Out of the 100 men, 50 managed to escape but 58 were arrested. While the meeting was going on in the house, the police formed roadblocks outside and called for huge reinforcements ready for a takedown. The checks that came back resulted in the police finding all the cars were registered to known criminals who has visited from out of town.
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This is when they decided to take down license plate numbers and run checks on them. As expensive and lavish cars began rolling into this fairly quiet town in New York, the local police began to grow suspicious. Since that day back in 1956, a local state trooper by the name of Edgar Croswell had put surveillance teams on Barbara’s house. The main issue was that the location was used for a big meeting by the mob in 1956, the year before, and on the way back from the meeting Carmine Galante had been stopped by state troopers, and questioned. The day before the meeting took place Joe Barbara went into town and ordered expensive cuts of steak in preparation for the mob visit. The meeting was to be held at Joe Barbara’s house in Apalachin which was a 58-acre plot west of New York City, located along the south shore of the Susquehanna River, near the Pennsylvania border. In 1957 Vito Genovese called for a national meeting of bosses, where 100 members would get together to discuss Mafia operations and new leadership changes. During the 1950’s the mob was going through big changes and leaderships were unsettled as the new faction tried to gain control of the Mafia, taking it away from the old faction. Now Genovese had control of his own family, but he wanted to take over the Mafia as a whole – to be the boss of bosses. In May 1957 Costello survived a botched hit which prompted him to step down as mob boss, and in October the same year Albert Anastasia wasn’t so lucky when he was blown away by shotguns in a Barber’s Chair. Genovese decided to team up with Carlo Gambino who gets the Albert Anastasia family. Vito felt that the time was right to make a power move but in order to take over the family he had to take out Costello and his allies. In the early 1950’s Vito Genovese was on a power drive to take over the Luciano Family which was being run by Frank Costello at the time as Lucky was banged up in jail. Let’s take a step back in time and look at the events leading up to the meeting, and of course, the day of the meeting itself. Edgar Hoover create his own syndicate to go after the mob, and with it, a fall in Mafia power would begin…
Some of those arrested including high ranking members of the mob like Carlo Gambino, Vito Genovese, and Joe Profaci.
However, the meeting would soon become engrained into Mafia history, as it was to be a meeting that exposed the Mafia in an FBI raid that would result in 58 arrests. The Apalachin meeting was a summit held on November 14, 1957, in which members of the mob came together to discuss mob operations and confirm family leadership.
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