The Mob and Air Freight

I was going to post this in the thread I made about the Outfit, but I didn't find any real connections, but I did find a couple of interesting articles;

First, how I came about these articles. I know an older Irish woman named Dorothy Daugherty, she is like 85 years old, she " adopted me" ( lol) as her grandson. She lives alone and likes to talk to me from time to time, she has a million stories. She was telling me one of them for like the tenth time, but there was a variation that caught my attention this time. She worked as a clerk or secretary or something for one of Marshal Korshak's top guys, I got to get his last name, Jerry something. Big labor lawyer. Anyway she starts talking about some woman named, Francis, or something, I forget, but the main thing was that she was the daughter of the guy (John I think?) that owned Emory Air Freight.

This name Emory stuck in my head because of Jimmy Emory, the Outfit guy. So I went looking for connections, and instead, found these articles.



https://books.google.com/books?id=qVMEAA...fia&f=false


https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19790603&id=LjEoAAAAIBAJ&sjid=W78EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6818,818486&hl=en





Two main things I found interesting cause I never read it anywhere before;




1. That the mob was instituting an Air Freight trade association, much like the Garbage one, run by Hickey DiLorenzo.



2. I was under the impression that the airports were a strictly Luchesse-Gambino thing. But the newspaper article has Philly Lucky Giaccone as a MAJOR POWER in the air freight industry, by infiltrating the companies. DiLorenzo had the trade association, I guess the Gambino-Luchesses had the Teamsters unions, under or through Dioguardi.

Any thoughts?

It's something you'll find across a lot of the mobbed up industries back in the day - even though there would be be a dominant family in a particular one, others would often be involved.

A 1987 Fortune Magazine article talked about how Bonanno and Colombo controlled IBT locals came close to getting contracts at JFK. JFK was always mainly a Lucchese racket, especially in terms of controlling the Teamsters and extortion of companies, but the other 4 NY families also had a presence there. I think a lot of people, including myself, were surprised by the level of Bonanno involvement in Lufthansa.

Anyway, you see the same thing in other areas. The Gambinos and Luccheses were the biggest in the garment center but the Genovese and Colombos also had a presence. Even the Bonannos did early on. The Genovese were the main family in the Javits Center but a couple others also had a presence.