Masseria's team was soon joined by top Mafia men like Lucky Luciano

history channel documentary hd In any case, another Mafioso had gotten away from Mussolini's anger and landed in America in the mid-1920's. His name was Salvatore Maranzano, second in summon to Don Vito Cascio Ferro in Sicily. Maranzano figured the Sicilian Mafioso were much better than those in America, so it was just regular that he ought to wind up the top Mafia supervisor in America. This didn't sit well with Masseria, and the outcome was the Castellammarese War, which overflowed the boulevards of New York City with scores of dead bodies from 1929-31.

Masseria's team was soon joined by top Mafia men like Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia, and Vito Genovese, who were very much associated with Jewish criminals Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel. Notwithstanding, following Masseria disliked his men working with non-Sicilians (Costello, genuine name Castiglia, was from Calabria), Luciano, Costello, Anastasia, and Genovese waited for their chance, trusting that perhaps both Masseria and Maranzano would thump each other off, so that the more youthful men could take control of every one of their operations.