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Was it ever put to bed one way or another if No-nose DiFronzo was a CI? Suspected by some but not confirmed. What's your opinion A? It wouldn't surprise me if he was. Red Wemette said that Mitch Mars showed him a document indicating that DiFronzo was a CI, but that would have been not only out of c...

SonnyBlackstein wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:52 am Was it ever put to bed one way or another if No-nose DiFronzo was a CI?

Suspected by some but not confirmed.

The Chicago mob began as a crew under Joe Masseria in 1928. Al Capone was kicking up $50K to Joe Masseria. Tony Lombardo, the Chicago Mafia boss, told Capone that since he wasn't a made member he should stop paying Masseria. Capone stopped making payments and Masseria whistled him in to New York. In...

Scott just put up a big mea culpa article on his site, talking about how embarrassed he is over this and how he and the online mob content creators in general need to do better. Very introspective and self-flagellating. Pretty classy article actually. https://gangsterreport.com/we-have-to-do-better...

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I'm not sure where to put this post so mods feel free to redirect me. My wife started working in the Royal library in Stockholm so I have the opportunity to borrow a bunch of books. I would like some opinions and recommendations regarding these books (some of the titles are in swedish but I'll writ...

Bought my copy on Kindle. Great stuff! Motorfab did an awesome job covering Joe Valachi and narcotics trafficking.

Who would I make the request out to? The wiretaps in question were used in court. How many pages could a transcript be? Transcripts of wiretaps could be with the Department of Justice, the FBI, or the local DA, depending on the jurisdiction. They also might be on PACER, but finding them could be hi...

Will definitely check it out, Frank

These are links to documents, trial transcripts, and actual audio testimony - all in Italian: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23206467 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Meridiana_63_Mafia_e_fascismo/sG0hEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22gioacchino+pennino%22+%22salvatore+lo+verde%22&pg=PA89&am...

I don't know that I've seen official documentation, only going off what was published which as you said does often deserve scrutiny. I'll see if I can find anything. Was the true spelling of his surname Perrino or Parrino? If it's the latter it's interesting he ended up in Pittston as there were Pa...

B, you wrote that Tommaso Petto was from Carini. I know that some newspaper articles said his real name was Luciano Parrino and that he came from Carini, but as we know a lot of those early newspaper articles had a lot of errors. Have you found documentation that he was from Carini? It's been many y...

Family Secrets did a lot of damage, as did the case against Mike Sarno shortly after it, but it didn't wipe it out. It still exists, but much smaller than it was. The damage is actually cumulative going back to cases from the 1960s, such as the contempt case against Sam Giancana followed by the case...

So what about the Capone plus 9 that were allowed to become officially made ??? We have had lots of threads discussing this ..... So technically it was not confirmed ?? I assumed it came from rohemer talks or something like that Joe Masseria told Capone he could make ten men. This came from Nick Ge...

Doesn't it cost quite a bit more to go through NARA?