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The Cleveland crime family or Cleveland Mafia is the collective name given to a succession of Italian-American organized crime gangs based in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. Semi-organized Sicilian American- and Italian American-run “Black Hand” extortion rackets first emerged in Cleveland about 1900. Loosely organized gangs emerged in the 1910s. An Italian American gang known as the Mayfield Road Mob formed in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood about 1913.

Prohibition began in Ohio on May 27, 1919, and nationally throughout the United States on January 16, 1920. Porrello brothers, including Joseph Porello, immigrated to the United States from Licata, Sicily. The Lonardo and Porrello brothers first established themselves as legitimate businessmen. At the start of Prohibition, Joseph “Big Joe” Lonardo was the boss of the Cleveland crime family. He was the second oldest of the four Lonardo brothers. He and his brothers began by supplying Cleveland’s bootleggers with the corn sugar they needed to produce liquor. Lonardo family and formed their own faction.