The Chicago Syndicate: Santo Trafficante
Showing posts with label Santo Trafficante. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Santo Trafficante. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Mafia Summit: J. Edgar Hoover, the Kennedy Brothers, and the Meeting That Unmasked the Mob

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Mafia Summit: J. Edgar Hoover, the Kennedy Brothers, and the Meeting That Unmasked the Mob , is the true story of how a small-town lawman in...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

La Mia Famiglia: Never Let Them Steal Your Name

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From modest beginnings in a Pennsylvania coal mine to the height of success in Tampa, Florida , there was one constant threat in the Scarpo ...
Monday, October 08, 2018

Frank Sinatra and the Mob

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"Sinatra and the Mob" Frank Sinatra always denied his ties to the Mafia , and neither government investigators nor the press c...
Saturday, April 02, 2016

"Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires"

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Face it--there seemingly will always be a market for certain books. Just choose to chronicle some facet of the Kennedys, the Nazis or, as Se...
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Sunday, March 27, 2016

Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires By Selwyn Raab

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As the Mafia grew into a malignantly powerful force during the middle of the last century, it owed much of its success to its low-priority r...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

President Kennedy Book Links Mob to Assassination

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A book claims that three mob bosses were behind President John F. Kennedy's assassination . Authors Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann also...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2015

These Who Killed JFK? Conspiracy Theories Will Not Die

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He defected to the Soviet Union, returned to the United States with a Russian-born wife, and tried to get Soviet and Cuban visas before assa...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba ... And Then Lost It to the Revolution

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Cuban writer Jose Lezama Lima's description of Havana - "an unnameable feast" - fits the city's last great era like the fl...
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Friday, January 03, 2014

Trouble in Paradise Mob Movie is Now in Production

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“Trouble In Paradise,” a period crime thriller set in the tropical hotbed of 1950's Havana, brings the story of Meyer Lansky, the brains...
Monday, November 18, 2013

The Top Five Conspiracy Theories on JFK Assassination

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As the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination draws nearer , the debate over who actually pulled the trigger rages on. Did Lee Harvey Osw...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Did Richard Nixon Have a Gay Affair with Mob Connected Crony?

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He carpet-bombed Cambodia, spewed out anti-Semitic slurs and crude misogynistic jokes in the White House and smeared his political opponents...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Junior Gotti Awakens Mob Ghosts in Tampa

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The ghosts of Tampa's old-time wiseguys awakened this summer when Mafia scion John "Junior" Gotti came to town in handcuffs, a...
Friday, September 12, 2008

Chicago Outfit and New York Families Stretch their Connections Beyond Las Vegas to San Diego

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On August 31, the Union-Tribune printed an obituary on the death of Allard Roen, one of the original developers of Carlsbad’s La Costa Resor...