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Yes, the "supreme overlord" as described in the article
Looks like perhaps only the first page comes up when you click the attachment. I'll have to try to link the rest of the pages.

In the late 70's, the Mafia stronghold of Youngstown, Ohio and the surrounding Mahoning Valley experienced a four-year period of *not* bombings as in the 60's, but outright murders as the Pittsburgh-affiliated faction of Jimmy Prato, Joey Naples, and Lenny Strollo moved to take total control of the ...

Lenny was a real "family man"...who woulda thunk it?
Nothing about even any of his semi-legitimate business ventures...? Or maybe there were none?

https://www.vindy.com/obituaries/2021/0 ... 1931-2021/

Certainly acknowledge that the Vindy/Tribune isn't near where it used to be, but still I thought they could have done better. Thanks for the 3 links posted, of the three, the Vindicator's which ran in 1982 across 4-5 pages in a Sunday edition, is pretty comprehensive, and the most informative. I'll ...

On this subject of Lenny Strollo: 1.) The initial Vindicator article about Lenny's death was, to me, not very well written--it felt rushed, unorganized, and just sloppy writing overall, you would have thought they would have had most of it pre-written, but appears not. 2.) The one nugget that has co...

Ray Ferritto Wiki page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Ferritto

Wasn't Ray Ferritto a Los Angeles associate sent to Clevend to kill Danny Greene? Ferritto was from Erie, PA and apparently was willing to travel to help various families out. I believe he was involved in a hit that took place at the LAX airport parking lot in the early 70's; and indeed he was part...

Allan May has written two books about mob activities in the Youngstown area, which has long and deep connections to both Cleveland and Pittsburgh. The first was about the infamous Jungle Inn casino (late 30's thru the late 40's), and the second covered the period from roughly 1950 through 1963, whic...

A very good listing, but a few minor corrections: June 10, 1961: Correct spelling is Farah (1 "r", not 2). The Jungle Inn was located in Trumbull County's Liberty Township, much closer to Youngstown than to Warren. Also it was raided and closed down by the state of Ohio in 1948 or 1949, al...