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{{SHORTDESC:Early Palermitan Mafia faction associated with Manfredi Mineo}}
{{Infobox criminal organization
| name = Mineo Gang
| founding_location = New York City
| territory = Brooklyn<br>Connections in Manhattan
| structure = Palermitani Mafia faction
| activities = Counterfeiting associations<br>Factional violence and murder allegations
| leader = Manfredi “Alfred” Mineo
| predecessor = [[Palermitani network (New York City)|Palermitani network]]
| successor = [[D'Aquila crime family|D'Aquila organization]] {{small|(incorporated after an accord, c. 1913)}}
| status = Ceased to be separately identifiable
| years_active = 1911–c. 1913 {{small|(as a reported separate faction)}}
| dissolution_cause = Accord and incorporation into D'Aquila's borgata
}}

The '''Mineo Gang''' is a conventional name for an early Mafia faction associated with Palermo-born Manfredi “Alfred” Mineo after his arrival in New York in 1911. David Critchley says Mineo was “allegedly commanding a third faction,” while Nicolo Gentile later identified him as part of Salvatore D'Aquila's borgata.<ref name="Critchley">David Critchley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA36 ''The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931''] (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 36, 156–157.</ref> Specialist research based on Secret Service informant Salvatore Clemente's 1912 reports describes a separately led “Brooklyn Manfredi Gang.”<ref>[https://www.gangrule.com/events/struggle-for-control-1914-1918 “The Struggle for Control, 1910–1918”], ''Gang Rule'', citing National Archives Secret Service daily reports.</ref> The phrase is an official-source description rather than evidence that members publicly adopted it as a formal name.

==Formation and Palermitani origin==
Mineo was born in Palermo in 1880 and belonged to the wider [[Palermitani network (New York City)|Palermitani]] milieu that shaped several New York Mafia coalitions. Regional origin supplied contacts and affinity but did not automatically establish membership or subordination.

Soon after arriving, Mineo was questioned after visiting suspected counterfeiter Carmelo Cordaro. Secret Service reporting later connected Mineo and a Harlem group around Nick Morello to the 1913 killing of Giuseppe Fontana; the report treated the homicide as part of factional conflict.<ref name="Critchley" /> These were investigative associations and allegations, not convictions establishing every member or a formal Mineo command structure.

==Accord with D'Aquila==
Critchley concludes that Mineo appears to have reached an accord with Salvatore D'Aquila around 1913. Gentile's later account placed Mineo in the [[D'Aquila crime family|D'Aquila borgata]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA157 Critchley, ''Origin of Organized Crime'', p. 157].</ref> “Absorbed” is useful shorthand for the faction's loss of separate identity, but the evidence supports negotiated incorporation more clearly than conquest.

Mineo's early faction should be distinguished from his later position. After D'Aquila was killed in 1928, Mineo became leader of the former D'Aquila organization, then an ally of Giuseppe Masseria. That later Mineo-led family was the successor administration of D'Aquila's borgata—not a revival of a separately constituted 1911 Mineo Gang.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA174 Critchley, ''Origin of Organized Crime'', pp. 174, 184–187].</ref>

Mineo and Stefano Ferrigno were killed during the Castellammarese War in 1930. Frank Scalise and then Vincent Mangano subsequently led reorganized successor formations.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Former criminal organizations in New York City]]
[[Category:Italian-American organized crime groups]]
[[Category:Mafia groups in the United States]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1911]]

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	\| leader = Manfredi “Alfred” Mineo		\| leader = Manfredi “Alfred” Mineo
	\| predecessor = [[Palermitani network (New York City)\|Palermitani network]]		\| predecessor = [[Palermitani network (New York City)\|Palermitani network]]
	\| successor = [[D'Aquila crime family\|D'Aquila organization]] {{small\|(~~incorporated~~ after an accord~~, c. 1913~~)}}		\| successor = [[D'Aquila crime family\|D'Aquila organization]] {{small\|(eventual incorporation after an accord; date uncertain)}}
	\| status = Ceased to be separately identifiable		\| status = Ceased to be separately identifiable
	\| years_active = ~~1911–c.~~ 1913 {{small\|(~~as a reported separate faction~~)}}		\| years_active = 1911–after 1913 {{small\|(separately documented in 1912–1913; incorporation date uncertain)}}
	\| dissolution_cause = Accord and incorporation into D'Aquila's borgata		\| dissolution_cause = Accord and incorporation into D'Aquila's borgata
	}}		}}

	The '''Mineo Gang''' is a conventional name for an early Mafia faction associated with Palermo-born Manfredi “Alfred” Mineo ~~after his arrival~~ in New York in 1911. David Critchley says Mineo was “allegedly commanding a third faction,” while Nicolo Gentile later identified him as part of Salvatore D'Aquila's borgata.<ref name="Critchley">David Critchley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA36 ''The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931''] (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 36, 156–157.</ref> Specialist research based on Secret Service informant Salvatore Clemente's 1912 reports describes a separately led “Brooklyn Manfredi Gang.”<ref>[https://www.gangrule.com/events/struggle-for-control-1914-1918 “The Struggle for Control, 1910–1918”], ''Gang Rule'', citing National Archives Secret Service daily reports.</ref> The phrase is an official-source description rather than evidence that members publicly adopted it as a formal name.		The '''Mineo Gang''' is a conventional name for an early Mafia faction associated with Palermo-born Manfredi “Alfred” Mineo, who arrived in New York on May 9, 1911. David Critchley says Mineo was “allegedly commanding a third faction,” while Nicolo Gentile later identified him as part of Salvatore D'Aquila's borgata.<ref name="Critchley">David Critchley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA36 ''The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931''] (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 36, 156–157.</ref> Specialist research based on Secret Service informant Salvatore Clemente's 1912 reports describes a separately led “Brooklyn Manfredi Gang.”<ref>[https://www.gangrule.com/events/struggle-for-control-1914-1918 “The Struggle for Control, 1910–1918”], ''Gang Rule'', citing National Archives Secret Service daily reports.</ref> The phrase is an official-source description rather than evidence that members publicly adopted it as a formal name.

	==Formation and Palermitani origin==		==Formation and Palermitani origin==
	Mineo was born in Palermo in 1880 and belonged to the wider [[Palermitani network (New York City)\|Palermitani]] milieu that shaped several New York Mafia coalitions. Regional origin supplied contacts and affinity but ~~did~~ not ~~automatically~~ establish ~~membership or subordination~~.		Mineo was born in Palermo on January 26, 1880 and belonged to the wider [[Palermitani network (New York City)\|Palermitani]] milieu that shaped several New York Mafia coalitions. Regional origin supplied contacts and affinity but does not establish that every member of the Brooklyn faction was Palermitan.

	Soon after arriving, Mineo was questioned after visiting suspected counterfeiter Carmelo Cordaro. Secret Service reporting later connected Mineo and a Harlem group around Nick Morello to the 1913 killing of Giuseppe Fontana; the report treated the homicide as part of factional conflict.<ref name="Critchley" /> These were investigative associations and allegations, not convictions establishing every member or a formal Mineo command structure.		Soon after arriving, Mineo was questioned after visiting suspected counterfeiter Carmelo Cordaro. Secret Service reporting later connected Mineo and a Harlem group around Nick Morello to the 1913 killing of Giuseppe Fontana; the report treated the homicide as part of factional conflict.<ref name="Critchley" /> These were investigative associations and allegations, not convictions establishing every member or a formal Mineo command structure.

	==Accord with D'Aquila==		==Accord with D'Aquila==
	Critchley concludes that Mineo appears to have reached an accord with Salvatore D'Aquila ~~around 1913~~. Gentile's later account placed Mineo in the [[D'Aquila crime family\|D'Aquila borgata]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA157 Critchley, ''Origin of Organized Crime'', p. 157].</ref> “Absorbed” is useful shorthand for the faction's loss of separate identity, but the ~~evidence supports negotiated incorporation~~ more clearly than conquest.		Critchley concludes that Mineo appears to have reached an accord with Salvatore D'Aquila. Gentile's later account placed Mineo in the [[D'Aquila crime family\|D'Aquila borgata]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA157 Critchley, ''Origin of Organized Crime'', p. 157].</ref> “Absorbed” is useful shorthand for the faction's eventual loss of separate identity, but the sources do not provide a secure date or merger mechanism and support reconciliation more clearly than conquest.

	Mineo's early faction should be distinguished from his later position. After D'Aquila was killed in 1928, Mineo became leader of the former D'Aquila organization, then an ally of Giuseppe Masseria. That later Mineo-led family was the successor administration of D'Aquila's borgata—not a revival of a separately constituted 1911 Mineo Gang.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA174 Critchley, ''Origin of Organized Crime'', pp. 174, 184–187].</ref>		Mineo's early faction should be distinguished from his later position. After D'Aquila was killed in 1928, Mineo became leader of the former D'Aquila organization, then an ally of Giuseppe Masseria. That later Mineo-led family was the successor administration of D'Aquila's borgata—not a revival of a separately constituted 1911 Mineo Gang.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA174 Critchley, ''Origin of Organized Crime'', pp. 174, 184–187].</ref>

	Mineo and Stefano Ferrigno were killed ~~during~~ the ~~Castellammarese War~~ in 1930. Frank Scalise and then Vincent Mangano subsequently led reorganized successor formations.		Mineo and Stefano Ferrigno were killed at the Alhambra Apartments in the Bronx on November 5, 1930.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/11/06/92106569.pdf “Two Men Shot Dead in Bronx Gun-Trap”], ''The New York Times'', November 6, 1930.</ref> The murder site does not establish Bronx territorial control by the early Mineo faction. Frank Scalise and then Vincent Mangano subsequently led reorganized successor formations.

	==References==		==References==

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