Francesco "Three Fingers" Coppola thread

[Antiliar]

I discussed some of these issues with Tim Newark, who is the author I think you're talking about. He's a good guy and did good research, but we can't know everything. Sometimes information comes out after we publish, and it changes our conclusions. There was a documentary that included testimony from an elderly Italian man who said he worked in factory secretly owned by Luciano, and in it heroin was secretly smuggled out. I can't verify the man's testimony, but if true, Luciano was involved. To what extent, we don't know.

Sorry to revive this topic and ask this only now, but what would be this documentary in which the elderly person says that?

It was in this one around the 1:35 mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIHBT_jiG8w

[aleksandrored]

I discussed some of these issues with Tim Newark, who is the author I think you're talking about. He's a good guy and did good research, but we can't know everything. Sometimes information comes out after we publish, and it changes our conclusions. There was a documentary that included testimony from an elderly Italian man who said he worked in factory secretly owned by Luciano, and in it heroin was secretly smuggled out. I can't verify the man's testimony, but if true, Luciano was involved. To what extent, we don't know.

Sorry to revive this topic and ask this only now, but what would be this documentary in which the elderly person says that?

It was in this one around the 1:35 mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIHBT_jiG8w

Thanks man, I remember this documentary, although it contains the reports of the last will, things like Luciano having earned the nickname after the beating for the men of Maranzano, and having created the 05 families and organized the crime, he is interesting for the filming and testimonials, all these documentaries from the 90s have testimonials from people who really knew the gangsters, this one from the elderly man didn’t remember, thanks.

[Antiliar]

Thanks man, I remember this documentary, although it contains the reports of the last will, things like Luciano having earned the nickname after the beating for the men of Maranzano, and having created the 05 families and organized the crime, he is interesting for the filming and testimonials, all these documentaries from the 90s have testimonials from people who really knew the gangsters, this one from the elderly man didn’t remember, thanks.

No problem. I don't believe in "throwing out the baby with the bathwater," as the expression goes. Even if something is 80% false, there could be some valuable truths in the other 20%. This is one of those items.

[aleksandrored]

Thanks man, I remember this documentary, although it contains the reports of the last will, things like Luciano having earned the nickname after the beating for the men of Maranzano, and having created the 05 families and organized the crime, he is interesting for the filming and testimonials, all these documentaries from the 90s have testimonials from people who really knew the gangsters, this one from the elderly man didn’t remember, thanks.

No problem. I don't believe in "throwing out the baby with the bathwater," as the expression goes. Even if something is 80% false, there could be some valuable truths in the other 20%. This is one of those items.

Yes, this information from the elderly was very valuable, I hope that in the future we will have other information or perhaps testimonials about how much Luciano was involved in the drug trade.

[cobra]

-frank coppola aka "three fingers", "tre dita"
-he was exile in bitonto, bari province with luciano leggio in 1960s
-after then he was highly close with "lucianeddu"
-accused helping luciano when he was on the lam
-"three fingers" son-in-law giuseppe corso b. 1927/5/18 (probably he is dead by now)
-giuseppe married frank's only daughter name pietra
-giuseppe corso and his father also called giuseppe member of partinico family
-giuseppe corso also highly close to luciano leggio
-giuseppe jr helped luciano disappear from villa margherita clinic in 1970
-luciano dressed disguise as a nun
-attack on the prosecutor mangano because mangano have information about two people
-one is son-in-law giuseppe corso and second is frank's nephew which he want to hide
-his nephew, son of salvatore coppola, is a priest and man of honor of partinico family
-he is well known don agostino coppola b.1936/7/27 d. 1995/2/6
-agostino made in ramacca in 1969
-nino and pippo calderone met him and both felt was absurd a priest as a mafia member
-agostino was highly close to luciano leggio and even more to totò riina
-agostino is priest who married totò riina and antonietta bagarella in 1974
-he got a jail sentence 14 years for kidnapping in 1970s
-suspended from priesthood in 1982
-before he died agostino married a gynaecolgist working palermo
-she was travelling with him in 1970s when he visited luciano leggio on the lam
-her name francesca caruana and she have 2 children with him
-rumor -> famous caruana family - siculiana -> venezuela -> canada (according to my information could be false)

[CabriniGreen]

-frank coppola aka "three fingers", "tre dita"
-he was exile in bitonto, bari province with luciano leggio in 1960s
-after then he was highly close with "lucianeddu"
-accused helping luciano when he was on the lam
-"three fingers" son-in-law giuseppe corso b. 1927/5/18 (probably he is dead by now)
-giuseppe married frank's only daughter name pietra
-giuseppe corso and his father also called giuseppe member of partinico family
-giuseppe corso also highly close to luciano leggio
-giuseppe jr helped luciano disappear from villa margherita clinic in 1970
-luciano dressed disguise as a nun
-attack on the prosecutor mangano because mangano have information about two people
-one is son-in-law giuseppe corso and second is frank's nephew which he want to hide
-his nephew, son of salvatore coppola, is a priest and man of honor of partinico family
-he is well known don agostino coppola b.1936/7/27 d. 1995/2/6
-agostino made in ramacca in 1969
-nino and pippo calderone met him and both felt was absurd a priest as a mafia member
-agostino was highly close to luciano leggio and even more to totò riina
-agostino is priest who married totò riina and antonietta bagarella in 1974
-he got a jail sentence 14 years for kidnapping in 1970s
-suspended from priesthood in 1982
-before he died agostino married a gynaecolgist working palermo
-she was travelling with him in 1970s when he visited luciano leggio on the lam
-her name francesca caruana and she have 2 children with him
-rumor -> famous caruana family - siculiana -> venezuela -> canada (according to my information could be false)

Great stuff..... always found him fascinating character, American mafia member, but VERY powerful in Sicily.
I consider him a prototype of guys like John Gambino.....

[CabriniGreen]

-frank coppola aka "three fingers", "tre dita"
-he was exile in bitonto, bari province with luciano leggio in 1960s
-after then he was highly close with "lucianeddu"
-accused helping luciano when he was on the lam
-"three fingers" son-in-law giuseppe corso b. 1927/5/18 (probably he is dead by now)
-giuseppe married frank's only daughter name pietra
-giuseppe corso and his father also called giuseppe member of partinico family
-giuseppe corso also highly close to luciano leggio
-giuseppe jr helped luciano disappear from villa margherita clinic in 1970
-luciano dressed disguise as a nun
-attack on the prosecutor mangano because mangano have information about two people
-one is son-in-law giuseppe corso and second is frank's nephew which he want to hide
-his nephew, son of salvatore coppola, is a priest and man of honor of partinico family
-he is well known don agostino coppola b.1936/7/27 d. 1995/2/6
-agostino made in ramacca in 1969
-nino and pippo calderone met him and both felt was absurd a priest as a mafia member
-agostino was highly close to luciano leggio and even more to totò riina
-agostino is priest who married totò riina and antonietta bagarella in 1974
-he got a jail sentence 14 years for kidnapping in 1970s
-suspended from priesthood in 1982
-before he died agostino married a gynaecolgist working palermo
-she was travelling with him in 1970s when he visited luciano leggio on the lam
-her name francesca caruana and she have 2 children with him
-rumor -> famous caruana family - siculiana -> venezuela -> canada (according to my information could be false)

Great stuff..... always found him fascinating character, American mafia member, but VERY powerful in Sicily.
I consider him a prototype of guys like John Gambino.....

Was it true, his involvement in the Portella Ginestra political massacre? Did he have ties to Salvatore Guiliano? I always thought Don Croce in The Sicilian was partly based on Coppola....