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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
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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My e-book looks at the murder of John James Barbera, a Buffalo fruit merchant whose father also sold fruit at the Chipppewa Market. Barbera was murdered in April 1938 while reading a newspaper in Genco's Tavern on Niagara Street in Buffalo. There were numerous others murdered over the years in this crime infested district. Two men walked into the establishment, perhaps only one, and pumped a fusillade of bullets into Barbera. It was surmised that...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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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.
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R. Barri Flowers
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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From R. Barri Flowers, award winning criminologist and international bestselling author of the true crime classic, The Sex Slave Murders, comes a gripping new true crime short, The Sex Slave Murders 3: The Horrific Tale of Serial Killers Leonard Lake & Charles Ng. Leonard Lake and Charles Ng left their dark mark on society as two of America's worst and most appalling serial killers. Between 1984 and 1985, the unlikely homicidal pair perpetrated their...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Gaetano Reina's murder on February 26, 1930 led to gang warfare that pitted thugs loyal to Salvatore Maranzano and those who backed Giuseppe Masseria. Reina was a wealthy Bronx ice dealer who was a material witness in the 1915 murder of chicken dealer Barnett Baff. It took a year and a half to find Baff's killer. Gaetano Reina was Sicilian, born in Corleone. According to Mafia informer Joseph Valachi, Reina's murder, by killers who were loyal to Masseria,...
Author
Publisher
R. Barri Flowers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
Description
R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and the bestselling author of Serial Killers and Prostitutes and The Sex Slave Murders, brings together seven of his best previously published true crime stories in this captivating second volume of Murder and Menace: Riveting True Crime Tales. Mass Murder in the Sky: The Bombing of Flight 629 tells the unbelievable and horrifying tale for all aboard a United Air Lines plane in 1955 when an act of vengeance...
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
Armand "Tommy" Rava was a Gambino family capo in the mid 20th century. Involved in booze and drug rackets, Rava was also closely associated with illicit gambling. Several New York State Liquor Authority investigations of the 1940s targeted Rava and numerous other mobsters for manufacturing bootleg alcohol. In the late 1950s Rava was one of 58 higher echelon mobsters who attended the Apalachin conference in upstate New York. A gathering of mob chieftains,...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Peter Maggio was associated with Angelo Bruno's Philadelphia crime family. His father, Michael, was a grocery store owner who also ran a dairy and cheese business during the early and mid 20th century. FBI surveillance recorded Maggio's meetings with Bruno and other Mafiosi. Angelo Annalore took his grandmother's maiden name, Bruno, when he launched his criminal career. Aside from being a Mafia capo Maggio was also extremely involved in legitimate...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Sam Lagattuta is well-known for his appearance at the Apalachin meeting of November 14, 1957. A New York State Policeman informed his colleagues about the big mob conclave that had descended on the small town in upstate New York. Lagattuta entered crime as early as 1933. In 1937 he was one of five men arrested for the murder of a Batavia, New York pool room operator. The slain pool room manager was the brother of bookmaker Frank Lotiempo. In the aftermath...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Murray the Camel Humphreys was a sophisticated Mafioso, the only Welsh mobster of his era. He ascended into the upper echelons of Al Capone's Chicago Outfit. He was given charge of managing the criminal organization when the Mafia boss was imprisoned in Atlanta, and later Alcatraz. Humphreys was an efficient "Mr. Fixit" who could speak like a well-educated individual. This impressed Capone and aided his rise in organized crime. Murray earned his nickname...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Anthony Carminati was a Gambino family caporegime who was involved in gambling operations in northern New Jersey. In 1975 he was indicted with multiple co-conspirators in a bribery and gambling racket that involved a high level police detective. On several occasions the mobsters offered lists of names in return for money. Carminati was joined by James Pagano in a series of crimes that extended from Bergen County, New Jersey to Rockland County, New...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Gaspare Magaddino was a Bonanno gunman who was wanted for multiple crimes by the time of his death. The FBI and the International Police (Interpol) were among the authorities pursuing him then. The New York Police Department and Long Island Police also followed him, particularly after a triple murder carried out in Ridgewood, Queens in 1967. Magaddino was believed to have been the trigger man in this hit that killed three gambling operatives at the...
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
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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
George Schachter, aka Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg was a Murder Inc., associate who was gunned down in his Ford convertible coupe on Thanksgiving Eve, 1939. Greenberg was raised in New York's East Side with future Murder Inc., leaders Louis Lepke Buchalter and Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro. Greenberg was deported by federal agents in 1935. He jumped ship before reaching his native Poland. Returning to North America, he settled for a time in Montreal. While...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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Buffalo nightclub owner/restaurateur Roy Carlisi was one of fifty-eight men who attended the notorious Apalachin meeting of November 14, 1957. Held at the home of businessman Joseph Barbara Sr., it is a legendary incident in the annals of U. S. mob history. Carlisi was closely associated with the Stefano and Antonio Magaddino crime family of western New York. The syndicate reached as far as Ontario and the Ohio valley. The Magaddinos were closely...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Angelo Lapietra is notorious for his role as an enforcer/hit man for the Chicago Outfit. In 1986 Lapietra was convicted for his role in a profits skimming conspiracy involving Las Vegas casinos. He served his time in a Connecticut prison. Known as Operation Strawman the FBI investigation that foiled the perpetrators was the most extensive ever undertaken. The federal government employed the use of clandestine surveillance for the first time since...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Meyer Lansky lieutenant Phil "the Stick" Kovolick was a prominent mobster beginning in the Prohibition era. With Lansky he was involved in narcotics and gambling. He also worked as a chauffeur for the Mafia. Of Russian-Jewish descent, Kovolick was also a close associate of Abner "Longie" Zwillman. Kovolick was vice-president of Teamsters Local 805 in New York City. In this endeavor he worked in tandem with Abe Gordon, a Johnny Dio associate. Dio,...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Former Teamster official Ettore Zappi was a caporegime in the Gambino crime syndicate. He lived next door to family boss Carlo "Don Carlo" Gambino in Massapequa, New York. Zappi was involved in multiple rackets and supplied the Gambinos with mattresses. In Florida, Ettore owned a drive in. By the mid 1970s he was expanding his operations into the lucrative California market. During this time the Mafia was immersing itself in the flourishing pornography...
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