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Aniello Ercole doubled as a fight manager and gambling supervisor of the New York docks. He was closely associated with mobsters Albert Anastasia and Joe Adonis. Anastasia attended lightweight Pat Marcune's fights while the boxer was managed by Ercole. Adonis was heavily involved in mob gambling activities....

Anthony Granza was a Gambino soldier who was most often involved in large scale drug trafficking. In 1951 and 1967 he was busted for trafficking heroin. Both incidents are profiled in my e-book. The 1951 operation was penetrated by a combination of New York Police and federal agents. This drug ring...

Nancy Ling Perry was an integral player in a radical terrorist group that emerged in 1973 and existed until 1975. The Symbionese Liberation Army came to life through a network of university students and prisoners, who initially formed the Black Cultural Association. Nancy was a graduate of the University...

My e-book looks at a large scale cigarette smuggling ring that operated in New York and various eastern U.S. states. The gang that ran the ring was closely linked to the Gambino, Bonanno and Colombo crime families. Among the lynchpins in the illegal operation was Mari family associate John Carneglia....

Ernest Rupolo was a Mafia informant who started his life of crime in the 1930s as a nineteen-year-old. On May 19, 1934 Rupolo appeared in a Manhattan Police lineup, charged with trying to kill William Gallo. Reportedly the target of a plot to poison him Rupolo received extensive police protection...

The Mafia began making inroads into Sullivan County via paper unions that threatened the livelihoods of legitimate Teamsters unions. Later the son of Colombo syndicate boss Joseph Colombo Sr., teamed with an entrepreneur to enter the vending machine business. They began introducing cigarette machines...

Carmelo Liconti was a racketeer in Brooklyn who was involved in the barber shop, funeral home and policy rackets. From Reggio, Calabria, Liconti came to the United States in the early years of the 20th Century to join his father, His mother emigrated a year later. Carmelo was tied to other noteworthy...

Five defendants were tried in Federal Court in Los Angeles in November 1980. The accused were members of the Los Angeles La Cosa Nostra. They were charged with killing mobster turned informant "Frank the Bomp" Bompensiero and defrauding pornographers who ran a firm called Forex. Bompensiero...

Dominic (Dominick) D'Agostino was a lynchpin in the Magaddino crime family of upstate New York. Based in Niagara Falls, the syndicate reached as far as portions of Ontario and Ohio. Closely associated with the illegal narcotics trade, D'Agostino was also linked to mob boss Vito Genovese. My e-book...

Nicholas Tolentino was a Lucchese family soldier most closely associated with narcotics/heroin trafficking. "Big Nose Nick" was arrested for his part in two 1950s drug rings. Both were taken down by the combined effort of federal agents and New York City Police. The syndicates had labs in...

Rudolph Prisco was a Mafia figure whose criminal record dates to the 1920s and 1930s. Involved in policy rackets and gambling, he was once indicted for the murder of a pinochle player. In another incident he beat a man with a apparatus in a disagreement at a service station. In November 1933 Prisco...

The Gallo brothers, Larry and Joey, were enforcers for the old Joseph Profaci crime family. In 1960 a rift between Profaci and Gallo erupted over the issue of territory promised by Profaci. By 1961 this break had erupted into total war between the two factions. My e-book looks at the struggle between...

68-year-old Genovese hit man/soldier Philip Buono was accused of killing contractor Nat Masselli in Van Cortlandt Park, the Bronx, on August 25, 1982. His accomplice in the crime was 67-year-old Salvatore Odierno. In court the following year prosecutors claimed the motive behind the grisly Mafia hit...

William Clarke Quantrill was a famous bushwhacker who led an infamous raid on Lawrence, Kansas on August 21, 1863. My e-book looks at Quantrill's late 1864 move into Kentucky, which by then had become a much more fervent theater for bushwhacking than Missouri. The defeat of Confederate General...