Joseph Aiello Leader of the Chicago Mafia and enemy of Al Capone. Country: USA

Biography of Joseph Aiello

Joseph Aiello was a leader of the Chicago mafia and a rival of Al Capone. He played a significant role in organized crime in the United States and was considered a leader of the Chicago mafia. Aiello put an end to the influence of "Big Pete" gang in New York, creating a new mafia based on multinational syndicate principles. Similarly, Al Capone did the same in Chicago, eliminating the Aiello family from the scene, particularly Joe Aiello, who was often referred to as the mafia mayor.

Joe Aiello was born in Castellammare and sided with Salvatore Maranzano in the Great Mafia War in New York against the dominant forces of Joe Boss Masseria. Aiello faithfully contributed $5,000 per week to Maranzano's war fund. According to informant Joe Valachi, this meant that Capone was supporting Masseria, and what happened to Aiello was predestined by the Chicago mafia wars.

In the battle for dominance between Aiello and Capone, Aiello and his brothers, Dominick, Antonio, and Andrew, engaged in a tense struggle and conspired with other enemies of Capone, particularly the North Side gang, the O'Banions, who were then under the control of Bugs Moran. Aiello intensified his campaign of murders against Capone, reaching unprecedented levels. Once, he even tried to persuade the head chef of Capone's favorite restaurant, owned by Diamond Joe Esposito, the "Bella Napoli Cafe," to poison him with strychnine in the minestrone soup. He increased the payment for this service from $10,000 to $35,000. However, the astute chef suspected that if the lethal recipe fulfilled its purpose, he would not have the chance to enjoy the money he received. He reported the poisoning plot against Big Al.

Infuriated, Aiello immediately spread rumors that anyone who killed Capone would receive $50,000. These hostile machinations annoyed Capone and strengthened his determination to retaliate against Aiello "accordingly." On the evening of October 23, Aiello left his luxurious apartment in a prestigious building on North Kolmar Avenue in the West Side and walked straight into a crossfire of shotgun and Thompson submachine gun rounds. The perforated body yielded 59 bullets with a combined weight of over a pound.