Masseria dodged another bullet, several bullets, after a mob meeting in 1930, but on April 15, 1931 he finished his dance. Joe Masseria went to dinner with Luciano at Nuova Villa Tammaro in Coney ...

Joe “the Boss” Masseria ate off too many plates. Giuseppe Masseria rose through the ranks of New York crime virtually unscathed as “The Man Who Could Dodge Bullets” in the early 1900s.

If you’re a student of history (or reader of Wikipedia), you likely had an idea of what was in store for Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria when you saw that Boardwalk Empire was skipping ...