The Mob and the City (57 page)

90
. Mike Dash,
The First Family: Terror, Extortion, and the Birth of the American Mafia
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009), pp. 274, 396 (citing Secret Service Dailies, RG 87, NARA College Park).

91
. Thomas Hunt and Michael A. Tona, “The Good Killers: 1921's Glimpse of the Mafia” (2007), available at
http://www.onewal.com/a014/f_goodkillers.html
(accessed August 4, 2013).

92
. Nick Gentile,
Vita di Capomafia
(Rome: Editori Riuniti, 1963), pp. 160–62; Cable to Mr. Fuller, March 29, 1940, and Telegram from American Embassy in Rome, December 19, 1940, in Gentile File, Box 7, Name Files of Suspected Narcotics Traffickers, 1923–54, RG 59 (NARA College Park).

93
. Daily Report of Agents, Detroit, May 16, 1922, in Secret Service Dailies, RG 87, NARA College Park. Thanks to Angelo Santino and Rick Warner for this citation.

94
. Testimony of Melchiorre Allegra (1937),
L'Ora
articles transcribed by Extra-Legal Governance Institute (ExLEGI), University of Oxford, available at
http://www.exlegi.ox.ac.uk/resources/allegra.asp
(accessed August 25, 2013) (cited in Critchley,
Origin of Organized Crime
, p. 62).

95
. See chapter 9;
Final Report of the Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Senate Report No. 1139
, Senate, 86th Cong., 2d Sess. (1960), 500.

96
.
New York Crime Commission, Public Hearing (no. 4)
(1952), 222 (testimony of George White); Maas,
Valachi Papers
, pp. 200, 219–21.

97
. Charles Siragusa,
The Trail of the Poppy: Behind the Mask of the Mafia
(Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966), pp. 70–71; Maas,
Valachi Papers
, pp. 212–14.

98
.
Binghamton Press
, July 19, 1958;
New York Times
, July 20, 1958.

99
. FBI Special Summary Report: Angelo Bruno, July 28, 1962 (copy in possession of author). My thanks to David Critchley for supplying this document.

100
. 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7); Anthony Villano,
Brick Agent: Inside the Mafia for the FBI
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), p. 91.

101
.
The Godfather Part III
(Paramount Pictures 1990); “Members Only,”
The Sopranos
(HBO, 2006).

102
.
Organized Crime: 25 Years after Valachi
, 270–71 (testimony of Valachi).

103
. FBI Interview with William Medico, June 25, 1959, in RG 65 (NARA College Park);
Lockport Union-Sun and Journal
, April 3, 1970. I thank David Critchley for bringing the FBI interview of Medico to my attention.

104
. New York FBI Report, La Cosa Nostra, September 26, 1968, in RG 65 (NARA College Park);
Organized Crime: 25 Years after Valachi
, 302 (testimony of Shanley); San Diego FBI Report, La Cosa Nostra, August 22, 1968, in RG 65 (NARA College Park).

105
. Gentile,
Vita di Capomafia
, p. 173.

106
. Calderone,
Men of Dishonor
, p. 156.

107
. This list is drawn from soldiers identified in
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) (“McClellan Committee charts”). For their backgrounds, I cross-referenced the names of soldiers with genealogical records from
Ancestry.com
, newspaper articles, FBI reports, and the 1950s versions of the FBN's International List of Persons Known to Be or Suspected of Being Engaged in the Illicit Traffic in Narcotics Drugs, June 30, 1956, in Box 175, RG 10 (NARA College Park). I eliminated names from the charts if the soldier died before 1955, there was insufficient information on his background, or he was based outside of New York City. For example, while James Colletti is listed as a Bonanno Family soldier, he was effectively the boss of Pueblo, Colorado.

CHAPTER 8: MOUTHPIECES FOR THE MOB: CROOKED COPS, MOB LAWYERS, AND DIRECTOR HOOVER

1
. Contrary to initial reports, Ciro Terranova was not present.
New York Times
, December 13 and December 17, 1929, and February 16, 1930;
Brooklyn Standard Union
, December 30, 1929;
New York Sun
, January 20, 1930.

2
.
New York Times
, December 8 and December 24, 1929.

3
.
New York Times
, September 29, 1929, December 22, 1929, and March 13 and March 14, 1930.

4
.
New York Times
, June 25, 1930, August 21, 1931.

5
.
Report and Proceedings of the Senate Committee Appointed to Investigate the Police Department of the City of New York
(Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon, 1895);
Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and the City's Anti-Corruption Procedures, Commission Report
(New York: n.p., 1972).

6
. Nicholas Pileggi,
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985), pp. 50, 107.

7
. Robert Leuci,
All the Centurions: A New York City Cop Remembers His Years on the Street, 1961–1981
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004), pp. 219–20.

8
. Brian McDonald,
My Father's Gun: One Family, Three Badges, One Hundred Years in the NYPD
(New York: Penguin, 1999), p. 177.

9
. Peter Maas,
Serpico
(New York: Viking Press, 1973), pp. 306–307.

10
. Harold R. Danforth and James D. Horan,
The D. A.'s Man
(New York: Crown, 1957), p. 47.

11
. Henry Hill,
Gangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run
(Lanham, MD: M. Evans, 2004), p. 53.

12
. John Harlan Amen,
Report of Kings County Investigation, 1938–1942
(New York: n.p. 1942); Alan Block,
East Side, West Side: Organizing Crime in New York, 1930–1950
(Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1983), pp. 84–85.

13
. Leuci,
All the Centurions
, p. 176.

14
.
New York Times
, December 6, 1972.

15
. George P. LeBrun,
It's Time to Tell
(New York: William Morrow, 1962), pp. 145–46.

16
.
New York Times
, December 11, 1970, September 25, 1972.

17
. FBI criminal record of Antonio Corallo, October 18, 1962, and NYPD criminal record of Alex Di Bruzzi [
sic
], December 31, 1958, reprinted in Charlie Carr, ed.,
New York Police Files on the Mafia
(New York: Hosehead Productions, 2012), pp. 84–85, 232–33.

18
. Richard H. Rovere,
Howe & Hummel: Their True and Scandalous History
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1947), p. 79.

19
.
New York Times
, February 28, 1924.

20
. Samuel Leibowitz, quoted in Quentin Reynolds,
Courtroom: The Story of Samuel S. Leibowitz
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), pp. 417–18.

21
. Evan Thomas,
The Man to See: Edward Bennett Williams; Ultimate Insider; Legendary Trial Lawyer
(New York: Touchstone, 1991), pp. 96, 188.

22
. Frank Ragano and Selwyn Raab,
Mob Lawyer
(New York: Scribners, 1994), p. 362.

23
. Interview with Thomas E. Dewey (1959), in Columbia Center for Oral History (hereafter “COHC”);
New York Times
, January 1, 1970.

24
.
Collier's
, July 22, 1939.

25
. Interview with Dewey (1959) (CCOH), p. 440.

26
.
New York Times
, February 25, 1939, January 27, 1940, January 1, 1970.

27
.
New York Times
, September 10, 1973; FBI Report, Frank DeSimone, June 10, 1958, Airtel to New York, Re: La Cosa Nostra, April 27, 1964, and FBI Report, Los Angeles, May 12, 1965, both in Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Record Group 65, in National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD (hereafter “NARA College Park”).

28
. Robert Cooley with Hillel Levin,
When Corruption Was King: How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago Then Brought the Outfit Down
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004), p. 126.

29
. Robert F. Simone,
The Last Mouthpiece: The Man Who Dared to Defend the Mob
(Philadelphia: Camino Books, 2001), p. xi.

30
. Oscar Goodman with George Anastasia,
Being Oscar: From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas, Only in America
(New York: Weinstein Books, 2013), p. 9.

31
. Thomas Hunt,
Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia
(North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2010);
Utica Observer-Dispatch
, August 19, 1958, June 5, 1959.

32
.
Niagara Falls Gazette
, December 15, 1959.

33
.
Buffalo Courier-Express
, July 23, 1960; Bill Bonanno and Gary Abromovitz,
The Last Testament of Bill Bonanno: The Final Secrets of a Life in the Mafia
(New York: William Morrow, 2011).

34
. Dennis Griffin,
Mob Nemesis: How the FBI Crippled Organized Crime
(New York: Prometheus Books, 2002), p. 36.

35
.
New York Times
, September 5, 1970, June 29, 1971.

36
. Marchi, quoted in Griffin,
Mob Nemesis
, p. 38.

37
. Edward Bennett Williams,
One Man's Freedom
(New York: Atheneum, 1962), pp. 107–108;
Costello v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
, 376 U.S. 120 (1964).

38
.
United States v. Bufalino
, 285 F.2d 408, 419–20 (2d Cir. 1960) (Clark, J., concurring).

39
. Luciano, quoted in Sid Feder and Joachim Joesten,
The Luciano Story
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1954), p. 311.

40
. James B. Jacobs, Coleen Friel, and Robert Radick,
Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime
(New York: New York University Press, 2001), pp. 18, 229–30.

41
. Anthony Summers,
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
(New York: Putnam, 1993).

42
. Athan Theoharis,
J. Edgar Hoover, Sex, and Crime: An Historical Attitude
(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995), pp. 23–55; Peter Maas, “Setting the Record Straight,”
Esquire
(May 1993): 56–58.