THE BLACK HAND FORUM

Isn't that what racketeering laws are all about? If I remember right from reading the Operation Heat affidavits, it wasn't that DiNapoli or Madonna were running the day to day operations. That was done primarily by associates. Soldiers, like Little Joe Perna, would oversee the operation, decide bet...

It was actually both. The same formal hierarchy we know today was rigidly in place by the second half of the 1800s as evidenced by multiple investigations into the Sicilian mafia in Palermo and Agrigento provinces in the 1870s and 1880s and this was transplanted to the United States, Nicola Gentile...

We really don't know much of what DiLeonardo was doing though either, he wasn't involved in counterfeiting so the SS wasn't on him and if he met Cascioferro during this time, the agents failed to identify him. Now, the SS didn't capture everything so that's not indicative of anything. Cascioferro, ...

How is it that top ranking guys keep getting nabbed on a gambling charge? Where the f is the INSULATION? Joe Dinapoli, consig. Nabbed on gambling. Georgie aka 'Shadow Bozz'... nabbed on gambling. Even Perna, Capo, nabbed. Unless someone flipped and is willing to finger, anyone higher than a soldier...

This also almost certainly not the complete amount of files which exist on Casso or D'Arco. Usually the Vault is composed of files commonly requested. I have a suspicion that someone was given an estimation of thousands of pages and only took the first interim release because a price estimate scare...

This also almost certainly not the complete amount of files which exist on Casso or D'Arco. Usually the Vault is composed of files commonly requested. I have a suspicion that someone was given an estimation of thousands of pages and only took the first interim release because a price estimate scare...

The FBI is notoriously redaction-happy when it comes to releasing files through FOIA. A lot of it can be chalked up to files containing information about people who are still alive, but there are still plenty of redactions for material relevant to the 1960s and before. My suspicion is this is partl...

No new pictures, nothing about the contents that were found in his Jersey home when he was on the run and no information that is noteworthy such as the wiretap between him and Lastorino. https://vault.fbi.gov/anthony-casso/Anthony%20Casso%20Part%2001%20%28Final%29/view The same problem for Al D’Arco...

We follow federal cases through PACER but what about state cases, what can we use in order to follow them and read court documents?

So the Lucchese admin on the street is DeSantis as the Acting Boss. Frank Papagni as Underboss and Anthony “Bowat” Baratta as the Consigliere but Zappola is identified as being on a ruling panel? This is similar to what Pennisi has said but if Zappola is on a ruling panel then why is there an Actin...

So the Lucchese admin on the street is DeSantis as the Acting Boss. Frank Papagni as Underboss and Anthony “Bowat” Baratta as the Consigliere but Zappola is identified as being on a ruling panel? This is similar to what Pennisi has said but if Zappola is on a ruling panel then why is there an Acting...

Prediction - Bobby will be released as a free man

Who runs the NJ crew now?

Zappola came home in 2014 and now it seems as if he’s back in Unsubstantiated rumours have surfaced which involve DeSantis retiring and handing over the Acting Boss position to George Zappola. If these rumours are true then of course I wonder if DeSantis will step down Moreover, Pennisi (a reliable ...

I wonder if there will be any mention of George Zappola by the State Police. Maybe they can clear up when he left and who really took over after him

He used to run this crew (we know this due to Pennisi)