Anastasia was one of the most ruthless and feared organized crime figures in American history; his reputation earned him the nicknames The Earthquake, The One-Man Army, The Mad …

Albert Anastasia (born “Anastasio,” the masculine form of the Italian name) was a mobster who came out of the tough streets of Lower Manhattan to run one of the Five Families of La Cosa …

Albert Anastasia was a major American gangster. Anastasia immigrated to New York City from Italy in 1919 and, in the 1920s, rose through Giuseppe Masseria’s gang.

May 4, 2024 · The boss of what became the Gambino family and the co-founder of Murder, Inc., Albert Anastasia was one of New York’s most feared mobsters before his assassination in 1957.

Probably one of the most famous mob hits was on Albert Anastasia, the leader of the Murder Inc division of the Mafia who were responsible for hundreds of hits.

Albert Anastasia was responsible for the prosperity of the New York crime syndicate after Prohibition. While he headed Murder Incorporated, the syndicate asserted influence over …

Few gangsters have cast a greater shadow on American society than Albert Anastasia of Brooklyn. For much of three decades, the man who was called "The Mad Hatter" and "The …

Sep 21, 2014 · Born in Calabria, in southern Italy on September 26, 1902, Albert’s birth name was Umberto Anastasio. His parents were Raffaelo Anastasio and Louisa Nomina de Filippi. …

Albert Anastasia (Umberto Anastasio): A powerful and ruthless Italian-American mobster. He was a hitman, a co-founder of Murder, Inc., and later the boss of the Gambino crime family.

Jun 17, 2025 · Due to a legal technicality, Anastasia won a retrial in 1922; four of the original prosecution witnesses had since disappeared, and Anastasia was released from custody. …