1927-1937 - Frank Agrusa - born in Cinisi, Sicily, Italy.1912-1923 - Dominick Giambrone - fled, later murdered in 1934.Historical leadership Boss (official and acting)

According to Scott Burnstein's Gangster Report website, the family has been reduced to less than 10 members. The last known underboss was Joseph Cammarata. Louis crime family from 1997 to his death on November 3, 2014. Anthony 'Nino' Parrino served as boss of the St. Louis crime family has stayed under the radar of both local and federal authorities, who have been focused on organized crime that inflicts public violence. On August 29, 1980, Giordano died from cancer in his St. In 1975, Giordano was sent to prison, his nephew Vincenzo Giammanco became the acting boss until Giordano was released in December 1977. They failed and all three men were convicted of conspiracy. In the 1970s, Giordano, along with Detroit mobsters Anthony Joseph Zerilli and Michael Polizzi, attempted to gain control of the Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Giordano and the Detroit family Īfter Tony Lopiparo's death, Anthony Giordano became boss and declared independence from the Kansas City crime family. After Buffa's murder leadership of the family went to Tony Lopiparo, Frank Coppola, and Ralph Caleca. In 1943, Buffa fled the city and was murdered in 1947 in Lodi, California. The rival gangs continued fighting until the end of Prohibition, when the various Mafia factions began functioning as one family. The Pillow gang was taken over Thomas Buffa, who became boss of the St. In 1931, Fresina was murdered and members of the Pillow gang continued fighting with the Russo gang and the Green Ones. The two gangs battled with the Green Ones until 1928, when the Russo gang lost to many members and blamed the Pillow gang for betraying them.

Fresina formed an alliance with splinter group of the Green Ones called the Russo gang led by Tony Russo. Carmelo Fresina became the new leader, giving the gang the nickname 'the Pillow gang' because Fresina carried a pillow with him to sit on after, he had been shot in the buttocks. The gang was led by Pasquale Santino until 1927, when he was murdered. The Pillow gang was the earliest Italian gang in the city being active since 1910. The remaining members of the Green Ones gang including John Giannola went into hiding. Months later boss Vito Giannola was shot 37 times to death on December 28, 1927. On SeptemAlphonse Palizzola was shot and killed by a rival gang. Giannola attempted to take control of the bootlegging rackets in the area and fought with members of the Egan's Rats gang and Cuckoos Gang. Louis forcing Dominick Giambrone to flee the city. In 1924, Vito Giannola became the most powerful Mafia boss in St. The three men imposed a tax on all goods sold in the city's Italian community. During the early 1920s, Vito Giannola reunited with his brother John Giannola and Alphonse Palizzola in St. Louis, John Giannola to Chicago and Alphonse Palizzola to Springfield, Illinois. After the three men arrived in America they went their separate ways Vito Giannola to St. The Green Ones was a Sicilian gang, formed in 1915, by Vito Giannola, his brother John Giannola and Alphonse Palizzola before immigrating to America.

Louis's illegal bootlegging operations became a major power struggle between the seven different ethnic gangs the Green Ones, the Pillow Gang, the Russo Gang, the Egan's Rats, the Hogan Gang, the Shelton Gang and the Cuckoos all fighting to control illegal rackets in the St. With the passage of Prohibition in 1920, control of St. Louis, until 1924, when he stepped down and fled the city. By the early 1910s, Dominick Giambrone was recognized as the local Mafia boss in St.

Louis Mafia date back to the mid-1890, with Italian Mafia gangs operating in the city.

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