Joe Magliocco – Loyal towards the Colombo Mafia Family

It was in Sicily’s Castellammare del Golfo region, in the year 1898 that Giuseppe Magliocco, called Joe in short was born. He was said to be related by his marriage to underboss and consigliere Salvatore Mussacio, Joseph Bonanno the Bonanno Mafia family founder, Stefano Magaddino the Buffalo Mafia family boss and Joseph Profaci, the founder of Profaci Mafia family and close confident of Joe. He took benefit of this excellent relationship on his arrival at the United States.

His activities as a Mafioso

On reaching the U.S., he got into union racketeering and illegal gambling. A meeting was held in Cleveland, Ohio’s Statler hotel on 5th December 1928 for establishing new territories after the murder of Salvatore D’Squila, the boss of Brooklyn New York gang. The meeting was attended by Profaci and Magliocco. However, the meeting was raided by the law enforcement officials, with several Mafioso were detained in the process along with Magliocco, who appeared to be the only one charged for carrying weapons.

Rise to fame

The Castellammarese War had begun in 1931 among two powerful American-Italian Mafia Families of New York. With both of the bosses being dead, the war ended and Lucky Luciano had established the Mafia Commission. 5 mafia families were created, which was supervised by the Commission. Profaci as New York boss was a member of the ruling panel and had become one among the 5 family bosses. Profaci’s very first business order was naming Magliocco as his second in command or underboss, to which the latter agreed and remained in the position for about 31 years.

The Appalachian Conference in 1957 proved to be a failure, with 60 mobsters along with Magliocco was arrested by the authorities. Again on 13th January 1960, he along with other 21 mafia members had been convicted of conspiracy, which led to being sentenced for a period of 5 years that was later overturned by an appeals court.

With the death of Profaci on 6th June 1962, Magliocco had become the Profaci family’s new acting boss, but did not get the Commission’s endorsement. But as a Profaci capo named Joseph Bonanno was voted to become the family boss, Magliocco got back into his position of a consigliere. Magliocco had become the right hand man of Bonanno after his involvement to kill Carlo Gambino and Tommy Lucchese. But with the plot being found out, he confessed of his involvement before the Commission, who fined him and spared his life, because of his failing health. He died of heart attack on 28th December 1963.