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Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Carmine Lombardozzi was once targeted to be killed by mafia assassins so flagrant were the liberties that he took with the money he collected for the mob. Case in point was the Apalachin meeting in upstate New York in 1957. His fate was decided while he waited in the garage of the Joseph Barbara home in Apalachin. Finally his bosses decided to fine him $10,000 rather than kill him. He was always reckless, from the time he went AWOL in the U.S. Army...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Publisher
R. Barri Flowers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and bestselling author of Murder at the Pencil Factory and Murder of the Banker's Daughter comes the powerful historical true crime short, Murder During the Chicago World's Fair: The Killing of Little Emma Werner.On Tuesday, May 9, 1893, seven-year-old Emma Werner was the victim of a brutal and lethal attack in Chicago, Illinois. The dreadful murder came at the start of the city's much ballyhooed...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
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
2022
Language
English
Description
Carmelo Liconti was a racketeer in Brooklyn who was involved in the barber shop, funeral home and policy rackets. From Reggio, Calabria, Liconti came to the United States in the early years of the 20th Century to join his father, His mother emigrated a year later. Carmelo was tied to other noteworthy criminals of the Depression era such as Ignazio Lupo. In 1923 Lupo and Liconti were among 8 men arrested in connection for the murder of Red Hook, Brooklyn...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Andrew Alberti was a prominent member of the Gambino syndicate from the 1950s until his death in 1964. Alberti was a player in a 1953 narcotics ring that was busted in Manhattan. The leader of the drug syndicate was Jean David aka the Silver Fox Laget. Laget was wanted for the 1937 murder of a banker in France. Alberti's father, Frank, was also active in the Gambino family organization. Authorities surmised that Andrew had assumed control of many...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Stefano Magaddino dominated organized crime in Buffalo, New York during the 1960s. His criminal network extended into Ontario, Canada and the Ohio Valley region. My e-book is a close, short look at the power structure of Magaddino's criminal syndicate, with the names of lieutenants, family members, opponents, etc., listed. Magaddino was in his late 70s as the decade came to an end. He often conducted his business from his sick bed. His brother, Antonio,...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Bartender Jack Hannon's August 1949 murder in Rockaway Beach was a violent event that remained unsolved at the end of the year. Law enforcement believed that Hannon's assassin used a German luger P-38. Multiple witnesses looked on as the barkeep was shot three times in the head. Hannon died in the street near 100-25 St. Marks Avenue. The killer quickly jumped back into a '49 Kaiser which eluded a bus driver who attempted to pursue it in traffic. According...
589) Unconditional Love
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Elva Aggiano was murdered 14 years ago by her husband Bruno. Of the four Aggiano children, three vowed never to speak to their father again. But their daughter Natalia renewed her relationship with Bruno and became his friend and companion until his death in 2006. Bruno's brooding and possessive nature behind closed doors lead to the break down of his marriage to Elva, involving mental and physical abuse. Escaping onto the streets at 17, Natalia speaks...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Joe Bonanno Sr. was aging in the late 1960s. Finally the boss of one of New York's five notorious crime families retired to Tucson, Arizona. He left New York for a desert home following a severe heart attack. Joe's sons, Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno and Joseph Bonanno Jr. were indicted for extortion. Following a mistrial they were retried in San Jose, California. Bill Bonanno strived to retain control of the Mafia empire his father had established over...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Salvatore Bonito became a soldier in the Stefano Magaddino crime family of western New York. Based in Niagara Falls and Buffalo, the crime outfit's operations extended to Ontario and the Ohio Valley to the west. Bonito began his life in crime with a vagrancy charge in November 1935. Nicknamed "Georgie Raft" Bonito, was one of five men arrested in a counterfeiting operation. Federal agents and local police broke it up in April 1937. The ring flourished...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Vincent Gigi Portella Marino is a New England Mafioso who is currently serving time in Louisiana for attempted murder. Involved in the violent breakup of the former Raymond Patriarca New England mob, he is also well known for a tracking device that may have been planted in his buttocks. Whether this tracker was ever installed during surgery to remove a bullet has never been proven. Marino was prosecuted and convicted of the attempted murder of Francis...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Albert "Terry" Tarantino was a high-ranking Genovese crime family operative. Based in New Rochelle and Westchester County, New York, he was heavily involved in gambling. rackets. He was arrested in a large roundup of mobsters in 1969. However, the sting earned Tarantino only a light prison sentence. The betting racket was also tied to upper echelon Gambino soldiers and caporegimes. Tarantino's criminal career began in the 1930s when he was seized...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Carl Carramusa was a low-level mobster in Kansas City. In the late 1930s and 1940s drugs were imported to Florida from Marseilles, France via Havana, Cuba. Kansas City was a fulcrum of midwestern drug trafficking. Carramusa became a federal informant. His information was crucial in bringing about the imprisonment of Sicilians who supplied drugs to KC from a base in Tampa. Carramusa fled Kansas City and moved to Chicago in the aftermath of the narcotics...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
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
2022
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The Lanzetti Mob controlled crime in South Philadelphia for nearly two decades. The brothers were often referred to as punks by police in Philly. The Lanzettis demonstrated a remarkable ability to avoid jail despite their many crimes. Not until 1936 did one of them, Ignatius, receive a stiff sentence that required serving more than a few months or even a year in jail. Ignatius was sentenced for violation of the New Jersey habitual crime law. --Provided...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Joseph Barboza was a hitman and associate for New England Mafia don Raymond Patriarcha and also Henry Tameleo. Barboza was in trouble with the law starting in 1945. In my research I found an article about him breaking out of Concord Reformatory in 1953. He escaped along with several other inmates and headed to Boston with a captive service station attendant. Barboza was privy to information about fixed horse races, NBA basketball games and other illegal...
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