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Dentico is still alive, correct?

Adding to the drugs/Mafia list: The Heroin Trail by editors of Newsday. Good accounting of the heroin scene of the 1970s. The Swiss Bank Connection by Leslie Waller +1 for The Heroin Trail, extremely well documented, although some passages concerning the SAC and the SDECE are a bit exaggerated, but...

Adding to the drugs/Mafia list:

The Heroin Trail by editors of Newsday. Good accounting of the heroin scene of the 1970s.

The Swiss Bank Connection by Leslie Waller

Frank Panessa, DEA undercover agent. He was setting up guys on the Pizza Connection case right? I remember an old documentary with him talking about it. Correct. I'm on the Mob Museum Advisory Council with Frank, Giovanni Rocco, and some other undercover LEOs from DEA, FBI, and other law enforcemen...

Frank Panessa, DEA undercover agent.

There was something I read in someone else's notes about DeFeo being quite power hungry/greedy or something. A poster on another forum had mentioned there were wiretaps of Alo and Catena after they were retired in Florida. Apparently they were neighbours and Phil Lombardo lived nearby too. Not sure...

There was something I read in someone else's notes about DeFeo being quite power hungry/greedy or something. A poster on another forum had mentioned there were wiretaps of Alo and Catena after they were retired in Florida. Apparently they were neighbours and Phil Lombardo lived nearby too. Not sure...

CornerBoy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:25 am is she from philly?

Ohio

Not true. Her mother's maiden name is Caponigro, but not related to Tony as far as being his sister. Though I've spoken to people in Tally who say Casey is cutthroat and will (figuratively) chop the legs off anyone who crosses her and lil Ronnie.

Salvatore "Red" Italiano lived for years in Mexico after leaving Tampa.

Antiliar wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:42 am

mike68 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:04 am He's had no posts since this. Maybe they had a problem and they couldn't work it out......

There was nothing we could do about it. It was among the Italians.

Real greaseball shit.

That Romanello case seems like a colossal waste of time and money.

OC Shortz has access to a lot of FBI 302s that note Catena and has done several podcasts showing him as too-far-removed and comfortable with his wealth. Have you viewed any of the podcasts and are you leveraging the 302s? Thomas Eboli, based on these, is quite sharp in astute and is often at odds w...

OC Shortz has access to a lot of FBI 302s that note Catena and has done several podcasts showing him as too-far-removed and comfortable with his wealth. Have you viewed any of the podcasts and are you leveraging the 302s? Thomas Eboli, based on these, is quite sharp in astute and is often at odds w...

Congratulations. Hope you got a hefty advance. :lol: :lol: :lol: Depends on your definition of "hefty". But I've earned out all my advances to receive royalties, so hoping will be the case here as well. Congrats on the book deal , How does that work with the advance? You have to earn it b...