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Joe Profaci, all'anagrafe Giuseppe Profaci, è stato un mafioso italiano naturalizzato statunitense.
Giuseppe "Joe" Profaci (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe proˈfaːtʃi]; October 2, 1897 – June 6, 1962) was an Italian-American Cosa Nostra boss who was the founder of what became the Colombo crime family of New York City.
Nei primi mesi del 1960, Profaci per intimidire i Gallo ordinò l'omicidio di Joe Gioeli che fatto a pezzi fu ritrovato a Shepshead Bay, in un'automobile parcheggiata di fronte ad una concessionaria di un affiliato dei Gallo, ritrovo della banda.
Learn about Joe Profaci, a Sicilian immigrant who became a powerful mafia boss and a successful businessman in New York. Discover his rise to prominence, his involvement in the commission, his legal ventures, and his troubles with the IRS.
2 giu 2024 · Joseph Profaci (born October 2, 1897, Palermo, Italy—died June 6, 1962, Bay Shore, New York, U.S.) was one of the most powerful bosses in U.S. organized crime from the 1940s to the early 1960s.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In late November 1961, Joe Gallo was sentenced to seven to fourteen years in prison for murder. In 1962, Joe Profaci died of cancer, leaving Joe Magliocco, his longtime underboss, as the new boss. The war continued on between the two factions.
Joseph Profaci was put in charge of the group that would become the Colombo family. Profaci had emigrated from Sicily to the United States in 1921, when he was in his early 20s.
