How Vito Genovese Became the Most Powerful Mobster in America Before Inadvertently Crippling the Mafia Itself.

Vito Genovese rose through the ranks of the New York mob during Prohibition and eventually killed his way to the top of the city’s most powerful crime family before a few crucial blunders took him down.
For decades, Vito Genovese was practically synonymous with the American Mafia itself. Born in rural Italy at the tail-end of the 1800s, he immigrated to New York City as a teenager and shaped its criminal elements as a young man. After killing his way to the top, he not only controlled organized crime but helped shape its modern hierarchies.
While loyalty was the purported core of the Mafia, Genovese had an advantage. With no allegiance to the old ways, he and his generation slaughtered their way into power and then fought each other to retain it. From surviving the Castellammarese War to his exile in Italy, in today’s episode, we examine Genovese’s life as it was indeed one for the history books.
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