THE BLACK HAND FORUM

It’s the same thing as former outlaws of the wild west publishing memoirs of their exploits or doing travelling shows at the beginning of the 20th century. The lifestyle of a violent career criminal is falling into obscurity.

Al Guasti used to be a corrupt captain in the Sheriffs Department in the 1940s and 1950s who cooked up a scheme to take over Mickey Cohen’s gambling operations along with Jack Dragna. The conspiracy failed because of Guasti being kicked off the force and then indicted for trying to protect the depar...

Amazing that Spirito and Mancuso would think the Feds wouldn't try and VOSR the Boss and Underboss of a family on probation. These two muppets walk and talk 36 times. Thanks for the post On the other hand, those guys have been off the street for almost 20 years and just very recently went through a...

In hindsight, the Civil Rights League was a good guise for guys from around the country to meet and network with each other. I’ve always thought that Buffalino wearing the IACRL pin in The Irishman was BS, but it turns out to be true, of only metaphorically. Has anyone tried to compile a list of mad...

In each case there’s no many variables that any discussion is pretty much pointless. The only thing I would bet on is that DeSantis assumes Vic’s position once he passes away. With other outfits, and contrary to what people say, especially the Gams, the power is super spread out and there’s a lot of...

Nice story about how the steroids indirectly killed Scarpa sr. In the middle 1980s Scarpa sr had to undergo surgery and since was in full paranoia of HIV infection, not trusting the blood in the hospital, he asked his crew to donate blood, one of them was using steroids and had gotten AIDS from an ...

Capeci should be paying street tax to Borrello by now.

And didn’t he misidentify the guy walking out of the restaurant with Mancuso? He looks much older than Uvino and the lady that’s apparently accompanying him is also a senior citizen.

Vinny Unions is the biggest joke last 20 years. 75 (guess, but close). Been in the life 40+ years, gets a bump to a Caporegime and flips over a 2/3 yr union racket. Dinners with Mancuso, a boss. Colombos, all fams, have to be going, who the f can we trust.... It’s Koslosky and Ferrara that have fli...

Gonna correct myself on this one, the guy sitting next to Nose with his profile turned to the camera is actually Vincenzo Masi.

The guy walking alongside Mancuso in the first picture seems familiar, but I can’t put my finger on it. Johnny Joe?

The one sitting next to Nose in the dinner pic is Anthony Fasitta.

Al Lancelotti has a LinkedIn acc where he lists his occupation as being an amazon warehouse worker. I think we can safely assume that it’s not a no-show job.

There’s a photo of the poster in the updated & expanded edition of Blood and Honor.

Years back I started a chart detailing who was made when in Philly. I was going for a baseball poster look, never finished it. philly team.png Hah, that looks great. I could picture some of those philly guys actually printing that out and putting it on the wall of their club. It lacks the classic S...

It seems that one of the reasons the Persicos let only their kin have any kind of position in the family is that everyone else is a snitch.

What’s as interesting as the drug trafficking angle is whether those Serbs are able to facilitate the transfer of illegal funds to bank accounts set up in places like Montenegro or Kosovo. That would be the biggest perk from being hooked up with the secret services.