Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American gangster (born 1886)

Salvatore Maranzano

Italian-American mob boss (1886–1931)

Salvatore Maranzano, nicknamed Little Caesar, was an Italian-American mobster from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss who led what later would become the Bonanno crime family in New York City. He instigated the Castellammarese War in 1930…