The David Petillo piece was very informative stuff. Friends of mine in New York told me about him, the crossdressing thing was pretty well known through the grapevine.

Today I was looking through some old blogs about New York City history. Was "The Broadway Mob" its own gang in the form of rules and hierarchy, or were Luciano, Adonis, Siegel, and Lansky independent operators with mutually intertwined interests?