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Joe Adonis (22 November 1902 - 26 November 1972) was an Italian mobster who became one of the most powerful figures in U.S. organized crime during the mid-20th century. Image File history File links Jadonis. ... Image File history File links Jadonis. ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

Joe Adonis was born Giuseppe Antonio Doto in the small town of Montemarano, Italy, near Naples. He entered the United States illegally in 1915 by stowing away on an ocean liner and settled in Brooklyn, New York, where he made some money by stealing and pickpocketing. During the course of his criminal pursuits, he met another young thug looking to make it big: Lucky Luciano. The two men became fast friends and Doto developed a strong sense of fidelity towards Luciano. Both Luciano and Doto involved themselves in petty rackets, such as prostitution and gambling. Naples (Italian Napoli, Neapolitan Nàpule, from Greek Νέα Πόλις - Néa Pólis - meaning New City; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of Campania Region and the Province of Naples. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... Lucky Luciano Lucky Luciano (November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was a legendary Italian mobster with a long criminal history. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services. ... // Gambling has had many different meanings depending on the cultural and historical context in which it is used. ...

Sometime in the early 1920s, Doto changed his name to Joe Adonis. He was an incredibly vain man, and the new moniker helped him envision himself as some sort of well-endowed Mediterranean love god. He became sexually promiscuous all over New York City and soon ended up in jail for raping a woman who resisted his advances. He forever combed his pomaded hair and primped in front of mirrors. One time, Luciano saw him combing his thick, dark hair in front of a mirror and asked him, "Who do you think you are, Rudolph Valentino?" Adonis turned around with a snarl he was beginning to perfect, and whispered in response, "For looks, that guy's a bum!" The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... Rudolph Valentino (Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina) (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor. ...

Adonis went to work as an enforcer for Frankie Yale, who controlled the Brooklyn rackets; it was at this time that he briefly met fellow Yale employee and future Chicago crime lord Al Capone. Meanwhile, Luciano was serving under the then-kingpin of organized crime in New York City, Joe Masseria. Both men rose through the ranks of the underworld and by 1930 Adonis had joined Masseria's troops as well. However, his primary loyalties lay with Luciano, and when Lucky plotted the murder of Masseria, Adonis was one of the four gunmen (Bugsy Siegel, Vito Genovese, and Albert Anastasia were the others) who shot "Joe The Boss" to death at Scarpato's Restaurant in Coney Island on 15 April 1931. Frankie Yale (1893 - July 1, 1928) was a Brooklyn gangster and original employer of Al Capone, before the latter moved to Chicago to start his own gang. ... // Headline text For other uses, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... FBI mugshot of Capone, 1931 Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Alfonso Scarface Capone, was an infamous Italian American gangster in the 1920s and 1930s, although his business card reportedly described him as a used furniture dealer. ... Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations. ... Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... Joe The Boss Masseria Giuseppe Joe The Boss Masseria (1879–April 15, 1931) was an early Mafia don in the United States. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Benjamin Bugsy Siegel (February 28, 1906 – June 20, 1947) was an American gangster, popularly thought to be the impetus behind large-scale development of Las Vegas. ... Vito Genovese (November 27, 1897 – February 14, 1969) was a mafioso who rose to power in America during the Castellammarese War to later become leader of the Genovese crime family. ... Albert Anastasia (1902-1957) Albert Anastasia (February 26, 1902–October 25, 1957), also known as the Mad Hatter and Lord High Executioner, was a Mafia boss chiefly remembered for running the contract-killing syndicate known as Murder, Inc. ... Image of Coney Island (middle left of picture) taken by NASA. The peninsula at right is Rockaway, Queens. ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ...

After Luciano eliminated Salvatore Maranzano (Masseria's arch-rival) in a similar manner to establish himself as the country's top mob boss, he went about creating the National Crime Syndicate, which united all the top gangs across the country under its banner. For his part in the hit on Masseria, Adonis was given a seat on the Syndicate's "board of directors". Many politicians and high-ranking police officers were on his payroll, and he extended his political influence to the rackets of friends such as Luciano, Genovese, Meyer Lansky, and Louis Buchalter. Salvatore Maranzano (1868-September 10, 1931) was an organized crime figure from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Mafia boss in the United States. ... The National Crime Syndicate was the name given to an organized crime syndicate, set up in the 1930s, by Charles Lucky Luciano and based out of New York City. ... Lanskys mugshot (see also the full image with profile) Meyer Lansky (born Majer Suchowliński, July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983), was a gangster born in Grodno, then part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth occupied by the Russian Empire but now in Belarus. ... Louis Lepke Buchalter (6 February 1897 - 4 March 1944) was a Jewish American mobster who was the notorious head of Murder, Inc. ...

Adonis came to control Broadway and midtown Manhattan, although his headquarters were situated in his own restaurant in Brooklyn, Joe's Italian Kitchen. Adonis made large profits from alcohol and ladies, which he reinvested, and built himself a criminal empire worth millions of dollars. He bought car dealerships in New Jersey, and when customers bought $10,000 Cadillacs, his men would coerce the customer to pay an extra $10,000 as "insurance" or else find their dog up the car's exhaust pipe. Adonis soon moved into cigarette manufacturing, buying up machines by the hundreds and hijacking factory products, and made a 100% profit. A view of Broadway in 1909 Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City, and is the oldest north-south main thoroughfare in the city, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement. ... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... // Headline text For other uses, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Largest city Trenton Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi  (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... A lit cigarette A full ashtray. ...

Adonis controlled Brooklyn by 1932, and remained untouched through the U.S. government's crackdown on organized crime starting four years later; this was because he was a relative unknown to Uncle Sam. Lucky Luciano, however, wasn't so fortunate: he was deported to Italy after World War II and never again set foot on American soil. In his absence, Adonis took over the chair of the Syndicate, and as such controlled all major organized criminal activity in America. // Headline text For other uses, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations. ... J. M. Flaggs Uncle Sam recruited soldiers for World War I. Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States dating from the War of 1812. ... Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II...

In December 1946, Adonis was a delegate to the famous Havana Conference, where Luciano briefly retook power from him. "Joey A." graciously stepped aside and returned to New Jersey, where he continued to make profits from both his legitimate and criminal enterprises. However, by the late 1940s, the government had begun watching him, due mainly to Abe Reles, the Murder, Inc. hitman-turned-federal-informant who pointed out that Adonis was one of the most powerful gangsters in the land. Called before the Kefauver Committee, he repeatedly cited the Fifth Amendment and got off the hook. Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Havana Conference was a meeting of all the major figures of U.S. organized crime, held during the week of 22 December 1946 at the Hotel Nacional in Havana, Cuba. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Largest city Trenton Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi  (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... Abe Kid Twist Reles (1907 – 12 November 1941) was a Jewish American mobster who was probably the most feared hitman in the stable of Murder, Inc. ... Murder, Inc. ... Between 1950 and 1951, the Kefauver Committee held all of Americans attention. ... Amendment V (the Fifth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, is related to legal procedure. ...

In 1953, however, the U.S. government came to know that Adonis was not a naturalized American citizen. He was immediately deported to Italy in August (with millions of dollars in his pockets no less), where he lived comfortably in a villa outside Naples, very close to Luciano. However, the two men never talked after Lucky left America, perhaps because Luciano was angry at Adonis' cession of the New York City rackets to the sly, cunning, backstabbing Vito Genovese. 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Naples (Italian Napoli, Neapolitan Nàpule, from Greek Νέα Πόλις - Néa Pólis - meaning New City; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of Campania Region and the Province of Naples. ... Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... Vito Genovese (November 27, 1897 – February 14, 1969) was a mafioso who rose to power in America during the Castellammarese War to later become leader of the Genovese crime family. ...

Ironically, Joe Adonis met his maker not via his friends or his enemies. Instead, it came at the hands of the Italian police, who at the time were arresting all known Mafia figures. A squad of Rome policemen dragged him from his home on 26 November 1972 and took him to an abandoned hillside shack for questioning. During the lengthy interrogation, Adonis had a heart attack and died. His funeral was quiet, attended only by his immediate family, and he was buried in Madonna Cemetery in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The Mafia, also referred to in Italian as Cosa Nostra (Our Thing or This Thing of Ours), is an organized criminal secret society that evolved in mid-19th century Sicily and derived from Roman times. ... This is the current Article Improvement Drive collaboration! CAST YOUR VOTE for next weeks article For other uses, see Rome (disambiguation). ... November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... Fort Lee is the name of two places in the United States of America: Fort Lee, New Jersey Fort Lee, Virginia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Largest city Trenton Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi  (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ...

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