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Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by motorfab » Sun Feb 16, 2025 4:54 am

New article on the blog dedicated to Giuseppe Mammone, a member of the Calabrian mafia active in Buffalo then in Sydney

https://unehistoiredecrimeorganise.blog ... ffalo.html

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by motorfab » Tue Dec 31, 2024 11:27 am

Antiliar wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2024 12:21 am
motorfab wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:40 am New article dedicated to the membership of the New Orleans Crime Family during the 1960s.

The idea came to me to write an article on this subject following conversations that Angelo, Antiliar, B., and I had several years ago about Greg Scarpa who claimed that Colombo had told him that there were only 5 members in the New Orleans Crime Family (here viewtopic.php?f=29&t=6536 and here viewtopic.php?t=9441).

Not sure that I solved anything, but I tried to demonstrate that for me Scarpa greatly exaggerated.

https://unehistoiredecrimeorganise.blog ... de-la.html
Loved reading this! Great coverage of New Orleans.
Great if you enjoyed it, not an easy topic but fascinating to dig all this ...

Enjoy your new year's eve mate

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by Antiliar » Sun Dec 29, 2024 12:21 am

motorfab wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:40 am New article dedicated to the membership of the New Orleans Crime Family during the 1960s.

The idea came to me to write an article on this subject following conversations that Angelo, Antiliar, B., and I had several years ago about Greg Scarpa who claimed that Colombo had told him that there were only 5 members in the New Orleans Crime Family (here viewtopic.php?f=29&t=6536 and here viewtopic.php?t=9441).

Not sure that I solved anything, but I tried to demonstrate that for me Scarpa greatly exaggerated.

https://unehistoiredecrimeorganise.blog ... de-la.html
Loved reading this! Great coverage of New Orleans.

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by motorfab » Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:40 am

New article dedicated to the membership of the New Orleans Crime Family during the 1960s.

The idea came to me to write an article on this subject following conversations that Angelo, Antiliar, B., and I had several years ago about Greg Scarpa who claimed that Colombo had told him that there were only 5 members in the New Orleans Crime Family (here viewtopic.php?f=29&t=6536 and here viewtopic.php?t=9441).

Not sure that I solved anything, but I tried to demonstrate that for me Scarpa greatly exaggerated.

https://unehistoiredecrimeorganise.blog ... de-la.html

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by motorfab » Wed Nov 27, 2024 6:09 am

antimafia wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:50 pm ^^^^
Fab, will you post on X about your new blog post?
Yes I didn't desert X, I was going to do it today, I just had a busy schedule the last 2 days. Thanks for asking :)

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by antimafia » Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:50 pm

^^^^
Fab, will you post on X about your new blog post?

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by motorfab » Mon Nov 25, 2024 11:41 am

I added to my blog the Bono wedding photos I posted yesterday on the forum (viewtopic.php?t=1152&start=105) + a couple of others I found on various newspaper sites over the years (obviously none of the ones posted on the forum by HairyKnuckles & Felice).

https://unehistoiredecrimeorganise.blog ... seppe.html

I'm still working on my New Orleans article but I've been very busy and also very lazy. It might be ready by the end of the year or early next year

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by motorfab » Wed Oct 02, 2024 9:38 am

Eline2015 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2024 8:38 pm Great article
Thanks a lot my friend

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by Eline2015 » Tue Oct 01, 2024 8:38 pm

Great article

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by motorfab » Wed Sep 25, 2024 4:19 am

PolackTony wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 8:02 am Bon boulot. Really excellent work here, as always.

To follow up on Failla. Do you know his birth year, or at least his reported age as of 1939? This wasn’t reported in any of the US articles I saw mentioning the bust of him and Robert Lord that year, but I’m hoping you saw it somewhere in the French coverage of this. There are a couple of candidates in NYC and Chicago that could be him (note that the coverage in the American press stated that Failla was born in Italy but was naturalized as a US citizen).
Merci beaucoup mon ami :)

After checking, I have 2 articles from the French press which say that he was 41 years old in 1939. Indeed I should have thought of specifying this in the article...

A detail to be taken with big a pinch of salt, Failla would have spent time in the Sing-Sing penitentiary. I did not include it in the article because I simply did not find anything in the newspapers talking about this conviction (a Joe Failla was arrested in 1921 in Nebraska for bootlegging but he was just kicked out of that state), and the French-speaking newspapers tended to put everyone in Sing-Sing (according to them the Mancuso brothers had been sent to Sing-Sing which seems to be false)

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by PolackTony » Tue Sep 24, 2024 8:02 am

Bon boulot. Really excellent work here, as always.

To follow up on Failla. Do you know his birth year, or at least his reported age as of 1939? This wasn’t reported in any of the US articles I saw mentioning the bust of him and Robert Lord that year, but I’m hoping you saw it somewhere in the French coverage of this. There are a couple of candidates in NYC and Chicago that could be him (note that the coverage in the American press stated that Failla was born in Italy but was naturalized as a US citizen).

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by B. » Thu Sep 19, 2024 12:06 pm

Ok so they were in the NE Williamsburg area. Very likely they were in the Bonanno orbit.

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by motorfab » Thu Sep 19, 2024 3:42 am

B. wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 7:02 pm A+

Do you know where the Mancusos lived in Brooklyn? Williamsburg and Bushwick attracted Alcamesi along with Castellammaresi and other Trapanese paesans, be curious if they were there. With that in mind, also interesting they were cousins of Parrinos from Alcamo given the Bonanno/Detroit Parrinos were from Alcamo.

Do you know where Failla was from in Sicily or where he lived in the US in the 1920s?

Thank you.

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Omar -- Mikey Mancuso's heritage is Salernitan / Campanian so no relation to these Sicilians.
Thanks !

Salvatore lived at 62 Kingsland Avenue, I don't know about his brothers

Unfortunately I don't know where Giuseppe Failla was previously before landing to the 9 rue Mansart. In addition to Mexico he seems to have contacts in New York, so I assume he was there. I haven't found any articles on him before 1939, but I'll try to do some digging.

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Note: except for Parrino which is a familiar name thanks to Joe and Rosario (relatives?), the other Italian names are unknown to me. I would love to know more about "Jim Raspanti" if that is his real name.

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by OmarSantista » Wed Sep 18, 2024 11:55 pm

Thanks for clearing that up and for all the references guys!

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

by B. » Wed Sep 18, 2024 7:02 pm

A+

Do you know where the Mancusos lived in Brooklyn? Williamsburg and Bushwick attracted Alcamesi along with Castellammaresi and other Trapanese paesans, be curious if they were there. With that in mind, also interesting they were cousins of Parrinos from Alcamo given the Bonanno/Detroit Parrinos were from Alcamo.

Do you know where Failla was from in Sicily or where he lived in the US in the 1920s?

Thank you.

--

Omar -- Mikey Mancuso's heritage is Salernitan / Campanian so no relation to these Sicilians.

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