Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

[Antiliar]

New article dedicated to the membership of the New Orleans Crime Family during the 1960s.

The idea came to me to write an article on this subject following conversations that Angelo, Antiliar, B., and I had several years ago about Greg Scarpa who claimed that Colombo had told him that there were only 5 members in the New Orleans Crime Family (here viewtopic.php?f=29&t=6536 and here viewtopic.php?t=9441).

Not sure that I solved anything, but I tried to demonstrate that for me Scarpa greatly exaggerated.

https://unehistoiredecrimeorganise.blog ... de-la.html

Loved reading this! Great coverage of New Orleans.

[motorfab]

New article dedicated to the membership of the New Orleans Crime Family during the 1960s.

The idea came to me to write an article on this subject following conversations that Angelo, Antiliar, B., and I had several years ago about Greg Scarpa who claimed that Colombo had told him that there were only 5 members in the New Orleans Crime Family (here viewtopic.php?f=29&t=6536 and here viewtopic.php?t=9441).

Not sure that I solved anything, but I tried to demonstrate that for me Scarpa greatly exaggerated.

https://unehistoiredecrimeorganise.blog ... de-la.html

Loved reading this! Great coverage of New Orleans.

Great if you enjoyed it, not an easy topic but fascinating to dig all this ...

Enjoy your new year's eve mate

[motorfab]

New article on the blog dedicated to Giuseppe Mammone, a member of the Calabrian mafia active in Buffalo then in Sydney

https://unehistoiredecrimeorganise.blog ... ffalo.html

[AustraliaSteve]

Yeah, this is a perfect read on Joe Mammone’s life and times. Linked to it in a blog post, like I mentioned Fab

[antimafia]

New article on the blog dedicated to Giuseppe Mammone, a member of the Calabrian mafia active in Buffalo then in Sydney

https://unehistoiredecrimeorganise.blog ... ffalo.html

Just prior to seeing your forum post, over on X I reposted your posts about your newest blog article.

Adrian Humphreys describes Antonio Papalia, father of Johnny Pops in Hamilton, Ontario, as a member of the picciotteria — see Humphreys’s biography of John Papalia. Humphreys doesn’t provide a source, though — he might have reused a description he found elsewhere.

[motorfab]

Yeah, this is a perfect read on Joe Mammone’s life and times. Linked to it in a blog post, like I mentioned Fab

Thanks again Steve, much appreciated !

New article on the blog dedicated to Giuseppe Mammone, a member of the Calabrian mafia active in Buffalo then in Sydney

https://unehistoiredecrimeorganise.blog ... ffalo.html

Just prior to seeing your forum post, over on X I reposted your posts about your newest blog article.

Adrian Humphreys describes Antonio Papalia, father of Johnny Pops in Hamilton, Ontario, as a member of the picciotteria — see Humphreys’s biography of John Papalia. Humphreys doesn’t provide a source, though — he might have reused a description he found elsewhere.

Thanks antimafia!

I unfortunately haven't read The Enforcer, but yes I had heard that Antonio Papalia was sometimes described as a member of the Picciotteria. It seems quite complicated to confirm or not, but he was in any case well connected with Rocco Perri and the Bordonaro & Silvestro families, so why not.

For what it's worth, a few years ago I saw a series of documentaries on the mafia in Canada (I think the name in English was "Crime Stories"), and one of the episodes was about John Papalia. Anyway, in it they said that unlike Antonio, John had been made a "man of honor". I mention these docs because they were relatively well documented (which is quite rare) and people like Humphrey, Nicaso or Edwards were among the speakers.

While we're on the subject of the Papalia family, has it ever been confirmed that the Papalias of Delianuova/Hamilton are relatives of the Papalias of Plati? Even though the two cities are relatively close (39 kilometers/24 miles), I've never seen anything substantial to confirm this.