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Joseph and Anthony Stassi were part of Nick Delmore's gambling syndicate in Union County, New Jersey in the 1950s. In the late 1960s they were participants in the infamous French Connection smuggling operation. Active in the Gambino crime family Joseph and Anthony were sentenced to 25 years in federal prison in the mid 1970s.

Carmine Tramunti took over the Lucchese crime family following the death of the organization's boss, Thomas Lucchese, in 1967. Tramunti and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corrallo were rivals to ascend to the top spot of the New York City syndicate. Tramunti later made a name for himself with investments...

Anthony "Tony Boy" Boiardo was the son of Ruggerio "Richie the Boot" Boiardo, a notorious Mafioso from the Prohibition era. Tony Boiardo was a key player in the political downfall of Newark Mayor Hugh Addonizio. My e-book discusses the crimes of the Boiardos, from fencing stolen merchandise to numbers...

Joe Gulmi was associated with the Gambino crime family but his exact connection to them is subject to speculation. Multiple New York businesses noticed a man frequenting their establishments on multiple occasions. They assumed for a time that he was a bookie. Soon he began asking them to sign a contract...

Juste Fontaine was once a gym sweeper in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Around 1943 former welterweight champion Fritzie Zivic took him under his wing and taught him to box in a Pittsburgh gym. Fontaine was a hard puncher who fought his way to a sixth place ranking among world lightweights. Juste ran into...

Vito Genovese was the most well known of ten people who were prosecuted for an international narcotics conspiracy at the end of the 1950s. Genovese was the mastermind but he had substantial help. A controversial witness at the trial was Puerto Rican national Nelson Cantellops who became a Genovese...

Carl Carramusa was a low-level mobster in Kansas City. In the late 1930s and 1940s drugs were imported to Florida from Marseilles, France via Havana, Cuba. Kansas City was a fulcrum of midwestern drug trafficking. Carramusa became a federal informant. His information was crucial in bringing about...

Gaetano Reina's murder on February 26, 1930 led to gang warfare that pitted thugs loyal to Salvatore Maranzano and those who backed Giuseppe Masseria. Reina was a wealthy Bronx ice dealer who was a material witness in the 1915 murder of chicken dealer Barnett Baff. It took a year and a half to...

Albert Taylor Bledsoe was a prolific writer of books and articles related to slavery and the Confederate States of America. A native of Kentucky he practiced law in Springfield, Illinois during the 1840s. At this time he became acquainted with Abraham Lincoln who was also a Springfield lawyer. The...

The fire that destroyed the Hotel Windsor in Manhattan began around 3 p.m. on Friday, March 17, 1899. A St. Patrick's Day Parade had filled the streets to capacity so that fire engines had difficulty getting passed. The edifice burned quickly and completely, its huge chimneys lying in rubble....

Mary Rogers and her mother, Phebe, came to New York City following the financial panic of 1837. Phebe lost her second husband and also her most important source of economic support, i.e. Daniel and James Rogers. Both men were killed in shipwrecks. Daniel died on the Mississippi River and James in...

The first in a series of short stories chronicling the cases of Bruce Howard, a charmingly intelligent private investigator that has more heart than he realizes.In this case, his young neighbor, Timmy, asks for Bruce Howard’s help in finding his missing mother after coming home to a puddle...

The crash of a Piper Navajo PA 31-350 Navajo near Lake Placid, New York is more than just the story of a small plane that met a bad fate. The story also involves possible drug smuggling and a high profile lawyer, F. Lee Bailey, who represented one of the victim's relatives. The crash was accompanied...

The Obama administration virtually emasculated our military to the point where the Air Force is smaller than any time in its history and the Army is well on its way to pre-World War 2 levels. One by one the “warrior class” in our armed forces has been squeezed out in favor of technocrats and sycophants....