I think Bill Feather had the wrong guy. Here’s the bio that he wrote:PolackTony wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:31 pmI don't know anything more about this guy than what Bill Feather wrote about him. FWIW, Feather stated that he died in 1958. This matches a Dominic Rocco Ferraro, born in October of 1903 in NYC, who died in West New York in October of 1958. His parents were Domenico Ferrara and Anna Magretti (or Macretta; various spellings or misspellings across documents). In 1910, the family lived with her parents on 153rd St near Park Ave in the Melrose section of the South Bronx; in 1920, the family lived on E 115 St between 1st and Pleasant Ave in East Harlem (same block that decades later the Palma Boys club was located). By 1930, Dominic was living in West New York, married to his wife Lucille, and working as a pipefitting foreman (his parents both died in the Bx). As Ferrara/Ferraro are extremely common surnames across Italy/Sicily, and I'm not sure what his mother's correct surname was, I'm not sure where his parents were from (Magretti I'd bet was Napolitan', but that's just my best guess; if that was actually it, could also be Northern). There were like a dozen or two Domenico Ferraras who arrived in NYC who could match his father.JoelTurner wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:35 pmDo you know anything else about this Dom Ferraro, like where his family was from?B. wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 12:53 am Another confirmed member of Catena crew was Dom Ferraro. Gene Catena was recorded telling Tommy Pecora how Ferraro hadn't contacted him in 9 months and Pecora was in disbelief that a "friend of ours" wouldn't touch base with Catena. They also discuss how Ferraro cheated Catena out of money and on the tape Catena assigns Ferraro's murder to Pecora. Ferraro was disliked by Vito Genovese and Jimmy Alo.
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(https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3078285 ... -obituary/)
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4RC-9WX)
I think this is his obituary and census information
“ Record from 1924, including convictions for Robbery [NJ], and Bootlegging.
One of several millionaires in the Family, making his money from bootlegging, both during and after Prohibition. He owned a barber supply company, and converted legal denatured alcohol into illegal booze.
Lived in and operated out of New Jersey. Rich enough to do business with the likes of Howard Hughes, he once lent the US Equestrian team some of his horses.
Died at a relatively young age in 1958.”
(https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.htm ... lPageId=12)
According to this document, the incident with Catena took place in 1964.
Plus, the story about him dodging Catena over money seems like a far cry from business with Howard Hughes and US Equestrian team horses.
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(https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3078285 ... -obituary/)
Also, the document refers to him as Dom J. Ferraro, similarly, this 1989 obituary is for a Dominic J. Ferraro.
If the obituary is for the right guy, it would be interesting to know when he moved to Rhode Island. It says he owned a restaurant before retiring in 1971