How NYC's kosher chicken king's luck ran out

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Re: How NYC's kosher chicken king's luck ran out

by Pogo The Clown » Sun Aug 02, 2015 10:33 am

Greco was an early member of the Morello group (what became the Lucchese and Genovese family).


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How NYC's kosher chicken king's luck ran out

by willychichi » Sun Aug 02, 2015 3:38 am

You guys know anything about the 4 men involved in this hit, Carmine DiPaolo, Giuseppe Archiello, Ippolito Greco and Frank Ferrera?

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Big Joe Cohen and his emissaries from New York’s hinky poultry racket gave Barnet (Barney) Baff plenty of hints that he ought to join their nest of corruption.

Over two months in 1913, someone planted warning bombs outside Baff’s summer bungalow on in the Rockaways, his retail shop in East Harlem and his brownstone on W. 120th St.

But Baff, the city’s kosher chicken king, didn’t give a cluck.

When cops offered to protect him, Baff shooed them off.

A married father of three, he was a headstrong immigrant from Bialystock and a prototype American success story.

But his testy relationship with his own industry — the “poultry trust” — put the portly man with a flowing Van Dyke at peril.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/j ... -1.2311327

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