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Book Synopsis Portrait of John Scalish by : Frank Monastra
Download or read book Portrait of John Scalish written by Frank Monastra and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Book Synopsis Profile of Organized Crime by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Download or read book Profile of Organized Crime written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sly-Fanner Murders by : Allan R. May
Download or read book The Sly-Fanner Murders written by Allan R. May and published by Conallan Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cleveland Police Department Never Gave Up! From the moment of the double-murder the police never gave up in the hunt for the six suspects involved in the payroll robbery-gone bad. Cleveland detectives and prosecutors pursued and/or arrested the killers in Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Francisco and finally Sicily, taking some fifteen years to make sure justice was served. The crime was carried out by members of Cleveland's infamous Mayfield Road Mob. The plot to rob the local businessmen was hatched after one gang member, convicted of auto theft, was desperate for cash to file an appeal. Short on manpower, the gang's leader was forced to involve himself and an immature teenager in the daring hold-up. The young man's inexperience led to the double slaying and the manhunt was on. In the end, three of the participants would pay with their lives in the electric chair, one would be sent to prison for life, another received 30 years at hard labor; the last one, the younger brother of Cleveland's first Mafia boss, would go free. This story also gives a chilling look at one of the most violent periods in the history of Cleveland. When a new prosecutor takes office on January 1, 1921, he is confronted with handling three sensational murder trials in addition to the killings, which just took place the day before. This lawless period resulted in the Cleveland Crime Survey of 1921, the country's first in-depth study of the justice system of a major United States city
Book Synopsis Shocking Stories of the Cleveland Mob by : Ted Schwarz
Download or read book Shocking Stories of the Cleveland Mob written by Ted Schwarz and published by True Crime. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of the mob's involvement in Cleveland, Ohio.
Download or read book Mafia Summit written by Gil Reavill and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of how a small-town lawman in upstate New York busted a Cosa Nostra conference in 1957, exposing the Mafia to America. In a small village in upstate New York, mob bosses from all over the country—Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino, Joe Bonanno, Joe Profaci, Cuba boss Santo Trafficante, and future Gambino boss Paul Castellano—were nabbed by Sergeant Edgar D. Croswell as they gathered to sort out a bloody war of succession. For years, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had adamantly denied the existence of the Mafia, but young Robert Kennedy immediately recognized the shattering importance of the Apalachin summit. As attorney general when his brother JFK became president, Bobby embarked on a campaign to break the spine of the mob, engaging in a furious turf battle with the powerful Hoover. Detailing mob killings, the early days of the heroin trade, and the crusade to loosen the hold of organized crime, this momentous story will captivate fans of Gus Russo and Luc Sante. Reavill scintillatingly recounts the beginning of the end for the Mafia in America and how it began with a good man in the right place at the right time. “The best, and best-written, true-crime story I’ve ever read. It’s as suspenseful, detailed, racy, and knowing as a novel by Hammett or Chandler.” —Howard Frank Mosher, award-winning author of North Country “A close investigation into the crime bosses’ upstate New York summit and its grisly aftermath, Reavill’s book accurately recreates one of the golden eras of American organized crime.” —Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis Crooked River Burning by : Mark Winegardner
Download or read book Crooked River Burning written by Mark Winegardner and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948 Cleveland was America's sixth largest city; by 1969 it was the twelfth. For Easterners, Cleveland is where the Midwest begins; for Westerners, it is where the East begins. In the summer of 1948, fourteen-year-old David Zielinsky can look forward to a job at the docks. Anne O'Connor, at twelve, is the apple of her political boss father's eye. David and Anne will meet-and fall in love-four years later, and for the next twenty years this pair will be reluctant star-crossed lovers in a troubled and turbulent country. A natural-born storyteller, Mark Winegardner spins an epic tale of those twenty years, artfully weaving such real-life Clevelanders as Eliot Ness, Alan Freed, and Carl Stokes into the tapestry. His narrative gifts may bring the fiction of E. L. Doctorow to some readers' minds, but Winegardner is very much his own man, and his observations of Cleveland are laced with a loving skepticism. His masterful saga of this conflicted city is a novel that speaks a memorable truth.
Book Synopsis Kill the Irishman by : Rick Porrello
Download or read book Kill the Irishman written by Rick Porrello and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Mob and the City by : C. Alexander Hortis
Download or read book The Mob and the City written by C. Alexander Hortis and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on exhaustive research of archives and secret files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, author and attorney C. Alexander Hortis draws on the deepest collection of primary sources, many newly discovered, of any history of the modern mob. Shattering myths, Hortis reveals how Cosa Nostra actually obtained power at the inception. The author goes beyond conventional who-shot-who mob stories, providing answers to fresh questions such as: * Why did the Sicilian gangs come out on top of the criminal underworld? * Can economics explain how the Mafia families operated? * What was the Mafia's real role in the drug trade? * Why was Cosa Nostra involved in gay bars in New York since the 1930s? Drawing on an unprecedented array of primary sources, The Mob and the City is the most thorough and authentic history of the Mafia's rise to power in the early-to-mid twentieth century.
Download or read book The FBI written by and published by Federal Bureau of Investigation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the FBI's journey from fledgling startup to one of the most respected names in national security, taking you on a walk through the seven key chapters in Bureau history. It features overviews of more than 40 famous cases and an extensive collection of photographs.
Book Synopsis Brancato: Mafia Street Boss by : Frank Monastra
Download or read book Brancato: Mafia Street Boss written by Frank Monastra and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the better part of half a century, Frank Brancato was one of the most feared men in Ohio. The Sicilian immigrant claimed to be a humble tire salesman... ...but in reality he was the right-hand man of Cleveland Mafia Boss John Scalish. Brancato-Mafia Street Boss traces Frank's story from his days as a penniless Italian immigrant to his years as a wealthy and prosperous Cleveland businessman. His children and grandchildren knew him as a kind, soft-spoken, generous man. But others saw a different side of him. Entrepreneurs who were reluctant to share their bootlegging or gambling profits with the Cleveland "Family" were eliminated without delay. People who were suspected of talking too much found themselves taking a "one-way ride." For many years, FBI agents were under orders from their famous leader, J. Edgar Hoover himself, to observe Brancato's activities and try to collect information that would lead to his criminal conviction. Immigration officers tried long and hard to deport Brancato, including an unsuccessful attempt to "kidnap" him from a Cleveland Federal Building and whisk him away on a one-way trip back to his homeland in Italy. Police tried to pin various Mob "hits" on Brancato, but eyewitnesses frequently either died suddenly, or they mysteriously developed doubts about what they'd seen. People who made trouble for the Mafia frequently had their lives cut short by explosions or gunfire. Brancato was usually questioned in these incidents, but was released for lack of evidence. He was nearly "bulletproof..". ...except for the wound from a gunbattle that nearly took his life and led to his only prison term. Using newspaper reports, FBI and police files, and even stories told by family members, Frank Monastra chronicles the story of his grandfather, Frank Brancato, from his days as a Prohibition-era bootlegger and whiskey runner to his role in the rise of the gambling and nightclub industry. Brancato-Mafia Street Boss gives an insider look at the rise of the Sicilian Mafia in Ohio in its heyday, from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia by : Rick Porrello
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia written by Rick Porrello and published by . This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid exploration of the rise of the Cleveland Mafia as a rival to the Mafia of New York and Chicago. Detailed are important connections with mega-mobsters like Charles 'Lucky' Luciano and Meyer Lansky, as well as the Cleveland mob's move to Las Vegas. Now finally back in print following the film release of Kill the Irishman, Porrello's startling account contains all of the gritty details and local flavour readers have come to expect from Barricade's mafia books.
Download or read book Giovanni's Ring written by Giovanni Rocco and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a former FBI undercover task force officer who spent years penetrating New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family, the criminal organization known to law enforcement as "the real Sopranos" Giovanni's Ring is the story of "Giovanni Rocco," a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as "Giovanni Gatto," who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately brought down ten members and associates of New Jersey's DeCavalcante Mafia family, the criminal organization known as "the real Sopranos." Giovanni spent nearly three years working his way into the DeCavalcante hierarchy. That lethal assignment brought the undercover operation to an end in March 2015, and the resulting string of high-profile arrests eviscerated the criminal organization. ?Giovanni's Ring is not simply a chronicle of Giovanni Rocco's adventures in the murky and dangerous Mafia world he inhabited, but also a fascinating window into the psychological struggles that such a life inevitably entails.
Book Synopsis To Kill the Irishman by : Rick Porrello
Download or read book To Kill the Irishman written by Rick Porrello and published by Rick Porrello. This book was released on 2011 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Irish-American racketeer Danny Greene and his war with the Mafia. Basis for the film Kill the Irishman starring Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, with Val Kilmer and Christopher Walken.
Book Synopsis The Mafia Encyclopedia by : Carl Sifakis
Download or read book The Mafia Encyclopedia written by Carl Sifakis and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 500 alphabetical entries provide information on the people, places and events associated with the Mafia.
Download or read book Facts on File Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Badge 387: The Story of Jim Simone, America's Most Decorated Cop by : Robert Sberna
Download or read book Badge 387: The Story of Jim Simone, America's Most Decorated Cop written by Robert Sberna and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 40 years, Jim Simone patrolled Cleveland's 2nd District, a drug-plagued area with one of the highest violent crime rates in the U.S. Nicknamed "Supercop," Simone generated headlines and public interest on a scale not seen since Eliot Ness searched for Cleveland's "Torso Murderer" in the 1930s. Simone entered police work after serving in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne, where he earned two bronze stars and two purple hearts. As a cop, he never shied from danger. He was involved in numerous gun battles, and killed five people in the line of duty (all ruled justifiable). Notoriously equitable as a cop, Simone was more interested in doing the right thing than honoring the "blue code." Badge 387 recounts the brave exploits that earned Simone hundreds of commendations. In 1983, while searching a church basement for a gunman, he was shot in the face. Despite his wounds, he managed to shoot his assailant, saving himself and two other cops. And in 2009, he plunged into a frigid river to save a woman. Simone was Cleveland's "Patrolmen of the Year" in 1980 and 2009, the only officer in the city's history to receive the award twice.
Download or read book Facts on File written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
