Next, Joe Aiello offered to pay $50,000 to anyone who would kill Capone. The chef went straight to Capone and revealed the plot to him. One of Aiello’s first moves was to try to bribe the chef at one of Capone’s favorite restaurants to poison Al’s meal with prussic acid. Aiello wanted to remove Capone and take over the Unione Siciliano, which was being run by Capone’s hand picked leader, Anthony Lombardo, who ironically, was a friend and business associate of Joe Aiello. The Aiellos aligned themselves with the remnants of another gang that had fallen on similar hard times – the Northsiders, now headed by George “Bugs” Moran. Joseph Aiello and his three brothers were trying to piece together the remnants of the Genna brother’s empire that had been shot to pieces in 1925. The highlight of Campagna’s gunman days during the Prohibition years came during a gang war in late 1927. He was released again in November 1924.Īlthough the exact date has been lost, sometime between December 1924 and the summer of 1926 Campagna ended up in Chicago to serve as a Capone bodyguard. He was paroled in April 1924 and six months later was returned for a parole violation.
In 1919 Campagna, still a teenager, was convicted of robbing a bank and was sentenced to the Pontiac Reformatory in Illinois. This probably rings true because Al Capone, who legend has it brought Campagna to Chicago, was a one-time member of that gang.Ī year younger than Capone, Campagna actually made it to Illinois before Capone’s appearance there. It has been reported that he was a member of the infamous Five Points gang. He was born in 1900, most likely in the Brooklyn section of New York City. When Louis “Little New York” Campagna met his demise, it wasn’t because he ended up “sleeping with the fishes.” Instead, it was because he was done-in by one. Contact him at Campagna - Done in by a Grouper
He also writes a monthly column for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Rick Porrello's - Allan May, Organized Crime Historian and JournalistĪllan May is an organized crime historian, writer and lecturer.
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