Joseph Lonardo
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Joseph Lonardo, also known as "Big Joe", was an Italian mobster in the United States, who became the first crime boss of the Cleveland crime family, which he structured from a number of competing orga
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Pastiche of photographs and drawings from The Cleveland Press newspaper indicating the location and manner of Lonardo's death.
The Lonardo family plot at Calvary Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio
Lonardo's headstone in front of the memorial at the Lonardo family plot in Calvary Cemetery in Cleveland.
Frank Milano (mobster)
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Frank Milano was a Calabrian emigrant to the United States who was boss of the Cleveland crime family in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1930 to 1935. He fled to Mexico, and in the early 1960s returned to the U
Joseph Lonardo
…entirely eliminate, the competition. Lonardo relied on several associates in his effort, including Salvatore "Black Sam" Todaro, his top lieutenant; Frank Milano, one of the top leaders in the Mayfield Road Mob; and gangsters John Angersola, Charles Colletti, Lawrence Lupo, and Charles Russo. Salvatore "Sam…
Milano in 1954