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Bronx As he became rich from his criminal enterprises, he began to famously flaunt his wealth. He became a very flashy dresser and was often "covered in jewels". By 1921, he had become known as "Diamond Joe Peppe" or "Diamond Joe" for short, boasting shortly before his death of owning a $ 10,000 diamond stick pin. Author
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Viserti emigrated from Naples to America but once in New York he quickly established himself in the Italian underworld. Earliest records indicate that by 1913 Viserti was a gunman and soldier associated with a traditional Italian mafia organization, the Morello family of East
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Morello-Masseria pact. The first casualty of this new conflict was Diamond Joe Viserti. He was shot twice in the back in a gunfight on October 13, 1921 at a coffee shop in Little Italy.
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