Carl Carramusa was a low-level mobster in Kansas City. In the late 1930s and 1940s drugs were imported to Florida from Marseilles, France via Havana, Cuba. Kansas City was a fulcrum of midwestern drug trafficking. Carramusa became a federal informant. His information was crucial in bringing about the imprisonment of Sicilians who supplied drugs to KC from a base in Tampa. Carramusa fled Kansas City and moved to Chicago in the aftermath of the narcotics...

Waxey Gordon's beer empire extended throughout upstate New York, into Pennsylvania and to several New Jersey counties. It even reached as far as St. Louis and Chicago in the midwest. Gordon was raised in a tenement on Manhattan's East Side. He grew up thudding and became a pickpocket. He was an active member of one of several rival gangs there. Waxey's beer distribution was centered in Elmira, where the racketeer had once been imprisoned in a reformatory....

Settimo Accardi was a major crime figure in the northern New Jersey rackets until the early 1950s. He teamed with Abner Longie Zwillman, Joe Adonis, and Willie Moretti, Mafiosi of more widespread notoriety. The rackets were comprised of gambling, especially at the Commonwealth Casino that Adonis ran in Lodi, New Jersey. My e-book looks extensively at Accardi's deportation that originated in 1953. Treasury agents discovered that "Big Sam" had lied...

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...

William J. Lupo was connected with Frank J. Valenti and the Magaddino family crime syndicate of upstate New York. My research has found that Lupo and James Cannarazzo were involved in a counterfeiting ring in the 1950s. The two passed multiple $20 counterfeit bills at a supermarket in November 1960. An alert cashier detected the bills as fake. She informed her manager who called the police. Lupo was also caught up in loansharking during his life as...

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...

Matthew Ianniello was an integral part of the Genovese crime syndicate until the late 1990s. He joined the family in the 1950s after serving as a decorated soldier in the South Pacific. Ianniello entered the restaurant business as co-owner of Matty's Towncrest in the Times Square section of New York City. Later Matthew was an important investor in Manhattan night clubs for gays and transsexuals. The gay entertainment field was first introduced to...

Vito Guarino was an Ozone, Queens based mobster associated with the murder for hire Brooklyn outfit, Murder Incorporated For years Murder Incorporated operated out of the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Led by Louis Lepke Buchalter and Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, the criminal organization was the first nationwide kill for hire network. Vito Guarino was a hit man for Murder Incorporated He was hired specifically to eliminate witnesses who threatened to...

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...

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...