Frank Costello

Frank the Prime Minister Costello was an ItalianAmerican gangster and crime boss. Costello rose to the top of the United States underworld, controlled a vast gambling empire across the United States, and enjoyed political influence.

Based on Italian birth records from the province of Cosenza, Costello was born Francesco Castiglia onJanuary 1891 in Lauropoli, a mountain village in the town of Cassano allo Ionio in the Cosenza province of the Calabria region of Italy. In 1895, he boarded a ship to the United States with his mother and his brother Edward in order to join their father, who had moved to New Yorks East Harlem several years earlier and opened a small neighborhood Italian grocery store.

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