Event class: family, boss, murder, crime, mafia, arrested, became, gang, john, prison

Events with high posterior probability

Abner Zwillman	In 1929, Zwillman helped organize the Cleveland Conference, one of the first meetings between Jewish and Italian organized crime leaders, later resulting in the establishment of the Mafia Ruling Commission and eventually the National Crime Syndicate, to which he would be admitted to the following year.
Carmine Pecorelli	On April 6, 1993, Mafia turncoat Tommaso Buscetta told Palermo prosecutors that he had learnt from his boss Gaetano Badalamenti that Pecorelli's murder had been carried out in the interest of prime minister Giulio Andreotti.
Vincent Gigante	During his tenure as boss of the Genovese family after the imprisonment of John Gotti, Gigante would come to be known as the figurehead capo di tutti capi, the'' Boss of All Bosses'', even though the position had been abolished with the murder of Salvatore Maranzano in 1931.
Pasquale Condello	Condello was probably involved in the killing of the historical and charismatic' Ndrangheta boss Antonio Macrì from Siderno -- who tried to stop the crime syndicate drifting into kidnapping and drug running and opposed the establishment of the Santa -- on January 20, 1975.
Wayne Rooney	Stretford alleged in his October 2004 trial that he had secretly recorded boxing promoter John Hyland (an associate of Rooney's first agent) and two other men threatening and attempting to blackmail him for an undisclosed percentage of Rooney's earnings.
Paolo Serraino	He was held responsible for killing Giorgio De Stefano, at the time the boss of the De Stefano' ndrina, in 1977, at the end of the First' Ndrangheta war.
Matthew Madonna	Matthew Madonna (November 2, 1935 Selden, New York) is a caporegime with the Lucchese crime family who was heavily involved in narcotics trafficking and bribery of government officials.
Joseph Rao	In 1946, Rao and Michael'' Trigger Mike'' Coppola were implicated in the murder of Joseph Scottoriggio, a Republican Party election captain.
Jesse James	Jesse James did not become famous, however, until December 7, 1869, when he and (most likely) Frank robbed the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri.
Dominick Cirillo	After Gigante was imprisoned in 1997 for racketeering and conspiracy charges, the leadership of the Genovese crime family passed to a committee/ruling panel, known as the'' Administration'', ostensibly led by Cirillo.
Gaspare Mutolo	On December 24, 1992, Bruno Contrada -- former Palermo police chief and deputy director of the civil intelligence service SISDE -- was arrested due to revelations of Mutolo and another pentito, Giuseppe Marchese.
Gaspar Milazzo	Once powerful and now deceased New York Mafia Boss, Joe Bonanno wrote his 1983 autobiography,'' A Man of Honor'', that'' Gaspar Milazzo and his cousin Stefano Magaddino were important men in the Brooklyn based Castellammarese Clan.''
Matteo Messina Denaro	On March 15, 2010, his brother Salvatore Messina Denaro was arrested along with 18 others in operation'' Golem 2''.
Santo Araniti	Santo Araniti (Reggio Calabria, April 25, 1947) is an Italian criminal and a member of the' Ndrangheta, a Mafia - type criminal organisation in Calabria.
James T. Licavoli	One of many in the Licavoli family to become involved in organized crime, James Licavoli first arrived in Cleveland in 1938.
Pearl Elliott	On December 28, 1933, Elliott was listed on Chicago Police Department's Public Enemies List, with orders to' shoot to kill' as an associate of Dillinger.
Joseph Massino	In 1975, Massino and Vitale participated in the murder of Vito Borelli, who Massino claimed was primarily executed by Gotti, at the behest of Paul Castellano of the Gambino crime family.
Arenda Troutman	In 2004, it was revealed she may have been dating Donnell'' Scandalous'' Jehan, the # 2 leader of the Black Disciples street gang, who had fled the FBI after being indicated in a $ 350,000 + / week drug operation in Troutman's ward.
Frank Bompensiero	In 1956, with the death of boss Jack Dragna, Bompensiero was reduced to the rank of soldier by the new boss, Frank DeSimone.
Anthony Allaire	In 1877, Allaire declared war upon a vicious gang of criminals active in the east side area between Houston and Fifth Street known as the Dutch Mob.
Vito Genovese	In 1953, Genovese allegedly ordered the murder of mobster Steven Franse.
Salvatore Scala	A close associate of John Gotti, Scala was a suspect in the 1985 murders of Gambino boss Paul Castellano and underboss Thomas Bilotti that brought Gotti to power.
Paul Marcinkus	Adding to the troubles, journalist Mino Pecorelli, who had been investigating Marcinkus, the Vatican Bank and ties to organized crime, was found dead in 1979.
Matteo Messina Denaro	After the arrest of Virga in 2001, Messina Denaro took over the leadership of the Mafia in the province of Trapani.
Anthony Corallo	Some historians have speculated that Corallo became boss immediately upon his 1970 release from prison, and that Tramunti was only an'' Acting'' or'' Front'' Boss for the next three years.
Daniel Marino	In 1995 Anthony Casso, a Lucchese underboss who turned states evidence, identified Marino as a co-conspirator in a failed assassination attempt on Gambino boss John Gotti.
Robert F. Carrozza	Robert F. Carrozza also known as'' Bobby Russo'', (born January 9, 1940 East Boston, Massachusetts) is an Italian-American mobster from East Boston, Massachusetts who led a bloody internal rebellion against the leadership of the Providence - based Patriarca crime family.
Joseph Corozzo	On January 1, 2011, five months before his scheduled release date, Joseph was indicted again as part of an FBI operation against over 100 alleged Mafia members and associates.
Dominic Cortina	In 1987, Cortina and Angelini were sent by Chicago Outfit head Joseph Ferriola to assume caretaker roles in Nevada, in the wake of the murder of Anthony Spilotro, who had overseen Chicago Outfit interests there.
Ettore Coco	In 1986, he served as Consigliere for the Lucchese family while boss Anthony'' Tony Ducks'' Corallo, Salvatore Santoro and Christopher Furnari were on trial in the Commission Case.
Bernardo Mattarella	According to a report of the section of the Communist Party of Trapani, which was reproduced in the final report of the Antimafia Commission in 1976, Mattarella had an excellent relationship with the Mafia boss of Alcamo, Vincenzo Rimi.
Count Dante	On July 22, 1965, Dante was charged with attempted arson when he and an accomplice, Douglas Dwyer (The Second Deadliest Man Alive), were arrested while taping dynamite caps to a rival Chicago dojo.
Leoluca Bagarella	Two of Bagarella's brothers were also Mafiosi ; his elder brother, Calogero Bagarella, was shot dead on December 10, 1969, in the Viale Lazio in Palermo, during a shootout with rival mafioso Michele Cavataio and his men, known as the Viale Lazio massacre.
Giovanni Motisi	Giovanni Motisi (Palermo, January 1, 1959) also known as''' u pacchiuni'', is a member of the Mafia in Sicily from the Altarello neighbourhood in Palermo.
Leonardo Messina	The knowledge about the inner workings of the top echelon of Cosa Nostra, he obtained from Giuseppe Madonia -- considered to be the number two of the Mafia around 1990.
Velupillai Prabhakaran	Velupillai Prabhakaran has been wanted by Interpol and many other organizations since 1991 for terrorism, murder, organized crime and terrorism conspiracy.
Duffy (singer)	In September 1998, at the age of 14, Duffy was briefly put in a police safe house when authorities uncovered a plot by her stepfather's ex-wife to pay an assassin # 3,000 to kill her stepfather, Philip Smith.
Daniel Leo (mobster)	In May 2007, Leo was one of many Genovese crime family members indicted on federal loansharking and extortion charges.
Joseph Paruta	He was a close childhood friend of mob associate Vincent Rizzuto Sr. (also known as'' Vinnie Oil'') born January 9, 1936 from Rockville Centre, New York, of no relation to Vito Rizzuto and Joseph D'Angelo Sr..
Vito Badalamenti	After extensive surveillance, the Spanish police arrested Vito and Gaetano Badalamenti in Madrid on April 8, 1984, capping a four-year undercover investigation by Italian and US law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic.
Vito Rizzuto	On February 11, 2005, an arrest warrant was issued in Rome against Rizzuto in connection with alleged Mafia involvement in building the Strait of Messina Bridge across the Strait of Messina connecting the Italian mainland with Sicily, one of the biggest public works projects in Italy's history.
Tommaso Buscetta	After the Ciaculli Massacre in 1963, Buscetta fled to the United States where the local Gambino crime family helped him to get started in the pizza business.
Salvatore "The Engineer" Greco	According to Mafia boss Giuseppe Guttadauro -- overheard by the police during a ` lesson' about the history of the Mafia -- Greco was still alive in 2001.
Chung Keng Quee	It has been believed that The Third Larut War erupted in 1872 over a scandal involving the Lee Ah Kun (李亞勤 / 李亚勤), the attorney at Larut (for the Ghee Hin leader Ho Ghi Sui) and the wife of a nephew of the Hai San leader, Chung, Keng Quee.
Giovanni Brusca	He became capo mandamento of San Giuseppe Jato after the arrest of his father in 1989.
Robert Taft	It was in 1940 that Taft first clashed with Thomas E. Dewey, then a New York District Attorney who had become nationally famous for successfully prosecuting several prominent organized-crime figures, especially New York mob boss'' Lucky'' Luciano.
John Stanfa	Convicted of multiple charges in 1995, Stanfa is currently serving five consecutive life sentence s. Born in the Sicilian city of Caccamo, Giovanni Stanfa was the youngest of four children, two others who are said to be involved with the mafia as well.
Robert Carey (gangster)	He is considered a suspect in the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
Thomas Kinney	By 1901, Snake Kinney and his crew, now one of the most powerful gangs in the city, had formed an alliance with St. Louis Police Board Head Harry Hawes, forming a powerful combine against rival gang leaders, including John'' Bad Jack'' Williams, John'' Cuddy Mack'' McGillicuddy, and John'' Baldy'' Ryan.
Vincenzo Aloi	Vincenzo'' Vinny'' Aloi (born September 22, 1933) is a New York City mobster involved in stock fraud who briefly served as the acting boss of the Colombo crime family.
Dean O'Banion	In 1920,'' Papa'' Johnny Torrio, the head of the predominantly Italian South Side mob (later known as the Chicago Outfit), and his lieutenant, Al Capone, met with all the Chicago bootleggers to work out a system of territories.
Joseph Barboza	Deegan had been marked for death by the New England family in 1965 for several burglaries which he had committed with future Winter Hill Gang heavyweight, Stephen'' The Rifleman'' Flemmi.
Ettore Coco	In 1972, Coco, his brother-in-law James Michael Falco, and Louis'' Louis Nash'' Nakaladski were indicted in Miami on extortion and loansharking charges.
Stefano Magaddino	In 1921, in Avon, New Jersey, Magaddino was arrested for his involvement in the murder of Pietro'' Don Petrino'' Caiozzo, a member of the rival Buccellato clan from Castellammare del Golfo.
Frankie DePaula	In May 1969, DePaula was arrested by Federal agents along with a group including Gary Garafola, Maxim Griesler, Henry Marler, Paul Evans, John Gardner, John DiMayo and Richard Brunell (Brunell later became a government witness against the other defendants) and charged with conspiracy, theft and possession of stolen copper.
Henry Hill	In 1963, Hill returned to New York and began the most notorious phase of his criminal career : arson, intimidation, running an organized stolen car ring, and hijacking trucks.
John DeRoss	After the 1971 assassination attempt on Boss Joseph'' Joe'' Colombo, capo Carmine Persico became boss and promoted DeRoss to caporegime.
Harry Joseph Bowman	He was indicted as well for having ordered bombings of rival clubhouses in Orlando, Florida and in Cook County, Illinois in 1994.
William White (gangster)	According to the testimony of Roger Touhy to the Illinois Parole Board in 1957, White and Rio began shooting at Zangara however hit several bystanders instead before disappearing into the crowd dressed in police uniforms of the Cicero Police Department.
Frank Rio	In 1932, the Chicago Outfit sent Rio to New Jersey to offer the mob's assistance in helping Charles Lindbergh find his kidnapped baby son.
Duke Montana	In 2009, when he still was a member of Truceklan, Italian police led several drug operations which involved many members of the crew.
James Marcello	On December 15, 1992, federal authorities charged Marcello and reputed mob boss Sam'' Wings'' Carlisi with racketeering.
Charlie Benante	His other nephew, Frank's younger brother, Anthony, was murdered in the Bronx, NYC, on March 25, 1996.
John "Pudgy" Dunn	Willie Egan managed to temporarily escape Pudgy Dunn's wrath when John was busted for another murder in early January 1919.
Cesare Terranova	In an indictment in 1964, Terranova wrote :'' it is clear that Angelo and Salvatore La Barbera (well-known bosses in the Palermo area)... knew former mayor Salvatore Lima and maintained relations in such a way as to ask for favours... The undeniable contacts of the La Barbera mafiosi with the one who was the first citizen of Palermo... constitute a confirmation of... the infiltration of the Mafia in several sectors of public life.''
P. M. Pasinetti	In 1973, Pasinetti played a small acting part in Francesco Rossi's compelling depiction of Lucky Luciano, the fabled American mafia boss who ran operations both in the US and Sicily.
Michele Miranda	In 1931, following the end of the Castellammarese War, he became close to Luciano crime family underboss, Vito Genovese and became a made man, or full member, of that crime family.
Salvatore Sabella	In 1925 Sabella was a suspect in the murder of rival mobster Leo Lanzetti.
Roy DeMeo	Immediately after, another member of the crew (originally Chris Rosenberg up until his 1979 murder, according to government witness testimony) would stab the victim in the heart to prevent more blood from pumping out of the gunshot wound.
Frank Salemme	In 1968, Salemme arranged a car bombing of John Fitzgerald, a lawyer representing Patriarca mob informant Joseph Barboza.
Nicholas Bianco	By 1990, Bianco would be de facto boss of the family, superseding Junior.
Al Roker	On Monday, July 20, 2009, he began co-hosting his morning show, Wake Up with Al, on The Weather Channel, Al Roker was born in Queens, New York, the son of Isabel, of Jamaican descent, and Albert Lincoln Roker, Sr., a labor relations negotiator, bus driver and dispatcher, of Bahamian descent.
Alphonse D'Arco	In July 1991, in a Staten Island meeting, Amuso and Casso replaced D'Arco as acting boss with a four man panel of capos.
Walter Douglas	Walter Douglas (born 1961) is an alleged Scottish drug trafficker and organized crime figure, dubbed the Tartan Pimpernel by the press, who is reportedly one of the richest in the United Kingdom with an estimated worth of # 20 million.
Anthony Indelicato	In 1979, Anthony Indelicato participated in the murder of Bonanno boss Carmine Galante.
Harry Joseph Bowman	After more than one year on the FBI list, Bowman was arrested June 7, 1999 in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
Lenny McPherson	He made a trip to the USA in August 1951, using a forged passport and travelling under his brother's name ; Tony Reeves states that it was on this visit that McPherson made his first contacts with members of the Chicago mob.
Sam Giancana	Giancana's crew was also responsible for the murder on August 4, 1952 of African American gambling boss Theodore Roe.
Paul Vario	In 1980, longtime associate Henry Hill became a government witness and testified against Vario and several others.
Domenico Raccuglia	Raccuglia supports the Vitale family -- historical allies of Totò Riina -- while Provenzano backed the other side until his arrest in April 2006.
Jack Ruby	In 1959, Ruby went to Cuba ostensibly to visit a friend, influential Dallas gambler Lewis McWillie, an associate of Mafia boss Santo Trafficante.
Jimmy Hope	In 1875, he was recruited by George Leonidas Leslie and spent the next three years preparing for arguably his biggest heist, the Manhattan Bank robbery.
Frankie Yale	In May 1920, Yale traveled to Chicago and personally killed longtime gang boss Big Jim Colosimo at the behest of Chicago Outfit friends Torrio and Capone.
Louis Tom Dragna	In 1978 Louis Dragna, Michael Rizzitello, Thomas Ricciardi, Jack LoCicero, and Dominick Raffone were indicted on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) charges related to the murder of Frank Bompensiero and extortion.
Dominick Montiglio	In March 1975, Montiglio showcased his willingness to murder for his uncle when he assisted Nino and Roy DeMeo in an attempted hit on Vincent Governara, a childhood friend of Montiglio's who had feuded with Nino over a decade earlier.
John Ibrahim	In 2006, the NSW Crime Commission seized assets, including his Dover Heights home, on the balance of probabilities that Ibrahim had allegedly engaged in criminal activity.
Herbert Blitzstein	His capo, Anthony Spilotro, in 1976, formed a burglary ring with his brother Michael and Blitzstein, utilizing about eight associates as burglars.
Anthony Scotto	After Castellano's assassination in 1986, new family boss John Gotti replaced Scotto in the labor rackets with another Red Hook mobster, Anthony Ciccone.
Angelo Prisco	He is a relative of Rudolph (Rudy) Prisco Sr who died with sons and grand children, (Rudolph Prisco Jr, Rudolph Prisco III and Michael Prisco of Saratoga), a Genovese crime family who was indicted and convicted of criminal activity from the testimony of Joseph Valachi in 1963.
Anthony Baratta	In early September 1991, Amuso demoted D'Arco and created a'' Ruling panel'' to run the family, Baratta became a member along with Salvatore'' Sal'' Avellino, Frank Lastorino and Alpnonse D'Arco.
Giulio Andreotti	His man in Palermo was Salvo Lima, who was murdered by the Mafia in March 1992.
Paul Castellano	In September 1980, Castellano allegedly ordered the murder of his former son-in-law Frank Amato.
Philip Testa	On June 8, 1980 Phil Testa held a La Cosa Nostra initiation ceremony at the South Philadelphia home of mob captain John Cappello.
Antonio Caponigro	As a made member of the Philadelphia crime family in the 1950s and 1960s he became a recognized crime figure after being identified by mob turncoat Joseph Valachi in 1963.
Vito Roberto Palazzolo	In 2003 prosecutors from Palermo, Sicily, attempted to have Palazzolo extradited to face charges of Mafia association.
Domenico Condello	With his brother Paolo Condello he was arrested in January 1988 for the killing of De Stefano.
Antonio Rotolo	Antonino'' Nino'' Rotolo (born January 3, 1946) is an Italian Mafia boss from the Pagliarelli area in Palermo that traditionally was under the control of the Motisi Mafia family.
Venero Mangano	Since boss Daniel'' Danny the Lion'' Leo was imprisoned in 2007, Mangano has been the family's senior leader outside prison.
Doc Holliday	On May 12, 1874, Holliday and 12 others were indicted in Dallas for illegal gambling.
Rhyging	He became notorious in 1948 after escaping from prison, going on the run and committing a string of robberies, murders and attempted murders before he was gunned down by police.