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cavita wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:59 pm

B. wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:50 pm Ah, you've mentioned Faruggia before. Makes sense Chicago had a colony given the proximity to Rockford.

Aragona is like a lot of Sicilian mining towns in that many people have left as industry dwindled. I know there are a good chunk of them in other parts of Europe, particularly Belgium. Biagio is connected on social media to DiGiacomos all over, interestingly many of them live on the Italian mainland including Campania, Lazio, Veneto, and Abruzzo. Switzerland as well. I don't know if these are actual relatives / Aragonesi or if he just added a bunch of people who share his surname but given the large diaspora of Aragonesi I imagine many of them are relatives or paesans.

Yes, I do know that brothers Natale and Michele Galluzzo lived in Brussels, Belgium right before immigrating to Rockford in 1971 to join their brother Salvatore and a cousin Antonio Buscemi lived in Frankfurt, Germany from 1962 to 1982 before immigrating to Rockford.

B. wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:50 pm Ah, you've mentioned Faruggia before. Makes sense Chicago had a colony given the proximity to Rockford.

Aragona is like a lot of Sicilian mining towns in that many people have left as industry dwindled. I know there are a good chunk of them in other parts of Europe, particularly Belgium. Biagio is connected on social media to DiGiacomos all over, interestingly many of them live on the Italian mainland including Campania, Lazio, Veneto, and Abruzzo. Switzerland as well. I don't know if these are actual relatives / Aragonesi or if he just added a bunch of people who share his surname but given the large diaspora of Aragonesi I imagine many of them are relatives or paesans.

B. wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:17 pm Yeah that is JD's blog, old time member of the forums.

Waltham along with Rockford were definitely the major Aragonese colonies, not sure where else they may have ended up but offhand the only Aragonese LCN members I'm aware of were in Rockford and NE. Guys from nearby towns show up in other Families around the US though.

cavita wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:01 pm 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 the time, Buscemi was being investigated for extortionate business practices and his connection to a narcotics distribution network which included Boston, Buffalo, Canada, Sicily, Australia and other U.S. cities and countries. These calls to the Boston figure were in relation to the narcotics network and surprisingly lists the telephone number. I suspect that this ranking Boston figure was capo Salvatore Giglia who, like Buscemi, was born in Aragona, Sicily.

Is there any way somebody can confirm, perhaps through a Boston city directory or other resource, that this phone number does indeed belong to Giglia? This would be a nice connection for me to make.

B. wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:11 am Boston had a large population from Agrigento but not many known examples of members. Meanwile Giglia was a sleeper member for likely fifty years before surfacing as an elderly captain. It isn't mentioned in the LCNBios article but Giglia was arrested in 1940 as part of a huge bootlegging ring that stretched to Portland, Maine. One of the guys arrested with him was Antonino Brando from the island of Lipari in Messina but I'd like to know if any Aragonesi were associated with him back then, seems strange it would just be Giglia then fifty years later DiGiacomo joins under Giglia with nobody else in between.

B. wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:20 pm "Ranking Boston Sicilian Mafia Figure" could just mean a member of importance. I've seen "high-ranking member" used to describe key soldiers in FBI reports. Either way it is most likely DiGiacomo or Giglia. I've mentioned before that DiGiacomo's naturalization was witnessed by a Buscemi from Aragona who lived outside Boston.

davidf1989 wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 2:21 am Maybe one of the informants for the Medford Induction Ceremony was Anthony St. Laurent according to these articles

https://gangsterreport.com/saint-of-new ... der-probe/

http://mattofboston.com/america-we-hard ... ump-94625/

cavita wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:19 am

Southshore88 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:21 pm

cavita wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:01 pm 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 the time, Buscemi was being investigated for extortionate business practices and his connection to a narcotics distribution network which included Boston, Buffalo, Canada, Sicily, Australia and other U.S. cities and countries. These calls to the Boston figure were in relation to the narcotics network and surprisingly lists the telephone number. I suspect that this ranking Boston figure was capo Salvatore Giglia who, like Buscemi, was born in Aragona, Sicily.

Is there any way somebody can confirm, perhaps through a Boston city directory or other resource, that this phone number does indeed belong to Giglia? This would be a nice connection for me to make.

Cavita, another Aragona/Boston native is Biaggio DiGiacomo. I think he went back to Sicily at some point but believe he could be another name worth investigating

Yes, I've researched Biagio DiGiacomo a bit and I'm confident he's related to the DiGiacomo members in Rockford. I don't think Buscemi was contacting Biagio in 1983 though because the FBI file said it was a ranking member of the Boston LCN and I don't believe Biagio achieved capo status until 1985/1986. Giglia, however, was a capo in 1983.

Southshore88 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:21 pm

cavita wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:01 pm 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 the time, Buscemi was being investigated for extortionate business practices and his connection to a narcotics distribution network which included Boston, Buffalo, Canada, Sicily, Australia and other U.S. cities and countries. These calls to the Boston figure were in relation to the narcotics network and surprisingly lists the telephone number. I suspect that this ranking Boston figure was capo Salvatore Giglia who, like Buscemi, was born in Aragona, Sicily.

Is there any way somebody can confirm, perhaps through a Boston city directory or other resource, that this phone number does indeed belong to Giglia? This would be a nice connection for me to make.

Cavita, another Aragona/Boston native is Biaggio DiGiacomo. I think he went back to Sicily at some point but believe he could be another name worth investigating

cavita wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:01 pm 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 the time, Buscemi was being investigated for extortionate business practices and his connection to a narcotics distribution network which included Boston, Buffalo, Canada, Sicily, Australia and other U.S. cities and countries. These calls to the Boston figure were in relation to the narcotics network and surprisingly lists the telephone number. I suspect that this ranking Boston figure was capo Salvatore Giglia who, like Buscemi, was born in Aragona, Sicily.

Is there any way somebody can confirm, perhaps through a Boston city directory or other resource, that this phone number does indeed belong to Giglia? This would be a nice connection for me to make.