JogodoBicho wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2024 3:38 am
I was reading the biography of Carlos Gambino on Wikipedia and sew that he had 4 sons. Thomas, Joseph and Phyllis are well-known, but Carlo Gambino Junior I never heard anything about.
Researching in google, I found an article in that said that he lived in Australia. That is correct?
Literally everything else is wrong though. Whoever wrote that must be a nut.
Carl’s still alive, listed as a living on Long Island with a residence in Florida. He owns meat markets and real estate. Never involved in crime from what I can tell.
JogodoBicho wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2024 3:38 am
I was reading the biography of Carlos Gambino on Wikipedia and sew that he had 4 sons. Thomas, Joseph and Phyllis are well-known, but Carlo Gambino Junior I never heard anything about.
Researching in google, I found an article in that said that he lived in Australia. That is correct?
Literally everything else is wrong though. Whoever wrote that must be a nut.
Carl’s still alive, listed as a living on Long Island with a residence in Florida. He owns meat markets and real estate. Never involved in crime from what I can tell.
Anybody have any good resources for getting deeper into the Colombo splits? Feel like theres lots of misinformation on the Gallo war and the second conflict with Joe Colombo. Books? Online content? I dont have access to the FBI files yet.. working on posting more!
DKellerman wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 3:37 pm
Im looking for books to read about the Westside, primarily Greenwich Village stuff. Anybody have any good recommendations?
Search some threads in the Book section of the forum.
Harrism wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 12:36 pm
Are there any Sicilian towns with a lot of maffia related activities out of which we do not see or see relatively few american made members?
Probably the borgate in provinces outside Palermo, Trapani and Agrigento.
Favara is one that has always surprised me. It was a hotbed of organized mafia activity in the 1880s but there were few if any known American mafiosi from there even though Agrigento province as a whole produced a massive amount of members.
How about Catania? Lots of Mafia activity to this day but not a lot of american mobsters come to mind.
Ragusa, Syrakusa, Messina have plenty of well known mafia members in America but Catania less so, right? Less immigration due to being the biggest city/economic hub in eastern Sicily maybe?
Proletarian187 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 5:18 am
How about Catania? Lots of Mafia activity to this day but not a lot of american mobsters come to mind.
Ragusa, Syrakusa, Messina have plenty of well known mafia members in America but Catania less so, right? Less immigration due to being the biggest city/economic hub in eastern Sicily maybe?
Correcting myself:
The Zappola family of Genovese/Lucchese fame were from Catania..
Funny what you come across when going down a Rabbit hole.
This has probably come up a million times but what would you name as some of the main rackets/businesses the mob still has strong influence in. Main ones that come to my mind are below, am I missing any?:
Pizza/Italian restaurants
Construction/property
Garbage
Loansharking
Gambling (clinging on as online gets stronger)
