{{short description|Italian-American mobster}} {{Infobox criminal |name = Vincent Mangano |image = Vincent Mangano's 1933 Mugshot.jpg |caption = Mugshot of Mangano in 1933 |birth_name = Vincenzo Giovanni Mangano |birth_date = {{birth date|1888|3|28|mf=y}} |birth_place = Palermo, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy |disappeared_date = {{disappeared date and age|1951|04|19|1888|03|28}} |disappeared_place = New York, U.S. |disappeared_status = {{Missing for|1951|04|19}}; declared dead ''in absentia'' on {{Death date and age|1961|10|30|1888|3|28}} |other_names="Vincent The Executioner" |relatives = Philip Mangano (brother) |allegiance = Mangano crime family |occupation = Crime boss |predecessor = Frank Scalice |successor = Albert Anastasia }} '''Vincent Mangano''' (born '''Vincenzo Giovanni Mangano'''; {{IPA|it|vinˈtʃɛntso dʒoˈvanni ˈmaŋɡano|lang}}; March 28, 1888 – disappeared April 19, 1951, declared dead October 30, 1961) was an Italian-born mobster also known as "'''Vincent the Executioner'''" as named in a Brooklyn newspaper, and the head of the Mangano crime family from 1931 to 1951. He was the brother of Philip Mangano.
==Vince as head of the Gambino family== Mangano was named head of what was then the Mineo family in 1931, following the Castellammarese War. He was one of the original bosses of the modern Five Families, the others being Joseph Bonanno, Lucky Luciano, Joe Profaci and Tommy Gagliano.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Two Mafias: a transatlantic history, 1888-2008|last=Lupo|first=Salvatore|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2015|isbn=978-1-137-49135-0|location=New York|pages=123}}</ref> right|175px|thumb|Vincent Mangano NYPD Mugshot #32769 5 January 1931
Mangano made the waterfront his family's main income producer. He and his associates would threaten to prevent cargo from being loaded or unloaded if the shipping company refused to pay a tribute. This effort was helped by the family's control of Brooklyn Local 1814 of the International Longshoremen's Association; its president, Anthony Anastasio, was a member of the family.<ref name=jacobs>{{cite book|last=Jacobs|first=James B.|title=Mobsters, unions, and feds the Mafia and the American labor movement|year=2006|publisher=New York University Press|location=New York|isbn=0-8147-4273-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mobstersunionsfe00jaco/page/49 49]|url=https://archive.org/details/mobstersunionsfe00jaco|url-access=registration|quote=Anthony Anastasio.|edition=[Online-Ausg.].}}</ref>
==Feud with Anastasia== Despite being a mob power in his own right, Albert Anastasia was nominally the underboss of the Mangano crime family, under Mangano.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mass|first=Peter|title=The Valachi Papers|year=1968|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=0-671-63173-X|edition=1986 Pocket Books revised|page=78}}</ref> During his 20-year rule, Mangano had resented Anastasia's close ties to Luciano and Costello, particularly the fact that they had obtained Anastasia's services without first seeking Mangano's permission. This and other business disputes led to heated, almost physical fights between the two mobsters.<ref name="Davis 62">Davis, pp. 62-64</ref>
==Disappearance== Mangano's brother was found dead near Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn on April 19, 1951.<ref name="shot dead">{{cite news|title=Aide of Joe Adonis is Found Shot Dead|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/04/20/87242113.pdf|access-date=26 February 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=April 20, 1951}}</ref> Vincent Mangano disappeared the same day. Both of them are believed to have been murdered on the orders of family underboss Albert Anastasia in Brooklyn as part of a coup in 1951.<ref>[http://www.lacndb.com/php/Info.php?name=Family%20-%20Gambino%20(Mangano) New York| Family - Gambino (Mangano)]</ref> Vincent Mangano's body was never found, and he was declared dead 10 years later on October 30, 1961, by the Surrogate's Court in Brooklyn.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=127560&search=carlo_gambino#relPageId=5&tab=page|title=showDoc.html|date=11 February 1965|website=www.maryferrell.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-28}}</ref> No one was ever arrested in the Mangano homicides, but it was widely assumed that Anastasia had them killed.<ref name="gambino dies">{{cite news|last=Gage|first=Nicholas|title=Carlo Gambino, a Mafia Leader, Dies in His Long Island Home at 74|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/10/16/284661052.pdf|access-date=30 December 2011|newspaper=New York Times|date=October 16, 1976}}</ref>
==See also== *List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== *Bonanno, Joseph. ''A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. {{ISBN|0-312-97923-1}} *Capeci, Jerry. ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia''. Indianapolis: Alpha Books, 2002. {{ISBN|0-02-864225-2}} *Davis, John H. ''Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family''. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. {{ISBN|0-06-016357-7}} *Jacobs, James B., Christopher Panarella and Jay Worthington. ''Busting the Mob: The United States Vs. Cosa Nostra''. New York: NYU Press, 1994. {{ISBN|0-8147-4230-0}} *Mannion, James. ''101 Things You Didn't Know About The Mafia: The Lowdown on Dons, Wiseguys, Squealers and Backstabbers''. Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media, 2005. {{ISBN|1-59337-267-1}} *Milhorn, H. Thomas. ''Crime: Computer Viruses to Twin Towers''. Boca Raton, Florida: Universal Publishers, 2005. {{ISBN|1-58112-489-9}} *Raab, Selwyn. ''Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires''. New York: St. Martin Press, 2005. {{ISBN|0-312-30094-8}} *Schatzberg, Rufus, Robert J. Kelly and Ko-lin Chin, ed. ''Handbook of Organized Crime in the United States''. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. {{ISBN|0-313-28366-4}}
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