It later became known as
Murder, Inc.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact 14:
The Five Points Gang was founded by
Paul Kelly, born as Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli, and was based in the Sixth Ward (The Five Points)
of Manhattan, New York City. Kelly recruited violent
hooligans who later became prominent criminals, such as
Johnny Torrio, Al Capone and Lucky Luciano
Prohibition Gangsters Fact 15:
The rivals of the Five Points Gang
were the Eastman Gang founded by Edward "Monk" Eastman
that was taken over by Arnold "the Brain" Rothstein a
Jewish-American racketeer who became a kingpin of the
Jewish mob in New York. Waxey Gordon who specialized in
bootlegging and illegal gambling worked as a rum-runner
for Rothstein during the first years of Prohibition.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
16: The Black Hand gang, ‘La Mano Nera’,
were violent extortionists known for bombings and
murders. The Black Hand gang was New York's first Mafia
family, run by Ignazio "Lupo" Saietta and Giuseppe "Joe"
Morello, sprang up in Manhattan and gradually evolved
into the group now known as the Genovese Crime Family
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
17: The White Hand Gang, first run by
Dinny Meehan and then "Wild Bill" Lovett, operated on
the New York, Brooklyn, and Red Hook waterfronts from
the early 1900s to 1925 and were bitter rivals of the
Italian gangsters.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact 18:
Meyer Lansky was major organized
crime figure known as the "Mob's Accountant" and was
instrumental in the development of the "National Crime
Syndicate"
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
19: Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a Jewish
American mobster who started as a New York bootlegger
and a boyhood friend to Al Capone. He became highly
influential in the development of the casinos in the Las
Vegas Strip. He was known to associate with movie stars
and celebrities such as George Raft, Clark Gable, Gary
Cooper and Cary Grant and threw lavish Hollywood parties
at his Beverly Hills home -
Hollywood in the
1920s
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
20: Frank "Wacky" Scalice was an
Italian-American mobster from New York City who started
as a bootlegger in the Bronx and helped Bugsy Siegel
open the Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
21: Frank Costello, the "Prime Minister
of the Underworld," became one of the most powerful and
influential mob bosses closely linked to the Genovese
crime family.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
22: Abner "Longy" Zwillman began
smuggling whiskey into New Jersey through Canada during
Prohibition and dated Hollywood actress Jean Harlow.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
23: Jack "Legs" Diamond was an Irish
American mobster in Philadelphia and New York City
during the Prohibition era. He organized bootleg sales
in downtown Manhattan. His main rival was Dutch Schultz.
He was murdered on December 18, 1931, his killers were
never found.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
24: Johnny "The Brain" Torrio brought his
protégé Al
Capone from New York City to Chicago in 1919
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
25: George Remus was known as the
"King of the Bootleggers" and reputedly
made $40 million in
under 3 years
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
26: Charles “Lucky” Luciano
operated in New York. “Lucky” Luciano made $4 million
per year. He was famous for setting up the Five
Families (who originated out of New York City Sicilian
Mafia gangs - Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and
Lucchese) to rule New York and establishing a National
Crime Syndicate.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
27: Louis "Lepke" Buchalter was a major
labor racketeer in New York City. In 1927, Buchalter was
arrested for the attempted murder of bootlegger Jack
Diamond but the charges were dropped. In 1944 Louis "Lepke"
Buchalter was the only major mob boss to receive the
death penalty in the United States after being convicted
of the murder of a Brooklyn candy store owner named
Joseph Rosen
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
28: Joseph "Doc" Stacher was a longtime
associate of Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Lucky Luciano and
Frank Costello who started his life of crime in the
1920s running truckloads of bootleg liquor
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
29: Joe Adonis was a New York mobster who
became an enforcer for Frankie Yale, the boss of some
rackets in Brooklyn. Joe Adonis started a bootlegging
operation in Brooklyn supplying alcohol to the show
business community along Broadway in Manhattan.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
30: Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria was
an early Mafia mobster, one of the New York Mafia's Five
Families, from 1922 to 1931.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
31: Giuseppe "the Clutch Hand" Morello,
aka "The Old Fox", was the first boss of the Morello
crime family and later top adviser to Giuseppe "Joe the
Boss" Masseria.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
32: Umberto Valenti was a Sicilian-born
New York City gangster and the boss of what is now
called the Genovese crime family, one of the New York
Mafia's Five Families, from 1922 to 1931.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
33: Frankie Yale was a violent Brooklyn
crime boss and one of Brooklyn's biggest bootleggers.
His rivals were the Irish White Hand Gang and his top
assassin was Willie "Two-Knife" Altierri.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
34: William "Wild Bill" Lovett was an
Irish American gangster and boss of the White Hand Gang
and murdered by gangsters working for Frankie Yale in
1923. His murderer was believed to be Willie "Two-Knife"
Altierri, who was said to have killed him with a meat
cleaver.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
35: Willie "Two-Knife" Altieri was a New
York gangster who served as the chief enforcer for
Frankie Yale's Italian-American "Black-Hand" gang
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
36: Vincenzo Gibaldi, aka Jack "Machine
Gun Jack" McGurn was a Chicago gunman of Al Capone and
became famous as a chief organizer of the Saint
Valentine's Day massacre, although this association has
not been proven
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
37: Salvatore "Toto" D'Aquila was a New
York City mobster and the first boss of the Gambino
crime family. D'Aquila was shot to death in Manhattan on
October 10, 1928
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
38: Vince "The Executioner" Mangano
joined the Brooklyn Mafia and earned a fortune on the
waterfront during Prohibition. His hated rival was
Salvatore "Mad Hatter" Maranzano. He replaced Frank
Scalise who was dethroned due to his supportive
connections with Maranzano.
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
39: Carlo Gambino came from a Sicilian
family that had been involved in the Mafia for centuries
and started in the bootlegging business and became a
founder of the American Mafia
Prohibition Gangsters Fact
40: Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia was one
of the most ruthless, brutal and feared Cosa Nostra
mobsters in American history. He worked with Meyer
Lansky, Louis Buchalter and Frank Costello and became a
hit man and enforcer for Lucky Luciano. He was a labor
racketeer and also allied himself with Giuseppe "Joe the
Boss" Masseria
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