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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource
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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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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource
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English
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John "Sonny" Franzese was a rising star in the Profaci-Magliocco/Colombo family crime organization. Born in Naples, Sonny was raised by his bakery owner father in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. By 1965 he was the fastest ascending Cosa Nostra leader in the underworld. A Newsday article compared him to a General Motors executive or an exec with IBM corporation. In the next year Franzese's fortunes would change for the worse. His ties to a group...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource
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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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Eduardo Aronica was part of the Carlo Gambino crime organization in New York City. Aronica got his start in illicit, untaxed, unregistered liquor stills. Stills operated by Eduardo and his cronies were discovered by government agents during sweeps conducted in 1938 and 1939. Aronica was prosecuted and sentenced to prison terms in 1941 and 1943. A number of the stills were in North Bellmore and various locations in Queens. In later years Aronica was...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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Vito Genovese was the most well known of ten people who were prosecuted for an international narcotics conspiracy at the end of the 1950s. Genovese was the mastermind but he had substantial help. A controversial witness at the trial was Puerto Rican national Nelson Cantellops who became a Genovese courier in 1955. Cantellops testified to one meeting with Genovese. However, the witness was a frequent transporter of drugs from New York to major cities...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource
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Rocco "Rogie" Mazzie was a Gambino family capo who was heavily involved in narcotics trafficking. In December 1954 Mazzie was a defendant on trial with several Cleveland, Buffalo and New York City mobsters. All were charged in a drug trafficking conspiracy that involved buying, selling and concealing heroin. Mazzie was awarded trial delays in 1954 and 1960 due to hospitalizations. Eventually convicted in Federal Court, Mazzie was among the defendants...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource
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The Gambino and Bonanno crime families struggled over the mozzarella cheese business in Pennsylvania, South New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania. An FBI sting operation in Buffalo, New York began the unraveling of a Gambino family operation that smuggled heroin into the United States from Milan, Italy. A prominent Milan banker worked hand in hand with Rosario and Giuseppe Gambino. He caused the ruin of Italian financial institutions as well as the...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource
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Meyer Shapiro and his brothers, Irving and Willy, were tutored by Irish American hoodlum Legs Diamond. Aside from Willie Shapiro all of them died the same year, 1931. Diamond was gunned down in Albany in December. Meyer was found dead in a Lower East Side tenement with a single bullet wound in his head. Irving Shapiro was gunned down by seven rival gangsters who assumed he was his brother Meyer. The Shapiros came along at a time when slot machines...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource
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Skinny Razor" DeTullio was a lynchpin in the Philadelphia crime syndicate of the late 1950s and the 1960s. He lived in Camden, New Jersey until his death from natural causes in 1966. DeTullio's main function was lending money to underworld figures and businessmen who couldn't rely on banks to loan them money. Lots of Mafia loan clients were high risk borrowers who couldn't obtain money through regular legal channels. DeTullio, Philip Testa and Philly...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource
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Joe Gulmi was associated with the Gambino crime family but his exact connection to them is subject to speculation. Multiple New York businesses noticed a man frequenting their establishments on multiple occasions. They assumed for a time that he was a bookie. Soon he began asking them to sign a contract with him in order to stave off IRS investigations. One local union committed $350,000 to a trust fund with Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank. This...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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Angelo Bruno was a Mafia don in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey until he was shot dead as he arrived home one evening from an Italian restaurant. It was when competitors encroached on Angelo's dominance in the more lucrative Atlantic City rackets that he found trouble. Also Bruno had divulged information about the syndicate to one of many government committees who investigated organized crime. Whatever the motive Angelo's death was sudden and...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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Frank the Dasher Abbandano was part of the enforcement team of a criminal organization called Murder Incorporated Abbandano led an East New York gang as a youth and was sent to prison twice by his early twenties. Frank's specialty was killing with an ice pick and also a meat cleaver. He met Abe Kid Twist Reles while serving time at Elmira Reformatory in Elmira, New York. Little did Abbandano realize that Abe would seal his fate with testimony he gave...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource
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Anthony Corallo was an important figure in the history of New York City Mafia crime. Beginning in the 1950s, as a capo for the Lucchese family, he teamed with garment industry hoodlum Johnny Dio and Teamsters' boss Jimmy Hoffa to pack Teamsters Joint Council 16 with thugs. The so-called paper unions were filled with ex cons, felons and other criminals. This enable Corallo and his associates to resolve a New York City taxi drivers dispute to their...
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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Pasquale "Pascal" Natarelli was a career criminal who began his life in crime with school and night club break ins in the 1930s. Later in his career he was an enforcer and caporegime for the Magaddino crime family of western New York. The Magaddino syndicate stretched into southern Ontario and the Ohio Valley. Natarelli was also caught up in a jewelry robbery that was planned in 1965. Tried and convicted for his role in the scheme, he served an extended...
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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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Gaetano Thomas Lucchese worked his way up in the ranks of organized crime during the years before the Castellammarese War of 1929-1931. Lucchese was a hit man for Tommaso Gagliano and others. An early conviction for auto theft in 1922 is perhaps the only time Lucchese was imprisoned for any length of time. During testimony before the New York State Crime Commission in 1952 he had little to say about his prior arrests. My e-book looks closely at several...
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Publisher
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
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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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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...
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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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Jacob "Jack" Drucker was the finger man for Murder, Incorporated in Sullivan County, New York. Numerous murder victims turned up on land near Loch Sheldrake, Monticello, Liberty and other towns in Sullivan. Drucker was arrested in Wilmington, Delaware in 1943 after being pursued by Federal Agents. He was extradited to New York to stand trial at the request of racket busting New York Mayor Thomas Dewey. Drucker's associations with Murder, Incorporated...
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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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John Spurdis was a decorated police detective with the NYPD. In 1972 he was involved in a "French Connection" bust of Mafiosi, including Lucchese family member Joseph DiNapoli. DiNapoli was arrested near a Bronxdale Avenue, Bronx residence on a rainy evening in February 1972. He was accompanied by drug trafficker Vincent C. Papa. NYPD officials, including Spurdis, were on hand for the surveillance and subsequent arrests. Spurdis was soon dismissed...
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Publisher
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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