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82
. FBN entry for Pasquale Fuca in FBN's Revision of International List Book, at New York, June 24, 1964, in Box 48, RG 170 (NARA College Park); Moore,
French Connection
, pp. 62–73.

83
. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (hereafter “RCMP”) reports of March 23, 1926, March 12, 1930, and March 25, 1931, cited in Antonio Nicaso,
Rocco Perri: The Story of Canada's Most Notorious Bootlegger
(Toronto: John Wiley, 2004), pp. 217–20.

84
. Oral history of Ralph Salerno (December 10, 1982) (COHC).

85
. RCMP entries for Frank Controni, Joseph Controni, and Vito Agueci in Revision of International List Book, at New York, June 24, 1964, in Box 48, RG 170 (NARA College Park).

86
. Welfare Council,
Menace of Narcotics
, p. 14;
Committee on Government Operations, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Organized Crime and the Illicit Traffic in Narcotics: Report
, Senate, 89th Cong., 1st Sess. (1965), 69;
Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations: Organized Crime and the Illicit Traffic in Narcotics
, 270–71, 297 (testimony of Valachi).

87
. Gentile,
Vita di Capomafia
, p. 150.

88
. Maas,
Valachi Papers
, p. 222.

89
.
New York Times
, September 26, 1931.

90
.
United States v. Bentvena
, 319 F.2d 916 (2d Cir. 1963).

91
. Joseph D. Pistone,
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia
(New York: Signet, 1989), p. 226.

92
. Bill Bonanno,
Bound by Honor
, p. 78;
New York Times
, July 30, 1979, cited in David Amoruso, “The Story of Carmine Galante,” November 24, 2010, available at Gangsters, Inc.,
http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/death-in-the-afternoon-the
(accessed on July 9, 2013).

93
. FBI Memo, Natale Evola, January 29, 1958, in FBI FOIA File on Natale Evola (copy in possession of author); Joe Bonanno,
Man of Honor
, p. 142; Bill Bonanno,
The Last Testament of Bill Bonanno
, p. 70.

94
.
Washington Post
, March 1, 1930;
New York Times
, February 20, 1930, March 1, 1930; Jill Jonnes,
Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance with Illegal Drugs
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), p. 84.

95
. Jack Kelly,
On the Street
(Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1974), p. 49; Tom Tripodi,
Crusade: Undercover against the Mafia and KGB
(New York: Brassey's, 1993), p. 25.

96
. Kelly,
On the Street
, p. 49.

97
.
New York Times
, June 15, 1951, September 26, 1951; Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption,
Commission Report
(New York: n.p., 1972), p. 92 (hereafter “Knapp Commission Report”).

98
. Oral history of Arthur (October 18, 1980), quoted in Courtwright, Joseph, and Des Jarlais,
Addicts Who Survived
, p. 156; Tripodi,
Crusade
, p. 161; Peter Maas,
Serpico
(New York: Viking Press, 1973), p. 156; Knapp Commission Report, p. 94.

99
. Patrick V. Murphy,
Commissioner: A View from the Top of American Law Enforcement
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977), p. 245; FBI Report, Vincent Papa, March 23, 1978, in FBI FOIA File on Vincent Papa (copy in possession of author).

100
.
Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations: Organized Crime and the Illicit Traffic in Narcotics
, 319–20 (testimony of Valachi).

101
. Wiretap conversation of Pussy Russo, quoted in Joseph Volz and Peter J. Bridge, eds.,
The Mafia Talks
(Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1969), p. 98.

102
. Tramunti report, October 23, 1973, in FBI FOIA File on Carmine Tramunti (copy in possession of author); Joseph O'Brien and Andris Kurins,
Boss of Bosses: The FBI and Paul Castellano
(New York: Dell, 1991), p. 153; Nicholas Pileggi,
Wise Guy: Life in a Mafia Family
(New York: Pocket Books 1985), p. 193.

103
. Bill Bonanno,
Last Testament of Bill Bonanno
, p. 184.

104
. Roder journal entries for October 21, 1942, February 4, 1944, October 30–31, 1944, Roder Journals; Maas,
Valachi Papers
, pp. 234–38; Gentile,
Vita di Capomafia
, pp. 149–50; Musto,
American Disease
, p. 201.

105
. The table is based on the following sources: (1) Federal Bureau of Prisons’ responses to FOIA requests (copies in possession of author) (hereafter “BOP FOIA”); (2) FBI responses to FOIA requests (copies in possession of author) (hereafter “FBI FOIA”); (3)
New York Times
articles (hereafter “
New York Times
”); (4)
Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations: Organized Crime and the Illicit Traffic in Narcotics
, Senate, 88th Cong., 1st Sess. (1963); and (5) FBN reports for District 2, New York, and the FBN's International List of Persons Known to Be or Suspected of Being Engaged in the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs, in Boxes 48 and 175, RG 170 (NARA College Park). This includes the following FBN lists: February 15, 1940, September 25, 1953, June 30, 1956, and June 26, 1964 (hereafter “FBN”).

CHAPTER 6: THE MOB NIGHTLIFE

1
.
New York Post
, September 6, 1946; Toni Carroll Terman,
Copacabana Sexcapades and Other Stories
(West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2005), pp. 34–35.

2
.
Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations: Organized Crime and the Illicit Traffic in Narcotics
, Senate, 88th Cong., 1st Sess. (1963), 365 (testimony of Joseph Valachi); George Wolf with Joseph DiMona,
Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Underworld
(Great Britain: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1975), pp. 181–82; Mickey Podell-Raber with Charles Pignone,
The Copa: Jules Podell and the Hottest Club North of Havana
(New York: HarperCollins, 2007), pp. 34–42; FBI Memorandum on Frank Costello, November 24, 1944, in FBI Freedom of Information Act File (hereafter “FBI FOIA”) on Frank Costello (copy in possession of author).

3
. Stephen Fox,
Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America
(New York: William Morrow, 1989), pp. 78–87.

4
. Vincent Teresa with Thomas C. Renner,
My Life in the Mafia
(New York: Doubleday, 1973), p. 118.

5
. United States Constitution, Amendment XXI;
State Board of Equalization of California v. Young's Market Co.
, 299 U.S. 59 (1936).

6
. New York State Liquor Authority,
ABC News
8, no. 8 (March 1941), p. 20.

7
. Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and the City's Anti-Corruption Procedures,
Commission Report
(New York: n.p., 1972), p. 133 (hereafter “Knapp Commission Report”).

8
. Eddie Condon,
We Called It Music: A Generation of Jazz
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1992), pp. 123–25; FBI Memorandum, Owen Vincent Madden, May 15, 1953, in FBI FOIA file on Owen Vincent Madden (copy in possession of author); Marion Moore Day and Francis “Doll” Thomas, quoted in Jeff Kisseloff,
You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II
(New York: Schocken Books, 1989), pp. 292, 310; Teddy Wilson,
Teddy Wilson Talks Jazz
(New York: Continuum, 1996), p. 16; Arnold Shaw,
52nd Street: The Street of Jazz
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1971), p. 66.

9
. George Shearing with Alyn Shipton,
Lullaby of Birdland
(New York: Continuum, 2004), p. 84; Shaw,
52nd Street
, p. 66; Ralph Blumenthal,
Stork Club: America's Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Café Society
(New York: Little, Brown, 2000), pp. 78–79; FBI Report, Francisca Castiglia, alias Frank Costello, January 8, 1959, reproduced in Charlie Carr, ed.,
New York Police Files on the Mafia
(New York: Hosehead Productions, 2012), p. 54; Michael Franzese and Dara Matera,
Quitting the Mob: How the “Yuppie Don” Left the Mafia and Lived to Tell His Story
(New York: HarperCollins, 1992), p. 18.

10
. Pops Foster with Tom Stoddard,
The Autobiography of Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazzman
(San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2005), p. 170; Mezz Mezzrow,
Really the Blues
(New York: Citadel, 2001), p. 274; Louis Armstrong, quoted in Terry Teachout,
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), pp. 162–65, 194–95, 206–11.

11
. FBI Airtel, May 9, 1962, Michelino Clemente, in Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Record Group 65 (hereafter “NARA College Park”); Adrian Humphreys,
The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob
(New York: Wiley, 2011), pp. 48–49; Terman,
Copacabana Sexcapades
, p. 11.

12
. FBI Report, Anti-Racketeering, January 9, 1962, and FBI Report, Frank Bongiorno, November 30, 1961, both in RG 65 (NARA College Park); George Raft, quoted in Lewis Yablonsky,
George Raft
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974), pp. 29, 129.

13
. FBI Memorandum, Francis Sinatra, September 29, 1950, in FBI FOIA file on Frank Sinatra (copy in possession of author); FBI Report, Frank Sinatra, July 20, 1973, in FBI FOIA file on Angelo DeCarlo (copy in possession of author); FBI Memorandum Re: Santo Trafficante Jr., March 9, 1967, in RG 65 (NARA College Park).

14
. J. Randy Taraborrelli,
Sinatra: Behind the Legend
(New York: Carol, 1997), pp. 64, 88–89, 271–72, 392, citing
American Mercury
72, no. 332 (August 1951): 29–36;
Hearings before the House Select Committee on Crime: Organized Crime in Sports
, House of Representatives, 92nd Cong., 2d. Sess. (1973), 731–55, 818–35, 1105–27 (testimonies of Joseph Barboza and Charles Carson).

15
. Teresa,
My Life in the Mafia
, p. 123; George Jacobs and William Stadiem,
Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra
(New York: HarperCollins, 2003), p. 82; Tina Sinatra,
My Father's Daughter: A Memoir
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000), p. 73.

16
.
Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce: Legalizing Transportation of Prize-Fight Films
, Senate, 67th Cong., 1st Sess. (1939); State of New York,
Report of the Joint Legislative Committee on Professional Boxing
(Albany, NY: n.p., 1963), pp. 11–13; Fox,
Blood and Power
, pp. 351–57;
Professional Boxing: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary: Part 3
, Senate, 87th Cong., 1st Sess. (1961), 1297–98 (testimony of Tommy Loughran) (“Senate Boxing Hearings”).