by cavita » Sun May 17, 2020 12:44 pm
B. wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 11:38 pm
Do you have any names from Ribera area? Any idea if the Chicago members from Ribera had any interaction with Rockford?
Great information all around. So interesting to me that Buscemi began bringing Sicilians around during the same period that NYC/NJ was doing the same. Part of that was what was going on in Sicily, but it was a two way street and the US figures had to be receptive.
B.
The one name from Ribera that I can think of off the top of my head were the Cimino boys who came to the Rockford area from Ribera in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They immediately opened up pizza places all over Rockford and the surrounding smaller towns- Freeport, Loves Park, Pecatonica, Winnebago, Mt. Morris, etc. In Frank Buscemi's FBI file from the mid 1980s among other restaurants and businesses, the FBI desired to know the owners and corporate officers of Cimino's Pizzeria, particularly the one located at 5435 N. 2nd Street in Loves Park.
One Ribera name from Chicago I know who had interaction with the Rockford guys was Jimmie DeGeorge. Buscemi of course came up under DeGeorge in the 1930s and 1940s and I have an FBI file where it stated DeGeorge backed Rockford's Phil Priola as boss in 1958 when Tony Musso died. The FBI file said this support carried no weight because Chicago had nothing to do with Rockford picking its bosses. Another Chicago Ribera guy, Phil Bacino, had gotten himself arrested in a Milwaukee bootlegging case with two guys from Rockford- James Anasatase and Alphonse Caruso.
What other Chicago guys do you know of that had Ribera roots?
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Do you have any names from Ribera area? Any idea if the Chicago members from Ribera had any interaction with Rockford?
Great information all around. So interesting to me that Buscemi began bringing Sicilians around during the same period that NYC/NJ was doing the same. Part of that was what was going on in Sicily, but it was a two way street and the US figures had to be receptive.
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B.
The one name from Ribera that I can think of off the top of my head were the Cimino boys who came to the Rockford area from Ribera in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They immediately opened up pizza places all over Rockford and the surrounding smaller towns- Freeport, Loves Park, Pecatonica, Winnebago, Mt. Morris, etc. In Frank Buscemi's FBI file from the mid 1980s among other restaurants and businesses, the FBI desired to know the owners and corporate officers of Cimino's Pizzeria, particularly the one located at 5435 N. 2nd Street in Loves Park.
One Ribera name from Chicago I know who had interaction with the Rockford guys was Jimmie DeGeorge. Buscemi of course came up under DeGeorge in the 1930s and 1940s and I have an FBI file where it stated DeGeorge backed Rockford's Phil Priola as boss in 1958 when Tony Musso died. The FBI file said this support carried no weight because Chicago had nothing to do with Rockford picking its bosses. Another Chicago Ribera guy, Phil Bacino, had gotten himself arrested in a Milwaukee bootlegging case with two guys from Rockford- James Anasatase and Alphonse Caruso.
What other Chicago guys do you know of that had Ribera roots?