Cheers, there were some issues when this topic originally surfaced since the author objected to some of the comments made on this forum about the use of Gosch...
I decided to download it as I enjoyed the sample that amazon provides for the book. One of the first things that he tackles was the fact that Luciano was on a...
But what's the source for this claim? ... From: Ryan A <ryan_12177@...> Subject: [americanmafia] Re: New book influx To: americanmafia@yahoogroups.com ...
Please also tell us his sources, since it's the sources that are often the problem. ... From: Ryan A <ryan_12177@...> Subject: [americanmafia] Re: Lucky...
The source on my end was a New York Times story on Legs Diamond being turned away upon arrival in Germany. You can get a temporary account from their website...
I can access the NYT. Can you give the date of the article and the headline? ... From: Ryan A <ryan_12177@...> Subject: [americanmafia] Re: New book...
August 31st, September 1st, or September 2nd of 1930... I forget which and I don't have access to my PDF of the article like I used to.. lost a lot when my old...
Is this the one? Yes, I would say that Luciano is there. Oddly, there doesn't seem to be a mention of Lucky anywhere else in 1930. ... From: Ryan A...
That's the one I have. Honestly, I never thought that much about it. Tim refers to that single article and to a brief mention in an FBI file (which, let's face...
I think the info from the New York Times article of August 30, 1930 is conflated with info from Harry Anslinger's book, The Murderers, in addition to ...
I'm not sure either that I go along with the dope trip tale. It seems very speculative. After all, wouldn't he have laid a false trail with a false...
Why would he hide his identity? The need to do that doesn't make sense for me... now the question is likely why he would go with Diamond who was getting a lot...
A lot of Maranzano's contacts in bringing illegal immigrants into the US also seem to be involving individuals in Germany. Tim did make note of that...
But as I explain in my book, we've no actual evidence there were over a handful from Sicily. There "may" have been more, but there's no evidence for it. ... ...
Was Entratta a drug smiggler? ... From: Ryan A <ryan_12177@...> Subject: [americanmafia] Re: New book influx To: americanmafia@yahoogroups.com Date:...
Here is Entratta's murder. He was with Diamond's gang, that's clear enough, but bootlegging seems to have been his source of income, rather than drugs ... ...
How much research did you put into the subject of Germany for your book? I tend to recall reading that there were a few arrests made after Maranzano's demise...
A lot. I read those reports and I went through the report of the immigration people in the USA and they looked into the allegations and found them baseless,...
There is as much proof of his being involved in drugs as in booze. I'd argue that quite a few "Bootleggers" likely made as much if not more money off of...
Fair enough. But where I have a problem is where the writer (and this happens a lot) says that the person actually engaged in these activities when all we...
How would you classify the "Dellacroce faction" of the Gambino Crime Family? Would it be appropriate to say that it was more "Americanized" or more diverse or...
We know that in the Masseria setup, mainland Italians mixed with the Sicilians, and it didn't seem to matter which part they came from. Sicilians seemed to...
If these folks were mixing freely, how and why would factions form? (I phrase it this way specifically to suit the apparent majority of group members. My...
My grandfather was from Agrigento and the story is that his father sent him to America to avoid getting involved with the Mafia. Mike Rizzo Author, historian,...
Within that specific crime family I always saw the split as existing from the very beginning and always wondered fi they wer eoriginally two groups that were...
Amongst the many things I've lost were PDF's I had of Miami Crime Commision testimony of Mike Coppola. In them he describes in detail his relationship with...
I hope you find them. I wouldn't mind having my own copies but wouldn't know where to start. Didn't see anything about it in WorldCat. Do you recall the ...
The long and short of it was that he admitted he knew Luciano and said that Luciano was his best friend and that they were like brothers and were often...
