To avoid a capital murder trial, Valachi agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors against the Genovese family.

The Stonewall Inn, located at 51 and 53 Christopher Street, along with several other establishments in the city, was owned by the Genovese family.

Luciano and Genovese urged Masseria to make peace with Maranzano, but Masseria stubbornly refused.

In the end, Luciano and Genovese concluded a secret deal with Maranzano.

Gambino also became involved with the " Young Turks ," a group of Americanized Italian and Jewish mobsters in New York which included Frank " Prime Minister " Costello, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, Frank Scalice, Settimo Accardi, Gaetano " Tommy Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and Charles " Lucky " Luciano, one of the future's most powerful Mob bosses.

From the start of Anastasia's rise to boss of the family, Genovese did not get along with him.

Genovese knew this as well, and in early 1957 convinced Gambino to side with him against Anastasia, Costello and Luciano.

Genovese now believed that with Costello and Anastasia out of the way and Gambino supposedly in his debt, the way was clear for him to become Boss of Bosses.

However, Gambino had his own mind, and secretly aligned himself with Luciano, Costello and Lansky against Genovese.

The Costello-Lansky-Luciano-Gambino alliance gained further strength after the Apalachin Conference, supposedly set up to formally crown Genovese as Boss of Bosses, ended in disaster with several prominent mafiosi being arrested.

Rothstein immediately saw the potential windfall from Prohibition and educated Luciano on running bootleg alcohol as a business Luciano, Costello, and Genovese started their own bootlegging operation with financing from Rothstein.

On December 20, during the conference, Luciano had a private meeting with Genovese in Luciano's hotel suite.

However, Maranzano's scheming, his arrogant treatment of his subordinates, and his fondness for comparing his organization to the Roman Empire ( he attempted to model the organization after Caesar's military chain of command ) did not sit well with Luciano and his ambitious friends, like Vito Genovese, Frank Costello and others.

" Along with Italian-American associates Vito Genovese and Tommy " Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese and Jewish associates Meyer Lansky and Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, the gang became involved in robbery, theft, extortion, gambling and narcotics.

In 1931, after the Masseria and Maranzano murders, Luciano became the leader of the new Luciano crime family, with Genovese as underboss and Costello as consigliere.

By 1956, however, Costello, who was convicted of tax evasion in 1954 and was now controlling the Luciano family from prison, was engaged in a major power struggle with fellow associate Vito Genovese and his grip on power greatly weakened.

The conspirators decided not to approach the Genovese family due to boss Vincent " The Chin " Gigante's long-standing friendship with Castellano.

The attack was orchestrated by Genovese boss Vincent Gigante, with the backing of Lucchese leaders Vittorio " Vic " Amuso and Anthony " Gaspipe " Casso.

After sharing a prison cell with Boss Vito Genovese following his conviction for heroin trafficking, Gigante became a caporegime, overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers and associates that operated out of Greenwich Village.

In 1959, Gigante was convicted, with Vito Genovese, of heroin trafficking and sentenced to seven years in prison.

This fooled both law enforcement and other crime families, with only Genovese family members knowing who was really running things.

During his tenure as boss of the Genovese family after the imprisonment of John Gotti, Gigante would come to be known as the figurehead capo di tutti capi, the " Boss of All Bosses ", even though the position had been abolished with the murder of Salvatore Maranzano in 1931.

He is also the uncle of Carmine Esposito, the son of Genovese crime family mobster Salvatore " Zooki " Esposito, who along with his brother Carmine " Nini " Esposito are the owners of " Il Cortile " restaurant in the " Little Italy " section of Manhanttan.

He was the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family and is credited with organizing the American Mafia's ruling body.

In the 19th century, Genovese immigrants to Argentina brought pesto recipes with them.

The Genovese crime family was one of the first to invest in Las Vegas casinos and the crime family maintained those investments through Lansky and his Jewish syndicate associates.

The names of four of those bosses, Tommy Lucchese, Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino, and Joe Bonanno, were used to name their respective families.

* Cronin, Thomas E. and Michael A. Genovese ; " President Clinton and Character Questions " Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol.

* Johnson, R. " Edward Thompson, Eugence Genovese and Socialist-humanist History ", History Workshop Journal, 6, 1978, pp. 79 – 100.

In Roll, Jordan, Roll, historian Eugene D. Genovese ignored all that and focused on the interaction on the plantation between slaves and their owners.

Guest rappers included Cameosis, Genovese and Jay Tee.

Minestrone alla Genovese is a variant typical of Liguria, which contains greater use of herbs, including pesto.

On November 21, 1980, Genovese crime family boss Frank " Funzi " Tieri was the first Mafia boss to be convicted under the RICO Act.

* March 13 – In a notorious incident, 38 of her neighbors in Queens, New York City fail to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she is being stabbed to death.

* Eugene D. Genovese, From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World, Louisiana State University Press 1980

Masseria had Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese, Joe Adonis, Carlo Gambino, Albert Anastasia and Frank Costello on his side.

" This group of " Young Turk " mafiosi was led by Luciano and included Costello, Genovese, Adonis, Gambino and Anastasia on the Masseria side and Profaci, Gagliano, Lucchese, Magliocco and Magaddino on the Maranzano side.

In return for safety and equal status for Luciano in Maranzano's new organization, Luciano and Genovese murdered Masseria and ended the Castellammarese War.

Vito Genovese and Frank Costello were fighting for control of the Luciano family.

Then in 1963 Joseph Valachi, a soldier in the Genovese family, under indictment for murderering a fellow inmate, broke the code of omertà.

* Genovese I ( 2005 ), Definitions of Surveying and Associated Terms, ACSM, 314pp, ISBN 0-9765991-0-4.

* Palazzo Genovese.

At the same time, he used his diplomatic skills to maintain the necessary unity between the Genovese, Venetian and the Greek troops.

Because of the crusading appeal made by Pope Eugene III and his representative Nicholas Brakespear ( the future Pope Hadrian IV ), the siege received the aid of crusaders from multiple nationalities ( Genovese, Anglo-Normans, Normans, Southern-French, Germans, Flemish and Dutch ), who were on their way to the Holy Land.