Organized crime, particularly the Genovese and Gambino crime families, have controlled gay bars in New York City for the last century. The following website...
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...
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Jan 1, 2008 3:33 pm
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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Jan 1, 2008 3:34 pm
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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Jan 1, 2008 3:35 pm
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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Jan 1, 2008 3:35 pm
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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Jan 1, 2008 3:35 pm
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....
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...
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Jan 1, 2008 11:57 pm
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...
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...
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Jan 2, 2008 6:04 pm
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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Jan 4, 2008 11:00 am
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...
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...
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Jan 4, 2008 11:25 am
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...
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...
what was the Joe Adonis theory mentioned in the Bill Bonanno thread? I also begin to wonder about Johnny Torrio and his connections to what became the Genovese...
... This might be an appropriate occasion to note a still-under construction website related to the Bonanno Mafia clan. I had been waiting for the thing to be...
... I don't know about that. (I believe you're referring to "The Secret Life of Meyer Lansky" or something like "La Vida Secreta de Meyer Lansky en la...
... I believe that was my speculation that Joe Adonis might have been the "Zio Trestelle" of Selvaggi's "Rise of the Mafia in New York." See the following...
Thanks for your reply,Tom.Yes,i did mean The Secret Life of Meyer Lansky in Havana.His Mafia in Havana book came out in English at least a decade after it was...
Hi, I'm new to the list and have a question I would like to ask. Can anyone suggest a book on the mafia's presents in Las Vegas? More specific, who owned...
Hi David. Welcome to the group. "Green Felt Jungle," by Reid and Demaris (Buccaneer Books, 1963) probably has what you're looking for. The back of the book...
GREAT yahoo group! I've been waiting years to ask or re-ask a few questions. 1)Any thoughts as to Joe Profaci taking out Frankie Yale? Joe Profaci did...
