During the Castellammarese War of 1930–31, Joseph Valachi entered the Mafia world as one of the new men brought in by Tom Gagliano. The war involved rival factions led by Joseph Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano competing for control of New York’s Mafia. Gagliano, an ally of the murdered crime boss Gaetano Reina, used new recruits such as Valachi against rival forces without immediately exposing his own circle.
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