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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource
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English
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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...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource
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English
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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.
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1 online resource
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English
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Auguste Joseph Ricord was the most important foreign national to be convicted of drug crimes on United States soil. Convicted in New York in December 1972, he was sentenced in January 1973. Ricord had immigrated to Argentina from France in the years after World War II. He became an Argentine citizen in 1957. His international drug ring was based in Rio de Janeiro and Asuncion, Paraguay. At U. S. President Richard Nixon's urging Paraguayan officials...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource
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English
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Ferdinand "the Shadow" Boccia was a setup man for the Luciano crime syndicate gambling ring. Boccia lured a rich Italian traveler into a rigged dice game that cost him $150,000. Boccia made the mistake of asking for his $35,000 share in the racket plot. A group of hoodlums led by Vito "Don Vitone" Genovese put on a hit on Ferdinand at a Brooklyn clubhouse/restaurant run by his uncle Bennie Boccia. New York Police continued their search for Boccia's...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Salvatore Bonito became a soldier in the Stefano Magaddino crime family of western New York. Based in Niagara Falls and Buffalo, the crime outfit's operations extended to Ontario and the Ohio Valley to the west. Bonito began his life in crime with a vagrancy charge in November 1935. Nicknamed "Georgie Raft" Bonito, was one of five men arrested in a counterfeiting operation. Federal agents and local police broke it up in April 1937. The ring flourished...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource
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English
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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
2018.
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1 online resource
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English
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Milwaukee Phil Alderisio was a Mafia crime boss in Chicago in the 1960s. My e-book looks at a bank fraud conspiracy involving him and three co-conspirators. During 1965 the criminal group stole approximately $89,000 from a bank in suburban Chicago. One of the ring leaders of the theft was a former loan officer of the financial institution. The FBI initiated a four-year investigation that eventually brought about Milwaukee Phil's arrest. He was taken...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Harry Fleischer was a Jewish mobster originally from Poland. He settled in Detroit, Michigan where he became a leader of the notorious Purple Gang. The criminal organization dominated Motor City vice beginning in the 1920s. Fleischer became a fugitive when he fled Michigan following an armed robbery conviction. In 1950 Federal Bureau of Investigation G-Men caught Fleischer with a female companion lying in the sun in Pompano Beach, Florida. Taken to...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource
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English
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Eugene Boffa was a La Cosa Nostra associated who was convicted of labor sharing under the Racketeering Influenced (RICO) Act. Along with Chandler Lemon he operated a labor sharing service that bilked workers of money and benefits. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison and fined $250,000. Boffa was linked specifically to Buffalo mobster Russell Bufalino and Teamsters leader Frank "the Irishman" Sheehan. A resident of Staten Island, Boffa lived...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource
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English
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Sebastian "Benny" Biondo was part of a loansharking ring that operated in Suffolk County, New York in the late 1960s. Biondo served forty months in prison, mostly at the Auburn Correctional Facility in Cayuga County, New York. Found guilty on November 24, 1970, Biondo and his co-defendants were denied new trials by Judge Gordon Lipetz. The ring was closely affiliated with Mafiosi Carmine "Charlie Wagons" Fatico and his lieutenant Frank DeFelice. The...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource
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English
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Thomas Pitera is a unique Mafioso, a man who rose to significant heights as a Bonanno family hitman. His most well-known murder was carried out for John "the Teflon Don" Gotti. The assassination of Willie Boy Johnson outside of his Brooklyn residence was carried out by Pitera and accomplices. Johnson, an ex-fighter, turned government informant around 1966. Pitera hoped to use the elimination of the former pugilist as a means of elevating his status...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Crazy Joe Gallo" was a renegade mobster who was pursued by Colombo hit men for some time. An original murder plot was planned for the exclusive West Shore Towers apartment complex in Nyack, New York. Mobsters wanted to lure Gallo to apartment L-K where the hit would be put in motion. Then low level Colombo gangster Joseph Luparelli saw Gallo arrive at Umberto's Clam House in Little Italy. It was around 4:30 a.m. on April 7, 1972. --Provided by publisher....
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Domenico Raccuglia was second in line in the Sicilian Repubblica hierarchy when he was arrested by Carabinieri in 1999. Charged with multiple crimes he was involved in the kidnapping of an informant's son. The youth was killed following an extensive captivity. Beginning in 1996 Raccuglia was on Italy's most wanted list. Condsidered a possible successor to Mafia boss Giovanni Brusca, Domenico was joined by Matteo Messina Denaro and Salvatore Lo Piccolo...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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The Touhy Gang proved to be a more than competent adversary for Al Capone in his quest to dominate bootlegging and liquor trafficking in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s. The Touhys were led by Roger the Terrible Touhy and were also very involved in bootlegging and liquor. When Capone found that he could not eliminate the Touhy Gang through bullets he decided to frame them by plotting a kidnapping which was blamed on the rival gangsters, causing...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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On October 23, 1959 Buffalo was a focus of one of the largest gambling raids ever undertaken. Extending throughout the northeast and parts of Canada, New York State Police raided businesses beginning at 3:30 PM on a Friday afternoon. The sting targeted dry cleaners, candy stores, beauty shops, newspaper stands, apartments and private homes. The Buffalo Evening News recounted the raid and those arrested, most of them were charged with felony, contriving...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Americo "Pete" DePietto came from Brooklyn, New York to Chicago, Illinois and became a soldier in the Chicago Mafia Outfit. Pete as he was called was an extortionist, hitman, narcotics dealer and money order forger. At one point in his career he worked for Joseph Ferriola who was briefly Chicago syndicate boss. DePietto was hired by Desert Inn manager Ruby Kolod to kill Denver lawyer Robert Sunshine. The attorney had been involved in a failed oil...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Gennaro "Gerry Lang" Langella was a Colombo family Mafia underboss and boss. He came to the forefront after beginning his career as a mobster in Brooklyn. He served successively as a bodyguard and underboss for Colombo family chief Carmine "the Snake" Persico. Persico's imprisonment for ten years in a thirteen year period left Langella as the de facto Colombo boss. This was especially true after age effectively finished the career of Persico's handpicked...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Unsolved Mafia murders occurred in numerous American cities in 1959. Among the most prominent was the slaying of Joseph Bronge, a Chicago beer distributor. Gunned down outside his Melrose Park office, he attempted to escape through a chained link fence near an apartment building. Bronge was tied to Chicago mobster Anthony "Tony" Accardo. The Chi-town gangster was attempting to takeover Bronge's territory. The other murders discussed in my ebook include...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli took his name from a boxer of the early 20th century. His brother was known as "Patsy Ryan". Tommy came up as a bootlegger in the 1920s and 1930s. He made the acquaintance of Anthony "Tony Bender" Strollo while living in Greenwich Village. Strollo brought Eboli along in the Genovese family. His opportunity to lead the Genovese criminal empire came with Vito Genovese's 1959 imprisonment for narcotics. Tommy Ryan was joined...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Estelle Carey was a photographer's model and dice girl in a Rush Street nightclub. Her boyfriend, Nick Circella, alias Nick Dean, owned the club. Carey was employed to entice customers who played low stakes legal gambling games to try the more expensive high stakes games offered on the club's second floor. Estelle also slept with some of the men who patronized the establishment, using a third floor suite. After Circella was indicted on a movie extortion...
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