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Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Charles 'Cherry Nose" Gioe was a mobster in the Chicago syndicate led by Al Capone. In charge of gambling rackets Gioe consulted with Dutch Schultz as an emissary for Capone in the early 1930s. Later Cherry Nose was imprisoned for racketeering in Hollywood. Along with three other defendants he was convicted of bilking motion picture studios out of more than $1 million dollars. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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Joseph and Anthony Stassi were part of Nick Delmore's gambling syndicate in Union County, New Jersey in the 1950s. In the late 1960s they were participants in the infamous French Connection smuggling operation. Active in the Gambino crime family Joseph and Anthony were sentenced to 25 years in federal prison in the mid 1970s. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Joey Glimco was head of Chicago Local 777, a Teamsters affiliated labor union. From 1939 until the mid 1950s he was a corrupting influence who bilked the union of dues paid honestly by its members. He used the money to defend himself in trials, pay for his secretary's travel to Los Angeles and fund trips to national Teamsters conventions. Glimco regularly denied taxi drivers sick leave dues. If they complained he promptly kicked them out of the union....
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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Frank Cammarata was a mobster heavily involved in the music and jukebox business in the 1950s. His base was Detroit and Ohio. Deported from the United States in 1939 he reentered the country as a stowaway on a ship bound for New York City. Cammarata was hired specifically to break up a dispute between Teamsters in Detroit who preferred Wurlitzer jukeboxes over Seeburg. Cammarata's thugs used acid bombs, stink bombs and fire bombings to coerce a desired...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Elmer Trigger Burke was an Army Ranger who took out a troop of Germans during World War II. Highly decorated Burke returned to a life of crime when the war ended and he came back to the United States. His specialties were robbery and assassination by contract. A psychopath Elmer was raised in New York's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, tutored by his elder brother Charlie, who was also a criminal. In 1954 Trigger made a noteworthy escape from Boston's...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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John Spurdis was a decorated police detective with the NYPD. In 1972 he was involved in a "French Connection" bust of Mafiosi, including Lucchese family member Joseph DiNapoli. DiNapoli was arrested near a Bronxdale Avenue, Bronx residence on a rainy evening in February 1972. He was accompanied by drug trafficker Vincent C. Papa. NYPD officials, including Spurdis, were on hand for the surveillance and subsequent arrests. Spurdis was soon dismissed...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Aniello DellaCroce led an insurrection to wrest power away from Gambino crime family boss Carlo Gambino. The underboss was a protege of the late Mafia enforcer Albert Anastasia. DellaCroce was a prominent figure in mob history from the early 1970s until his death from cancer in 1985. He was a fierce opponent of Paul Castellano, who succeeded Carlo Gambino. DellaCroce and his associates dealt in murder, gambling, racketeering, loansharking and tax...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
Description
Jacob "Jack" Drucker was the finger man for Murder, Incorporated in Sullivan County, New York. Numerous murder victims turned up on land near Loch Sheldrake, Monticello, Liberty and other towns in Sullivan. Drucker was arrested in Wilmington, Delaware in 1943 after being pursued by Federal Agents. He was extradited to New York to stand trial at the request of racket busting New York Mayor Thomas Dewey. Drucker's associations with Murder, Incorporated...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Jacob Little Augie Orgen and Jack Legs Diamond controlled the garment industry racket in New York City for a time. Legs came to Little Augie with his brother, Eddie, who was employed by the East Side gang chieftain before him. Legs worked for the notorious Arnold Rothstein beginning in 1919. He served as the renowned gambler's bodyguard before he left him for employment with Orgen. By 1931 investigators learned that Little Augie, Legs and Rothstein...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Angelo Caruso was a criminal who was involved with numerous rackets such as prostitution, kidnapping and shaking down and coercion of merchants. Caruso was handpicked as underboss by Salvatore Maranzano who succeeded Giuseppe Masseria in 1931 as Mafia boss of bosses. Caruso lived in Manhattan, the Bronx and Harlem at different times. My e-book discusses Angelo's multifaceted career from his marriage to a woman who was used as a tool in his white slavery...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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The Campisi crime family of New Jersey was a quickly ascending organization in the early 1970s. There were eight different Campisis, all of them blood related. The murder of Samuel Carbone was one of a series of gangland murders involving the Bruno and Campisi family members. It is likely that Carbone's relationship with Brooklyn crime boss Joseph Colombo may have triggered the hit on him in August 1971. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Jacob Gurrah Shapiro was a Mafia enforcer in the fashion fur industry. He worked as a lieutenant to the notorious Louis Lepke Buchalter who was himself executed at Ossining Prison (Sing Sing) in 1944. Shapiro and Buchalter were a tandem that single handedly dominated an industry in which shopkeepers and manufacturers were intimidated into paying tribute for Mafia control of striking workers. Over a period of time Shapiro and Buchalter collected hundreds...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Samuel "Sassy" Chioccoli was a multifaceted gangster who had direct ties to Murder, Inc., a Brooklyn based murder for hire organization. The crime outfit, which operated out of Brownsville, was headed by Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. By the 1930s it operated nationwide, the first of its kind to extend throughout the United States. Chioccoli ran a pastry shop in Ozone Park. The business was a front for his bookie operation. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (272 pages)
Language
English
Description
Despite having more than 100 criminal convictions to her name, Kate Leigh is also remembered as a local hero, giving money to needy families and supporting her local community through the hard times of Depression and war. Here, novelist and historian Leigh Straw teases out the full story of how this wayward Reformatory girl from Dubbo made a fortune in eastern Sydney and defied the gender stereotyping of the time to become a leading underworld figure....
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
In 1912 gambler Herman M. Rosenthal was a desperate man. His business was in decline and he turned to telling reporters what he knew about a police protection racket involving New York Police Department Lieutenant Charles Becker. In fact Becker was the head of a criminal organization designed to help betting operations flourish. The embattled officer turned to members of "Big Al" Zelig's crime operation to solve his problem. Becker hired them to eliminate...
Series
Publisher
BookCaps
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Starting in the summer of 1976, one man terrorized a city and fascinated a nation: Son of Sam. Over 30 years after his capture, David Berkowitz (AKA Son of Sam), is still one of the most known serial killers of all time. The life, murders, trial, and prison life of David Berkowitz is recapped in this book. LifeCaps is an imprint of BookCaps* Study Guides. With each book, a lesser known or sometimes forgotten life is recapped. --Provided by publisher....
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
John "Johnny the Boxer" Fury was a 1930s era gangster in Rochester and Monroe County, New York. His specialty was stealing safes. A career criminal, Fury had twenty-eight offenses on his record before being assigned to Attica Prison in 1936. John was part of a team of three men who carried out safe crimes beginning in 1928. The matter of whether he was a first or second offender was debated in county, appellate and appeals courts until 1939. --Provided...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
The William E. Dickens-Sidney Power Gang was active in the New England states in the late 1930s. The gang leaders were killed in shootouts with law enforcement by the end of 1937. However several associates weren't apprehended by law enforcement until early 1938 and later. The gang pulled robberies, cracked safes and stole cars, among other crimes. The remnants of the band were apprehended in Gloversville and Schenectady, New York, where they were...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Robert Dibernardo was a porn distributor for the Gambino crime family organization during the Golden Age of Pornography. DIB as he was called, was a family-oriented man who doted on his children in their Hewlitt, New York home. Robert coached Little League baseball as a volunteer. His alter ego, as a porn purveyor was spent managing Show World Video on 42nd Street in Manhattan. He also ran Star Distributors, a porn warehouse on Lafayette Street near...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
The Lanzetti Mob controlled crime in South Philadelphia for nearly two decades. The brothers were often referred to as punks by police in Philly. The Lanzettis demonstrated a remarkable ability to avoid jail despite their many crimes. Not until 1936 did one of them, Ignatius, receive a stiff sentence that required serving more than a few months or even a year in jail. Ignatius was sentenced for violation of the New Jersey habitual crime law. --Provided...
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