In May 1998, Anthony P. Delmonti, an associate of the Cleveland family and the Rochester, New York, faction of the Bonanno crime family, became a confidential informant for the FBI's Cleveland office and provided the Bureau with information on a Mafia-controlled Rochester-to-Cleveland stolen car ring, a Los Angeles-to-Cleveland cocaine ring ...

2015年7月29日 · Cleveland organized crime rose to prominence during Prohibition but faded following the mob wars of the late 1970s. Click through this photo gallery to read about key figures involved in the ...

2024年5月14日 · The Mayfield Road Mob carried out so many hits that hitmen were charging $25 per murder. During the 1970s mob wars, when Cleveland was known as "Bomb City, USA," the city experienced nearly forty different car bombings - including the one that ultimately brought down gangster Danny Greene.

Ferritto is best known for assassinating rival mobster Danny Greene in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1977 in order to prevent Greene from overthrowing the Cleveland Mafia, and subsequently becoming a government witness when implicated in the killing.

At the center of this incredible situation — The Mob War and The Leak — was the sloppy and amateurish bombing murder of Daniel John Patrick Greene, a bizarre and megalomaniacal gangster and an FBI informant. Greene defied all the rules of the game and lived on myth and on borrowed time — until last October.

The result was the bloodiest mob war in Cleveland since Prohibition, with nearly 40 car bombings and other mob hits from mid-1976 to mid-1977. All the killings brought a great deal of federal heat against the surviving, but aging Mafiosi, many of whom went to prison for crimes stemming from the 1977 assassination of Green.

2023年12月9日 · Hartmut “Hans” Graewe, one of Cleveland’s most notorious Mafia hitmen, died behind bars on October 27, Cleveland.com reported last week. Graewe was 78. Before passing away in a federal prison in Texas, he was feared on the streets of Ohio. Nicknamed “The Surgeon”, he was fond of dismembering the bodies of his mob victims.

2023年4月18日 · The Cleveland crime family, also known as the Cleveland Mafia, was comprised primarily of Italian-American mobsters who wielded considerable power and influence in the criminal underworld. These mobsters were known for their involvement in a wide range of illicit activities, including extortion, racketeering, illegal gambling, labour union ...

SINITO, THOMAS J. (18 Sep. 1938-21 Dec. 1997) was a Cleveland mobster who once was accused of plotting to kill Mayor Dennis J. Kucinich. He was born in Cleveland to Lena (Longo) and Frank Sinito, who ran Sinito Brothers fruit market on Woodland Ave. Sinito gained his entrance into the mob as a result of the local power struggle that followed ...

2020年6月21日 · When Joseph Iacobacci died earlier this year of natural causes, his death marked an end of an era for the Cleveland Mafia. Iacobacci nicknamed “Joe Loose” for his violent ways as a young man that made fellow gangsters quip he had a “screw loose” in his head, led his Cleveland Crime family during a tumultuous time for the Mafia.