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{{Short description|American mobster (1908–1942)}}
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{{Short description|American mobster}}
[[Image:Maione.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[New York Police Department]] mugshot of Harry Maione]]
▲{{use mdy dates|date=May 2016}}{{Infobox criminal
| name = Harry Maione
| image_name = Maione.jpg
| image_caption = Mug shot taken on March 7, 1940
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|10|7}}
| birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|02|19|1908|10|7}}
| death_place = [[Sing Sing Prison]], [[Ossining (town), New York|Ossining, New York]], U.S.
| conviction = [[First degree murder]]
| conviction_penalty = [[Capital punishment|Death]]
| conviction_status = [[Executed]]
| occupation = [[Hitman]]
| death_cause = [[Execution by electrocution]]
| children = Albert Maione
| allegiance = [[Murder, Inc.]]
| other_names = Happy
}}
 
'''Harry "Happy" Maione''' (October 7, 1908 – February 19, 1942) was a New York mobster who served as a [[hitman]] for [[Murder, Inc.]] (the enforcement arm of the [[National Crime Syndicate]]) during the 1930s. Maione was called "Happy" because his face displayed an eternal scowl.
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==Early years==
 
As a young man, Maione led the Ocean Hill Hooligans, an Italian street gang in the [[Ocean Hill, Brooklyn]] section of New York. His protégé in this gang was [[Frank Abbandando|Frank "The Dasher" Abbandando]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Turkus|first=Burton |title=Murder, Inc. The Story of the Syndicate|year=2003|publisher=Da Capo Press|location=New YorkBoston |isbn=978-0-306-81288-0|pages=109–110}}</ref> Maione had a son, Albert Maione, who eventually became an associate with the [[Gambino crime family]]. Maione's older brother was Louis "The Duke" Maione.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hope Maione Jailing Ends Intimidation|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2033888/may_stop_intimidation_clip/|work=[[The Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |date=18 September 1932|page=13}}</ref>
 
In 1931, Maione and Abbandando helped [[Abe Reles|Abe "Kid Twist" Reles]] and [[Martin Goldstein|Martin "Bugsy" Goldstein]] eliminate their gangster rivals, the [[Shapiro Brothers]] (Meyer, Irving, and William).<ref>{{cite book|last=Turkus|first=Burton |title=Murder, Inc. The Story of the Syndicate|year=2003|publisher=Da Capo Press|location=New YorkBoston |isbn=978-0-306-81288-0|pages=116–118}}</ref> Previously that year, the Shapiros had unsuccessfully tried to murder Reles and Goldstein. Meyer Shapiro then abducted Reles' girlfriend and raped her.<ref>{{cite book|last=Turkus|first=Burton |title=Murder, Inc. The Story of the Syndicate|year=2003|publisher=Da Capo Press|location=New YorkBoston |isbn=978-0-306-81288-0|pages=111–112}}</ref> Reles and Goldstein wanted revenge and the two wanted to take over the Shapiro operations. On July 11, 1931, Irving Shapiro was gunned down near his apartment. On September 17, 1931, Meyer was found shot to death in the basement of a tenement building on Manhattan's [[Lower East Side]].
 
==Murder, Inc.==
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*{{cite news|title=Harry Maione's arrest record|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2033801/harry_maiones_arrest_record/}}, as of September 18, 1932, ''The Brooklyn Daily Eagle''
 
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