Genovese Crime Family, Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria

Rise in the Mafia

April 15, 1931, Coney Island, Queens, New York, Italian Restaurant: Nuova Villa Tammarro. Masseria had set up a meeting with some of the soldiers in his crew.The Nuova Villa was Masseria’s favorite restaurant.One notable soldier at the sit down was Charles “Lucky” Luciano. At one-point during the meal, Luciano heads to the washroom. Masseria is now sitting in the restaurant with two bodyguards.Four hitmen enter the room and spray bullets at Masseria. Masseria is fatally wounded and he is shot once in the head, and five shots in the back.The hit team that assassinated the boss included Vito Genovese, Joe Adonis, Albert Anastasia, and Bugsy Siegel. Why was Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria assassinated? Who ordered the hit on Masseria? To understand what happened to Masseria, we must learn about his history in the mafia, known as La Cosa Nostra.

Giuseppe Masseria was born on January 17, 1886 in Sicily. February 1, 1907, Masseria is arrested for breaking into a woman’s apartment. The door to the apartment had been smashed in, Masseria received suspended sentence. In April 1907, Masseria received a suspended sentence for extortion. On April 13, 1913, Masseria is arrested when tools that where left behind in a botched robbery were dusted for fingerprints. Masseria and a crew of three others are linked to a group of robberies.By the early 1920s Masseria and Salvatore D’Aquila had become rival mob bosses.Masseria was running the Morello family because the boss Guiseppe…