{"id":8868,"date":"2025-06-15T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casuallybreadc4b70dbc45.wordpress.com\/2025\/06\/15\/joseph-mad-dog-sullivan\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:05:00","slug":"joseph-mad-dog-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/?p=8868","title":{"rendered":"Joseph &#039;Mad Dog&#039; Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"242\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-I-v79QFiJas\/WdloE0zVyKI\/AAAAAAABApM\/4MgR6yPREUclsfo8SpkxZLEEGtLAt8dmACLcBGAs\/w280-h320\/mug.png\" width=\"280\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Joseph &#8216;Mad Dog&#8217; Sullivan was a mafia hitman. He started committing robberies at age 12. Sullivan carried out scores of murders for the Five Families, and was given 3 life sentences. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjzcN_7lmNiqmpkJJQCFzFYa88HKjZdCKmLCTGYMT2RCUGWh2HzbMWW2zPBiq5GGxf_oOSKAvco8ZC3DW-Jmk6U1sZds6nUU7mpf39mRZVAdDioZPGj2djLeC57TV3kwO1OnzBBzq8xBVGbCLVMCJADeRG0nOn-8035zxsdTRtNMJ6eowqAMnDPh0Xbhyw\/w453-h254\/images.jpg\" width=\"453\" \/><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E8l-yleK94U?si=q65dcBTbYz_mZrHp]<\/td>\n<td>After four years in Attica, Sullivan did the impossible and escaped from the notorious prison in 1971. He was captured weeks later in Greenwich Village carrying a sawed-off shotgun.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEg_QDkU46Gm0WhAVN717uvoIcx5vYSPyOhX5Yr4T6eIjN7tJHHkdzkZYqQqBiV2VqO3N-W_k92LooKBfEg6l0qLQ1SpKbKCPORdakOaHZ3PeOfJZ2nL62_ONnrP3LcKEiw0n8uFoiO5vRKRWRVReBRujO5pJt39w5xqp6kFRcMzv_rFBiK5Tr7Cw5AfogA=w401-h218\" width=\"401\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sullivan  earned the nickname &#8216;Mad Dog&#8217; from fellow inmates at Attica.  Winning parole in 1975, Sullivan began working for the Genovese crime family. He single-handedly executed a dozen members of an Irish-American criminal organization headed by Mickey Spillane during the summer of 1976, which was half of Spillane&#8217;s entire crew.<br \/>\nOne of Sullivan&#8217;s intended targets was Carmine &#8220;Cigar&#8221; Galante, head of the Bonnano crime family.  For much of the summer of 1978, Sullivan tried to carry out the hit on Galante, but failed.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"350\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-_mqKNm_2LTM\/WdlsH9ACN9I\/AAAAAAABAp0\/ILUzV7j3syAtnWlsO7CP0L6fGYl1WNrVwCLcBGAs\/w350-h263\/Pu4Ga.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"600\"> It took a team of hit men to do what Sullivan couldn&#8217;t \u2014 they killed Galante at a Brooklyn restaurant.\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"494\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjAWrvsv5f1gAcmEB_kEPB8zdq7-WZOC-uxPlADc6GZIVEk2tBg5OLnso9ldxlTzftIYjat5tztgq1IWYYhxvm4jpHFQ5vWoMgo9ZXbxhTdyTQdG2FBon5NsiE1x0rxQ_1DhPXsI9Z_2aITqn5twx3eT8whx26uhaoIKW1WNpXJFpU75YxBV5A0YZMo3S0=w494-h259\" width=\"494\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-wawpaJZvdDk\/Wdlqy-6v8tI\/AAAAAAABApo\/6-nQxsqjqlYzQd6tR24covVBjUixu8O0wCLcBGAs\/s320\/636331233505344965-Sullivan-4.jpg\" width=\"310\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"600\"> Michael J. Spillane was killed in 1977. Sullivan was one of the Genovese crime family&#8217;s most lethal and efficient hitmen. The FBI believes that Sullivan murdered at least 35. The FBI considered him to be a sophisticated and professional assassin that never made mistakes, always got the job done, and always killed his target. Sullivan was sent to prison again in 1982.  Joseph &#8216;Mad Dog&#8217; Sullivan died at age 78 of natural causes in prison on June 9 2017. <\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MD2PHqmmQvs\/WdlqSy4U28I\/AAAAAAABApg\/20kQ_b3YoRIsHfZsFpP7yMftxib4QJp1wCLcBGAs\/s320\/mickey-spillane-gangster.jpg\" width=\"239\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph &#8216;Mad Dog&#8217; Sullivan was a mafia hitman. He started committing robberies at age 12. Sullivan carried out scores of murders for the Five Families, and was given 3 life sentences. [youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E8l-yleK94U?si=q65dcBTbYz_mZrHp] After four years in Attica, Sullivan did the impossible and escaped from the notorious prison in 1971. 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