THE BLACK HAND FORUM

Im finishing the book now and its a dosey. The last chapter is:
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A Family Business:
Hijacking,Bookmaking,Policy,
Dives Games, Loan Sharking,
and Special Contracts

Fred G. Cook
Chapter is about the operations of the Colombo family. While remembering how inept and low level a guy(a low level bust out/gamling guy/sometime hitman) they have described Joe C. the whole book(copyright 1972) the first line of this chapter describes the family, and i quote "it is the second largest and most powerful of the mafia families in New York."


Ill wrie more when i get time to. It pretty ondlandish but i like the individual cimes and how it break then down. I got.no problem spending it to to you bud.

Camera phone or any tablet would do the trick.

How accurate are the five families charts?

What do they have for Bonanno? That would have been around Galante time possibly?

And Genovese?

Buster from Chicago is all over the book. The death of Valenti is described but Luciano is no where near the story. The inside cover is a chart up to 72 and wow i wish i could post pics sttaight to thr forum from my phone.

What is the main highlight of the book outta curiosity? I'm 72 LCN had considerable power still.... full functioning commision.... etc etc.

Anyone ever read this book? Im in the 5th chapter where it explains how Joe thr Boss "took over NewYork", i picked it up cause Id figured Id have a look at what they thought in 72.