

The one-time head of the Luchese crime family whose testimony.

hosted by David Amoruso and looks forward to continuing to attract and interest anyone fascinated by this absorbing subject.īelow are his mob stories. Joe the Animal Barboza, Teddy Deegan, Jewish Godfather King Solomon, Cadillac Frank Salemme, Jimmy Bratsos, the Patriarca Mafia Family. Ex-mob boss Alfonse Little Al D’Arco who ratted out Mafia heavyweights died in witness protection from kidney complications. During his criminal career he spent many years as Capo in the Morello Crime Family, but by the 1910’s the Morello family began to fall into chaos, and the family became weaker. To emphasize, the Angiulo brothers were members of the Patriarca crime family. His father, Robert (Big Bob) was with the Angiulos. North End Robert (Bobby) Luisi Jr grew up on the North End, also known as Boston’s Little Italy. Salvati, Boston mob author Howie Carr writes, refused to repay 200 he owed Barboza. Philly Mob’s New England Faction: The Luisi Crew. He knew who the real killer was, but decided to point his finger at these four men because he had a beef with them. A hobby triggered by a book he read while studying at university "God Protect Me From My Friends" a biography of the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Guiliano, which started him off into collecting and creating a database of books, articles, reports and internet sources that now amounts to literally thousands of pages of detailed information on the people and events that have changed the face of international crime over the last eighty years.Īlthough living in New Zealand, and consequently somewhat removed from easy access to traditional research facilities, he has travelled the world extensively over the last thirty years, and still maintains this schedule, allowing him to keep up-to-date with events in North America and Europe.Ī contributor to the now defunct and he is now presenting his crime articles and short stories of fiction at Gangsters Inc. The founder of the Lucchese Crime Family was Gaetano Reina, who was born in 1889 in Corleone, Sicily. Read: Joe Barboza: Boston Barbarian Unbeknownst to the public, the judge, and the jurors, however, it turned out that Barboza had lied.

A retired businessman, he has had a long interest in organized crime, and in particular the Sicilian and American Mafia.
