Seventy-nine years ago today, the body of Johnny "Silk Stockings" Giustra was found in the hallway of a Manhattan tenement, 75 Monroe Street. The 28-year-old...
If Giustra were involved, why would he have been so sloppy as to have left his coat behind at the scene? Â Why would he even have checked his coat if he knew...
Good questions, indeed. Presumably, the cops questioned him after the murder but what he said is unknown, since he couldn't very well deny it was his coat. ...
Very well could be an instance where he was murdered because there was concern that the cops could break him down and make him state who walked in and shot...
My local CBS affiliate has once again come up with a spectacular report concerning the Federal Hill mob, this time old news spinning off from even older news. ...
Sorry I'm late in posting the video segment to this story, but I've been a little busy lately. Here it is (once again, to watch the video, first click on the...
What's the origins of these terms: gangster mobster hoodlum racketeer This would be interesting to explore. People tend to use them interchangeably, meaning...
The use of "mob" terms is an odd development. In fact, just the use of the article "the" alongside "mob" is strange. A mob is a disorganized mass of people, a...
This would make a fascinating research project. When was, for instance, "mob" used in the contemporary sense and in which context? Something to go to town...
Some writer have touched on this before. The expansion of meanings comes primarily from journalistic usage. Sometimes it was out of the search for more...
The 1975 book "The Mafia Mystique" by Dwight C. Smith goes into the changes in great detail. What he doesn't explain is why (for example) "mob" should now be...
This came from Thom Jones (please credit him): Racketeering. A more serious and more dangerous activity than simply extortion, because it is organized...
81 years ago, Chicago gang boss Al Capone went into prison in Philadelphia. It is an event that seems never to have been adequately explained. Does anyone have...
Wasn't one that he was getting away from the heat in Chicago caused by St Valentine's Day? I agree though that it was an odd way of doing it, and Capone...
Tom: Per the FBI website: http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/capone/capone.htm On May 17, 1929, Al Capone and his bodyguard were arrested in...
... The puzzling things about it for me: - What was Capone doing in Philadelphia? He might have needed to travel THROUGH the city on his way home from Atlantic...
FYI - After an extended vacation, the Mob-News site is up and running again. Mob-News is a four-year (started in April 2006) indexed collection of U.S....
... Yep. But those objectives could have been reached more easily by arresting him in (underworld controlled) Atlantic City. Philadelphia was an enemy camp. -...
Considering how easy he had it in prison and how he didn't put up a fight it seems like the best explanation. Perhaps he expected a shorter sentence, but...
Richard: I can't wait until that book comes out. Tom: How do you know that the "Don Cheech" conservatives in Philly didn't drop a dime on Capone (as in, how do...
I don't know if this strictly qualifies as a matter concerning the Mafia per se, but I am aware of a local Minneapolis mob high mucky-muck from the 1960's by...
... It's hard to accept that a guy who fought so hard to reach a position of leadership in the Chicago-area underworld would voluntarily step away from Chicago...
I don't think that because there was a Family in Philly, that meant a lot. Within the Mafia, these guys could talk as though nobody else existed. You read...
Who were the ""Don Cheech" conservatives in Philly"? ... From: William Rausch <wisckid@...> Subject: Re: [americanmafia] Re: Capone's Philly Adventure To:...
