Author: Frank Monastra Publisher: ISBN: 9781979365888 Category : Languages : en Pages : 546
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Gangland Cleveland style is a look through the vast history of the Cleveland Mob. Their rise of power from the many men who fought for control of the city. Their courageous struggles with law enforcement and the enemies who continue to attack them from every angle to control a more significant share of the cities underworld wealth. The feared Sicilian immigrants of the early twenties who battled and struggled to meet the day to day rival gangs which would often bring about their death, just to earn a living on the tuff streets. These real stories will prove how Cleveland became the third highest ranking and influential Mafia town in the country behind New York and Chicago. "Gangland Cleveland Style" showcases the ambitious drive, their rise in respect across America and of course their demise in the late 1970's. I focus on the Lonardo's, Porrello's, Frank & Anthony Milano "Mayfield Road Gang" to Al Polizzi and of course John Scalish. The ongoing fight with Danny Greene and the aftermath of James Licavoli and the dramatic testimony of a Protected Federal Witness, "Underboss" Angelo Lonardo. The astonishing true stories of the Prohibition and the Circulation Wars, illegal Casinos along with the Policy and Drug rackets will fascinate you as you learn more about their protected inner circle of friends. People like Mickey McBride, Ray Ferritto, Alex Shondor Birns, the Angersola Brothers, John DeMarco and of course their connection with the powerful Jewish Syndicate.I dive into their brilliant and impressive connection with the various powerful Labor unions, and of course, the great Teamster Union were William, and Jackie Presser ruled over the flock of disciples. Read about the numerous stories of other union leaders who were a pivotal connection to the Mafia across the country and to Cleveland. Cleveland's role in the famous Apalachin Summit with their colorful, yet complicated friendships and connection with many of the high-level Mafia Bosses across the country and how Cleveland became a principal player in the Los Angeles Mafia.
Author: Frank Monastra Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 214
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The portrait of John Scalish will show a never-before view of his personal life inside and outside his criminal empire. Which led to the premise of why "John Scalish, became the mafia boss no one knew." In the begging, John was viewed to be a man of peace, who was apprehensive about becoming the crime boss of the third-largest Mafia controlled city in America. You will learn never released information about John's two brothers Tom and Sam. Their life and how they worked with John. You will now discover undocumented information about a conflicted man. John often struggled between his professional and private life with his wife and children, in contrast to his accomplished life of a well-respect crime boss. I will disclose never reported information about his health concerns, which John kept a secret to most if not all the friends and, of course, his enemies along with the everyday citizens in Cleveland, Ohio. Later, these ailments will bring about John's death at the young age of 67.
Author: William F. Roemer, Jr. Publisher: Ivy Books ISBN: 0804113106 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 353
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Bugsy Siegel built Las Vegas, but it was Tony "The Ant" Spilotro who ran the show. Now William F. Roemer, Jr., veteran FBI agent and scourge of the Cosa Nostra, tells the shocking story of how a teenage wiseguy grew up to become "the man" in Vegas. From the gritty streets of Chicago to the neon-lit Nevada wonderland, Roemer assembles a rogue's gallery of the highest-ranking capos and the lowest creeps of organized crime. As incredible as any work of fiction -- but it's all fact!
Author: Anthony M. DeStefano Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493018337 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 217
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Get a taste of New York’s underworld by seeing where mobsters lived, worked, ate, played, and died. From the Bowery Boys and the Five Points Gang through the rise of the Jewish “Kosher Nostra” and the ascendance of the Italian Mafia, mobsters have played a major role in the city’s history, lurking just around the corner or inside that nondescript building. Bill “the Butcher” Poole, Paul Kelly, Monk Eastman, “Lucky” Luciano, Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, Mickey Spillane, John Gotti—each held sway over New York neighborhoods that nurtured them and gave them power. As families and factions fought for control, the city became a backdrop for crime scenes, the rackets spreading after World War II to docks, airports, food markets, and garment districts. The streets of Brooklyn, swamps of Staten Island, and vacant lots near LaGuardia Airport hosted assassinations and hasty burials for the unlucky. The bloodlettings, arrests, and trials became front-page fodder for tabloids that thrived on covering Mulberry Street. Chinese, Russian, and Greek mobsters rose to prominence and wrought bloody havoc as well. Each of the book’s five sections—one for each borough—traces criminal activities and area exploits from the nineteenth century to now. Everyone knows about Umberto’s Clam House in Little Italy, but now you can find Scarpato’s restaurant in Coney Island where Joe Masseria was killed by henchmen of Salvatore Maranzano, who in turn died in a Park Avenue office building at the hands of “Lucky” Luciano a few months later. From the Bronx to Brighton Beach, from New Springville to Ozone Park, here is a comprehensive, on-the-ground guide to mob life in the Rotten Apple.
Author: Rick Porrello Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439171750 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 201
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Be sure to see Kill the Irishman—the major motion picture based on Rick Porrello’s true-crime masterpiece! A modern warrior known as Greene Was very quick and smart, and mean. He scrambled hard and fought like hell, And led a charmed existence. They shot him down and blew him up With most regular persistence. —From The Ballad of Danny Greene Clevelan d, the 1970s: A fearless Irishman boldly muscles in on the Italian-American Mafia—intrepid, charismatic, shrewd, cunning, and armed with a master plan to take over the rackets under the auspices of the Irish banner of which he was so fiercely proud. His name is Greene, his signature color is green, and with his Irish luck for surviving bungled mob attempts on his life, he is seemingly indestructible. In the end, the war with Danny Greene—and his ultimate murder—severely crippled the Italian stranglehold on organized crime, with historic repercussions that outlived the unsinkable Irishman himself.
Author: Rick Porrello Publisher: ISBN: 9780966250824 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 346
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The true story of Shondor Birns, an aging Jewish mobster struggling to maintain control and his reputation in a black-dominated gambling empire. His relentless challenges include a rogue protégé and a high-stakes, high-finance mystery stretching from the US to Israel, and Canada to Cuba.
Author: Les Roberts Publisher: Gray & Company, Publishers ISBN: 1598510045 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 291
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The return of the P.I. who revealed Cleveland, Ohio, as one of the country's most interesting cities. Private eye Milan Jacovich was born in the U.S., but he considers himself a Slovene. He finds himself mixed up in ethnic tensions when he is convinced to search for a Serbian man by his beautiful granddaughter. An ominous secret and a mobster hit-man complicate the suspenseful story.
Author: James Neff Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504007352 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 528
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The spellbinding saga of Teamster boss Jackie Presser’s rise and fall In his rise from car thief to president of America’s largest labor union, Jackie Presser used every ounce of his street smarts and rough-edged charisma to get ahead. He also had a lot of help along the way—not just from his father, Bill Presser, a Teamster power broker and thrice-convicted labor racketeer, but also from the Mob and the FBI. At the same time that he was taking orders from the Cleveland Mafia and New York crime boss Fat Tony Salerno, Presser was serving as the FBI’s top informant on organized crime. Meticulously researched and dramatically told, Mobbed Up is the story of Presser’s precarious balancing act with the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the Justice Department. Drawing on thousands of pages of classified files, James Neff follows the trail of greed, corruption, and hubris all the way to the Nixon and Reagan White Houses, where Bill and Jackie Presser were treated as valued friends. Winner of an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award for best reporting on organized crime, it is a tale too astonishing to be made up—and too troubling to be ignored.
Author: Frank Monastra
Author: Frank Monastra
Author: William F. Roemer, Jr.
Author: Anthony M. DeStefano
Author: Ted Schwarz
Author: Rick Porrello
Author: Rick Porrello
Author: Les Roberts
Author: James Neff
Author: Donald L. Barlett