Silvio Silva Tagliagamba, an early New York mobster and a member of the Morello crime family, met a violent end in Manhattan on May 8, 1922. Tagliagamba served as a bodyguard for mob boss Umberto Valenti during the early 1920s. On the fateful day, Valenti allegedly murdered mobster Vincent Morello in Manhattan. This act set off a chain of events that would lead to Tagliagamba's demise. When Morello's ally, Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria, heard about the shooting, he supposedly set an ambush fo
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