More Colorado family political figures

[davidf1989]

Joe -- in addition to San Jose being led by Alfonso Conetto from AdR in the 1920s, his underboss was also from Agrigento and the San Fran Family had an overlooked element from Agrigento as well, particularly Sciacca. Basically everyone from Western Agrigento knew each other and regarded each other as paesani. Gentile also spent a period in the Bay Area and he was close to early Colorado members like the Chiappettas and Rosario Desimone before they moved elsewhere, the Chiappettas from a nearby Trapani village but related by marriage to the Scaglias from Burgio and Desimone coming from another nearby Trapani town and marrying a woman from Lucca Sicula. Desimone was also part of the Schiro-Bonanno network even though he never lived in NYC, so the "Bonanno" connections likely go back long before Colletti, etc. It was also Gentile who represented Scaglia's relatives nationally and facilitated their transfer to Kansas City from Pueblo.

If the Scaglia accuser named by Gentile was Frank LaRocca, that's another Lucca Sicula native tied into the family as well

Hi did the former mayor of San Francisco, Joe Alioto know Angelo Marino, Fratianno, and Bompensiero? I think that there was a libel case against the Look magazine concerning this matter as mentioned in this article https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/08/arch ... l-who.html

[JoePuzzles234]

Another political figure tied to the family:

Aguilar mayor John Boccaccio, likely associated to the Dionisios or otherwise answered to them if he was a member

DOB: 1889/12/02
WW1 draft card lists POB as "Volcano, Terino, Italy" – Terino is obviously Torino, Piedmont but I don’t know what Volcano is, maybe Volpiano or Volvera?

He was linked to the Dale Kearney murder, charged with federal bootlegging violations and eventually defeated for re-election in 1932.

He died in 1941.

[PolackTony]

Another political figure tied to the family:

Aguilar mayor John Boccaccio, likely associated to the Dionisios or otherwise answered to them if he was a member

DOB: 1889/12/02
WW1 draft card lists POB as "Volcano, Terino, Italy" – Terino is obviously Torino, Piedmont but I don’t know what Volcano is, maybe Volpiano or Volvera?

He was linked to the Dale Kearney murder, charged with federal bootlegging violations and eventually defeated for re-election in 1932.

He died in 1941.

“Volcano” would be the comune of Volpiano, Torino, Piemonte, where the Boccacccio surname is found.

[B.]

Joe Bonanno: "No no no, the Volcano is New York City."

[PolackTony]

Talico Micheliza aka “Tal” (10/27/1910 – 08/31/1990)
POB: Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Father: Giovanni “John” Micheliza
Mother: Teresa DeBellis

Elected to the Trinidad City Council in November 1949.

At that time, local politician James E. Donnelly required a favourable council vote to continue as mayor. Donnelly was also a Democratic State Senator and later was a close political associate of John Cha.

Present on the 1950 FBN list and also listed on the Denver PD chart under the “Southern Colorado Faction” section.

I saw that he was listed on the 1950 FBN list of “mafia suspects” in Colorado, glad that you brought him up.

He was Italico Michelizza, born in 1911 in Platischis, a tiny village that is today in the comune of Taipana, Udine, right on the border between Italy and Slovenia. He arrived at NYC in 1921 with his mother Teresa De Bellis and younger sister Maria Michelizza bound for COnwhere father Giovanni Michelizza was already living. A BIL of Giovanni, Giuseppe Noacco, was also travelling with them. Giovanni Michelizza was from Monteaperta, another tiny hamlet that is today also a frazione of Taipana.

Interesting to note that Taipana’s population in the 20th century was almost 75% ethnic Slovenian. Given their names, however, we can presume that the Michelizzas were Friulani, an ethno-linguistic group who compose the majority of the population of the autonomous Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and who traditionally speak Furlan (Friulano in Italian), a Rhaeto-Romance language related to the Ladin language spoken in an area of far Northern Italy in the foothills of the Alps.

While we have no indication that Italico Michelizza was ever made, we do know that the CO Family had guys like Boschetto and Anselmi in their circle, who were similarly from an ethno-linguistic outlier region of Italy, Alto Adige, which until WW1 was part of the Austrian province of South Tyrol. Through the processes of immigration and community formation in the US, I presume that these guys were considered as “Italian” as anyone else (to most Sicilians 100 years ago, all Northern Italians would have seemed pretty foreign anyway).

[JoePuzzles234]

Talico Micheliza aka “Tal” (10/27/1910 – 08/31/1990)
POB: Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Father: Giovanni “John” Micheliza
Mother: Teresa DeBellis

Elected to the Trinidad City Council in November 1949.

At that time, local politician James E. Donnelly required a favourable council vote to continue as mayor. Donnelly was also a Democratic State Senator and later was a close political associate of John Cha.

Present on the 1950 FBN list and also listed on the Denver PD chart under the “Southern Colorado Faction” section.

I saw that he was listed on the 1950 FBN list of “mafia suspects” in Colorado, glad that you brought him up.

He was Italico Michelizza, born in 1911 in Platischis, a tiny village that is today in the comune of Taipana, Udine, right on the border between Italy and Slovenia. He arrived at NYC in 1921 with his mother Teresa De Bellis and younger sister Maria Michelizza bound for COnwhere father Giovanni Michelizza was already living. A BIL of Giovanni, Giuseppe Noacco, was also travelling with them. Giovanni Michelizza was from Monteaperta, another tiny hamlet that is today also a frazione of Taipana.

Interesting to note that Taipana’s population in the 20th century was almost 75% ethnic Slovenian. Given their names, however, we can presume that the Michelizzas were Friulani, an ethno-linguistic group who compose the majority of the population of the autonomous Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and who traditionally speak Furlan (Friulano in Italian), a Rhaeto-Romance language related to the Ladin language spoken in an area of far Northern Italy in the foothills of the Alps.

While we have no indication that Italico Michelizza was ever made, we do know that the CO Family had guys like Boschetto and Anselmi in their circle, who were similarly from an ethno-linguistic outlier region of Italy, Alto Adige, which until WW1 was part of the Austrian province of South Tyrol. Through the processes of immigration and community formation in the US, I presume that these guys were considered as “Italian” as anyone else (to most Sicilians 100 years ago, all Northern Italians would have seemed pretty foreign anyway).

Great stuff, thank you for sharing.

Coincidentally, I spoke just yesterday to someone on Reddit who said he was their grandfather. They had no details about his involvement but were aware that he was connected to organised crime - wonder what public perception was like during his political days, especially with his later connections to Cha.