Criminals aren’t complicated, Alfred. Just have to figure out what he’s after – Bruce Wayne, The Dark Knight Pizza Connection During the 1970s, the Sicilian mafia began smuggling drugs into the United States. The narcotics reached their destination—New York—after detouring across the Midwest. At which point, members of the American…...
Bonanno family
Inducted
Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface- A.E Waite Secret Societies Secret societies have existed throughout history, piquing people’s curiosity. Clandestine organizations with carefully selected members who…...
Festa San Gennaro Festa della mafia
“Extortion rarely paves the straightest path to truth”-Douglas J. Bornemann Italian native Januarius, known as Gennaro, became a priest in his birthplace of Benevento. He eventually went on to become a bishop. On the 19th of September 305AD, Gennaro visited two friends in prison. While he was there, the jailers…...
Hitting Lilo-Pt.2
Part 2 The Sicilians Salvatore “Toto” Catalano shared Carmine Galante’s dream of building a heroin pipeline from Sicily to New York. There was only one thing stopping him from being on the receiving end of that pipeline: Carmine Galante. Catalano, a Sicilian native, despised the fact that Galante, an American,…...
Bonanno Boss- Out on bail
In 1984, police found the body of a woman sprawled on a bench outside Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx. A short time later, the victim’s identity became known, Evelina Mancuso. An autopsy revealed she had two gunshot wounds to her head. The murder investigation focused on the victim’s husband, Michael…...
Pizza Connection Turmoil
“These 19 defendants, along with their co-conspirators…agreed and conspired to work as narcotic racketeers in order to generate millions of dollars…When it’s all said and done, the case before you is about two commodities-dollars and drugs…” – Prosecutor Louis J. Fresh “It is a tremendous victory in the effort to…...
Colombo Administration Bust
“…This Office and its law enforcement partners are committed to dismantling organized crime families, eliminating their corrupt influence in our communities, and protecting the independence of labor unions.” – Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, Acting United States Attorney Entire Administration The FBI rounded up the entire administration for the Colombo crime family…...