{"id":502,"date":"2025-10-03T15:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:07:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:07:24","slug":"danny-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Danny Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/td>\nDaniel John Patrick \u2018Danny\u2019 Greene was an Irish American mobster and associate of Cleveland mobster John Nardi during a gang war during the 1970s.
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Greene gained power first in a local chapter of the Longshoremen\u2019s Association, where he was elected president in the early 1960s. Greene pushed into Cleveland rackets and began competing with the Mafia for control of the city. He set up his own outfit called the Celtic Club. After being forced from the teamsters he began acting as an enforcer for mobster Alex \u2018Shondor\u2019 Birns. Competing gangsters set off dozens of bombs, many successful. Greene became viewed as a threat by other crime figures, including Birns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\"\"<\/td>\n The relationship between Greene and Birns soured.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Birns put out a contract on Greene, but despite many attempts could not kill him. Greene retaliated. On March 29, 1975 Birns was killed in an explosion attributed to Greene. On May 12, 1975 an explosion destroyed Greene\u2019s building, but he was unhurt. A second, more powerful, bomb failed to explode. So began the war between the Licavoli crime family and Greene\u2019s Celtic Club.
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\nAlex \u2018Shondor\u2019 Birns death car.
\n In 1976, 36 bombs exploded around the Cleveland area. It\u2019s said Greene killed at least eight of the Mafia hit men sent to assassinate him. Greene played up the stories of the Mafia\u2019s failed assassination attempts. His bravado and flamboyance added to his aura of invincibility.<\/p>\n\n\n
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