About: Joseph Porrello

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Joseph was one of the seven Porrello brothers who migrated to the U.S. from Licata, Sicily. The Porrello brothers became partners with the Lonardo brothers and first established themselves as legitimate businessmen. The two groups dabbled in various criminal activities, such as robbery and extortion, before prohibition, but were not yet considered major organization. At the start of Prohibition, "Big Joe" Joseph Lonardo was the Boss of the Cleveland crime family. He was the second oldest of four Lonardo brothers. He and his brothers began by supplying Cleveland's bootleggers with the corn sugar they needed to produce liquor. Joe Porrello was his top lieutenant and supervised various bootlegging and other criminal operations throughout the early to mid-1920s.

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rdfs:label	Joseph Porrello
rdfs:comment	Joseph was one of the seven Porrello brothers who migrated to the U.S. from Licata, Sicily. The Porrello brothers became partners with the Lonardo brothers and first established themselves as legitimate businessmen. The two groups dabbled in various criminal activities, such as robbery and extortion, before prohibition, but were not yet considered major organization. At the start of Prohibition, "Big Joe" Joseph Lonardo was the Boss of the Cleveland crime family. He was the second oldest of four Lonardo brothers. He and his brothers began by supplying Cleveland's bootleggers with the corn sugar they needed to produce liquor. Joe Porrello was his top lieutenant and supervised various bootlegging and other criminal operations throughout the early to mid-1920s.
dcterms:subject	Italian Bosses Cleveland Crime Family Murdered Mobsters
abstract	Joseph was one of the seven Porrello brothers who migrated to the U.S. from Licata, Sicily. The Porrello brothers became partners with the Lonardo brothers and first established themselves as legitimate businessmen. The two groups dabbled in various criminal activities, such as robbery and extortion, before prohibition, but were not yet considered major organization. At the start of Prohibition, "Big Joe" Joseph Lonardo was the Boss of the Cleveland crime family. He was the second oldest of four Lonardo brothers. He and his brothers began by supplying Cleveland's bootleggers with the corn sugar they needed to produce liquor. Joe Porrello was his top lieutenant and supervised various bootlegging and other criminal operations throughout the early to mid-1920s. In 1926, the Porrello brothers (Rosario, Vincenzo, Angelo, Joseph, John, Ottavio, and Raymond) broke away from the Lonardo family forming their own faction. They established their headquarters in the upper Woodland Avenue around E. 110th St. In 1927 hostilities between the Lonardo and Porrello families escalated as the Porrellos competed with the Lonardo family for both corn sugar business which is a prime ingredient in bootleg liquor. With violence on the rise, boss Joseph Lonardo left for Sicily in the summer of 1927. He left his brother John and adviser, "Black Sam" Salvatore Todaro as acting heads of the Cleveland family. When Lonardo returned a sitdown was scheduled between the Lonardo's and the Porrello's. On October 13, 1927 Joseph Lonardo and his eldest brother John were to meet with Angelo Porrello in a Porrello owned barber shop. The Lonardo brothers relaxed playing a game of cards when they were surprised by two gunmen, and assassinated. This allowed Joseph Porrello take over as boss of the Cleveland crime family and to become the most influential corn sugar baron in the Cleveland area.

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