I was watching something on Las Vegas last week in which they made reference to Bugsy Siegal and why he was killed. I has been said for many years that it was...
amazon offered me $1 to sell them back my copy of your book... it seems as if they are nearly out of stock.. I have no idea what makes them think $1 is a fair...
Hi fellow Mafia Historians.* * except for this writer, who admits he is still in training... Someone was nice enough to tell me they would provide me with the...
Journalist and Scarpa expert Angela Clemente has been working on this for over a decade. Quite recently she got a favorable ruling -- and is working on a book...
did lucchese have any enemies within the family? i know he was "loyal", "respected" and all, but a man can't live without enemies, least so a Mafia. so, were...
It's been a while since I've added some files here: http://www.framingbusiness.net/archives/1916 Newly added: FBI files on Vincent Maniaci (Milwaukee), Dominic...
I started working on a book on the little-known Colombo associate John Pappa. In his early 20s, this would-be mafia member and son of an infamous Colombo...
Hey there, I'm new to the group, and just wanted to introduce myself. I'm a journalist at the Boston Globe and for years I've been researching the history of...
I am hopeful that this group eventually will become the home to some stimulating and informative discussions on the history of the American Mafia. For now, as...
Authorities raided the home of Patriarca Family made guy Robert Gentile with ground penetrating radar in search of evidence of his possible involvement in the...
I'm writing you about posts that were made about Bill Bonnano relating tales in one of his books of John Roselli telling Bonnano that he killed JFK by firing a...
This is something I found, from the early 1980s. John Vitale, the St. Louis boss, was an FBI informant before his death! Seems like he wanted to remove the...
Been following the discussion of Bonanno truthfulness. I personally don't believe anything written by father or son about the abduction of Joseph Bonanno or...
I've enjoyed Dave and his cohorts' "Gunmen of the Castellammarese War" series articles, particularly from a contemporary historiography perspective. With...
In Crime in America, Kefauver wrote, "A nationwide crime syndicate does exist in America" and, "Behind the local mobs which make up the national crime...
The next Informer issue (due out by the end of April) will focus on the Mafia of northeastern Pennsylvania. It will also contain columns by our friends Rick...
In a few instances Nash had a bit of a hard time discerning individuals aliases from their actual identities. I bring this up because of his identification of...
Actually, the former underboss to whom I referred in my earlier post was Tony's brother, Carmine DiNunzio. Tony Dinunzio is the current Consigliere....
Anthony DiNunzio, who was former boss Luigi Manocchio's underboss (the story calls him boss, but Peter Limone is currently the boss, and Bobby DeLuca is his...
I'm cheap and don't have access to Newspaper Archive. Would anyone be able to send me copies of articles related to the following murder victims: * Thomas...
Informer's April 2012 subscriber print issues are being produced by HP's Magcloud service now and will be on their way to their destinations within a couple of...
There is an article, published in the Binghampton Press in 1968, done by Jack Anderson. The article deals with a Gambino crime Family member who had been...
I have been communicating with someone who tells me that Joe Bonanno visited their home in St. Petersburg, Florida in the early 1970s. The home belonged to...
Does anyone have any info on the guys that operate out of Indy? It's been known that illegal gambling is one of the major cash cows. Supposedly the crew or...
Can anyone tell me when Don Vito Cascio Ferro actually died? And as of 1931, what was his relation with the American Mafia in 1931? As in with Luciano and the...
For some unknown reason, the FBI sent me the personnel record for a Special Agent Walter P. Gavin, based out of Newark. He was an agent in the 1960s. I have no...
Does anyone know anything about the "Little Italy" community of Grand Rapids? I don't know if there was a mob/gang/LCN presence there, but I am writing on...
