Angelo Bruno (1911 - March 12, 1980) was a member of the US Mafia who ran the Mafia's faction in Philadelphia. Jump to: navigation, search 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1980 (MCMLXXX) is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Mafia, also referred to in Italian as La Cosa Nostra (variously translated as This Thing Of Ours or Our Thing), is the name for a secret criminal organization which evolved in mid-19th century Sicily, and led to an offshoot on the East Coast of... Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ...

Born in Sicily and emigrated to the USA in his teens, Bruno settled in Philadelphia. He was a close associate of New York City boss Carlo Gambino. He became the boss of the Philly Mob, as the Mafia faction in that city was known, in 1959. Jump to: navigation, search Sicilian disambiguates here; see also Sicilian language or Sicilian Defence. ... New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... Carlo Gambino (August 24, 1902 - October 15, 1976) was a native of Palermo, Sicily, who was born to a family that belonged to the Honored Society for centuries. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Bruno was known as The Gentle Don because he preferred conciliation to violence. His leadership was regarded as successful in that his crime family avoided the intensified scrutiny by both the media and law enforcement which outbreaks of violence brought to other families. Bruno himself avoided lengthy prison terms despite several arrests, his longest term of imprisonment being two-years for refusing to testify to a Grand Jury. A grand jury is a type of common law jury; responsible for investigating alleged crimes, examining evidence, and issuing indictments if they believe that there is enough evidence for a trial to proceed. ...

To avoid receiving undue attention from the FBI and other authorities, Bruno did not allow his family to deal in narcotics, preferring instead to concentrate on more traditional pursuits, like bookmaking and loansharking. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... The term narcotic, derived from the Greek word for stupor, originally referred to a variety of substances that induced sleep (such state is narcosis). ... Usury (from the Latin usus meaning used) was defined originally as charging a fee for the use of money. ...

Before long, however, factions within the family, angered by missed opportunities for profit, sought to take over the Philly Mob by betraying their aging boss. On March 12, 1980, sixty-nine-year-old Angelo Bruno was killed by a shotgun blast in the back of the head as he sat in his car. It is believed that the killing was ordered by Anthony Caponigro, Bruno's consigliere. Jump to: navigation, search March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1980 (MCMLXXX) is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Caponigro was himself murdered just a few weeks later, as retaliation from the Commission in New York for carrying out an unsanctioned assassination of a family boss. Philip 'Chicken Man' Testa lead the family for a brief period (one year), but was killed by a nail bomb at his home, the result of an attempt by Peter Casella, Testa's underboss, to become the boss of the Philadelphia mob. Through shrewd insight, Nicodemo Scarfo, a violent rising mob figure, took over Bruno's crime organization. However, with the death of The Gentle Don, the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra soon began to fall apart thanks to informants, infighting and successful prosecutions of high-profile mobsters like Scarfo. Nicodemo Scarfo (born March 8, 1929) was a member of the US Mafia. ...

External links

• Gangsters Incorporated: Angelo "The Gentle Don" Bruno
• Mafia International: Angelo "The Gentle Don" Bruno
• American Mafia's brief history of the Mafia in Philadelphia