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May be worth adding but can’t confirm if he actually got made: Vito Frank Adragna, a recruit of Anzalone. Possibly Joseph Chiri, whose brother Salvatore of NJ attended Apalachin. Joseph, a plastering contractor then owner of a cherry orchard, was an acquaintance of Frank Lanza. Alfonso Conetto, beli...

Just curious if anyone knows who the alleged bodyguard of Frank Lanza was...? Specifically mentioned on page 252 of this file: https://ia800104.us.archive.org/27/items/1219913092HQ3432Section7Serial1NoDescriptionMediOCR/1219913-0%20-%2092-HQ-3432%20-%20Section%207%20Serial%20%201%20no%20descriptionM...

RE: Sam Lima and the Inspector Oldfield & Black Hand Society book, a few excerpts I'd like to dig a little more into... In 1918, Sam Lima was paroled into the custody of his cousin, Antonio Lima, in Portland (OR)...Salvatore and his family remained in Portland for a decade until his very enterpr...

This photo is of Charles Carbone and family in Johnsonburg, PA when this photo was taken. He was a very close associate of Vincenzo "Jimmy" Tripodi in Steubenville, OH. Steve Zoccoli was in regular contact with Carbone and Tripodi. http://theblackhand.club/forum/download/file.php?id=5879&...

Also, I had stumbled across this website/blog and article that mention two of "Al Capone's agents" that were sent to "terrorize" Gus Oliva (the "unofficial mayor of North Beach") in SF when Capone was trying to take over the sugar moonshine business. The men were later ...

Does anyone have, or has seen, a legitimate photograph of Francesco Lanza? From what I'm told, this photo floating around is not the same Don Cicciu. I'm still trying to tie in how Johnny Rosselli relates to the killing of Luigi Malvese in SF in 1932. Anyone have any other details on that? I am also...

Re: Sam Lima being San Fran consigliere in 1929. This is a good piece of info not just for the trivia of it, but because we have few confirmed examples of the consigliere position pre-1931 and some of the Castellammarese War and Luciano mythologies claim that Luciano created the consigliere positio...

Does anywhere know where Gentile's memoirs might be available for purchase (or borrow) in 2020?! I haven't been able to locate it anywhere. I'd love to check it out and would pay someone to borrow it...

Apologies for starting this thread then going AWOL, just been juggling a lot. I had been having an email conversation with Lennert from this forum but that has also slowed down a bit. Anyway, from that discussion and my own notes, I think I’m in a good place to jump back in... I appreciate all of th...

Oh my, I figured this post was nearly dead, but I realized that I do not have email notifications turned on! Sorry I missed all this, I shall catch up this evening. Thank you all.

A lot of the questions demand answers that are unknown or unknowable. We can only have access to information in FBI files, newspapers, and other government records. The FBI agents weren't historians and pretty much recorded what they were told. As for Lanza, he was associated with Schiro, so probab...

I was there recently staying in North Beach and ate at Alioto’s in the Wharf. Not much of significant Italian population. San Jose is very limited as well, and their Little Italy is reduced to a block. I used to go to two SF Columbus Ave. places: Tosca's bar - cool layout- scalloped booths along th...

Greetings all, I've been doing much research lately on the mob's tentacles across the Bay Area (including SF, SJ, Emeryville ), and have been trying to dig deeper than I am able to (easily) find information on (go figure). This is just a hobby of mine, a lifelong interest, but it’s like a gigantic p...

Hello all - this is my first post here and I apologize in advance if I should be starting a new thread. (If I started a new thread, I'd probably apologize for not commenting here first...) I've been doing much research lately on the mob's tentacles across the Bay Area (including SF, SJ, Emeryville),...