What I can do is to try to send you the new index to give you an idea. One of the most interesting things was that Carmine Russo, who was involved in a car...
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Jun 1, 2009 1:56 pm
To save money, would anyone be interested in trading some FBI FOIA files? I'm interested in trading my Top Hoodlum Program regional files for some of the more...
Didnt Profaci have more than 1 brother? Was his father in the Mafia in Sicily or just associated? I thought Profaci had an uncle that was in the Mafia...
I think I have a Lucchese file. How big are the Chicago and Boston files? Are these the same files now in the National Archives at College Park? ... From:...
This was one of the things I would have liked to know. My theory is that Profaci got a big hand up in the NYC Mafia because of his Sicilian Mafia links. ...
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alex.hortis
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Jun 2, 2009 12:46 am
Richard, Chicago is about 500 pages long. I haven't counted up Boston, but I'd guess it's about 300 pages. I haven't looked at College Park for these specific...
I am pretty sure that there is nothing like that at College Park. I spent a month going through what they had in 2004, and that includes Archives 1 and...
I'm interested in your opinions: Did Giuseppe Morello's criminal organization survive into the Prohibition Era and become Masseria's Crime Family? Or did the...
1931. But Gentile and Bonanno have slightly different ideas who was on it. Later FBI reports, on the Commission membership of the late 50s and early 60s,...
Aside from Caruso, I can't think of anyone. I have access to a number of online databases, FBI files, books, etc. so I think I got it pretty well covered....
So does that mean that there is no clear understanding if Magaddino was on it or not?  Mike ________________________________ From: David Critchley...
... Mike, That's correct. Bonanno doesn't mention the Cleveland boss. Gentile doesn't mention the Buffalo boss. Even though Bonanno was a member of that first...
I wonder if something that Tom argued a while ago, however, isn't right. It struck me at the time as insightful. Tom said that since the Castellammare War...
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alex.hortis
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Jun 3, 2009 10:47 pm
Has anyone had any luck prying any records on mafioso out of the New York City Police Department? I am sending off several requests under New York's Freedom of...
I have a bit of a different take on the Morello-Masseria connection. My assumption was that what is the Luchese family was more closely descended from the...
I think it's important to consider how each of the two sources might have been mistaken in their view of the first Commission membership. Gentile was very much...
I also think that there was a quite significant enlargement of the memberships in NYC over the 1920s. In fact, we know that the Morellos were reasonable...
Another point to remember. I sometimes am surprised by the lack of knowledge of even bosses as to what's going on. Taking this instance, the full FBI...
I tried getting info from the Niagara Falls and Buffalo PD's and received this: NF has "no records from a era over 50 years ago", and Buffalo has no records...
Tom Reina was a Corleoni...so I agree that the Luchese Family would also decend from the Morellos. Masseria had men from many regions of Sicily and...
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alex.hortis
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Jun 4, 2009 6:14 pm
If its true that have no records, that's a legitimate response. But my guess is that with larger police department, there are old police files rotting away in...
I got the same response. We must assume that there are, indeed, no older records that have survived. I know it's a pretty obvious observation. But BY FAR...
I don't believe that Schiro had Bronx rackets myself. Seems to have centred himself in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Dave.  I thought that was the realm of...
And don't forget that a) it costs nothing to file a FOIA request b) unless you file one, you will never know. My own experience of local police departments: a)...
Good point. For my researches, they weren't relevant, but for the 1960s onwards, yes, there might be something there. Speaking of Albany, I once tried to...
