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Author
Publisher
Trine Day
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (480 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Probing one of most organized and complex criminal enterprises in the United States, this report exposes the dynamics of the Octopus, a globe-trotting undercover intelligence operative. Based on 18 years of investigative research, this account reveals high-level, covert government operations and the elaborate corporate structures and the theft of high-tech software (PROMIS) used as smoke-and-mirror covers for narcotics trafficking, money laundering,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Las Vegas, 1970s, a golden age of Glitter Gulch corruption. Dennis Gomes, the youngest division chief in Gaming Control Board history-whipped a ragtag group of auditors into hardened, gun-slinging investigators, and shattered clichés about milquetoast accountant cops. Coming within a hair's breadth of death more than once, Gomes capped off his tenure with the famous bust of the Stardust skim, portrayed in the book and movie Casino. In ‘Hit Me!”,...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Babe Triscaro was a pugilist who won a Gold Gloves boxing title as a flyweight in 1931. He became an important figure in the Teamsters Union, rising to the second ranking position in the state of Ohio. My e-book discusses Babe's contraband venture, specifically his attempted sale of military planes to the Communist Cuban government in 1959. Triscaro initiated a deal to sell as many as eleven surplus Globemasters to Cuba shortly after the overthrow...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Meyer Luckman was convicted of beating and strangling his brother-in-law, Samuel Druckman, to death. Two other men were involved in the murder, including Meyer's brother Harry. The scene of the crime was a garage in Brooklyn from which the Luckman's ran a very profitable flour trucking business. A German-Jewish family, they dominated the flour industry in Brooklyn in the mid 1930s. My e-book looks at the Druckman case which was used as a political...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Bradley University was among the best college basketball teams in the United States entering the 1949-1950 basketball season. Some observers and pundits believed they were the finest. The Braves were led by their 5'8" point guard Gene Melchiorre. The star player and two of his teammates were confronted by gamblers when they traveled to New York City for a game. This was an era when bettors encouraged athletes to shave points off scores in order for...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Game fixing scandals in college basketball occurred in 1945, 1951 and 1961 throughout the United States. Major basketball powers were caught up in this, beginning with City College of New York, which won the 1950 NIT and National Championships of NCAA basketball. After the CCNY scandal there were similar ones at the University of Kentucky and Bradley University. The UK team was compromised by two of its star players, i.e. Alex Groza and Ralph Beard....
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Harold Gibbons was a progressive unionist who came to St. Louis during the 1940s. He was considered a likely successor to James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa as President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters until the two labor leaders clashed in 1963. Before this they were a tandem as president and vice president of the largest union. My e-book looks at Gibbons as a liberal unionist who began to disagree with Hoffa on the aims and direction of the...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Johnny Dio rose to great heights in the Lucchese crime family of New York City. He was indicted on numerous occasions for bankruptcy fraud and other crimes. Dio had two brothers who were also involved in crime. One of them was a heroin trafficker in Miami Beach and the other had a prominent position with a New York textile firm. Johnny visited him in Scarsdale in the upscale neighborhood where he had a home. My e-book considers Dio's life in crime...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Pietro Peter Panto was a union leader who tried unsuccessfully to remove mob control from the loading docks of the Brooklyn shipyards. In July 1939 Panto disappeared after saying goodbye to his girlfriend one morning. He told her he was meeting two men that he didn't trust. Within weeks she contacted the Brooklyn Eagle, requesting that Kings County District Attorney William O'Dwyer find her man. Newspaper columnist and radio announcer Walter Winchell...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Two highly publicized sports scandals developed in New York City in the years 1945-1946. Occurring almost two years apart one of the incidents involved pro sports and the other was amateur related. At Brooklyn College five prominent players were offered money to throw a game against Akron University in late January 1945. Near the end of 1946 two star players on the New York Giants football team were approached by gamblers. One of the bookmakers was...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Frank Matula was convicted of perjury in 1959. A Los Angeles Teamsters official, he was secretary-treasurer of LA Local 396. In 1957 Local 396 members disposed of $20 million of Los Angeles garbage annually. During his judicial ordeal Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa appointed Matula to an important position as one of three trustees of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Soon press reports erupted over Matula's three-week parole to attend a...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Major League Baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Philadelphia Police Department have kept hidden a dark secret since 1959. During August 1959 an 18-year-old prostitute came forward with an allegation that she had been solicited by three major leaguers for sex. The sexual contact occurred in the upper floors of the Moonglo Cafe' which was sometimes referred to as a hotel and supper club. One of the establishment's owners had propositioned the...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Vincent Macri's body was found in the trunk of a convertible parked in the east Bronx on April 25, 1954. The investigation into the mobster's demise involved featherweight boxing champ Willie Pep. Fighting in Florida at the time, New York authorities had contacted Miami law enforcement about interviewing Pep. The boxer's name had surfaced when detectives found a photo of Pep in the company of Vincent Macri. The two men were seated together at a New...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
The murders of Broadway celebrities Thula Louise Lawson and Dorothy Keenan, in 1923 and 1924, occurred in the Times Square/Theater District of Manhattan, New York. Lawson and Keenan were both associated with mobsters in their social lives, especially in the clubs they frequented in Manhattan. Lawson came to New York from Texas. She was a talented musician and also an ingenue actress in theater. Keenan, also known as Dot King, began as a seamstress...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Joe Profaci was head of a large empire that centered on olive oil importation. He had briefly become involved in bootlegging in the late 1920s before he was rounded up with other mobsters in a Cleveland hotel in 1928. His Mafia baronage included loan sharking and jukebox rackets. Before the early 1960s the Gallo brothers headed the enforcement wing of Profaci's businesses. Crazy Joe Gallo and his brothers beat jukebox owners into paying tribute to...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss was a henchman for Murder, Inc., a murder for hire organization that controlled the New York City garment industry in the 1930s. Weiss skipped bail and was apprehended by federal agents in Kansas City, Missouri. He was charged on a narcotics violation and also for the September 1936 murder of confectioner Joseph Rosen. The candy store owner threatened to reveal information about the trucking industry to New York City prosecutor...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli aka Paul Kelly was a notorious gang leader in New York City beginning in the 1890s. The son of Italian immigrants he legally changed his name to Paul Kelly when he became involved in political and labor issues that concerned the Irish population of the city. Kelly propped up crooked politicians like Big Tim Sullivan by rigging elections in their favor. In return the pols protected the gangs by ensuring them that police would...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Sonny Liston began to rise rapidly among the ranks of professional boxers beginning in the early months of 1958. This was a fighter who had turned professional in 1953 following a stint as a Gold Gloves boxer in St. Louis. During a 21 month period from 1956-1958 he hardly fought at all however. Why was this? And also why did Liston ascend the ladder of heavyweights so quickly? It is a matter upon which there has been much speculation. My e-book examines...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Jacob "the Bum" Wellner was a union official who was renowned for introducing gangsters into the Brooklyn Painters AFL Local 860. By the late 1920s Wellner's group was at odds with Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen. Little Augie's 1927 murder was followed by several mysterious bombings to homes where Wellner and other union men were living. Wellner was also a member of the Painters, Paperhangers and Decorators Union when it introduced a comprehensive plan...
60) Hands Through Stone: How Clarence Ray Allen Masterminded Murder from Behind Folsom's Prison Walls
Author
Publisher
Linden Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (350 pages)
Language
English
Description
"This fascinating and gripping portrayal is the only book-length account ever written about the illicit career of Clarence Ray Allen, one of the most sinister criminal masterminds and mass murderers in American history. Even hardened detectives were shaken by the scene at Fran's Market in rural Fresno County that night in 1980: four young people lay on the market's concrete floor, bloodily murdered by a killer without mercy or remorse. Then a grim...
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