His brief career as a freelance enforcer and kidnapper placed him at the intersection of several overlapping gang wars in early 1930s New York, making him a figure of genuine notoriety even within a milieu accustomed to violence. What distinguished Coll was less any organizational loyalty than a willingness to operate without sanction — kidnapping rival gangsters for ransom, breaking from Dutch Schultz to wage his own street war, and reportedly hiring himself out to Salvatore Maranzano against Lucky Luciano. The death of five-year-old Michael Vengalli during a botched shooting in the summer of 1931 brought him citywide infamy and the nickname that followed him to his own death months later, at age 23.

DiNorscio's place on this site rests less on the scale of his crimes than on the spectacle of his legal defiance — a career criminal who turned a landmark federal racketeering trial into a prolonged, often chaotic showcase of self-representation, ultimately contributing to the acquittal of all twenty defendants. His decision to act as his own counsel in one of the longest criminal trials in American history made him an unlikely figure in the legal record, and later the subject of a Hollywood film.

His grip on New York's artichoke supply — buying out entire shipments and reselling them at steep markup — made him both wealthy and widely feared, demonstrating how organized crime could dominate legitimate commerce through sheer market control. As a founding member and eventual acting leader of what would become one of the city's most consequential early Mafia families, he navigated decades of gang warfare, counterfeiting enterprises, and suspected murder conspiracies before his rivals and reformers alike conspired to erode his position. Mayor LaGuardia's decriminalization of the artichoke trade ultimately proved more effective at diminishing his power than any law enforcement effort had managed.

Known within Quebec's biker underworld as "Mélou," he rose to become one of the most consequential figures in the Hells Angels' expansion across the province during the 1990s — not through rank alone, but through a near-monopoly on drug distribution in Trois-Rivières, alliances with the Rizzuto crime family, and a direct role in commissioning contract killings during the Quebec biker war. His inclusion as a founding member of the Angels' Nomad chapter placed him among a select tier of operators considered most capable within the organization. He disappeared in June 2000, leaving behind unresolved questions about the fate of six men from affiliated puppet clubs who vanished following his acquittal on murder charges.