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Informer journal:
Mafia history and Nick Gentile
This Informer special issue focuses on Nicola 'Nick' Gentile, underworld leader in U.S. and Sicily, who published an Italian-language tell-all autobiography in 1963. Informer strives to bring Gentile's entire life story to the English-language reader. Building on extensive original research by a team of Mafia history experts and on U.S. government documents designed to extract meaning from the memoirs, this issue attempts to balance Gentile's obviously self-serving and self-aggrandizing autobiographical work with verifiable history, to correct his misinformation and to fill in the wide gaps left in his personal account.
Special Section:
Rat Trap by Edmond Valin
Articles investigating the identities of underworld informants. Most recent article:
Tura Satana and the Chicago Outfit
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'...Satana was open about many aspects of her personal life. She posed nude for screen legend Harold Lloyd, she told journalists she had a romantic relationship with crooner Frank Sinatra, and she claimed she once turned down a marriage proposal from Elvis Presley. But she had another relationship that she kept secret. Satana spied on the Mafia for the Federal Bureau of Investigation...'
Special Feature:
Valachi memoirs: 'The Real Thing: Second Government'
The basis for The Valachi Papers book and movie, Joe Valachi's memoirs have extraordinary value for Mafia researchers. We are now bringing The Real Thing online for the first time.
Featured Website Article:
CIA joins with Mafia in plot to kill Castro
Some Kennedy assassination-related documents released through the National Archives last week (October 26, 2017) and earlier this year (July 24, 2017) discussed CIA cooperation with American organized criminals in an effort to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The documents revealed little about CIA-underworld interaction that was not already known to historians through other sources, but the release provides an occasion to reflect upon that interaction and its aftermath. ...
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1930 prizefight, press coverage links 'Lucky' and 'Joe the Boss'
A widely publicized south Florida prizefight led to the names of Salvatore 'Charlie Luciano' Lucania and Giuseppe 'Joe the Boss' Masseria appearing together in print in early 1930. Early in the morning of Friday, February 28. Dade County Sheriff Manuel Philip Lehman received a tip that a number of out-of-town men were gambling in a top-floor suite of a Miami Beach hotel. Lehman and ten of his deputies raided the location...
Featured Website Article:
How organized was Calabrian crime?
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There are a number of unanswered questions related to the American Mafia's incorporation of Calabrian gangsters - those who trace their origins to the southernmost portion of the Italian mainland. We may ask: How did this combination occur? Precisely when did it occur? Was it the result of a decision of the American Mafia as a whole or did it result from decisions of individual crime families? Were Calabrian gangsters welcomed on an individual basis or was a Calabrian crime network consumed by the Mafia en masse? ...
Buffalo / Western NY:
DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime (in Two Volumes)
Two-volume historical biography of Mafioso Joseph DiCarlo, once known as 'the Al Capone of Buffalo' and as western New York's 'Public Enemy No. 1.' Son of the region's first known Sicilian underworld boss, DiCarlo was rejected as heir to his father's criminal empire. After spending troubled years as a vassal of the influential Stefano Magaddino, DiCarlo and his underlings wandered, seeking their fortunes in Youngstown, Ohio, and Miami Beach, Florida, before returning home to witness the disintegration of the western New York Mafia.
19th Century New Orleans:
Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia
Conveys J.P. Macheca's epic life story, as it details the 1890 assassination of New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy and the 1891 Crescent City lynchings. A street warrior for the corrupt New Orleans Democratic machine known as 'The Ring,' Macheca was the patron of the fledgling American Mafia in southern Louisiana. His underworld ties brought him into conflict with Hennessy, involved him in a Mafia civil war and ultimately cost him his life in the largest lynching in American history. Silver Medalist in 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Charles Sberna Case:
Wrongly Executed? Long-Forgotten Context of 1939 Electrocution
Was a fair trial for Charles Sberna even possible? The son of an anarchist terrorist and son-in-law of a Mafia boss of bosses, Sberna was sentenced to die after being convicted of killing a New York City police officer. The story involves celebrity attorneys, underworld chieftains, violent political radicals, media giants and ruthless establishment figures, and it is set in a period in which Americans sought stability and order after years of political upheaval and Prohibition Era lawlessness
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