Killed for sleeping with wives/girlfriends

[Costigan]

There was also an associate in Chicago, whose name escapes me, who was killed in the 70s for sleeping with the girlfriend of the deceased Phil Aldersio.

That was Sam Cesario. He may have been a made guy but I can't confirm that.

That's the guy DeNono called 'Blackie'. I always thought that was an interesting mafia story. "From the grave he ordered the hit."

[bronx]

Raven on the money

[Antiliar]

Tried to find out the origin of Antonio "Nino" Colombo, but he was born in Brazil to Italian parents. Was unable to find Giuseppe Colombo's immigration record, but he was born around 1873 if anyone wants to try and find it.

[bronx]

raven your pm was erased? so was marco w..could not read them.if you want send them again

[HairyKnuckles]

Joe Colombo's Father Antonio Colombo was having an affair with Christine Oliveri, the wife of a Profaci soldier named Alfred Oliveri. He complained to the boss and Colombo and Christine Oliveri were murdered in a car in 1939. Bill Feather has Alfred Oliveri as being a soldier in the Profaci (Colombo) family from the 1930's-1980's.....

From Syracuse Journal Feb 7, 1938:

Two Women Slain, Mate of 1 Sought

Bodie Found in Car By Boy on walk

NEW YORK, Feb. 7 (INS).—A slayer who kidnaped and taunted his prospective victims for several days before he finally twisted clothesline noosss around their necks was sought today for the murderers of Mrs. Christina Oliveri, 24, and Nina [Nino] Columbo, 42, both married and he an ex-convict. A boy out for a morning stroll with his dog found the bodies in the rear of Columbo's car on a Brooklyn road. The pair had been missing nine days. Preliminary examination indicated they had been dead at least four days and the theory was that they had been kidnaped and killed elsewhere, their bodies
concealed temporarily, then finally loaded in Columbo's car and driven to the spot where the car and its horror load was found. Columbo was identified by fingerprints as Tony Durante with a 20-year police record. In the neoghborhood he was known as somewhat of a sheik. Mrs. Oliveri, mother of two children, bore a good reputation in the neighborhood but, according to police, her husband said that recently she had been getting telephone calls from a man and meeting him in a neighborhood tavern and be had several times tried to catch them together.

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From NY Evening Post, March 17, 1939:

2 INDICTMENTS IN RACKET BARED

Police Alarm for Oddo and Bonasera Reveal Extortion Charges

The secret indictment ten days ago of two of Brooklyn's most notorious racketeers—John (Johnny Bath Beach) Oddo and Anthony (The Chief) Bonasera--was bared today throug the broadcasting of an eight-state alarm for their arrest. They—together with three lesser mobsters—were cited on ten counts of extortion and attempted extortion in an indictment returned March 7 by the regular Kings County Grand Jury investigating the loan shark racket. In support of the charges, the indictment specified eighteen allegedly overt acts, including assaults, intimidations and threats that sometimes drove victims into hiding for weeks while their friends negotiated for settlements.

Brooklyn Search Fails

The indictment was kept secret while squads of detectives, armed with bench warrants, vainly scoured the borough for Oddo, Bonasera and a third missing defendant, Fred Amerosa, but Acting Deputy Chief Inspector Michael F. McDermott despaired today of finding them in Brooklyn and had the alarm broadcast. The two remaining defendants—Frank (Bo-Peep) Tummello, alias Frank Conti, and Joseph Beckowskyl, alias Joe Beck and Joe Carrare in jail in default of $25,000 bail each. Johnnie Bath Beach and Bonasera, according to McDermott, were associated with the gang of Frankie Yale, who was assassinated some years ago, supposedly by Capone gunmen imported from Chicago. They were questioned in that murder, as well as in the subsequent murder of Joe (The Boss) Massera [Masseria] and the double murder last year of Nino Columbo a loanshark racketeer, and his girl friend Christina Oliveri.

15 Arrests, No Convictions

Oddo has a record of fifteen arrests, including two on homicide charges, but no convictions. Bonasera has been arrested twenty-six times, including three times on homicide charges, and convicted three times, but only for misdemeanors. Amerosa's record consists of only three arrests and no convictions. The Case was presented to the Grand Jury by Assistant District Attorney Paul Seiderman, in charge of the special rackets bureau.

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I´m confused about the woman´s name. In this article, it says her last name was Veleria.

From Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 30, 1940:

Try to Slay New Witness

....A unidentified man was taken to Nassau Police Headquarters at Mineola last night by detectives attached to OTJwyer's office and grilled for more than one hour about the murders in the county. Nassau District Attorney Edward J. Neary and Inspector Harold R. King of the Nassau police, one of O'Dwyer's assistants and the detectives joined in questioning the suspect, but declined to give any information concerning a possible link with the murder syndicate. [Murder Inc]

Tie Up Two Murders

The Jersey murder was that of Lewis Doughty, 30, a Public Service Corporation salesman who was killed in the vestibule of an apartment house at 46-56 Hudson Boulevard, Union City, on Oct. 10, 1938. A Union City police official said last night that Doughty was a brother-in-law of Anthony Columbo, alias Tony Duranto, who was murdered together with Christine Veleria, 38, in an automobile In Brooklyn on Feb. 6. 1938. Their bodies, shot and garroted. were found in the back of the automobile. The official said Doughty was married to Columbo's sister and was on very friendly terms with Columbo.

Victim called racketeer

At the time of the murder of Columbo and the woman, police said he had been involved in bookmaking and the policy racket. Two short pieces of rope were found, wound tightly around the necks of each. The car. in which they were found, was parked in front of a fashionable apartment house on Shore Road. The woman's name at that time was given as Mrs. Christina Oliveri and the police said she had two children. The police theory was that she had been murdered to prevent her from revealing Columbo´s slayers to the police....

[AlexfromSouth]

Joe Colombo's Father Antonio Colombo was having an affair with Christine Oliveri, the wife of a Profaci soldier named Alfred Oliveri. He complained to the boss and Colombo and Christine Oliveri were murdered in a car in 1939. Bill Feather has Alfred Oliveri as being a soldier in the Profaci (Colombo) family from the 1930's-1980's.....

From Syracuse Journal Feb 7, 1938:

Two Women Slain, Mate of 1 Sought

Bodie Found in Car By Boy on walk

NEW YORK, Feb. 7 (INS).—A slayer who kidnaped and taunted his prospective victims for several days before he finally twisted clothesline noosss around their necks was sought today for the murderers of Mrs. Christina Oliveri, 24, and Nina [Nino] Columbo, 42, both married and he an ex-convict. A boy out for a morning stroll with his dog found the bodies in the rear of Columbo's car on a Brooklyn road. The pair had been missing nine days. Preliminary examination indicated they had been dead at least four days and the theory was that they had been kidnaped and killed elsewhere, their bodies
concealed temporarily, then finally loaded in Columbo's car and driven to the spot where the car and its horror load was found. Columbo was identified by fingerprints as Tony Durante with a 20-year police record. In the neoghborhood he was known as somewhat of a sheik. Mrs. Oliveri, mother of two children, bore a good reputation in the neighborhood but, according to police, her husband said that recently she had been getting telephone calls from a man and meeting him in a neighborhood tavern and be had several times tried to catch them together.

///

From NY Evening Post, March 17, 1939:

2 INDICTMENTS IN RACKET BARED

Police Alarm for Oddo and Bonasera Reveal Extortion Charges

The secret indictment ten days ago of two of Brooklyn's most notorious racketeers—John (Johnny Bath Beach) Oddo and Anthony (The Chief) Bonasera--was bared today throug the broadcasting of an eight-state alarm for their arrest. They—together with three lesser mobsters—were cited on ten counts of extortion and attempted extortion in an indictment returned March 7 by the regular Kings County Grand Jury investigating the loan shark racket. In support of the charges, the indictment specified eighteen allegedly overt acts, including assaults, intimidations and threats that sometimes drove victims into hiding for weeks while their friends negotiated for settlements.

Brooklyn Search Fails

The indictment was kept secret while squads of detectives, armed with bench warrants, vainly scoured the borough for Oddo, Bonasera and a third missing defendant, Fred Amerosa, but Acting Deputy Chief Inspector Michael F. McDermott despaired today of finding them in Brooklyn and had the alarm broadcast. The two remaining defendants—Frank (Bo-Peep) Tummello, alias Frank Conti, and Joseph Beckowskyl, alias Joe Beck and Joe Carrare in jail in default of $25,000 bail each. Johnnie Bath Beach and Bonasera, according to McDermott, were associated with the gang of Frankie Yale, who was assassinated some years ago, supposedly by Capone gunmen imported from Chicago. They were questioned in that murder, as well as in the subsequent murder of Joe (The Boss) Massera [Masseria] and the double murder last year of Nino Columbo a loanshark racketeer, and his girl friend Christina Oliveri.

15 Arrests, No Convictions

Oddo has a record of fifteen arrests, including two on homicide charges, but no convictions. Bonasera has been arrested twenty-six times, including three times on homicide charges, and convicted three times, but only for misdemeanors. Amerosa's record consists of only three arrests and no convictions. The Case was presented to the Grand Jury by Assistant District Attorney Paul Seiderman, in charge of the special rackets bureau.

///

I´m confused about the woman´s name. In this article, it says her last name was Veleria.

From Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 30, 1940:

Try to Slay New Witness

....A unidentified man was taken to Nassau Police Headquarters at Mineola last night by detectives attached to OTJwyer's office and grilled for more than one hour about the murders in the county. Nassau District Attorney Edward J. Neary and Inspector Harold R. King of the Nassau police, one of O'Dwyer's assistants and the detectives joined in questioning the suspect, but declined to give any information concerning a possible link with the murder syndicate. [Murder Inc]

Tie Up Two Murders

The Jersey murder was that of Lewis Doughty, 30, a Public Service Corporation salesman who was killed in the vestibule of an apartment house at 46-56 Hudson Boulevard, Union City, on Oct. 10, 1938. A Union City police official said last night that Doughty was a brother-in-law of Anthony Columbo, alias Tony Duranto, who was murdered together with Christine Veleria, 38, in an automobile In Brooklyn on Feb. 6. 1938. Their bodies, shot and garroted. were found in the back of the automobile. The official said Doughty was married to Columbo's sister and was on very friendly terms with Columbo.

Victim called racketeer

At the time of the murder of Columbo and the woman, police said he had been involved in bookmaking and the policy racket. Two short pieces of rope were found, wound tightly around the necks of each. The car. in which they were found, was parked in front of a fashionable apartment house on Shore Road. The woman's name at that time was given as Mrs. Christina Oliveri and the police said she had two children. The police theory was that she had been murdered to prevent her from revealing Columbo´s slayers to the police....

Why is there no address given of Colombo? Was it given? What neighbourhood was that?

[LcnBios]

Tried to find out the origin of Antonio "Nino" Colombo, but he was born in Brazil to Italian parents. Was unable to find Giuseppe Colombo's immigration record, but he was born around 1873 if anyone wants to try and find it.

I've got Antonio 'Nino' Colombo as born June 1898 in Brazil to Giuseppe Colombo and Maria Livia Speranzella, both (or Giuseppe at least) from Acri comune of Cosenza, Calabria.

Nino's sister Grazia married Salvatore Musacchio's father Giuseppe in 1910. I believe another Colombo sister married Louis Dougherty, a loanshark for Musacchio who was murdered in NJ during 1937.

The Colombos and Musacchios were part of the same crew pre-1962. They were also close with Oddo/Bonasera and it wouldn't surprise me if that whole group was one crew at some point early on. Nino is identified as a made guy by other sources, not just Cantalupo. They also claim Salvatore Musacchio was one of the participants in the murder, and when the Gallos revolted they tried to use that fact to bring Colombo over to their side.

[AlexfromSouth]

Tried to find out the origin of Antonio "Nino" Colombo, but he was born in Brazil to Italian parents. Was unable to find Giuseppe Colombo's immigration record, but he was born around 1873 if anyone wants to try and find it.

I've got Antonio 'Nino' Colombo as born June 1898 in Brazil to Giuseppe Colombo and Maria Livia Speranzella, both (or Giuseppe at least) from Acri comune of Cosenza, Calabria.

Nino's sister Grazia married Salvatore Musacchio's father Giuseppe in 1910. I believe another Colombo sister married Louis Dougherty, a loanshark for Musacchio who was murdered in NJ during 1937.

The Colombos and Musacchios were part of the same crew pre-1962. They were also close with Oddo/Bonasera and it wouldn't surprise me if that whole group was one crew at some point early on. Nino is identified as a made guy by other sources, not just Cantalupo. They also claim Salvatore Musacchio was one of the participants in the murder, and when the Gallos revolted they tried to use that fact to bring Colombo over to their side.

Is there an address of Nino in the time of his murder? Thanks

[OlBlueEyesClub]

Good stuff, JD.

[Antiliar]

Thanks for the follow up JD

He lived at 2305 E 4th Street, Brooklyn at the time of his death.

[AlexfromSouth]

Thanks for the follow up JD

He lived at 2305 E 4th Street, Brooklyn at the time of his death.

Thank you very much!

[bronx]

nino gaggi did not live there when he died in mcc

[bronx]

he lived on bay 8th st. across from
the park ,the st leads to belt pkwy..verranzano bridge.

[AlexfromSouth]

Nino Colombo bronx, Gaggi lived in Bath beach.

[bronx]

oops i stand corrected i here nino i think gaggi.. thanks alex