by HairyKnuckles » Tue Nov 28, 2023 2:08 am
Some of the things talked about in that Attardi interview makes your head turn. Was Attardi lying or did he give an incomplete story and Jack Anderson took the liberty to fill in the blanks?
About the numbers, it´s written that the Family Attardi belonged to (the Gambino Family) was the smallest of the New York based Families, which is certainly inaccurate.
On Mambrao, it says "D'Aguila was murdered by his own underboss, Salvatore Mambrao, who himself became the first victim of another gang war declared by Salvatore Maranzano." We know that Mineo was killed early 1931 and yet, Attardi claims the warfare ended with a peace treaty worked out in Atlantic City in 1929. "Carra was in the thick of the street warfare. ""I was one of about 50 men,""he said, ""that had been marked to be killed by the Maranzano gunmen."" Then in 1929, the top gang leaders held a peace conference in Atlantic City, divided up the territories and put the Mafia on a more businesslike basis."
On one occasion, Lucky Luciano is refered to as "boss of the bosses", which is inaccurate.
But the most surprising story in the interview is Attardi´s claim that Anastasia secretly tape recordered Mangano so that he could set him up for execiution. ""Under the terms of the Atlantic City peace conference, gangsters were forbidden to gun down one another without cause. However, the cunning Anastasia had a plan. Carrying a concealed microphone, he called upon Mangano in his Brooklyn office and carefully guided the discussion. The conversation was recorded by some of Anastasia's guys who were sitting in Anastasia's car,"" reported Carra. The Murder, Inc. chieftain then took parts of Mangano's conversation out of context, re-recorded them and presented them to the top Mafia leaders. Fooled, they issued a contract for Mangano's death."
- Yeah right.
The article ends with "Carra has throat cancer. He can no longer speak without the aid of an electric voice box, which magnifies and somewhat distorts the vibrations of his vocal cords."
- Could it be that Jack Anderson simply misheard names and words mentioned by Attardi using that electric voice box when speaking? I guess we´ll never know.
Some of the things talked about in that Attardi interview makes your head turn. Was Attardi lying or did he give an incomplete story and Jack Anderson took the liberty to fill in the blanks?
About the numbers, it´s written that the Family Attardi belonged to (the Gambino Family) was the [b]smallest[/b] of the New York based Families, which is certainly inaccurate.
On Mambrao, it says "D'Aguila was murdered by his own underboss, Salvatore Mambrao, who himself became the [b]first victim[/b] of another gang war declared by Salvatore Maranzano." We know that Mineo was killed early 1931 and yet, Attardi claims the warfare ended with a peace treaty worked out in Atlantic City in 1929. "Carra was in the thick of the street warfare. ""I was one of about 50 men,""he said, ""that had been marked to be killed by the Maranzano gunmen."" Then in 1929, the top gang leaders held a peace conference in Atlantic City, divided up the territories and put the Mafia on a more businesslike basis."
On one occasion, Lucky Luciano is refered to as "boss of the bosses", which is inaccurate.
But the most surprising story in the interview is Attardi´s claim that Anastasia secretly tape recordered Mangano so that he could set him up for execiution. ""Under the terms of the Atlantic City peace conference, gangsters were forbidden to gun down one another without cause. However, the cunning Anastasia had a plan. Carrying a concealed microphone, he called upon Mangano in his Brooklyn office and carefully guided the discussion. The conversation was recorded by some of Anastasia's guys who were sitting in Anastasia's car,"" reported Carra. The Murder, Inc. chieftain then took parts of Mangano's conversation out of context, re-recorded them and presented them to the top Mafia leaders. Fooled, they issued a contract for Mangano's death."
- Yeah right.
The article ends with "Carra has throat cancer. He can no longer speak without the aid of an electric voice box, which magnifies and somewhat distorts the vibrations of his vocal cords."
- Could it be that Jack Anderson simply misheard names and words mentioned by Attardi using that electric voice box when speaking? I guess we´ll never know.