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Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
In 1952 Leonard Mocderi was "accidentally" apprehended by police working for a telephone company in Los Angeles. The gangster was placing a phone call to Las Vegas and using slugs to make the calls illegally. Taken into custody by the LAPD Moceri was traced to several unsolved murders in Toledo, Ohio and one in Detroit, Michigan. The means of tracing this information were the fingerprints detectives found on a receipt inside Moceri's Cadillac. Leo...
Author
Publisher
Jacana Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (200 pages)
Language
English
Description
Meet Philani Dladla who has one of the most inspiring young South African stories you're ever likely to encounter. An avid reader with an insatiable desire for knowledge, Philani has used his love for books to overcome drug addiction and change his lot in life - while trying to do the same for others. Growing up in rural KZN, Philani was a pre-teen when his mother's employer left him his book collection. His initiation under the Mandela Bridge, a...
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...
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...
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Publisher
BookCaps
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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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
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
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Gabriel "Kelly" Mannarino was a Mafioso closely associated with Pittsburgh mobster John La Rocca and Florida crime boss Santos Trafficante Jr. Mannarino was part owner of Havana's Sans Souci nightclub in the pre-Fidel Castro era. Based in southwestern Pennsylvania Gabriel was also involved in jukebox racketeering. He testified before the U. S. Senate Rackets Committee in the late 1950s. In 1959 Congressman William Cramer of Florida linked Mannarino...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
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...
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"This is the second book in the famous hobo series by A No.1. The writing is thrilling, presenting true, hilarious stories of train hopping and tramping. Warning to Those Who Read this Book: the Author, who Has Led for Over a Quarter of a Century the Pitiful and Dangerous Life of a Tramp, gives this Well-Meant Advice: DO NOT Jump on Moving Trains or Street Cars, even if only to ride to the next street crossing, because this might arouse the "Wanderlust,"...
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"Published in the 1920s, this is a fascinating and engrossing account of the southern prison system as told by a man on the inside. This was a time when a short stint in prison might easily mean a death sentence, as prisoners were subjected to endless labor under the constant threat of violence and death (from "bosses" and prisoners). This is the rural prison world of Cool Hand Luke but true. Showing an incredible eye for detail, Deason takes us --...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Robert Occhipinti was a Cosa Nostra figure who was closely tied to the DeCavalcante and Gambino families. His cousin was Sam "the Plumber" DeCavalcante. Together Occhipinti and DeCavalcante planned the execution of rival mobster Joseph Feola in 1965. Feola formerly controlled the New York City garbage industry racket. With the assistance of DeCavalcante and Occhipinti, Joseph Gambino of the Gambino crime family gained control of this very lucrative...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Salvatore Polisi was an associate of Gambino crime boss John Gotti for many years. He managed the Sinatra Club, which was a frequent hangout for Gambino crime family members. Gotti and his brother were among these individuals. The moniker "Crazy Sal" was given Polisi for his unique ability to feign mental problems. He used this talent to avoid prison sentences and also obtain a medical discharge from the U. S. Marines. Altogether he duped more than...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Louis "Pretty" Amberg and his brothers, Joseph, Hyman and Oscar were likely the most feared organized crime figures in Brooklyn's Jewish neighborhoods. They were active from the mid 1920s through the 1930s. Hyman Amberg was one of a trio of men who attempted to escape from the Tombs Prison in New York City on November 3, 1926. When their breakout was foiled the prisoners turned their machine guns on themselves. Louis was nicknamed Pretty by rivals...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Anthony Indelicato, the son of Bonanno family capo Alphonse Indelicato, is largely known for his role in Carmine Galante's murder. However he was also tried with multiple RICO defendants in a case brought by a Manhattan, New York grand jury in December 1985. Later he was one of eight convicted RICO defendants who filed appeals in the court of Judge Daniel Mahoney. During an eleven week trial FBI agents relied on information they'd derived from a comprehensive...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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Frank Funzi Tieri became the Boss of Bosses among New York's five crime families following the death of Carlo Gambino in 1976. Tieri was involved in gambling and loan sharking to a large extent. He was saved from serving a prison term of nearly a decade when he died of colon cancer in 1981. Funzi may have been the model for Mario Puzo Godfather character Vito Corleone. He was admired for his debonnaire dress, his Mafia mannerisms and willingness to...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Anthony Perna was in trouble with the law beginning with a 1927 rape charge and conviction. Surprisingly his conviction was overturned and he was free to pursue his criminal life. Perna was later associated with the crime family run by Stefano and Antonio Magaddino in western New York. The Magaddino's were active in narcotics trafficking and gambling. Their territory extended west from Buffalo and Niagara Falls into southern Ontario and the Ohio Valley....
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Anthony Salvatore "Gaspipe" Casso was a significant caporegime and underboss in the Lucchese family organization. My e-book looks at his criminal career from a parole bribery scheme that was penetrated in 1974. The ruse was operative at Rikers Island prison in Yorktown, New York. Casso later turned government informant, providing essential information about his former Lucchese associates. Casso was given the nickname Gaspipe at a young age, while...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Tammaso Buscetta was part of a joint Italian-American effort to clean up an international drug ring that operated out of Sicily in the 1970s and 1980s. Earlier Buscetta was involved in tobacco smuggling. He turned against the Mafia because of seven murders they carried out against his relatives. In 1985 Buscetta presented testimony incriminating to the European, Thai, Italian, Canadian, Sicilian and American Mafia. The information he offered on the...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Meyer Shapiro and his brothers, Irving and Willy, were tutored by Irish American hoodlum Legs Diamond. Aside from Willie Shapiro all of them died the same year, 1931. Diamond was gunned down in Albany in December. Meyer was found dead in a Lower East Side tenement with a single bullet wound in his head. Irving Shapiro was gunned down by seven rival gangsters who assumed he was his brother Meyer. The Shapiros came along at a time when slot machines...
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