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Vic Cotroni in Montreal, capo circa 1960 until his death in 1984. Even if for around ten years he took a back seat, that's almost 24 years at the head of a decina Didn't Massino testify that Sciascia was captain of that decina by 1981? I recall him saying Sciascia was among the captains who voted t...

Vic Cotroni in Montreal, capo circa 1960 until his death in 1984. Even if for around ten years he took a back seat, that's almost 24 years at the head of a decina

You're welcome, glad you like the articles/interview or/and find it useful guys. Very cool stuff here. Regarding Mondoloni *theoretically* being made. As we know, the Corsicans are ethnically an Italian people and thus it is certainly possible that they would not be viewed the same by mafiosi as eth...

Some thoughts on the establishment of Cosa Nostra in Marseille: -I talk about it relatively often, but during these investigations in Marseille in 1986, Judge Falcone told to his French counterpart Michel Debacq that he considered Paul Mondoloni as the or at least one of the representatives of Cosa ...

Between 1988 and 1989, the magazine "Le Nouvel Observateur" published several articles on the French side of the "Pizza Connection". At the time the trial for the assassination of Judge Pierre Michel was opening, and that on the "French Sicilian Connection" had just end...

Cheech wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 3:47 am

OcSleeper wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 6:30 pm He was proposed twice but turned it down both times IIRC. He was connected to the Ndrangheta and his brother Vincenzo Melia was a big name up in Canada and back in Calabria.

You got it!

According to Cecil Kirby, Nick Melia was a member of the 'ndrangheta in Connecticut

French is the official language in Quebec ... Do like me with English or Italian articles, translate them with Google or your internet browser, it take approximatively 10 seconds

But I think Le Journal de Montréal got articles in English most of the time

Looks great, I will follow your work assiduously !

I was recently doing some research on the "First Mafia War", and it seems that Toto Catalano was arrested a first time in New Jersey where he was a "mechanic" but managed to escape from the interpol agents, and a second one in Weil Otterbach, Germany in 1966. No idea what happene...

-Antonino Salamone was married to Salvatore 'l'Ingegnere" Greco's sister, so he wasn't the mastermind behind the Ciaculli Massacre (Michele Cavataio, Pietro Torretta and few others were) -Salamone was more than an accountant, he was the representant of the San Giuseppe Jato mandamento in the Cu...

calabrianwatch wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:14 am It appears I can't attach pdf - see here for download on rocca di Neto file https://www.transfernow.net/dl/20240424o5qvrKE9

Nice, thanks !

Ok thanks Joel. I guess it's still a possibility that they were also wrong about his place of birth then

Very late response, but it seems that according to the FBN Sam Maugeri was born December 16, 1897 in Catania and not September 13, 1892 in San Giorgio Morgeto. Was the FBN wrong?

I found this chart of Operation Iron Tower for those who may be interested https://theblackhand.club/forum/ext/dmzx/imageupload/files/57e66cbe10ee6dc8692a8c73d96a8f57.png Note: Joseph Cuffaro is not the mafioso of the Caruana-Cuntrera clan, but an individual from Palermo. He later became pentito and...

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...