by B. » Sat Jan 18, 2020 8:37 pm
Would be great to have more concrete info on "Frankie Marlow" Curto. He was from Palermo province and lived on the Lower East Side, citing employment from a Joseph Badalamenti (a common enough name, but I wondered if it connected to the Profaci figure Joseph Badalementi -- there's a Profaci connection to the "Yale crowd", particularly through Giuseppe Peraino, who was connected to the Carini element that would come to include the Profaci Badalamentis).
Investigators believed that Girolamo "Bobby Doyle" Santuccio was associated with Curto prior to Curto's death in 1929. Though he would end up in the Bronx and Connecticut, Santuccio started out on the Lower East side. If he was involved with Curto, this stands out because Santuccio would not become affiliated with the Genovese family until 1931. Another potential angle I haven't been able to confirm is that Curto may have had maternal relatives in Connecticut.
Curto doesn't get mentioned much if at all by reliable mafia sources (that I know of) and we have to rely on LE and media reports of the era, which focus more on the "gang leader", "Yale lieutenant", and his public persona, all of which are hard to trust. He does appear to have been neck deep with Masseria figures.
Would be great to have more concrete info on "Frankie Marlow" Curto. He was from Palermo province and lived on the Lower East Side, citing employment from a Joseph Badalamenti (a common enough name, but I wondered if it connected to the Profaci figure Joseph Badalementi -- there's a Profaci connection to the "Yale crowd", particularly through Giuseppe Peraino, who was connected to the Carini element that would come to include the Profaci Badalamentis).
Investigators believed that Girolamo "Bobby Doyle" Santuccio was associated with Curto prior to Curto's death in 1929. Though he would end up in the Bronx and Connecticut, Santuccio started out on the Lower East side. If he was involved with Curto, this stands out because Santuccio would not become affiliated with the Genovese family until 1931. Another potential angle I haven't been able to confirm is that Curto may have had maternal relatives in Connecticut.
Curto doesn't get mentioned much if at all by reliable mafia sources (that I know of) and we have to rely on LE and media reports of the era, which focus more on the "gang leader", "Yale lieutenant", and his public persona, all of which are hard to trust. He does appear to have been neck deep with Masseria figures.