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Antonio LombardoAntonio "The Scourge" Lombardo (1892-September 7, 1928) was an advisor, or consigliere, to Al Capone and later President of the Unione Siciliane. Born in Sicily around 1892 Antonio Lombardo immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s where he became a successful wholesale grocery business owner in Chicago, Illinios. A long time Mafia associate Lombardo became Al Capone's advisor after Johnny Torrio retired in 1925. Lombardo tried unsuccessfully to negotiate peace between the Chicago Outfit and the North Side Gang during the four year gang war suggesting Capone surrender supposed Dion O'Bannion assassins Albert Anselmi and John Scalise which Capone refused. Lombardo, with the help of Capone, later became President of the Unione Siciliane in November 1925 attempting to regain control of the unstable organization as well as instituing reforms including opening membership to non-Sicilian Italian immigrants and changing the organizations name to the Italo-American National Union. Lombardo's reforms however caused some resentment within Unione Siciliane members. With the partnership of Al Capone and New York gangster Frankie Yale worsening, possibly due to the stop of payoffs from the Unione Siciliane to Yale, Lombardo would be challenged for the Presidency by Joe Aiello, supported by Yale, in January 1928 however Lombardo refused to resign. Lombardo continued to organize civic projects under the Unione Siciliane shortly before his death on September 7, 1928 when Lombardo was killed with his bodyguard Joseph Ferrara (although bodyguard Joe Lolordo survived) as they were gunned down, allegedly by an alliance of the Joe Aiello Gang and the North Side Gang, at the intersections of Madison and Dearborne Street. Thought to be retaliation for the murder of Frankie Yale the previous July, Lombardo's death was in turn soon avenged with the deaths of the Joey Aiello Gang the following year and ultimatly the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929. Further reading - Jay Robert Nash, Encyclopedia of World Crime (K-R) Vol. III, CrimeBooks Inc., Wilmette, 1990
External links Lombardo, Antonio Lombardo, Antonio Lombardo, Antonio
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