Detroit Partnership Leadership Timeline
Vito Adamo 1908 – 1913 The first prominent Italian gang leader in Detroit, after moving to the city in 1907 from his home town in Sicily. He and his brother Salvatore, controlled the flow of illicit liquor in and out of the growing Italian colony until the emergence of the Gianolla gang in 1912. During the first part of the 20th century the Adamo gang also used extortion as a means of making money, and…