THE BLACK HAND FORUM

Died a couple or three years ago I wanna say. Very good and low-key guy. Had his club by the zoo for years, frequented by all families.

Also how do we know about the 1933 ceremony with Tieri? It comes from one of the DeCarlo tapes from 1962. DeCarlo is shooting the shit with Dominick Ciaffone and Louis LaRasso. Very interesting transcript to read with a lot of players mentioned. During the course of the conversation Chappy Brescio’...

Congratulations Cheech, well deserved

Photos taken on the day of his arrest by the carabinieri.

Joe Francolino, without a doubt. Carlo Gambino.
Gerry Catena ?

If I'm not mistaken, in one of the Ravenite tapes LoCascio mentions being 23 at the time of his induction.

About 35 of those 69 years spent in the can. He might beat his father’s record when he finally dies.

This Ralph Dolce related to Pietro Dolce?

Takedown, one of the best mob books out there. Ive read it 3-4 times. Its very good. Jimmy Brown was suspicious! How about the story of allie shades running out in his robe with the priest. Lol that was some funny shit when he was at that high school reunion with only legit people introducing thems...

Takedown, one of the best mob books out there.

Longtime westside captain. From what Rick and others have gathered it appears he took over Luciano when he became boss. Seems Ficcarotta was one feared mf in his times. According to Pogo's chart his son is captain of the same crew, which would probably make it one of the oldest intact regimes in New...

They had to know it came from the west side. Bobby Manna was indicted for conspiring to kill Gotti (wiretaps and all that came out in the papers) in 1989. At that time Gotti was still on the streets.

I’ve never bought into bosses not taking money off their captains. Especially with a guy like Gigante who kept everyone on a tight leash. He personally handled Savino and the windows racket, you best believe he was making money hand over fist with that. Allie Shades Malangone had the Fulton fish mar...

With major help from state prosecutors, federal prosecutors in Manhattan and Brooklyn were able to file racketeering indictments against eleven family gangsters, including three capos who've allegedly been running lucrative gambling and loansharking rackets for Bellomo, and sending thousands of dol...