death_date death_place conviction birth_place alias allegiance conviction_penalty image_caption birth_date article_title name image_name
15 august 1930 new york city , new york , united states counterfeiting corleone , sicily , italy joseph and the old fox morello , peter morello , the clutch hand morello crime family 30 years morello in 1902 02 may 1867 giuseppe morello
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giuseppe morello

giuseppe `` the clutch hand '' morello -lrb- may 2 , 1867 -- august 15 , 1930 -rrb- , also known as `` the old fox '' , was the first boss of the morello crime family and later top adviser to giuseppe `` joe the boss '' masseria .
he was known as `` piddu '' -lrb- sicilian diminutive form of giuseppe -rrb- and his rivals the castellammarese knew him as peter morello .
he was famous for having a one-fingered deformed right hand that resembled a claw .
in the 1890s , giuseppe founded a gang known as the 107th street mob and which would later evolve into the morello crime family .
today the morello crime family is known as the genovese crime family and is the oldest of the five families in new york city .
