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by motorfab
Sat May 11, 2024 8:50 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Articles dedicated to the French side of the Pizza Connection + Interview with Judge Giovanni Falcone (1988-1989)
Replies: 1
Views: 57

Re: Articles dedicated to the French side of the Pizza Connection + Interview with Judge Giovanni Falcone (1988-1989)

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 ...
by motorfab
Sat May 11, 2024 8:15 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Articles dedicated to the French side of the Pizza Connection + Interview with Judge Giovanni Falcone (1988-1989)
Replies: 1
Views: 57

Articles dedicated to the French side of the Pizza Connection + Interview with Judge Giovanni Falcone (1988-1989)

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...
by motorfab
Fri May 10, 2024 5:35 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Guys who "seemed" made but weren't
Replies: 24
Views: 944

Re: Guys who "seemed" made but weren't

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
by motorfab
Thu May 09, 2024 7:08 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era
Replies: 2266
Views: 5371263

Re: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era

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
by motorfab
Mon May 06, 2024 10:58 pm
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Blog - 'A Sicilan Message'
Replies: 5
Views: 267

Re: Blog - 'A Sicilan Message'

Looks great, I will follow your work assiduously !
by motorfab
Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Catalano thread
Replies: 11
Views: 1189

Re: Catalano thread

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...
by motorfab
Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:24 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: How a Sicilian mobster helped organize crime in Brazil
Replies: 2
Views: 591

Re: How a Sicilian mobster helped organize crime in Brazil

-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...
by motorfab
Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:30 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Ndrangheta in NY
Replies: 54
Views: 3262

Re: Ndrangheta in NY

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 !
by motorfab
Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:21 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: The Tunis Family
Replies: 59
Views: 2884

Re: The Tunis Family

Ok thanks Joel. I guess it's still a possibility that they were also wrong about his place of birth then
by motorfab
Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: The Tunis Family
Replies: 59
Views: 2884

Re: The Tunis Family

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?
by motorfab
Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:33 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Operation Iron Tower
Replies: 33
Views: 1172

Re: Operation Iron Tower

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...
by motorfab
Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:29 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: big question
Replies: 11
Views: 880

Re: big question

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...
by motorfab
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:06 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: TMA: The Camorra's Influence on American Cosa Nostra
Replies: 76
Views: 4024

Re: TMA: The Camorra's Influence on American Cosa Nostra

Parts of the corsican mafia has always had a nationalistic flair to it as well. Not really. It has happened that Corsican "mafiosi" have had links with the independence activists, like Charles Pieri who was associated with Francis Mariani of the "Brise de Mer" gang, but this typ...
by motorfab
Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:04 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: What was the Combaneesh?
Replies: 173
Views: 7445

Re: What was the Combaneesh?

Yes, father-in-law, sorry about that. Here is one of the few articles about Pinto to make up for my mistake ...
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by motorfab
Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:48 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Visiting Pittsburgh 1963
Replies: 150
Views: 7943

Re: Visiting Pittsburgh 1963

At least 2 of Joseph Sunseri's brothers were also mafiosi in New Orleans: Salvatore was prosecuted for the murder of David Hennessy in 1891 and Filippo who died in 1914 had Charles Matranga, Vincenzo Moreci and Vincent Marciante as pallbearers during his funerals Other Italian names were among the p...