lets start a new thread on the Trivia's on organized crime. lets start with . . .

-Lepke Buchalter is the only mob kingpin to go to the electric chair.
-Henry Hill was circumcised after he got married. 21 years old.
-Jimmy Burke always rooted for the bad guys in the movies.
-Anthony Spilotro had an affair with Frank Rosenthal's wife.
-Meyer Lansky's height is below 5 ft.
-etc.
please dont hesitate to share yours. molto grazie!

GoodFella

-Dutch Schultz converted from being a jew, to a protestant, to a catholic throughout his career.
-The Gambinos once had a contract on Frank Sinatra's head, but he shaped up in time.
-It is said that the opening sequence in the Godfather is modeled after the wedding of Salvatore and Rosalie Bonanno.
-The National Enquirer was originally funded by Frank Costello.

-Lucky Luciano in his youth started his first racket asking younger kids for a penny for their protection.
-Joseph Kennedy made his fortune in the bootlegging business with the Mafia.
-Old Mafiosi's don't like their wives doing blowjobs coz they belive only whores do this. and most of them don't wear moustache.
Mobsters call their girlfriend os mistress "Comare".
-Abe Reles became known as the "Canary of Murder Inc." after he gave details to their killings which in some he participated.

GoodFella

Great thread my good friend. Here are mines:

Shortly after opening up a brothel in Cicero, Torrio took his elderly mother back to live in Italy, leaving Capone in charge of the business in Cicero. Capone made it clear that he wanted an all-out conquest of the town. He installed his older brother Frank (Salvatore), a handsome and respectable-looking man of twenty-nine, as the front man with the Cicero city government. Ralph was tasked with opening up a working-class brothel called the Stockade for Cicero's heavily blue-collar population. Al focused on gambling and took an interest in a new gambling joint called the Ship. He also took control of the Hawthorne Race Track.

"Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system."
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947)

"I have built my organization upon fear."
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947)

"If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you."
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947)

"This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947)

"When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality."
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947)

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947)

6th Grade

Though he was brilliant in his own entrepreneureal business, Al Capone was thrown out of school in the sixth grade.

Al Capone Cashed In!

Al Capone controlled speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses, brothels, horse and race tracks, nightclubs, distilleries and breweries at a reported income of $100,000,000 a year.

Al Capone the Nice Guy
Although Capone ordered dozens of deaths and even killed with his own hands, he often treated people fairly and generously. He was the first to open soup kitchens after the 1929 stock market crash and he ordered merchants to give clothes and food to the needy at his expense.

Arrested for Three Killings
Al Capone was arrested in 1926 for killing three people, but spent only one night in jail because there was insufficient evidence to connect him with the murders.

Attempts On Al Capone
Attempts on Capone's life were never successful. He had an extensive spy network in Chicago, from newspaper boys to policemen, so that any plots against him were quickly discovered.

Vito Genovese landed his wife by killing her fiancee. Later she turned out to be bisexual, and her testimony helped send him to jail.
Genovese ingratiated himself with Mussolini by having Carmine Galante murder Carlo Tresca, a noted anti-fascist. After enjoying Mussolini's hospitality to escape a murder rap in the US, Genovese turned up in Sicily to welcome the Allied soldiers fighting Mussolini. He was so valued that they turned their backs on his black marketeering.

-Sam Giancana's daughter Antonette had her first experience in Sex with a priest, Father Joe. who happens to be Sam's close friend.
-Jac "Machine Gun" Mc Gurn, on of the suspected killers of St Valentines Day Massacre was the one who brought Sam into the infamous Capone Gang. Both of them were members of The 42's, their childhood street gang.
-Jimmy Burke never knew his real parents, when and where he was born. according to the records he was born July 5 to a woman named "Conway."

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Capone and His Taxes
Capone never filed an income tax return, owned nothing in his own name, and never made a declaration of assets or income.

Capone in Alcatraz
Because word spread that Capone had taken over in the federal prison in Atlanta, he was sent to Alcatraz. There were no other "outfit" members in Alcatraz, and security was so tight that he had no knowledge of the outside world. He was unable to control anyone or anything and could not buy influence or friends. In an attempt to earn time off for good behavior, Capone became the ideal prisoner and refused to participate in prisoner rebellions or strikes.

-Henry Hill fenced a million dollar worth of jewelries they robbed from Estee Lauder.
-Frank Sinatra records his songs only once and never go for the second for improvement. Frankie hated listeninf to his songs.
-Henry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss could ice-pick his victims through the ear in movie houses without drawing attention from the moviegoers.
-Sam Giancan and JFK shared the same mistress.

GoodFella

Capone in Atlanta
In May 1932, Capone was sent to Atlanta, the toughest of the federal prisons, to begin his eleven-year sentence. Even in prison Capone took control, obtaining special privileges from the authorities such as furnishing his cell with a mirror, typewriter, rugs, and a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Capone in the 'Burbs
Al Capone expanded into the suburbs, sometimes using terror as in Forest View, which became known as "Caponeville." Sometimes he simply bribed public officials and the police as in Cicero. He established suburban headquarters in Cicero's Anton Hotel at 4835 W. 22nd Street and in the Hawthorne Hotel at 4823 22nd Street. He pretended to be an antique dealer and a doctor to front his headquarters.