
Chris Ferriera (1903-1948) was an American policeman and sergeant in the New York Police Department (NYPD).
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Chris Ferriera was born in New York City, New York in 1903, and he rose to the rank of sergeant in the NYPD. Ferriera became infamous for his corruption and cruelty, being tried numerous times for manslaughter and police brutality while working for Mark McCluskey. Following the Corleone crime family soldier Aldo Trapani's murder of Bruno Tattaglia, Ferriera contacted Trapani and hired him as a hitman. He first had Trapani assassinate the Chicago crime boss Patrick O'Donnell at a Midtown Manhattan penthouse before he could move his gang to New York and continue his reputation of killing dozens of policemen. Afterwards, Ferriera had Trapani murder O'Donnell's hitmen Ray and James Scaleri at Grand Central Station. Faced with another brutality case, Ferriera contracted Trapani to murder Judge Tyrone Bloom and the internal affairs officer Ronaldo Manning. In order to cover his tracks, Ferriera lured Trapani to the Holland Tunnel, where he expected to bring in the corpse of the Polish crime lord Josef Niekrasz and split the bounty with Ferriera. Instead, Ferriera had a female messenger warn Trapani that his services were no longer needed, and Trapani was ambushed by police. After escaping, Trapani tracked Ferriera down to the Little Italy police station, dragged him into the street, and publicly executed him.