Secret Societies : Their Mysteries Revealed by Their Mysteries Revealed

Author:Their Mysteries Revealed [Revealed, Their Mysteries]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE MAFIA AND COSA NOSTRA

to be unloaded, inspected the boat, found everything in order, and went on their way.

Allie Boy had lucked out because no one on the coast guard boat checked his criminal record. Only when the coast guard crew returned to port did they learn that Persico had served time for federal racketeering and, banned from owning any firearms, was subject to a ten-year prison term upon conviction. Most college graduates would have tossed the guns overboard as soon as the coast guard was out of sight, but Persico apparently skipped his college classes on logic because, a few hours later when the coast guard cutter pulled alongside the Lookin’ Good at dock in Key West, the weapons were still on board and Persico was lookin’

at a decade in the slammer. Lapses in judgment like that one have made Allie Boy such an ineffective boss that other New York families no longer acknowledge the Colombo group.

Gambino:

This was the infamous John Gotti’s family, dating back to the 1920s and named for Carlo Gambino, who ran the family from 1956 to 1976. Gambino, considered one of the most effective family heads (“dons”) in Cosa Nostra, kept a low profile, avoided publicity, stayed in touch with family members, and built the family into a financial powerhouse through narcotics and gambling. In the 1970s he added car theft to the operations, sending stolen luxury automobiles to the Middle East via Kuwait. Gambino’s successor, his cousin Paul (Big Paulie) Castellano, alienated various capos including John Gotti and his underboss Salvatore

(Sammy the Bull) Gravano,

who orchestrated Castellano’s

murder in 1985. Gotti died in

prison, where he was serving

a life sentence, in 2001, and

Gravano, responsible for a

reported twenty murders,

entered the witness protection

program. Through a series of

successions, Gotti’s son John Paul (Big Paulie) Castellano at the height of Jr. now heads the family.

his powers and notoriety.

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