You're welcome. That's why I get the big bucks. I have suspicions that some Gentile information might have been fed to Valachi before the book was published....
I'm interested to hear any/all thoughts on the book, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, by Martin A. Gosch and Richard Hammer. I understand we could be...
Tom,i think Luciano spoke several times to the author & so parts of this book ring true.But other parts are pure fiction,including,i believe,Luciano describing...
Thanks, Will. I believe you are right. There must have been conversations between Gosch and Luciano. And some of Luciano's observations - perhaps some of his...
The press release below relates to The Mafia and the Machine, a book about the Kansas City underworld, scheduled to be released in January. - Tom = = = = = ...
Missouri underworld history is finally getting the attention it deserves. In addition to "The Mafia and the Machine," a book about the Kansas City Mafia that...
In the book "The Rise of the Mafia in New York" by Giuseppe Selvaggi, the author quotes extensively from interviews held with a man identified only by the...
OK. It seems to me that Joe Adonis (originally Giuseppe Doto) fits the description of Selvaggi's Zio Trestelle reasonably well. Adonis reportedly entered the...
Organized crime, particularly the Genovese and Gambino crime families, have controlled gay bars in New York City for the last century. The following website...
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Organized crime, particularly the Genovese and Gambino crime families, have owned and operated gay bars in New York City for much of the last century, and I...
Masseria served ... I've never seen anything that has Masseria ever serving under Terranova. I think a lot of that confusion comes into play because people...
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I've always taken the stories of a feud between Diamond and Schultz with a grain of salt, especially when reading the news paper accounts of that day. The NY...
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Thomas are you from Baltimore? I just moved from Baltimore a little over a year ago but lived there the first 3 years of my life....
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Everyone should pick up Mafia.. it was the NArcotics bureau's bible on the Mafia in the early 1960's and the original files have been taken and put into a book...
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By all accounts Luciano did settle down of sorts in Italy to a woman that dies of cancer a loss that deeply effected him in his later years....
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The book "Mafia" contains some interesting info and a number of rare mugshot photos. But, personally, I felt it was a let-down. Rather than provide any sort of...
No, I'm not from Baltimore. I was born in the Bronx, NY, and grew up there through the first dozen years of my life. I have been in Connecticut ever since. - T...
Thanks for your post. I think your concept here is correct, but I think your wording might leave readers with a misunderstanding. It seems to me that the East...
I agree that the two seperate Camorra groups were definitly not one cohesive gang. I also find it somewhat bothersome that many report those groups to have...
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What exactly do you mean by "user friendly"? The book is easy to navigate through. It has a thorough index -- you could probably more appropiately call it a...
Dear J.P. Actually, I only scratched the surface of my objections to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics book. (But, please, understand that I do value the book as...
I don't get the complaint about the break down by state in regards to Italy and Florida. My only complaint as that they have a picture of the other Tony ...
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Hey Thomas I haven't got my hands on a copy of Selvaggi yet and wanted to know if you have any idea what is the origin of a few tales. Which books were they...
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I get what you mean by most of it. You explain things very well. I guess that's why you're an author. :-) I see the point that this is public information...
I saw this post and I just wanted to note that I checked my e-mail earlier and I got one of those dreaded "updates" from Amazon. I pre- ordered this book on...
By The Associated Press AP - Wednesday, January 2 Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) _ Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno, the oldest son of the late New York...
J.P., From Gentile: Valente was a highly regarded Mafia gunman. He apparently had a good working relationship with D'Aquila until Giuseppe Morello was released...
I think it is important to note that there are some serious concerns about Bill Bonanno's abilities/inclinations as a historian and about some of the basic...
One thing that has always baffled me is how little things that happened between 1928-1931 have been connected to the death of Toto D'Aquilla. Toto D'Aquilla...
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Tom,you've nailed it again.Bill Bonanno's book is unmitigated cod's udders.But then so is his father's.I always felt Joe's later years in Arizona were...
