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Vito Bonventre

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American mobster

United StatesLived 1875 to 1930 · aged 55
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Vito Bonventre was a New York City mobster who was a leading member of the Brooklyn gang that would later become the Bonanno crime family. He was arrested but then released in 1921 as the leader of a group known as the "Good Killers".

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"Good Killers" suspects in police custody, 1921.Left to right, front row, Stefano Magaddino, Francesco Puma, Vito Bonventre and Bartolo Fontana. Center, rear, is Giuseppe Lombardi. The other two are detectives of the Italian squad of the New York Police Department."Good Killers" suspects in police custody, 1921.Left to right, front row, Stefano Magaddino, Francesco Puma, Vito Bonventre and Bartolo Fontana. Center, rear, is Giuseppe Lombardi. The other two are detectives of the Italian squad of the New York Police Department.

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Vito Bonventre was a New York City mobster who was a leading member of the Brooklyn gang that would later become the Bonanno crime family. He was arrested but then released in 1921 as the leader of a group known as the "Good Killers". Bonventre was murdered in 1930 at the start of a conflict between his gang and a rival gang led by Joe Masseria, referred to as the Castellammarese War.

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United States
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1875 to 1930 · aged 55
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6 languages

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