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Giuseppe "Joe" Aiello (1891 – October 23, 1930) was a Chicago bootlegger and organized crime leader during the Prohibition era. The leader of his own Sicilian Mafia family, he was best known for his long and bloody feud with Chicago Outfit boss Al Capone. Aiello masterminded several unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Capone, and fought against his former business partner Antonio Lombardo, a Capone ally, for control of the Chicago branch of the Unione Siciliana benevolent society. Aiello and his ally Bugs Moran are believed to have arranged the murder of Lombardo, which directly led Capone to organize the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in retaliation. Despite being forced to flee Chicago multiple times throughout the gang war, Aiello eventually took control of the Unione Siciliana in 1929, and ranked seventh among the Chicago Crime Commission's list of top "public enemies". Aiello was killed after Capone gunmen ambushed him as he exited a Chicago apartment building where he had been hiding out, shooting him 59 times. After his death, the ''Chicago Tribune'' described Aiello as "the toughest gangster in Chicago, and one of the toughest in the country".〔 ==Early life== Born in Bagheria, Sicily to father Carlo Sr., Aiello was part of a large and impoverished family of at least nine other brothers and multiple cousins. His mother died when he was a child.〔.〕 In July 1907, at age 17,〔.〕 Aiello immigrated to the United States to join family members already residing there. After arriving New York City by boat, Aiello worked a series of menial jobs in Buffalo and Utica, New York, before connecting with his father, brothers and cousins in Chicago. The family set up several businesses in both New York and Chicago, including the financially successful Aiello Brothers Bakery, and they become importers of such groceries as olive oil, cheeses, and sugar.〔 Aiello was the co-owner of a cheese importing business alongside a fellow Sicilian, Antonio "Tony the Scourge" Lombardo, an ally of organized crime figure Al Capone.〔.〕 Aiello was president of the company, which was called Antonio Lombardo & Co., and Capone was said to have lent both men $100,000 to start the enterprise. With the enactment of Prohibition and start of bootlegging, the sugar import business brought Aiello into contact with organized crime, along with his brothers Dominick, Antonio, Andrew,〔 and Carlo. In Chicago, they made a small fortune selling sugar and other home-cooked alcohol components to the Genna crime family,〔 and Aiello earned enough money to buy a three-story mansion in Rogers Park. But Aiello craved recognition and prestige in addition to money,〔 something he was gaining as he was becoming known as the top organized crime boss of Chicago.〔 When the Genna family lost power in Chicago following gang wars, the Aiellos believed themselves the successors of their territory.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joe Aiello」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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