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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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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...
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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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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...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Alex Karras was suspended indefinitely by National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle in April 1963. My e-book describes the NFL's investigation, which involved former FBI agents who worked for professional football. Was Rozelle correct in the indefinite suspension he extended to the Detroit Lions' defensive tackle? It is up to readers to conclude the extent of Karras' involvement in the scandal. Karras admitted to betting small amounts on...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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English
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Benny Kauff was a major league hitter, fielder, and base runner of great talent. He played with the Indianapolis Hoosiers and Brooklyn Tip-Tops, of the short-lived Federal League, in 1914 and 1915. Often compared to Hall of Famer Ty Cobb, Kauff was a multi-talented outfielder, who could hit for power. His career was abbreviated because of a car theft arrest in late 1919. Benny was later acquitted of the charges by a grand jury in New York City. However,...
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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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Vincent the Chin Gigante rose to the top of the Genovese crime syndicate, becoming its Boss in 1986. Early in his life he was a heavyweight boxer who fought in various venues around New York City. In 1957 he and Vito Genovese were arrested by narcotics agents of the Treasury Department on drug related charges. Convicted and imprisoned their cases were appealed as high as the Suprem Court of the United States. Gigante began his ascent in the Genovese...
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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 "Blinky" Palermo was a prominent force in boxing from the 1940s through the mid 1980s. He formed a triumvirate with gambler Frankie Carbo and St. Louis underworld figure John Vitale. They dominated the careers of such fighters as Ike Williams, Johnny Saxton and Charles "Sonny" Liston. Having been indicted many times, Blinky was never convicted of a felony, only misdemeanors. He served a portion of a fifteen-year prison sentence late in his life....
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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 Gambino family is one of five that control organized crime in New York City, Most people think of John Gotti when they think of the Gambinos. My book looks at an earlier era, beginning with the family's move to take over the garbage industry in Mount Vernon, New York. This began in 1964 when the town's incinerator was burned and the mayor declared a state of emergency in the town. Joseph Feola's waste handling firm was brought in by a town official...
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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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Giuseppe Masseria was a Mafia strongman in New York City, an associate of Chicago's famed gang chieftain, Al Capone. Masseria's April 1931 murder was an especially brutal one, but one that Masseria knew was likely in the offing. My book details the factions of the Italian Mafia in New York City in the early years of the Twentieth Century. Giuseppe was among the Italians who warred with the Castellammarese Sicilians who were led by Stefano Magaddino...
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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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Charlie Yanowsky aka Charlie the Jew was boss of the Hoboken docks and an organizer of the International Longshoremen's Union (AFL). My ebook looks at Yanowsky's background from his youth in New Jersey. A New Jersey governor maintained close ties with Charlie before the gangster was ice picked to death in the summer of 1948. Charlie did a stint in Alcatraz Prison before returning to the east coast as strongman of the New Jersey piers. One time he...
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Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on exhaustive research of archives and secret files obtained...
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"It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special 'Black Hand Squad,' but the gangsters appear to be everywhere--so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and...
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"Hawaii Five-O meets Wiseguy in author Jason Ryan's vigorously reported chronicle of brazen gangsters, brutal murders, and a father's quest for vengeance--all set against an unlikely backdrop of seductive tropical beauty"--
"World-class beaches, fragrant frangipani, swaying palms, and hula girls. Most folks think of Hawaii as a vacation destination. Mob-style executions, drug smuggling, and vicious gang warfare are seldom part of the postcard image....
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Trine Day
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (120 pages)
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English
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Genovese mob-scion Silvio Eboli lived within the shadows of history, and now for the first time, the untold story of a mafia legend is revealed. The Ganja Godfather is the story about an ongoing organized criminal operation, in real time with firsthand accounts and experiences by award-winning author and investigative journalist, Toby Rogers. Shadowing the Ganja Godfather, Rogers witnesses it all standing next to the Boss himself: violence, drugs,...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Vincent Coll was originally from County Donegal in Ireland. During his early life he was institutionalized in Catholic institutions for the indigent and truant youths in New York City. His first criminal offenses involved citations for juvenile delinquency. He lived for a time with his half-sister Florence and her husband, Joseph Reddan, in the Bronx, in 1930. In fact Joseph Reddan and Coll's brother, Peter, were involved in the offenses that were...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Albert Anastasia is perhaps best known for having been murdered while he was sitting in a barber's chair. Many are unaware of his early years as a Mafia operative on the Brooklyn waterfront. In the early 1940s he established himself as an extortionist who seized $35,000-$40,000 at a time from longshoremen. He was also ruthless in getting rid of his opposition, individuals like Anthony Romeo, who I have profiled in my e-book. Anastasia once protected...
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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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My e-book considers possible connections between the murder of gambler Arnold Rothstein, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago of 1929, and other gangland slayings. Rothstein's was killed in November 1928. A succession of murders followed including the Coral Gables, Florida murder of Fatty Walsh, formerly Rothstein's bodyguard. Were there connections? Sleuths of true crime in the 1920s and 1930s believed there were. My book looks at the Seabury...
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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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Verne Sankey had a job as a railroad engineer in Canada before he became a bootlegger and then a kidnapper. Born in Pottawatamie County, Iowa, Sankey lived in South Dakota. Later he maintained a hideout near Mitchell, SD where he kept one of his captives away from the law. Sankey was caught in Chicago by a combined effort of local law enforcement and the G-Men of Melvin Purvis and J. Edgar Hoover. When he was arrested he had duped a 23-year-old woman...
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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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Waxey Gordon's beer empire extended throughout upstate New York, into Pennsylvania and to several New Jersey counties. It even reached as far as St. Louis and Chicago in the midwest. Gordon was raised in a tenement on Manhattan's East Side. He grew up thudding and became a pickpocket. He was an active member of one of several rival gangs there. Waxey's beer distribution was centered in Elmira, where the racketeer had once been imprisoned in a reformatory....
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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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Early on Alphonse Attardi was a soldier in Salvatore D'Aquila's crime family. As a young man he was initiated into the Mafia in Sicily before coming to the United States around 1919. After D'Aquila's death in 1928 Attardi joined the Maranzano family which eventually became the Gambino family. In the 1930 Attardi was a target of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He was arrested in Texas and extradited back to New York City. Attardi and his wife Jose...
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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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Frank Miceli was a soldier in the Gambino family of northern New Jersey. On May 6, 1975 Miceli was arrested as part of a sweep by New Jersey State Police in northern New Jersey. The roundup of Mafiosi involved numerous Gambino associates, including Anthony "Little Tony" Carminati. Prior to the arrests Miceli and Carminati had met at Carminati's office in Englewood Cliffs. The two had discussed threatening Clifton resident Richard Ruzzo about an outstanding...
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