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 | | Following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the United States attempted an uneasy embrace with desegregation and this uneasiness was felt the hardest in the southeast. | | | Old timer gangster under Joe Profaci, Thomas DiBella chaulked up only one arrest in his criminal career for bootlegging and would serve as nominal head of the Colombo crew during the frequent prison stints suffered by Carmine Persco. | | | Upon the death of Profaci, Magliocco was given the top spot and for only a brief time. |
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http://www.geocities.com/OrganizedCrimeSyndicates/ColomboFamily.html
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| | Profaci secured the release of his men by making such promises and then split the enemy by promises of rewards to Forlano and Persico and some others if they would turn on the Gallos. | | | In theory, the $25 monthly payments were to establish a slush fund to take care of legal fees, bribes and support payments to a soldier's family if he was imprisoned, but it was a custom long abolished in other crime families. | | | Crime paid for Joe Profaci even if it did not pay as well as it should have for his soldiers. |
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| | MurderInc.COM - Joe Profaci |
| | Joe Profaci insisted on instituting the "Slush Fund" which would pay for legal fees for his soldiers, bribery money, and support the families of fallen or imprisoned soldiers, a tradition long since forgotten by the other crime bosses at the time. | | | This $25 dollar monthly fee was never returned to the soldiers either. | | | The had suggested to Profaci to retire from his post, but Profaci realized that this was an attempt to run him out and refused to release his hold over his empire. |
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http://www.murderinc.com/fam/profaci.html
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| | SCHEMERS IN THE WEB |
| | The morphine was converted to heroin at night in the same Italian laboratories which manufactured legal heroin during the daytime. | | | When Prohibition ended, Joseph Kennedy made yet another fortune. | | | In 1962 Vito Genovese was serving time in the federal prison in Atlanta on a narcotics trafficking charge. |
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http://www.benbest.com/history/schemers.html
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| | GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - JOSEPH PROFACI |
| | The Kefauver hearings that brought unwanted publicity were only a minor problem to Profaci. | | | The money was ostensibly to be held in "escrow" to pay members' legal fees or to help out the families of soldiers doing time. | | | Profaci ruled his Family from 1930 to 1962. |
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| | Find in a Library: Joseph Profaci at Crime Comm. hearing |
| | Find in a Library: Joseph Profaci at Crime Comm. | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/15680920faa9b670a19afeb4da09e526.html
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| | Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act |
| | The Department of Justice also claimed Profaci had given false testimony on entering the United States. | | | He immigrated to the United States and was naturalized as a citizen on September 27, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York. | | | All of these publications are in PDF (Portable Document Format). |
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http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/proaci_joseph.htm
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| | Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of any of the source code or any graphics in whole or in part, may result in severe criminal or civil penalties, and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible under the law. | | | Genovese died in federal prison on Valentine's day in 1969, at the age of 72, 10 years into a 15-year sentence he was serving on a narcotics trafficking charge. | | | Profaci, the first boss of the crime family that originally bore his name, now the Colombo family, ruled from 1930 until his death in 1962. |
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http://www.pinellofuneralhome.com/infamous.htm
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| | Colombo Crime Family - The Crime library |
| | The Gallos didn't dispute the charge, but felt that the punishment far outweighed the gravity of the crime. | | | Profaci's underboss, Joseph Magliocco, was quickly installed as boss, which did not please Lucchese and Gambino. | | | After weeks of negotiations, the two sides came to an agreement, and the hostages were released. |
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http://crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/colombo/3.html?sect=1
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| | A Rich Lindberg Article |
| | Sicilian-born Salvatore Sabella organized the Philadelphia crime family and ran criminal operations from 1911-1927, but Max "Boo Boo" Hoff controlled citywide bootlegging operations during Prohibition and was recognized as the real power of the local underworld. | | | Joseph Massina, who served his apprenticeship under Rastelli, inherited the mantle of leadership of the Bonanno gang in 1989. | | | U.S. Attorney Alan Friedman, who stepped down from his post in order to enter private law practice in October 1990, convicted the top leadership of this family and leaders of Teamsters Local 814. |
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http://www.richardlindberg.net/articles/mob.html
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| | Vincent Rizzuto Jr. |
| | Finally, in January, 1965 he received a six-month jail term. | | | Punchy could probably tell whether the hit was ordered by boss Joseph Profaci and whether Joseph (Joe Jelly) Gioerelli was the gunman. | | | Vincent, 25, Joseph, 24, Ronald, 25, and Russell, 24, were charged with Schiro's murder and numerous other crimes in a federal racketeering and drug indictment lodged last Friday. |
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| | Encyclopedia article on Mafia [EncycloZine] |
| | Many of the mafiosi who escaped fled to the United States. | | | The Americans took advantage of the circumstances, and utilised the Sicilian connections of American mafiosi during the invasion in 1943. | | | Former U.S. mob don Joseph Bonanno provided an origin that was a confused reference to the Sicilian Vespers, a patriotic uprising in Sicily against the French in 1282. |
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http://encyclozine.com/Mafia
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| | Media Life - Letters to the Editor |
| | He should know, he successfully won a civil rights lawsuit against CUNY for discrimination. | | | I somehow doubt that Brad Gray or David Chase (ne Cesare, by the way) hung out with the Gambino, Profaci or Colombo "families" to obtain some psuedo realistic notion of what life inside the family of a "family" member is like. | | | Professor Joseph Scelsa from Queens College suspects a correlation between the relatively high dropout rate among area Italian-Americans and the media. |
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http://www.medialifemagazine.com/features/letters2001.html
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| | Joseph Bonanno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Joseph Bonanno (January 18, 1905 – May 11, 2002) was an American Mafioso who became the boss of one of the most prominent crime families in the world, the Bonanno crime family. | | | Joseph Bonanno passed away Sunday, May 12, 2002 at the age of 97. | | | After the death of Joseph Profaci, a very good friend of Bonanno and leader of the Profaci crime family, Joe Maglicco became boss of the Profaci faction. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bonanno
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| | GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - JOSEPH BONANNO |
| | Vito Genovese was away in a federal penitentiary and his nominated successors, according to Bonanno, voted according to the majority. | | | After a long legal wrangle, he was released on bail and left the courthouse and went to stay with his son, Bill, at his home in East Meadow, Long Island. | | | When Joseph was about fourteen, his mother, who was only thirty-seven, died and he went to live under the protection of his uncle, Stefano Magaddino. |
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| | Joe Gallo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Profaci was saved, however, when Gallo was arrested and convicted of extortion in 1961. | | | Due to Profaci's unpopularity with his men (he was seen as somewhat stingy and require constant tribute), the Gallos and their chief ally, Carmine Persico, seemed poised to take control of the family. | | | Upon his release in 1971, Gallo battled Profaci's successor Joe Colombo and the now renamed Colombo family. |
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| | Joe Gallo Biography / Biography of Joe Gallo World of Criminal Justice Biography |
| | After the killing Profaci reneged on his promise. | | | While Gallo served his time in prison, Joseph Colombo took over the crime organization. | | | As a young man he became involved in organized crime and soon made an impression with his superiors with his violent disposition. |
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http://www.bookrags.com/biography-joe-gallo-cri
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| | Gerlando Sciascia |
| | At John Gotti's trial, Gravano testified that he paid the bribe and was reimbursed later by one of the beneficiaries, Gambino capo Edward Lino. | | | Having Profaci gangsters hit Anastasia would fall into this category. | | | Genovese capo Ralph Coppola was rubbed out last fall, according to law enforcement officials, but his body has not been recovered. |
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| | Salvatore Maranzano - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
| | Maranzano came into the United States in 1918, settling in Brooklyn, where he built up a growing bootleg liquor business. | | | For the next nine years he would travel back and forth between the States and Italy, but in 1927, Vito Cascio Ferro, Maranzano's boss, who wanted to dominate Mafia business both in Italy and in North America, allegedly ordered him to take over American territory for the other Mafiosi who were already established there. | | | Sent to the U.S. by Don Vito Cascio Ferro, where he met and allied with several other men sent by Don Ferro, including Joseph Bonanno, Joseph Profaci, and Stefano Magaddino, Maranzano's orders were to organize the American Mafia and bring it under Don Vito's control. |
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http://www.arikah.net/encyclopedia/Salvatore_Maranzano
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| | NJ MAFIA - Joseph Bonanno |
| | Joseph Bonnano originally came to America when he was 3 years old with his family from Sicily in 1908, but his family returned to live in their hometown of Castellamare de Gulfo. | | | Then came the death of Joseph Profaci, Bonnano's good friend and to whom many believed kept Bonnano's quest for power in tact for many years. | | | The new crime boss of the Profaci family was Joe Maglicco and Bonnano approached him with a plan to kill off other crime bosses including Carlo Gambino and Thomas Lucchese in New York and even Sam Giancana of Chicago. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/ELSTONSTCREW/bonn.html
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| | The Colombos: Introduction |
| | Salvatore Profaci : Well, we started a lawsuit. | | | The conversation is between him and Colombo Crime Family capo Salvatore Profaci, son of the late Joseph Profaci, founding father of the crime family now known as the Colombos. | | | The body was identified by his son Joseph, aged 16, another two-bit gangster, but one destined to reach much higher elevation in his chosen career of crime than his father, before he too met a violent end. |
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| | Urgent telexes were sent to the major field offices (Albany and Buffalo each claimed that Apalachin was in the other's jurisdiction), but most reported back that the query must be in error since the subject was a local businessman, either respectable or retired or both. | | | In addition to the jackals of the press, Joseph Kennedy's arrogant young son Robert, the chief counsel of Senator McClellan's racket committee, had stormed in, without an appointment, demanding everything the Bureau had on the hoods. | | | Saturday mornings there was usually little activity in Apalachin, New York, a small village located in the mountains just north of the Pennsylvania state line, and even less so in the hills outside of town where the New York state trooper Edgar Croswell was parked, but November 14, 1957, was an exception. |
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http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/themanandthesecrets.htm
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| | Joe Colombo |
| | During the early 1970s, Joseph Colombo, who'd been given the helm of the old Profaci family, began the Italian American Civil Rights League, which brought national attention to the mob and its associates. | | | Mangano arrived in America in 1922 with his father and a young Joseph Profaci and joined the waterfront crime racket that was run by Al Mineo. | | | After Profaci was slain, Joseph Magliocco inherited the position, but not for long. |
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http://dks.thing.net/Joe_Colombo.html
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| | Joseph Tozzi on Local News and Events LocalNewsOnly.com |
| | Joseph Tozzi was the quintessential New York cop who adopted Texas as his home. | | | Gallo later continued the war against Joseph Colombo. | | | Last week, I was invited to visit with Joe Tozzi and discuss his recollections of more famous cases he had worked during his enforcement career. |
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http://www.localnewsonly.com/01newlno/clvnews/1114tozzi03.htm
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| | ipedia.com: History of the Mafia Article |
| | Unapproved killings of made men were abolished, and discussion of the Mafia with anyone not involved was forbidden under penalty of death. | | | He appointed five mobsters as bosses of units which would later develop into the Five Families of the Commission, headed by Joseph Bonanno, Tom Gagliano, Lucky Luciano, Phil and Vincent Mangano, and Joseph Profaci. | | | Tensions between the two factions began to escalate in 1928, with one side's hijacking the other's alcohol (then illegal pursuant to Prohibition) becoming a frequent occurrence, but widespread violence did not break out until the spring of 1930. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/history_of_the_mafia.html
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| | Origins of the Mafia |
| | For years, the FBI blindly denied the existence of a National Mafia “Commission.” To even suggest that a consortium of career criminals representing the interest of twenty-four crime “families” were secretly meeting to define objectives and set national policy invited censure and hot denial from the Bureau. | | | The fragmented New York underworld had coalesced under the leadership of Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria, an old-fashioned crime boss who cloaked his various illegal enterprises under the guise of familial traditions of honor, respect, and oaths of loyalty. | | | Astute state troopers, accompanied by agents from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms tax unit, observed several well-known Mafia figures coming and going from the country house of the millionaire president of the Canada Dry Bottling Company of Endicott, New York. |
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| | Joe Bonanno: A Man of Honor. The crime family Epic - The Crime library |
| | But when Profaci died of cancer in 1962, Bonanno's ambitions got the better of him, and he decided to install himself as the rightful boss of all bosses. | | | Fortunately for him, his most outrageous impulses were kept in check by his closest ally, Joe Profaci, boss of what would later become known as the Colombo Family. | | | Joseph Bonanno in his autobiography, A Man of Honor, claims that he knew nothing of the plot to kill Maranzano, a statement that defies mob logic. |
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http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/bonanno/2.html?se...
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| | GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - COLOMBO CRIME FAMILY |
| | The Colombo Crime Family was founded by Joseph Profaci a close friend of Joseph Bonanno, boss of the Bonanno Crime Family. | | | His son, Alphonse “Allie Boy” Persico, currently serving an 18-month sentence issued in February 2000 for illegal gun possession in Miami, has reputedly taken over but his grip is weak. | | | The Colombo Family is a Family at constant war ever since the first one started. |
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| | Sal Maranzano |
| | Maranzano's orders were to organize the American Mafia and bring it under Don Vito's control. | | | At the age of forty-three, Maranzano became the leader of the Castellammarese immmigrants in New York. | | | Maranzano was sent to the U.S by Don Vito Cascio Ferro, where he met and allied with several other men sent by Don Ferro, including Joseph Bonanno, Joseph Profaci, and Stefano Magaddino. |
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| | Castellammarese War - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
| | It is also believed that the term "La Cosa Nostra" (meaning "this thing of ours") was coined during this period. | | | Meanwhile, on August 15, 1930, Maranzano loyalists executed a key Masseria-allied mob enforcer, Pietro Morello, at Morello's East Harlem office (another man who had been visiting the office, Giuseppe Pariano, was also killed). | | | Except for New York City, major urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest were organized into one family per city; New York City was organized into five separate families (whose respective bosses, appointed by Maranzano, were Luciano, Profaci, Gagliano, Bonanno, and Vincent Mangano). |
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http://www.arikah.com/encyclopedia/Castellemmarese_War
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| | Trouble With a Capital N |
| | The word on the street was that the boss of one of New York& five crime families, Joseph Profaci, ordered D’Amico hit so that he could get his hands on some of the Newark rackets. | | | They also plotted to whack Borgesi’s uncle, Joseph Ligambi. | | | When Ralph Natale became a government witness, he told authorities that Sodano was murdered because he had failed to show respect to him and Merlino. |
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| | ProMana Solutions Announces Specialty Marketing Division for Branded Partner JBL Trinity |
| | Joseph Profaci, the newly-appointed vice president of sales at JBL Trinity, has been selected to direct the division's sales and marketing efforts. | | | In addition to Profaci's years of experience and extensive contacts, he brings a value added relationship to the venture in his longstanding affiliation with Donald Jenkins, president and CEO of Equa-net, the creators of V.O.S.S. The V.O.S.S. (C)2004 system was designed to be the most comprehensive analytical tool for managing the foodservice industry. | | | Profaci is a third generation foodservice executive whose family history in the segment spans nearly 100 years. |
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/jul/1059885.htm
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| | Abbatemarco Family History |
| | Tony Abbatemarco would become an underboss to Joseph Yacovelli of the Columbo Crime family in 1971-1972. | | | Frank may have been some how related to the Cardiello's who also had ties to the Profaci/Colombo Crime family. | | | Frank was a long time policy maker (bookie/numbers) for the Joseph Profaci family. |
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| | Joseph Profaci |
| | Head of one of the five crime families of New York, as initially set up by Lucky Luciano. | | | rotten > Library > Biographies > Crime > Mafia > Joseph Profaci |
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| | Krieg von Castellammare - Wikipedia |
| | Der Name ist von der Tatsache hergeleitet, dass die Leute der einen Seite Einwanderer aus der Nachbarschaft des Ortes Castellammare del Golfo auf Sizilien stammen, darunter Joseph Bonanno, Stefano Magaddino, Joseph Profaci, Joseph Aiello und deren Anführer Salvatore Maranzano. | | | Nach Reinas Mord, sollte Joseph Pinzolo für Masseria das Eisverkauf-Unternehmen übernehmen. | | | Februar 1931 wurde Joseph Catania, ein weiterer wichtiger Unterboss Masserias, niedergeschossen und starb zwei Tage später. |
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krieg_von_Castellammare
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| | Honor Thy Father. - TALESE, GAY. |
| | For once the Mafioso are revealed not as merely names in headlines or on crime charts, or as wooden figures in books written by retired district attorneys and detectives. | | | He book focuses on the Bonano family-three generations of it. | | | The children are also poignantly portrayed in this book. |
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http://www.adinfinitumbooks.com/si/14942X1.html
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| | Albert Anastasia: Information From Answers.com |
| | It is was originally alleged that the contract was given to Joe Profaci, who passed it on to the three Gallo brothers (including Crazy Joe Gallo) from Brooklyn. | | | However, recent evidence has pointed the finger at a three-man hit team selected by Joseph "Joe the Blonde" Biondo, who became Carlo Gambino's underboss after the murder. | | | Like virtually all gangland killings, the Anastasia murder remains officially unsolved. |
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http://www.answers.com/albert%20anastasia
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| | Joseph Colombo - infos.aus-germanien.de |
| | Colombo löste den mächtigen Boss Joseph Profaci als Machthaber der Familie im Jahr 1964 ab, und machte sich später unter Mafia-Kumpanen unbeliebt, da er mit der Gründung der Italian-American Civil Rights League viel Publicity auf sich zog (siehe auch unter Der Pate). | | | Joseph Colombo war ein amerikanischer Mafioso, nach dem eine so genannte Familie (Mafia-Clan) in New York City benannt wurde. |
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http://infos.aus-germanien.de/Joseph_Colombo
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| | Trading online can be expensive in two ways |
| | Joseph Profaci: You've probably seen all the ads touting the ease with which you can now trade stocks. | | | And it is easy, especially over the Internet — a click of your mouse, and you've made a trade. | | | We asked this week's investment panelist: Do online brokers have a future? |
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http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2001/06/05/panel65.htm
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| | LRB August Kleinzahler : Too Bad about Mrs Ferri |
| | They were accompanied by an ugly little torpedo named Joseph 'Joe Jelly' Giorelli, who finished the job with a bullet to the back of Anastasia's head. | | | But the order had come from higher up, from Vito Genovese himself. | | | These four were the aces of Joseph Profaci's hit squad. |
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| | Salvatore Maranzano - Wikipedia |
| | Während sie beim Beginn des Krieges in der Minderheit waren, konnten sich Maranzano und seine Freunde schließlich durchsetzen, da Masserias Verbündete jenen hintergangen. | | | Dazu verbündete er sich mit Bonanno und Profaci. | | | Er war von Don Vito Cascio Ferro in die USA geschickt worden, wo er weitere von ihm geschickte Männer traf – darunter Joseph Bonanno, Joseph Profaci, und Stefano Magaddino – und sich mit ihnen verbündete. |
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Maranzano
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| | Johnsons JAHRESTAGE - Der Kommentar - 24.10.1967 |
| | 1940, hatte mit seinem Bruder Joseph (»Crazy Joey«) und anderen Clan-Angehörigen eine Rebellion gegen den Mafiaboß Joseph Profaci angeführt; vgl. | | | bei einem Pferdewettenmogeleitrick - Albert Gallos Aufstand gegen den Mafiaboß Joseph Profaci war inzwischen zugunsten von Joseph Colombo entschieden worden. | | | Joseph Colombo - Joseph A. Colombo, New Yorker Mafioso; wurde 1964 vom Syndikat zum Chef des Profaci-Clans ernannt, nachdem er ein Komplott, die New Yorker Familienoberhäupter zu liquidieren, an das Syndikat verraten hatte. |
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http://www.ndl.germanistik.phil.uni-erlangen.de/extras/johnkomm/6710/671024.html
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| | Time Out New York [outthere] |
| | He ran afoul of his boss, Joseph Profaci, for the last time on November 4, 1959, when he was gunned down at Cardiello's Tavern at 256 Fourth Avenue in Park Slope by the Gallo gang. | | | For instance: Frank "Frankie Shots" Abbatemarco was a captain in the Profaci (later Colombo) crime family and ran the largest bookmaking and loan-sharking operations in NYC. | | | The actual trigger man was Joseph "Joe Jelly" Giorelli (who "disappeared" in 1962). |
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http://www.timeoutny.com/outthere/524/524.ot.ithappened.html
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| | Mafia Monograph/FBI Mafia Bible - FBI Files |
| | Topics include: Omerta, Vendetta, speculations on the existence and nonexistence of the Mafia, early Mafia history, prohibition, activities after prohibition, Appalachia meeting, Murder, Inc., Black Band, and the Kefauver Committee. | | | Individuals mentioned include: Lucky Luciano, Louis Buchalter, Albert Anastasia, Vito Genovese, Joseph Profaci, Frank Costello, Santo Trafficante, Sr, Santo Trafficante, Jr, Al Capone, Jacob Shapiro, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin Siegel, Abner Zwillman, James Hoffa, Joseph Barbara, Joseph Boanno, and Carlos Marcello. |
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http://www.paperlessarchives.com/mafia_monograph.html
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| | Albert Anastasia |
| | Genovese also wooed the loyalties of Carlo Gambino, who served as Anastasia's underboss and Gambino, | | | in turn, persuaded his good friend Joseph Profaci, a syndicate family boss, |
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| | Amazon.de: English Books: Havana World Series |
| | But mobsters Joe Bonanno and Joseph Profaci, Meyer's New York-based rivals, want a piece of the action, so they assemble a home team of criminals to rob Lansky's casino on the last night of the series. | | | Led by Mariano "Ox" Contreras (so-called for the first thing he ever stole), they're a lively gang of smalltime swindlers, including "Wheel" Fermin, a short, balding and surprisingly prudish car thief, Arturo Heller, a smooth ex-law student, and Willy Pi, a former prostitute and cork bark collector who works at Lansky's Casino de Capri. | | | It's 1958, and Meyer Lansky is looking to make a killing-not just from his casino, but from all the betting on the World Series between the Yankees and the Milwaukee Braves. |
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http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802117546/pokeritiscom-21
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: 1897 in organized crime |
| | October 2 - Joe Profaci (Joseph Profaci), Profaci Crime Family founder and La Cosa Nostra leader | | | April 7 - Walter Winchell, New York organized crime journalist | | | Joseph Zerilli, Detroit crime syndicate leader and Purple Gang member |
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| | BBC NEWS World Americas Mafia boss laid to rest |
| | Gotti was laid to rest in St John's Cemetery, a Roman Catholic burial ground where the graves of a number of notorious 20th Century Mafiosi are found. | | | Some, like Carlo Gambino and Joseph Profaci, died of natural causes. | | | Others, like Carmine Galante and Joe Colombo were shot dead. |
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