The Chicago Syndicate: Vito Genovese
Showing posts with label Vito Genovese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vito Genovese. 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 14, 2018

Hollywood and the Mafia

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Bollywood's connections with the underworld are common knowledge. There is a certain level of romanticism attached to the lives of the m...
Monday, January 29, 2018

An Underboss is Whacked, Because Even Mobsters Don’t Like Heroin

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John Turano was working a shift at his father’s Italian-American restaurant, Joe and Mary’s, on July 12, 1979, when Carmine “Lilo” Galante ...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Using Witness Protection Programs to Break the Mob

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It must be one of the worst choices to have to make ; to choose between decades behind bars or a life in hiding. But that is what confronts ...
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...
Friday, August 28, 2015

The Grandfather Clause

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Some people think Phil Genovese, Jr. resembles his grandfather. "Around the eyes, maybe," the world's newest novelist was sa...
Monday, December 07, 2009

Junior Gotti Visits Father's Grave After Released from Fourth Mistrial

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Freshly free after his fourth mistrial, the Teflon Son went to pay his respects to the original Dapper Don on Sunday. John A. (Junior) Gotti...
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...
Sunday, September 07, 2008

The Life and Times of a Mafia Insider - Tough Guy: A Memoir by Louis Ferrante

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Hear the words "Mafia boss" and you think: olive-skinned with dark, slightly bloodshot eyes and a sharp suit. Louis Ferrante fulfi...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

The Last Sit-Down

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The Last Sit-Down is a limited edition mixed media canvas painting that is a stunning work of art romanticizing the Italian-American mafia&#...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

Old School Mobsters Among "Celebrities" Spending Time in The Big A

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The Big A has always been a rough joint. Before the turn of the last century, the government had no dedicated facilities for men convicted o...
Monday, October 22, 2007

The Rogues' Hall of Fame

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Johnny Roselli was the mob's ambassador-without-portfolio, corrupting the film industry's unions in Hollywood and becoming the go-to...
Monday, July 30, 2007

A Prison "Cap" to Petey's Life of Gambling

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Friends of ours: Genovese Crime Family Friends of mine: Peter "Petey Cap" Caporino "Petey Cap" could have cashed in his ...
Friday, June 01, 2007

Cosa Nostra is Alive and Well in New York

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Friends of ours: Danny "The Lion" Leo, Vito Genovese, Genovese Crime Family, Vincent "the Chin" Gigante, "Fat Charl...
Monday, November 20, 2006

Castellammare del Golfo Exports Mobsters to New York?

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From the turquoise Mediterranean lapping its shore to the winding streets where old men soak up the sun on rickety chairs, a tourist would n...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

Godfather of All My Tours

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Friends of ours: Carlo Gambino Aniello "The Hat" Dellacore, Joe Columbo, Vito Genovese, Salvatore "Lucky" Luciano, "...