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I didn't have much luck posting this on its own so I thought I'd put it in a more specific post: In looking through the 1980s FBI files of Rockford LCN underboss Frank Buscemi, the attached excerpts indicate that in September 1983 Buscemi was contacting a “ranking Boston Sicilian Maffia figure.” At...

Not really sure if this is the right place to post this, but has anybody heard of this documentary before? It's a CBC documentary from 1977 all about the mob in Canada and supposedly has interviews and footage of prominent Canadian racketeers (Violi, Papalia, Commisso). I've tried searching for the ...

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...

B. wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 10:34 am

Eline2015 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 4:21 am Poagy Torriello, genovese soldier, who lived in New England.

I see an article that says he was in New England circa 1950 -- do you know which area?

Providence.

I dont recall if he was a member exactly but, Kenneth Guarino was a pornographer and Gambino associate who kicked up to Natale Richichi. Guarino lived in Providence. Richard "Redbird" Gomes was another Providence guy who was an associate of the Gambino family. Good friend of the Gottis.

Orlando Napolitano and his son Joe were apart of the New England family and lived in Portland, Maine. Joe later became an informant and was killed. Billy Grasso was with New England but lived in New Haven. If I recall he was associated with Ralph Tropiano and the Colombos originally, but later becam...

Would that local newspapers archives have the original photo? or.. https://www.facebook.com/WBPreservation/photos/a.1183678511752077/2404208053032444/?type=3 1978 Ace Hoffman photo of Ace Hoffman's on West Market Street. From the Karen Jones French Collection at the Wilkes-Barré Preservation Societ...

Who do Genovese guys in Springfield answer to nowadays? Who are they under?

I genuinely thought the podcast shit I was seeing was fake. I thought it was one of those deepfakes

Pmac2 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 2:19 pm Is joe salvati still alive? He was pretty cool after being let out. There was videos of him hanging with limone at restaurants. I wouldn't be surprised if he was involved in the life.

As far as I know he's still alive today at 90 years old and residing in Massachusetts.

Henry Tamelo allegedly had a chance to get out of jail for the Deagan murder he didn't commit, but he needed 150k to pay some gov't official. Zannino and Anguilo refused to chip in because he was a RI guy and not a Boston guy. Tamelo died in jail. I heard he had dementia too but that isn't mentione...

Anyone read Gerard Ouimette's book? Pretty decent read with some info I hadn't known before. He def toots his own horn a bit and gets somethings confused, but its got to be one of the better books about RI LCN. One of the things mentioned was that after Billy Grasso got out of prison where he was c...

I don’t know much about Italian immigration to Mobile, but there does seem to have been a small Calabrese colony there (though apparently mainly composed of people from Cosenza and Catanzaro provinces), alongside a small Sicilian colony. Daphne, AL and Baldwin County (east of Mobile) comes up a lot...

Has anyone requested files on Gerlando Sciascia? Was thinking about requesting them today. Go to https://theblackhand.club/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=7390&p=186240&hilit=Sciascia#p186240 for the 2 PDFs that were uploade by the poster thekiduknow. You will probably have to right-click ea...

Has anyone requested files on Gerlando Sciascia? Was thinking about requesting them today. Go to https://theblackhand.club/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=7390&p=186240&hilit=Sciascia#p186240 for the 2 PDFs that were uploade by the poster thekiduknow. You will probably have to right-click ea...