One of the very first, and certainly one of the most important early Brooklyn based, Calabrian born racketeers in America was the iconic Frankie Yale.

He is the one man who formed the original nucleus of what would later become a very powerful faction of Calabrian and Neapolitan racketeers later absorbed into the mafia and the newly formed Luciano/Genovese Family, and several other New York borgatas for that matter.

Dead by thirty-five years old, Frankie himself never survived to see the full expansion of what was to later become Cosa Nostra, but make no mistake about, because this Calabrese’s well massaged-manicured hands were stamped all over the fledgling nationwide, monolithic underworld that would come to be!

.....and now, Francesco Ioele

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