by PolackTony » Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:32 pm
B. wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:04 am
Ah yeah, the Oliveri connection. He fled to the Bronx where the Corleonesi were strong so it would fit that he had family or paesans in Rockford.
According to Cascio's research, Leoluca Trombatore of the New Orleans Family and Sam Oliveri were second cousins, therefore he was also an extended marital relative of Tom Reina (married to Oliveri's first cousin).
Yes, these are important connections.
The papers reported that L Trombatore (presumably Leoluca) was the uncle of Carlo Trombatore of Chicago, busted for car theft in Rockford. There were several probably interrelated Trombatore families from Corleone in Chicago. One Betty Trombatore, born in Chicago, married a James Buscemi, who was Aragonese and who was from Ladd, Bureau County (Joe Corso’s HQ town). Her family (father Salvatore Trombatore) was also closely linked to Los Angeles and the Rockford/Belvidere area.
The Trombatore busted for operating a still in Chicago in 1929 was actually a woman, Louise Trombatore, who was born in Louisiana. Her still was said to have been a major supplier of alcohol in the Uptown neighborhood on the Northside.
There was also a Leoluca Trombatore, born in Corleone in 1891, who lived in Chicago and died there in 1979.
We’re only beginning to search the surface here with these Corleonesi. Among the many Corleonesi in Chicago worth looking further into include high suspicion early names in Chicago such as Raia, Governale, Provenzano, Liggio, LoBue.
Leandro Catinella, who seems to have been an important mafioso in correspondence with Morello and who died in 1903, was already in Chicago by 1883, suggesting that the Corelonesi were part of the very early foundation of the mafia in Chicago. Leandro had two brothers in Chicago, Domenico and Gaetano, who outlived him. The Catinellas were based on the Near Southside at 18th and Clark, in the immediate center of Jim Colosimo’s vice district. This was also the same block that Michele Merlo and his father arrived to when they came from Louisiana, likely not incidental. Additionally, Gaetano Catinella’s wife seems to have been from Monreale. To bring things back to the main theme here, both Corleone and Monreale seem to have been core paesani groups in the NOLA mafia, so not surprising to see that those connections seem to have existed back in Sicily as well.
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Ah yeah, the Oliveri connection. He fled to the Bronx where the Corleonesi were strong so it would fit that he had family or paesans in Rockford.
According to Cascio's research, Leoluca Trombatore of the New Orleans Family and Sam Oliveri were second cousins, therefore he was also an extended marital relative of Tom Reina (married to Oliveri's first cousin).
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Yes, these are important connections.
The papers reported that L Trombatore (presumably Leoluca) was the uncle of Carlo Trombatore of Chicago, busted for car theft in Rockford. There were several probably interrelated Trombatore families from Corleone in Chicago. One Betty Trombatore, born in Chicago, married a James Buscemi, who was Aragonese and who was from Ladd, Bureau County (Joe Corso’s HQ town). Her family (father Salvatore Trombatore) was also closely linked to Los Angeles and the Rockford/Belvidere area.
The Trombatore busted for operating a still in Chicago in 1929 was actually a woman, Louise Trombatore, who was born in Louisiana. Her still was said to have been a major supplier of alcohol in the Uptown neighborhood on the Northside.
There was also a Leoluca Trombatore, born in Corleone in 1891, who lived in Chicago and died there in 1979.
We’re only beginning to search the surface here with these Corleonesi. Among the many Corleonesi in Chicago worth looking further into include high suspicion early names in Chicago such as Raia, Governale, Provenzano, Liggio, LoBue.
Leandro Catinella, who seems to have been an important mafioso in correspondence with Morello and who died in 1903, was already in Chicago by 1883, suggesting that the Corelonesi were part of the very early foundation of the mafia in Chicago. Leandro had two brothers in Chicago, Domenico and Gaetano, who outlived him. The Catinellas were based on the Near Southside at 18th and Clark, in the immediate center of Jim Colosimo’s vice district. This was also the same block that Michele Merlo and his father arrived to when they came from Louisiana, likely not incidental. Additionally, Gaetano Catinella’s wife seems to have been from Monreale. To bring things back to the main theme here, both Corleone and Monreale seem to have been core paesani groups in the NOLA mafia, so not surprising to see that those connections seem to have existed back in Sicily as well.