THE BLACK HAND FORUM

A new book about the Society of the Banana has just been released called 'Ohio's Black Hand Syndicate: The Birth of Organized Crime in America' by David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A judge has declared a mistrial at the New York City racketeering trial of a notorious Philadelphia mob boss. The mistrial on Tuesday came after jurors told U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan that they were hopelessly deadlocked in the case against Joseph "Skinny Joey" M...

Forty years after Donald Mackay's murder, the Calabrian mafia still thrives Lesley Hicks This Saturday marks a sad, significant anniversary. Forty years ago on a winter's night in Griffith, NSW, a hired gunman shot and killed businessman and would-be politician Donald Bruce Mackay just as he was get...

Bob Marley hired Gambino mobsters for protection in New York, new book claims BY Sherryl Connelly NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, July 8, 2017, 5:00 PM In 1980, when Bob Marley performed over two triumphant nights at Madison Square Garden, he shared the stage with soldiers from the Gambino crime famil...

The nation's oldest federal prisoner is about to go free. By Chuck Goudie and the ABC7 I-Team 100-year-old Colombo crime family underboss John Franzese is scheduled for release on June 25. "Sonny," as he is known in New York gangland circles, is at the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Mas...

Really great photos, thanks for posting.

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The transcript.
http://res.providencejournal.com/hercul ... remony.pdf

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Michael “Mikey Cigars” Coppola (above, left) and Vincent Coppola.

http://imgick.nj.com/home/njo-media/pgmain/img/njcom_photos/photo/2014/10/23/-0419e8b241182887.JPG Charles "Chuckie" Tuzzo, 80, from Bayside, N.Y., attends his bail hearing from the Morris County Jail via closed circuit television. Tuzzo is charged with first-degree racketeering, first-de...