An Italian-American man, Salvatore Maranzano, met a violent end at the age of 45 in his Manhattan office on September 10, 1931. His death was the bloody conclusion to a power struggle for control of the New York underworld. Maranzano, a native of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, had only recently emerged victorious from the brutal Castellammarese War, a conflict that ended with the murder of his rival, Joe Masseria, in April of that same year. Following this victory, Maranzano reorganized the It
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