Pellegrino Morano

Morano served as leader of the Brooklyn Camorra in the early 1900s. He engineered the murders of Nicholas Morello and Charles Unbriaco - lured to a Mafia-Camorra peace conference in Brooklyn - in 1916.

Morano and aide Alessandro Vollero were both convicted of the killings and sentenced to long jail terms.

Already depleted by police Lt. Joe Petrosino's pre-1909 assaults, in Morano's absence the Camorra in Brooklyn was absorbed into the New York Mafia.

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