Cleveland Family Related Hits ATTN Furio

[Stroccos]

This is A list Furio made . We are going to add or subtract to it in this post. Feel free to chime in

october 13, 1927 - Joseph "Big Joe" Lonardo,killed by Salvatore Todaro for became the Cleveland boss.

1928 - Lorenzo Lupo

1929 - Francesco Lonardo

June 11,1929 - Salvatore "Black Sam" Todaro,was killed for revenge by Lonardo'son Angelo.

June 26, 1929 - Frank Bellini,controlled most of the bootlegging rackets in 1920s Akron.

1930 - Carmelo Licastri

May 22, 1930 - Michael Corcelli in Akron, Ohio.According to Rick Porrello's 1995 book _Corn Sugar and Blood: the Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia, Michael Corcelli was an ally of Cleveland mafia boss Big Joe Lonardo and, along with Frank Bellini, controlled most of the bootlegging rackets in 1920s Akron. Corcelli was shot to death by an unknown assailant, and the murder was never solved.

July 5, 1930 - Joseph Porrello,the family boss and his bodyguard Salvatore Tilocca was killed by Frank Milano.

July 26,1930 - Vincenzo "Jim" Porrello,the Joseph's brother was killed on Milano's order.

August 15, 1930 - Frank Alessi, witness to the murder of “Big Joe”, Lonard’s brother Frank, was killed. From his deathbed, he identified Frank Brancato as the attacker. Brancato was known mainly as a supporter of Lonardo and suspected of multiple killings. Brancato was acquitted of Alessi’s murder charges.

February 25, 1932, Raymond Porrello, his brother Rosario, and their bodyguard Dominic Gulino (also known by several aliases) played cards near E. 110th and Woodland Avenue. The front door opened and, in a rush of bullets, the Porrello brothers, their bodyguard, and one guard came down. Porrelos died at the scene. Gulino died hours later. The stranger eventually recovered from his own wounds.

In early 1933, in the wake of the tragedy of the large Porrello family, Rosario’s son Angelo, 21, was killed in a fight over a pool game in Buffalo. It was rumored that he and his uncle John were trying to get involved in the liquor business.

June 10, 1936 - Giuseppe Romano, a successful surgeon in Cleveland, was installed as crime family boss when Milano went into exile in Mexico protected by California mafiosi.

March 11, 1960 - Pittsburgh mob soldier and Youngstown crew boss Sandy Naples and his girlfriend Mary Ann Vranich are shotgunned to death on the porch of Vranich's house. Naples was on a weekend furlough from prison.

August 6, 1960 - Cleveland mob associate Vince Innocenzi is found shot to death in a ditch in Trumbull County weeks following botching a hit on Pittsburgh mafia affiliate Joseph (Stoney) Romano. Days after Innocenzi�s murder, his brother Silvio is found hanged in his garage. Innocenzi was already on thin ice in Ohio underworld circles for his robbing of a mafia-owned Steubenville restaurant and bar years earlier.

December 15, 1960 - Local mob enforcer and Naples faction collector �Big John� Schuller is killed, found shot on Route 82. He had survived a car bombing two years prior.

June 10, 1961 - Cleveland mob associate and Mahoning Valley gambling lieutenant Mike Farrah is shotgunned to death on his front lawn while practicing his golf swing. Farrah oversaw affairs at the Jungle Inn, the cash cow of a mafia-backed casino and supper club in Warren, Ohio.

July 1, 1962 - Pittsburgh mob soldier Billy Naples, his older brother Sandy's successor as the Steel Town crime family's point man in the Valley, is blown up in a car bomb in his garage.

July 17, 1961 - Cleveland mob soldier James (Vinnie D) De Niro is blown up in a car bomb outside his restaurant on a crowded Youngstown street.

November 23, 1962 - Cleveland mob soldier and notorious Youngstown crew boss Charles (Cadillac Charlie) Cavallaro and his 11-year old progeny Tommy Cavallaro are blown up in a car bomb in their garage the morning after Thanksgiving as the elder Cavallaro went to drive his young son to football practice.

June 21, 1968 - Pierino (Pete) DiGravio, loanshark and gangster, was shot to death while playing golf at the Orchard Hills golf course on June 21, 1968. Known as the Mayor of Little Italy, DiGravio had recently made the mistake of bad-mouthing his Mob rivals to a Cleveland Press reporter stating: �We need the Mafia like we need cancer.�

October 11, 1968 - Local hoodlum and Cleveland mob affiliate Paul Calautti is killed, shotgunned to death on orders of then-Naples faction leader Joseph (Little Joey) Naples, the future co-crew boss in the area on behalf of the Pittsburgh mafia during the late 1980s.

September 24, 1970 - Carmen T. Semenoro, 32, an alleged enforcer for the Mafia who was indicted for extorting money from William Manus of Youngstown, is murdered gangland style in his Warrensville Heights apartment.

October 31, 1971 - Art Snepeger, Danny Greene�s gopher and overall right-hand man, is blown up in a car bomb he was attaching to the Cadillac of Greene�s friend-turned-rival in the trash-hauling industry Michael (Big Mike) Fratto.

November 26, 1971 - Michael (Big Mike) Fratto is killed in a shootout with Danny Greene which broke out when a car carrying Fratto approached a jogging Greene at Cleveland�s White City Beach Park. Greene is let off on self-defense grounds.

March 29, 1975 - Notorious Cleveland Jewish mobster and numbers boss Alex (Shondor) Birns is blown up in a car bomb attached to his Cadillac parked behind Christy's Lounge on Detroit Street after a falling out with Greene, a former protegè of his.

July 19, 1976 - Innocent civilian Frank Pircio, the 50-year old neighbor of Cleveland mob soldier Alfred (Allie Con) Calabrese, is killed in a car bomb attached to Calabrese's brand-new Lincoln Continental when going to move the vehicle obstructing his own on his way to work one early summer morning.

August 22, 1976 - Cleveland mafia underboss Calogero (Leo Lips) Moceri disappears, his blood-soaked Mercedes the only evidence of his slaying. Moceri was don Jack Licavoli's cousin and best friend. Earlier that month, Moceri had gotten into a public verbal spat with John Nardi at the annual Feast of the Assumption.

April 1977 - Hells Angel biker Enis (Eagle) Crnic is killed while attempting to attach a car bomb to a vehicle belonging to eastside Italian mob associate John (Johnny Del) Delzoppo. Despite the Hells Angels working relationship with the mafia, Crnic was hired by Greene for the job, greatly angering Licavoli and his administration.

May 17, 1977 - Aspiring Buckeye State mafia overlord and labor union boss John Nardi is killed in a car bomb outside his labor union hall.

June 1977 - Cleveland mob associate and explosive expert Henry (Boom Boom) Grecco, a member of the hit team that planned and carried out the Nardi bombing, vanishes, presumably in �clean-up� from the Nardi job.

October 6, 1977 - Cagey Cleveland Irish mob boss Danny (The Irishman) Greene is killed in a car bomb in the parking lot of a suburban Lyndhurst, Ohio dentist's office. Licavoli brought in Erie, Pennsylvania mob figure and known hit man Ray Ferrito to head the effort to finally do away with the 43-year old Irishman forever. Ferrito eventually flipped.

July 6, 1978 - Cleveland mobster Joey Bonarrigo is murdered in a beef with the Hells Angels.

November 16, 1978 - Irish mob strong arm Keith (The Enforcer) Ritson, who acted as Danny Greene's main muscle and top hit man, is shot to death by Hans (The Surgeon) Graewe, a German-born Cleveland mafia associate and deranged assassin, on orders of the Licavoli group after word of Ritson's intent on settling old scores with the Italians began surfacing in the weeks following the successful peace conference.

December 3, 1978 - Prato and Naples' lieutenant Charles (Spider) Gresham is shot to death outside his apartment building getting out of his car after a late-night shift bartending at the My Place Lounge by a sniper's rifle. Gresham and his partner-in-crime James (Peeps) Cononico were empowered by Little Joey Naples to take over mob rackets in working-class Warren, Ohio in the wake of the sudden death of Cleveland mafia consigliere Anthony (Tony Dope) Delsanter, the crime family's rep in the Mahoning Valley, via a heart attack in August 1977.

January 11, 1979 - Prato and Naples' lieutenant James (Peeps) Cononico, Little Joey's bodyguard and Gresham's running buddy, is shot and killed in parking lot of his halfway house as he returned to check back in for the evening.

April 12, 1979 - Little Joey Naples' sometimes-driver Bobby Furey is shot while changing a tire in his driveway. Furey was employed by Naples'Youngstown United Music Co., a local jukebox and vending machine business. Furey was reportedly feuding with multiple Mahoning Valley mob figures around the time of his slaying.

July 25, 1979 - Prato and Naples'lieutenant John (Black Jack) Tobin is shot-gunned to death walking to his car in the parking lot of his apartment building. Tobin was one of the area�s largest bookies and a local nightclub owner.

January 6, 1980 - Prato and Naples' lieutenant Johnny Magda, who acted as Tobin's main collector and was a known professional thief and burglar in Mahoning Valley underworld, is found suffocated to death in a trash dump in Struthers, Ohio.

February 13, 1980 - Licavoli lieutenant Bobby De Cerbo, a foot soldier working under the notorious Carabbia brothers (èRonnie the Crab,Charlie the Crab & Orlie the Crab), Youngstown mobsters connected to Licavoli in Cleveland, is shot-gunned to death through his living room window while watching television with his wife. De Cerbo had previously survived a car bomb attack.

October 2, 1980 - Licavoli lieutenant and Carabbia cousin, Dominic (Junior) Senzarino, is shot-gunned to death as he approached the front door of his house. Pittsburgh mob faction strong arm Bobby Dorler was eventually convicted in the hit.

December 13, 1980 - Legendary Youngstown mafia figure Charles (Charlie the Crab) Carabbia disappears on his way to meeting with Pittsburgh mob faction member Lenny Strollo at the Stardust Motel. Carabbia was left exposed when his brother Ronnie the Crab, the true underworld politician of the three gangster siblings, was imprisoned months earlier on a murder conviction. To this day, Charlie the Crab�s remains have never been unearthed. Strollo rose to become capo of the Pittsburgh crew in The Valley before turning witness-for-the-government in the late 1990s.

January 4, 1981 - Cleveland mafia associate David Perrier is found dead in a ditch in Trumbull County, Ohio. Perrier was Cleveland mobster Thomas (Tommy the Chinaman) Sinito�s bodyguard and collector in the Mahoning Valley. Sinito believed he was informing and he angered his superiors when he insulted Licavoli and slapped Licavoliìs driver Steve (Darby) Calcavecchio in a drunken outburst.

January 17,1981 - Joseph Giaimo was a drug dealer that operated in Florida and Ohio,according Carmine Zagaria a cleveland made man turned rat, Giaimo was making to cut off members of Cleveland Mafia with he was doing bussiness.Zagaria reported it to Joe Gallo and Tommy Sinito and they ordered Zagaria to kill Giaimo.

February 25, 1981 - Labor-union steward Joe De Rose is shot-gunned to death behind the wheel of his car as he backed out of his driveway, mistaken for his son Little Joey,the go-to hit man in the war.

April 18, 1981 - Infamous enforcer Joe (Little Joey D) De Rose, Jr. vanishes on his way to his girlfriend's house, his car found nearby set ablaze. Pittsburgh mob faction hit man Sam (Skinny Sammy) Fosseseca was eventually convicted of the slaying despite no body ever being found. De Rose, Jr. is alleged to have been the triggerman in the Spider Gresham, Peeps Cononico, Black Jack Tobin, Johnny Magda and Bobby De Cerbo murders.

September 24, 1981 - Little Joey Naples' numbers lottery lieutenant Pete Cascarelli disappears among rumors of him being an informant. Cascarelli worked at Naples' Youngstown United Music Co.

August 19, 1991 - Joseph "Joey" Naples, Jr. was killed in a mob hit in Youngstown by a sniper shot from a long distance away with a high-powered rifle.

November 23, 1994 - Michael A. Roman a heroin dealer was killed for give a message to Paul Wiesenbach.Last know hit.

June 3, 1996 - A strong-minded and business-savvy “button man” in the Pittsburgh mafia’s Youngstown rackets, Biondillo, who came up under Little Joey Naples and Briar Hill Jimmy Prato, feuded with Lenny Strollo, Naples’ replacement as the syndicate’s Youngstown captain, and was shot to death while driving to work on the morning of June 3, 1996. Biondillo had eyes on Strollo’s capo’s seat and was going around town making political and judicial payoffs and racket collections behind Strollo’s back. The hit was carried out by black gangster Jeff Riddle, a Strollo strong arm that wished to become the first African-American LCN inductee.

March 23,1996 -Lawrence Sisman,Associate of Ernie Biondillo.

“These Dagos snitch on each other, the only ones not to cop a plea and point a finger are two shines (Riddle and his nephew) and a Jew (Altschuler),” an unidentified wiseguy was recorded commenting on federal audio surveillan

[Stroccos]

Possible mob hits in Akron
Mike " big Mike" saviolis Sep 19th 1935 Akron
Louis Azar Sept. 18, 1935 Akron

March 14th 1957 Dominic Mafrici Killed in Buffalo .

1994 Roman hit I highly doubt that had anything to do with the mob

[furiofromnaples]

Thanks Stroccos,now I would made a my post.