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Showing posts with label Cosa Nostra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cosa Nostra. Show all posts
25 November 2019

Bringing Joe Valachi's memoirs to the Web

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The 1000-plus page memoirs of Mafia turncoat Joseph Valachi are valuable source material for organized crime historians. The manuscript, e...
15 October 2019

Wealthy Los Angeles-area Mafia leader vanishes

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On this date in 1931... L.A.Times, Oct. 18, 1931 Joseph E. Ardizzone, wealthy southern California ranch owner and Mafia chief, lef...
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14 October 2019

SoCal rackets bosses tried in federal court

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Long-awaited trial reveals Mafia informants On this date in 1980... Shocking revelations from turncoat witnesses were widely expected a...
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22 August 2019

Why Maranzano? Why now?

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Print and electronic journal editions can be previewed and purchased through MagCloud Kindle e-book edition can be ordered through Ama...
11 August 2019

Informer special issue on Maranzano

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A long lost photograph of Salvatore Maranzano is discovered. Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement marks the occasion...
17 January 2018

Historian reveals identities of Mafia informants

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The FBI makes every effort to hide the identities of its confidential underworld informants. Unlike the famous Joe Valachi and other Bureau ...
14 November 2017

Apalachin party-crashers expose Mafia network

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[Following is an excerpt from DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime - Vol. II .] On November 14, 1957, Sergeant Edgar Croswell o...