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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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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...
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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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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....
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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BookCaps
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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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....
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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 --...
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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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A July 1932 U.S. Government investigative report of the Al Capone syndicate identified Hymie Levine as a collector and lieutenant of Jack Greasy Thumb Guzik. Hymie was multifaceted in what he did. A used parts garage that he owned in Chicago doubled as a business where police who received protection were paid off. A phone call from Levine to Guzik identified a particular policeman and the amount he was paid monthly to turn a blind eye to mob operations....
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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...
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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 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...
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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 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....
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Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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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...
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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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Nick Civella led a Kansas City Mafia that was very influential in Teamsters Union issues, especially the matter of the lucrative Central States Pension Fund. Control of the fund was greatly coveted by the Chicago mob as well. Civella used loans from the fund to finance his entry into the Tropicana Hotel. The FBI also figures prominently in my e-book. Specifically, a tape of the Civellas meeting in a Kansas City neighbor's basement disclosed Nick Civella's...
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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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68-year-old Genovese hit man/soldier Philip Buono was accused of killing contractor Nat Masselli in Van Cortlandt Park, the Bronx, on August 25, 1982. His accomplice in the crime was 67-year-old Salvatore Odierno. In court the following year prosecutors claimed the motive behind the grisly Mafia hit was to protect Raymond J. Donovan. Donovan, a former executive for Schiavone Construction Company, was accused of associating with organized crime figures....
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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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Angelo Amico was a significant organized crime boss in Rochester and western New York during the mid 20th century and after. One newspaper article described him as part of the "new leadership" among mobsters. In one of his trials he was indicted for extorting gambling revenue from sixteen different betting operations. Amico was part of a Mafia syndicate that included Greece, New York gangsters Rene Piccarreto and his son Loren. The Piccarretos managed...
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Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Albert Tannanbaum was a member of the notorious kill for hire organization in Brooklyn known as Murder, Incorporated He assassinated people for money and fingered others to be killed. One of the men he was involved in murdering was Hyman Yuran, a dress manufacturer whose body wasn't discovered for many months. Another was a taxi driver who was slain in Lochsheldrake, New York. Tannenbaum's father ran a hotel in the Catskills that was frequented by...
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