Maxie's Genovese Profiles

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GENEROSO (TODDO DEL) DEL DUCA - born 1886 in Avellino, Italy (Campania region). aka: “Salvatore Del Duca” (TN). He operated and was active in the “Little Italy” section of Manhattan, South Brooklyn (Navy Yard & Downtown Brooklyn) and Borough Hall area.

Had a brother Pasquale, and a nephew John (both members)
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He and Toddo Marino were said by LE to be co-leaders of the Navy Yard area rackets utilizing Augie Laro and
Frank Russo as strongmen.
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A very underrated and “shadowy” Mafioso, who’s career and influence was never really exposed or understood by either LE or the public.

Toddo was a very influential founding member for the family at large and specifically one of top leaders of the so-called “Napolitano faction” of the Family before the merging of ethnic factions in Cosa Nostra...... making one organization.

Close associates over the years (Napolitano faction included) were:
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Salvatore (Lucky) Luciano
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Vito (Don Vitone) Genovese - the top Napolitano boss
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Michele Miranda - longtime consigliere (arguably second in power to Vito)
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David (Little Davy) Betillo
Francesco (Frankie Yale) Uoele
Antonio (Tony the Sheik) Carillo
Gaetano (Toddo Marino) Maiorana
Anthony (Little Augie Pisano) Carfano
Salvatore (Little Sally) Celembrino
Frank (Funzuola) Tieri
Peter DeFeo
John (Sonny) Franzese
Lorenzo (Chappy) Brescio
Francesco Celano
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As a partner of Mike Miranda, he was Vice-President of Miranda Importing Co., of Broome Street in Little Italy (in 1933 this storefront was bombed)
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Activities: Toddo oversaw many of the vast operations active in the family in both Brooklyn and Manhattan. These included of course the policy rackets, waterfront, shylock, narcotics and extortion among them!

It was said that he was also very close to Profaci Capodecina Harry Fontana, and dominated the policy rackets in Downtown Brooklyn in tandem with Fontana. They were said to “edge off” to one another’s “numbers banks” on heavily played numbers.
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Died unexpectedly in 1960 of a heart attack.
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GENEROSO (TODDO DEL) DEL DUCA - born 1886 in Avellino, Italy (Campania region). aka: “Salvatore Del Duca” (TN). He operated and was active in the “Little Italy” section of Manhattan, South Brooklyn (Navy Yard & Downtown Brooklyn) and Borough Hall area.

Had a brother Pasquale, and a nephew John (both members)
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He and Toddo Marino were said by LE to be co-leaders of the Navy Yard area rackets utilizing Augie Laro and
Frank Russo as strongmen.
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A very underrated and “shadowy” Mafioso, who’s career and influence was never really exposed or understood by either LE or the public.

Toddo was a very influential founding member for the family at large and specifically one of top leaders of the so-called “Napolitano faction” of the Family before the merging of ethnic factions in Cosa Nostra...... making one organization.

Close associates over the years (Napolitano faction included) were:
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Salvatore (Lucky) Luciano
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Vito (Don Vitone) Genovese - the top Napolitano boss
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Michele Miranda - longtime consigliere (arguably second in power to Vito)
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David (Little Davy) Betillo
Francesco (Frankie Yale) Uoele
Antonio (Tony the Sheik) Carillo
Gaetano (Toddo Marino) Maiorana
Anthony (Little Augie Pisano) Carfano
Salvatore (Little Sally) Celembrino
Frank (Funzuola) Tieri
Peter DeFeo
John (Sonny) Franzese
Lorenzo (Chappy) Brescio
Francesco Celano
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As a partner of Mike Miranda, he was Vice-President of Miranda Importing Co., of Broome Street in Little Italy (in 1933 this storefront was bombed)
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Activities: Toddo oversaw many of the vast operations active in the family in both Brooklyn and Manhattan. These included of course the policy rackets, waterfront, shylock, narcotics and extortion among them!

It was said that he was also very close to Profaci Capodecina Harry Fontana, and dominated the policy rackets in Downtown Brooklyn in tandem with Fontana. They were said to “edge off” to one another’s “numbers banks” on heavily played numbers.
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Died unexpectedly in 1960 of a heart attack.
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As evidenced by the short profile, very little info was available of Del Duca

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ANTONIO (TONY GREEN) GUARINO - exact birth date and place not known (1902 ?). Resided for many years in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey (109 Roosevelt Avenue).
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FBI # 18071 82, NJPD #2375, #59903.
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Has a brother who was an acting judge in First District Court in Jersey City.
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A shadowy, little known member in the Luciano/Genovese Family who was believed to have served in the regime of Joseph (Joe Adonis) Doto and possibly Willie Moretti.
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He was never officially confirmed as a “made” soldier in the Family. But judging from the company he kept, he nevertheless was most probably formally inducted. And at the very least was a top-tier “associate”.

Operated and managed a series of very large-scale floating dice games in New Jersey on behalf of the family for a number of years. It seemed to be his specialty.
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A close partner in gambling operations of Salvatore (Solly Moore) Moretti, Willie’s brother and also a family soldier.
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Close associates included:
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Giuseppe (Joe Adonis) Doto
Arthur Longano
Guarino (Willie Moore) Moretti
Salvatore (Solly Moore) Moretti
Gerardo (Jerry) Catena
Max Stark
Maxwell Klein
James (Piggy) Lynch
Milton Frank
James Rutkin
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Guarino had a limited arrest record since 1919 for:
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1919 Attempted Robbery
1950 disorderly house
1950 operating a crap game (1-3 years/$1,000. Fine)
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After a much publicized trial for gambling; operating a million-dollar gambling casino in several New Jersey towns, Guarino and Solly Moretti were convicted and jailed!
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With Adonis’ voluntary deportation to Italy, and Willie Moretti’s gangland murder, it seems Guarino as well as Solly Moretti faded from view.
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No more was ever heard from him publicly. No dod was available!
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ANTONIO (TONY GREEN) GUARINO - exact birth date and place not known (1902 ?). Resided for many years in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey (109 Roosevelt Avenue).
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FBI # 18071 82, NJPD #2375, #59903.
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Has a brother who was an acting judge in First District Court in Jersey City.
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A shadowy, little known member in the Luciano/Genovese Family who was believed to have served in the regime of Joseph (Joe Adonis) Doto and possibly Willie Moretti.
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He was never officially confirmed as a “made” soldier in the Family. But judging from the company he kept, he nevertheless was most probably formally inducted. And at the very least was a top-tier “associate”.

Operated and managed a series of very large-scale floating dice games in New Jersey on behalf of the family for a number of years. It seemed to be his specialty.
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A close partner in gambling operations of Salvatore (Solly Moore) Moretti, Willie’s brother and also a family soldier.
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Close associates included:
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Giuseppe (Joe Adonis) Doto
Arthur Longano
Guarino (Willie Moore) Moretti
Salvatore (Solly Moore) Moretti
Gerardo (Jerry) Catena
Max Stark
Maxwell Klein
James (Piggy) Lynch
Milton Frank
James Rutkin
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Guarino had a limited arrest record since 1919 for:
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1919 Attempted Robbery
1950 disorderly house
1950 operating a crap game (1-3 years/$1,000. Fine)
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After a much publicized trial for gambling; operating a million-dollar gambling casino in several New Jersey towns, Guarino and Solly Moretti were convicted and jailed!
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With Adonis’ voluntary deportation to Italy, and Willie Moretti’s gangland murder, it seems Guarino as well as Solly Moretti faded from view.
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No more was ever heard from him publicly. No dod was available!
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I just checked MMC and Bill feather had birth/death dates listed as 1902-1957. So I’ll go with that because I could find no dod for Guarino per se........ I just wanted to follow up and compete the post

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Next up...... brothers, sons and grandfather! From one Bronx based family! ....... over seventy years of Mob-Dom!
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Can anybody guess who I’m speaking of?

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MODESTE (MICKEY MORRIS) BARRA - born 1906, in the Bronx. aka: “Mickey Mouse”, “Mickey Barra”, “Morris Barra”, “Morris Stincone”. Resided for many years at (2505 Lorillard Place).

Had a winter retreat in Fort Pierce,
Florida.
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FBI # 196697, NYPD # B-61356.
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Activities: counterfeiting (U.S. currency and postage stamps), gambling, criminally receiving stolen goods, shylocking.....suspected narcotics -(thru his sons).
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A veteran member of the Genovese Family’s Bronx regime. Identified early on as a (inducted) “soldier”. In 1963, he was publicly exposed during the Valachi Hearings as a member.

Note: [although never rising above the soldier rank, Mickey was nonetheless an influential member]
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Barra had a brother, Joseph, who was a member and his partner. He also brought in and eventually sponsored his two sons for induction. He also had a father (Cesare) who was a Bronx power (political and mob) and a possible early member before him.....Three generations of hoodlums.
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Criminal associates:
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Joseph Barra - his brother and lifelong partner
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Michael (Mike Rosie) Maione - Family soldier, close friend and lifelong associate, counterfeit kingpin, former policy boss
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Rocco (The Old Man) Pellegrino - his first Capo, old-time Calabrian Boss before Cosa Nostra, became the head of Family operations in Westchester County
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James Angelina - low-key Bronx power, reputedly his “capo” for a time in later years
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Rocco (Rocky) Barra - his son, Family soldier, narcotics, shylock-gambler
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Joseph (Gigio) Barra - his son, Family soldier, shylock-gambler, narcotics
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Thomas Milo - powerful family member in the Bronx/Westchester regime, former bootleg kingpin
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Sabato (Bo) Milo - Tommy’s brother, Family soldier
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Frank (Don Cheech) Scalice - former Anastasia Underboss, old friend, suspected narcotics source for Barra boys
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Giacomo (Jack) Scarpulla - influential Gambino soldier, friend
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Lawrence (Larry Black) Centore - Family soldier, top gambler/shylock in Westchester County
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Matteo (Matty Brown) Fortunato - Family soldier, later a capo in the Bronx-Westchester area
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Reputed to have had interests in several lounges through his sons: Capri Lounge, Monterey Club, Blue Moon Bar - all of the Bronx.

Also allegedly invested in building homes in the Fort Pierce section of Florida. He was partner in a Florida construction firm.
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Mickey Barra had a lengthy arrest record spanning to 1923 - listing at least 25 arrests over fifty years for:
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Assault (2 times)
Felonious assault (3 times)
Burglary (5 times)
Disorderly conduct (2 times)
Larceny and burglary
Vagrancy (3 times)
Grand larceny (2 times)
Suspicion
Counterfeiting (3 times)
Robbery
Violating criminal registration (2 times)
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Although active in a variety of rackets throughout his life, Mickey, as can be seen from his record, was mostly a burglar and strong-arm in his youth, and a veracious counterfeiter for decades in later years!
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Aside from a single federal jail term for counterfeiting of 1 year and 1 day (with 3 yrs probation), it seems that “Mickey Morris” lived an extremely
charmed life and envious mob career!
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I know from hearing of him all my life that he was a highly respected and liked mafioso by his mob peers. And although extremely active and “knee-deep” in the rackets for over fifty years, kept a very low profile!
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Known, often arrested and yet slippery as a fish!

Note: [that could never happen in the year 2019! Lol]
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Although I could describe some of his previous brushes with LE, his counterfeit arrest in 1949-50 was his most publicized. The FBI could not find the Barra brothers despite a massive nationwide manhunt. After having negotiated their surrender, the FBI speculated, and the Barra’s broke balls, by alleging they’d been hiding variously in Cuba, Arizona, the West Coast, Italy..... and took much pleasure in telling the FBI that they never would have been caught had they chose to stay “on the lam”!
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In 1950, the Barra brothers surrendered after eight months “on the lam” after being indicted in a multi-million dollar complex postage stamp and currency counterfeiting ring had been smashed by the combined federal forces of the U.S. Treasury, the Secret Service and FBI agents.

Accused of being the “Kingpin” of the nationwide racket, Mickey Morris and company were accused of the printing and wholesale distribution of 400,000 in bogus postage stamps.

A second indictment accused them of the manufacture and possession of 6,000,000. stamps.

Collectively they were charged with moving $500,000. counterfeit!

He was also suspected, but never charged with counterfeit money distribution with Michael Maione.
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Several “key” associates had earlier also been arrested in the fugazy stamp case. One, Mike Maione, offered to plead guilty in full satisfaction of their charges, as well as his own, saying he’d plead to “clean up this whole mess”!

“Nothing doing” said Roy Cohn, the famed defense attorney who at that time was the federal prosecutor on the case. “This mess can never be cleaned up while the Barra brothers stay as fugitives”! - replied Cohn.
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Maione promised to have them come in within - “48 hours if you don’t remand me to jail immediately”. With that agreement in place, almost to the minute, the Barra’s showed up within the time frame at the federal courthouse accompanied by the attorney!
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Seems to have been active until the 1970’s where he slowly dropped from view, and his usual haunts. He was aging and Father Time was catching up.
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“Mickey Morris” died in 1997 at the very comfortable old age of 91 years old, having served minimal jail time and smoothing navigating the NY underworld for over seventy years!
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RALPH (THE BEAK) JACOBSON - born 1933 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. By the mid-1960’s Ralph had moved to the town of Jericho in Nassau County. He resided for years in the East Birchwood section (169 Forest Drive), and eventually relocated several miles north to exclusive Brookville.
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He had two older brothers also in the rackets, Samuel and Daniel.
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Sam, lived at 150 E. 61st Street in midtown Manhattan, and Danny, born 1930, lived at 31-30 138th Street in Whitestone, Queens.
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All three brothers also owned winter homes down in South Florida.
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The Jacobson brothers were all “associates” of the Genovese crime Family, having gained their affiliation by virtue of the close relationship and operating on behalf of Meyer Lansky - a top Luciano/Genovese “associate-member” himself.

Note: [since the late 1920’s, typically the Jewish Mob had always been affiliates of the Genovese Family]
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Activities: loan-sharking, extortion, strong-arm tactics and murder, policy, business infiltration.

At 6’-3” tall and 240lbs., “Ralph the Beak” was an imposing figure. He and his brother Danny were known as “enforcers” within the underworld, while older brother Sam was more low-key, a gambling whiz and recognized leader of the trio.
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Sam was often referred to by both federal and local authorities as “Meyer Lansky’s man in New York”.
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Criminal Associates:
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brothers Sammy and Daniel - who allegedly succeeded to overseeing Brooklyn numbers rackets for Meyer.
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Meyer Lansky - needs no introduction
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Louis (Max the Jew) Schrager - top policy racket boss, Lansky overseer in NYC.
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Hyman (Red Hymie) Siegel - Boss of Jewish shylock operations in the garment center, Lansky minion,
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Solomon (Solly) Bloom - a top numbers racketeer and Lansky subordinate
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Pasquale (Paddy Mac) Macchiarole - top Genovese capo, originated from the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, murdered
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Vincent (Jamsey) Delio - Paddy’s nephew, became capo after Paddy, murdered
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Thomas (Red) Delio - nephew of Macchiarole, extortionist, hijacker
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Joseph (Joe Beck) Lapi - old-line top capo, controlled the waterfront
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Vincent (Jimmy Nap) Napoli - Capo from Williamsburg, top policy racketeer
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The “Jacobson Brothers” were known as having been close associates of Meyer Lansky, and the Jewish element of the mob, especially older brother Sammy.

Sam was the policy rackets boss in Williamsburg and Lansky minion who operated in both North Brooklyn and Manhattan’s garment district. He started out with Louis (Max the Jew) Schrager who was a Lansky confidant. Sam learned so quickly that he became the natural successor to the throne of Schrager when he died in 1955, leaping over seasoned numbers king Solly Bloom and Schrager’s own nephew Marty Kahn.
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Jacobson had allegedly expanded the numbers racket and branched out into bookmaking and loan sharking. He also brought his brothers, Ralph and Daniel, into the rackets.
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Around 1968, Ralph was first arrested in Nassau for usury after a woman borrower, a dress shop owner, had asked for a short-term loan. After several years of loanshark payments she ran to the Nassau D.A.

“Ralph the Beak” was arrested, indicted and convicted. I’m not sure of his sentence and penalty.
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In the mid-1970’s (I couldn’t find the exact date), Ralph was again nailed for draining the assets of a Plainview LI bagel-bakery shop after the owner fell behind on his weekly shylock payment. Jacobson had lent him $10,000. at 2% or $200. weekly and after a few years defaulted.

After applying threats and pressure the owner acquiesced and made Ralph a partner. Ralphie quickly drained all assets, bank accounts, etc., and declared bankruptcy after creditors demanded payment.

He was subsequently indicted on usury and grand larceny charges. And I believe convicted. I do not know what the final sentence was!

Note: [I believe he was also later charged with related tax evasion counts..... and served a jail term]
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In 1972, Queens D.A. Tommy Mackell, indicted four mob figures, including Ralph and Danny, for the gangland-style murder of nightclub owner Conrad Greaves, owner of Conrad’s Cloud Room in East Elmhurst, near La Guardia Airport, and a “key” witness against the Mafia.
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Greaves had testified several weeks earlier before a rackets grand jury about being extorted for $400. a week from his nightclub for “protection”!
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Authorities had been probing a mob extortion ring targeting nightclubs and restaurants. Macchiarole and his crew were prime targets.
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The Jacobson’s, Tommy Delio and Robert Grimaldi were charged with hiding in an underground parking garage and shooting Greaves as he entered to retrieve his car.
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Assistant D.A. and organized crime specialist Mr. Anthony Lombardino said that Mr. Greaves was lured out of his club and shot three times with the third shot into the back of the head in a gangland execution style.
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Paddy Macchiarole and Anthony Delio has just been indicted one week before the murder on extortion and grand larceny charges stemming from Greaves testimony.

The extortion case was reluctantly dismissed after Greaves murder.
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Ralph “The Beak” Jacobson has certainly lived a charmed life in the mob! Although being arrested many times for assault, policy, shylocking, extortion, and murder.... and serving several short jail stints, he always managed to duck the big cases!
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He and his brothers have earned millions for themselves, their Jewish mob bretheran, and their mafia benefactors!

And today, having long ago “retired”, I believe Ralph is still alive, and living quite comfortably in Southern Floridian spender!
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Next up on deck a Yonkers trio! A mafioso father and his two sons were on top for awhile until they weren’t anymore! ........anybody know who I’m talking about?

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A mob puzzle for ya this morning.......

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JOHN (GENTLEMAN JOHNNY) MASIELLO - born 1920. Lived for years in Yonkers (110 Durst Place). Yonkers is where he also based his operations out of.
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FBI # 2224230C, NYPD # B-66270.
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Masiello lived in a $100,000 home (1970 estimate) on Durst Place, a quiet residential street in the western part of the city. Just around the corner, at 192 Dunwoodie Street, was the spacious home of Vincent John Rao, the 72‐year‐old consiglieri (counselor) of the Mafia family of the late Thomas (Three Finger Brown) Luchese.
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Masiello had several sons who became mob figures also; John Jr. and Kenneth. They all worked together.
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By the late 1950’s he was named by LE as a “soldier” in the Genovese Family’s Yonkers-Westchester regime. He was first identified during a loanshark investigation.
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He may have been “straightened out” in the late 1950’s, because shortly thereafter he exploded onto the Westchester mob scene, seemingly involved everywhere you turned!
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It was believed that he served under James Angelina and later under (Cockeyed Nick) Rattenni - a highly influential “Capo di decina” in that area. It’s also mentioned by LE that a Ralph Ferrara, also an alleged Capo oversaw Masiello at one point.
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Note: [Masiello himself is said to have risen to captain according to the 1983 Senate Hearings. Captain or not, he was a really active and powerful member at one time who garnered so much attention that LE may have thought he was more than he was]
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He was considered one of the largest and most vicious loan-sharks around, wielding his power as a “shark” to infiltrate and dominate various businesses and industries.
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Activities: loansharking, extortion, strong-arm, official bribery, business infiltration, bankruptcy fraud, stock fraud.
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Criminal Associates:
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Philip Masiello - brother sad associate. Phil ran a labor “consulting” firm.
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Nicholas (Cockeyed Nick )Rattenni - old-time Westchester mob power, Capo of that area
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Ralph Ferrara - also listed by LE as a Genovese capo from that area
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John Tortora - an alleged violent soldier in that Family.
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Anthony (Hickey) Di Lorenzo - top Genovese figure until his killing.
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In 1956, Masiello and his brother were convicted of smuggling watches, being arrested by the U.S. Customs Service. At the time he was employed at his brothers trucking firm, PM Trucking Co., Inc.
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In 1965, called as a witness before the SIC, he was described as “a richly tailored, elegantly bejeweled and groomed top loanshark”.
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He looked every inch the top underworld figure. The name “Gentleman Johnny”, seemed most fitting!
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In 1969, Johnny was accused of having fraudulently obtained $466,000. in SBA loans in 1967, that he essentially used for his loanshark bankroll.
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Also in 1969, he was accused of involvement in a major securities fraud scandal in Florida. A case in which a businessman testified that he had paid Masiello nearly $1.8-million in “protection” from the Long Island mob. He owned the Ny-Lo Thane Plastics Co., of Farmingdale, LI, and had been kidnapped and extorted by Julie Klein, a notorious hoodlum during the 1960’s-70’s era. He had asked Masiello to get Klein off his back.
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Note: [that man, Marco Minuto, may have been a mob associate himself, because if you research mob names today up in that area, you will see a Marco Minuto listed as a soldier of the Lucchese mob..... could it be a son or grandson?] ???
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In 1970, he was involved in a case where he bribed an IRS agent to help the underworld.
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In 1971, he and his son was subpoenaed to testify before the Senate about the Baptist Foundation of America, Inc., a firm used to fleece several hundred million dollars from banks, insurance companies and investment firms. The firm utilized worthless stock that had been touted as having $20-million in assets, a firm listed as very sound by Dun and Bradstreet, to borrow from these major institutions.
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Also in 1971, he was indicted on contempt charges for refusing to answer over 100 questions about mob operations in Westchester.
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Former United States Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau once described “Gentleman Johnny” as “a prime example of a Mafia figure operating illegitimately in legitimate channels.”
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The Masiellos control ANR Leasing Coroporation, of 332 East 149th Street, the Bronx, which had mail hauling contracts until the Post Office Department canceled them in June, 1968. Later, both father and son were convicted of bribing post office officials who supervised mail trucking contracts in New York.
In 1965, the Small Business Administration awarded ANR a loan of $400,000, but official investigators believe the money was used to finance the elder Masiello's loan‐sharking activities. Investigators say that Masiello has substantial interests in other metropolitan area trucking firms and “virtually controls trucking out of Kennedy International Airport.”
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Note: [By the early-mid 1970’s it appears that Masiello turned “stool pidgeon” himself after appearing in the unusual role of a prosecution witness, Mr. Masiello testified in the first trial that Mr. Brasco had introduced him to a postal official who subsequently obtained a Post Office contract for the Masiello company and that he later gave $10,000 in cash to Frank’s uncle Joseph Brasco in a Bronx restaurant.
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Mr. Masiello, who was serving seven years in prison for bribery, extortion and other crimes, said that he had refused the Government's offer to free him immediately if he would testify against members of organized crime but that he had agreed to testify against Mr. Brasco in return for a favorable letter to his parole board. The 54‐year‐old racketeer, who became known as “Gentleman John” because of his flamboyantly fashionable mode of dress, refused to testify in the second Brasco trial, possibly because he had not won a prompt parole, and faced a criminal contempt charge that could have resulted in an added prison term for his refusal to testify under immunity.
Judge Cannella, rejected defense objections, permitted the prosecutor to read Mr. Masiello's testimony from the first trial to the jury in the second trial, because the recalcitrant witness was “unavailable” to the prosecution.
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In 1974, Brooklyn Democratic Representative Congressman Frank J. Brasco was convicted of bribe receiving to award lucrative trucking contracts to Masiello’s companies. He conspired to accept $27,500. cash in 1968 from Masiello to use his influence in awarding those contracts.
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The one‐count indictment alleged that the Brasco took $10,000 in cash for helping the Masiello company win a mailhauling contract and that he agreed to accept $17,500 to help arrange an $875,000 loan sought by the trucking company to pay for trucks to carry out the contract.
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In 1970, newspapers did a huge expose on mob corruption at JFK Airport. A trade group, the “Metropolitan Import Truckmen's Association”, was chartered in 1958 to represent companies doing business at the piers in New York harbor. With the phenomenal growth of air cargo, however, it soon turned its attention to Kennedy airport—and soon attracted the attention of the crime syndicate. Between 1962 and 1967, the state investigators found, the spokesmen and leaders of the association “changed from the professional truck man to the professional racketeer.” The symbol of this change was John (Gentleman John) Masiello, recently convicted of bribing Post Office officials who supervise mail-trucking contracts in New York. Masiello described by Federal authorities as a member of the Genovese Mafia family and an important loan shark— became a “consultant” for the truckmen's association, which was seeking the best possible labor contract with Local 295.
As soon as Masiello wormed him self into the truckers' group, he load ed the payroll with “trouble shooters,” all men who had long records of arrests and convictions for such offenses as gambling, bookmaking and larceny. Masiello faded out of the picture in 1965 after the S.I.C. turned a spotlight on his loan‐shark ing activities; but before he departed he named his successor—Anthony Di Lorenzo, described by authorities as an important member of the Genovese Mafia family. He had a record of arrests and convictions for auto theft and felonious assault dating back to 1944.
“By 1965,” the crime commission said, “the take‐over of M.I.T.A. was virtually complete. Persons with criminal records monopolized the payroll.”
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In 1972, his son Kenneth was among several charged with bribery after being arrested for the fire-bombing arson of a Bronx tavern.
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They offered the arresting officers a $2,000. bribe to “forget the whole thing”. Officers had grabbed them as they exited The Executive Lounge, a Bronx bar and grill on 149th St., which was ablaze.
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In 1978, he was indicted and convicted of conspiracy to transport stolen securities.
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He received a 5-year sentence.
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Also in 1978, he faced additional charges of having fleeced a Yonkers bank of $17,000. Later convicted, he faced 2-4 years in jail.
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Basically he deposited worthless checks into an account and drew out the funds before the checks hit the bank, bouncing of course! Check kiting mob style.
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In 1979, he pleaded guilty to extortion conspiracy in the strong-arm attempt to take over a Bronx poultry firm doing $1,750,000. in revenue.
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He was one of eight hoods charged with the takeover of the poultry firm by forcing it into bankruptcy.
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Using threats against the owners to “chop off their heads”, “douse them in gasoline and set them on fire”, “break their legs” and “cut their hearts out with scissors”.
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He faced up to 4 more years in jail. It was his third conviction and jail sentence in three months.
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In 1982, his son Kenneth, also a hood, was shot to death gangland-style in front of a Howard Johnson’s restaurant in Yonkers. Assailants shot him in the head as he walked toward his car in the restaurant parking lot.
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I believe at one point he vacated the New York region for the greener pastures in California. And may have additionally actually testified against several other government officials (not mob guys per se but politicians and corrupt businessmen).......
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So although not highly publicized, “Gentleman Johnny” turned out to be not such a gentleman after all! ..... and a rat!
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He is alleged to have died in 1995 at 75 years old!
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Maxie I would love to read a write up on Jimmy Nap

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Ok MG, I promise you I’ll get to JN.
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I actually had to check, I thought I had done one on him already.
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I will!

[MichaelGiovanni]

Great looking forward to it

[Super]

Same here just reread Tony naps book take most of it with a pinch of salt . Jimmy nap absolute legend huge earner well liked. Really interested in the numbers read a bit about the fish and fat tonys numbers racket 32 runners fish was making good money also harmon book about Greg scarpa jr he said srs numbers game was worth about 10k a week any info anyone in big number banks runners etc thanks

[MichaelGiovanni]

Super

Here is good article about Fat Tony and the numbers business you might enjoy reading

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