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The Write Team Daily: "Boss Of All Bosses"
Today's episode of The Write Team Daily returns to September 10, 1931, when one of the bloodiest power struggles in American organized crime reached its dramatic conclusion inside a Manhattan office.
Mafia boss Salvatore Maranzano had emerged from the Castellammarese War as the self-proclaimed capo di tutti capi—“boss of all bosses.” But his reign lasted only months. Fearing Maranzano planned to eliminate him, rising mobster Charles “Lucky” Luciano moved first. Assassins posing as government agents entered Maranzano's office, disarmed his guards, and stabbed and shot the powerful crime boss…
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