I 2day ,also have come 2 the conclusion that the author needs 2 fact check a little bit of his shit b4 he writes certain things.

Tony Dark Books on Chicago outfit are Good he Done 3 books so far .Sam Giancana FBI Files. Sam Destefano and the Juice Rackets . Mob Boss Paul Ricca Tony Accardo . really good if you like reading about the OUTFIT get these 3 books

I'm reading the Linda Scarpa book, the daughter, she seems to have liked Larry. So far this book is readable. You're about not being any good books lately. I thought the Leonetti book was a masterpiece. The Al D'arco book was readable, but a big disappointment. There was so much going on during that era there could be an encyclopedia of stories but he barely mentioned or totally ignored too many people and events. He paid way too much attention to that restaurant of his.

I finished the Linda Scarpa book, and my she is a delusional little snot. I understand she loved her father and brother, it's only natural. She talks them being great guys, her brother Joey would give ya the shirt off his back! He killed his best friend, he killed another teenager on church steps for nothing. She acted like he was a shy little boy, but he abused his position being a made mans son. His only job was selling jobs and robbing other drug dealers. There is nothing one can do to justify the actions of he father, but she does, it was the AIDS. Scarpa was just a regular family man before he got AIDS. It was a sad book, and shows how messed up that life is.

I just finished the Tommy Pitera book by Philip Carlo. Holy sh*t was this bad. I couldn't stand his writing style.

I just bought the book, I am halfway through and enjoying it thus far. Thanks for the recommendation.

This book was coming out on vinny asoro and his last trial i think he might have giving the author tony destefano a few words. But hes lrobalyy gonna have to hold the book up cause the recent arrest. It lookd promising for the lowly mob books coming out lately.

A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno. I knew going in that he was going to deny certain things and make himself look better than he was, but this was still an interesting read. Definitely gave me a better understanding of how Cosa Nostra was formed in the US, plus there were a few bits of info about mob history you don't often hear about. Like Frank Costello and Tommy Luchese both trying to control NY politics.

@ Mighty

That book is REALLY underrated, people get into their feelings about it, which considering how old the guy was, I could never understand. When they say, like automatically Costello had the " Best" , or " Most" political clout of all time, I really think people haven't done the research... He couldn't control the Mayor, (LaGuardia) or the governor ( Dewey), when you had Mafiosi who had their whole territory on total lock, like Chitown, The Pendergast machine, Marcello, I actually think Luchesse and Adonis easily rivaled Costello inNY politics at the time....

@ ciment @ moe


You know what baffles me about that book? I still have no fuckin idea if Casso was wacking rats, or just making a lot of it up. The book makes it seem like, these guys were all rats. They also make Kaplan look like the real brains behind Casso, kinda...

I'm reading "Betrayal in Blue." It's about corrupt NYPD in the 80'S AND EARLY 90'S who were corrupt and scumbag cops. They were robbing drug dealers and working for them. They were working out of a precinct in East New York, Brooklyn, so far a really good read. Not sure what to read next, my previous two books were Greg Kading book on the Biggie and Pac murders, and the Linda Scarpa book. I forgot I read a book on the Hillside Strangers between those two, another good one. There are no good mafia books out right now, I was thinking about the Gotti Jr book but he can't really give out too much info. I'm looking at more books about the 80's and 90's drug era...

The answer to this is best described at the bottom of page 48.

"Together,Amuso and Casso possessed a toxic combination of incompetence,violence and paranoia."
"They killed anyone they suspected of snitching, or having the potential to snitch."

Once paranoia takes place even the people around you also become paranoid and will snitch even though they originally had no intention to do so. Especially in the criminal world when your life is on the line.

It must be a shitty way to live being consumed with paranoia and surrounded by deceit.

Amuso got so paranoid towards the end that he thought even Casso was siphoning off money owed to him (he probably was).

When Vic sent his brother to collect off Casso, Casso supposedly said: "tell your brother not everything is about money; everything is about money with him".

They were all screwing each other left, right and center; Vic, Gas, D'Arco.

The wanton bloodshed existed at all levels of the organization.

Avellino and Baratta arranging the murder of Kubecka and Barstow was insanely evil and stupid.

It's INCREDIBLE that they aren't serving life in prison for that.

Check out the documentary "The Seven-Five". It's about the same corrupt cops. Has interviews with them, the cops investigating them and the drug dealer they were working for! It's great.

I also thought highly interesting.(the doc)

I'm going to try and watch it this weekend, the book was great. I was watching Mike Dowd on that Joey Diaz podcast on YouTube, and Dowd comes off as an unrepentant jerk. I wouldn't be surprised if he got innocent people sent to prison. Didn't he start a business with Adam Diaz, one of the guys who rated of him?

Yeah, they sell cigars now

http://nypost.com/2016/02/23/dirty-cop-a...oklyn-precinct/

I'm nearly done DiCarlo volume 2. Really impressed with these 2 books. Tons of info. Not just buffalo either. Highly recommend these 2 books to anyone with an interest in American LCN history

Canadian writer Jerry Prager's Legends of the Morgeti 1909-1949 apparently became available for sale back in February. Prior to the publication of this book, Prager had written three volumes on this subject--the Calabrian mafia originating from San Giorgio Morgeto and that settled in Canada--the first and second of which are hard to find for sale unless you are willing to plunk down a lot of cash. The new book for sale seems to combine most if not all the material from the first two volumes (these two volumes comprise material dating to 1949/1950) and is only $25.00 Canadian. Prager plans to publish a second book that will include the material from volume 3 (this volume comprised material dating from 1950 to 1963), plus new material that will take the reader to 2001. Whether and when Prager is successful in publishing this second book remains to be seen.

See http://morgeti.blogspot.ca/2017/02/finally-available.html. I'd advise zooming in on the image to read what material from volumes 1 and 2 are not available in this new publication.

If you want to order the new book online, go to http://www.bookshelf.ca/product/view/9781896312118. Should you live outside of Canada, contact the bookseller to see whether it will ship to your country.

The Whisky King by Trevor Cole is yet another book that examines Canadian bootlegger Rocco Perri. But it sets itself apart from the others by intertwining the story of RCMP officer Frank Zaneth (real name: Franco Zanetti).

Links to Trevor Cole's blog posts about his new book:

http://www.trevorcole.com/blog/2017/04/07/the-whisky-king/
http://www.trevorcole.com/blog/2017/04/17/the-whisky-king-not-just-a-hamilton-story/

Links to publisher's pages for this book:

http://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443442237/the-whisky-king (Canada)
https://www.harpercollins.com/9781443442237/the-whisky-king (US)

It looks good. I was reading it at chapters on Saturday, looks to be a well written book for sure. Still unsure if I will get it, only because I've already read Dubros book on perri

This legends of the morgeti thing looks interesting too. Hope he can publish the 2nd one too

watched it on netflix, boy were those cops over the line !

also just finished the book, '"the president st. boys" growing up mafia, by frank di matteo. he seems to think the gallo gang had a lot more influence that is generally know, he also thinks he's god's gift to women. i would like to hear opinions on the book and the wise guy who wrote it.

He's not a wiseguy in the literal sense. His father is a made guy in the DeCalvacante's, supposedly. And his anecdotes about the Gallos are more or less true. You just don't get the full story from the typical sources because all they like to talk about is how crazy Joey was. He's right in that Larry Gallo was the brains behind the operation and for some time, they were considered a family within a family. And when they started to rebel against Profaci, they were sort of looked at as a Sixth Family. He's also right in the sense that, many mob guys who went on to be some real hitters, got their start in the Gallo crew, ie. Bobby Borriello, Tony Shots, and so on and so on. Frankie DiMatteo himself was just a young guy coming up around other young guys on President Street, he knew the stories and probably did some knockaround shit of his own, but he wasn't a wiseguy by any means, more like a civilian.

thank you, in the book he gives the impression he was an associate, like when he had a sitdown with anellio dellacrace, why was he important enough to rate a sitdown with an underboss, if indeed it ever happened at all.

Come on now, Binnie and SinatraClub. How many times do I have to tell you guys about buying what these wannabes are selling?? Have you even googled that guy's name? Look at how he acts. He acts as though he's been dropped on his head too many fn times as a baby. And you just bought his book

Just send your money to me next time you want to buy a book. Can't go wrong with Alfano. I'll tell you any story you wanna hear.

lol,lol, ok kid, you are right you know, especially about this one,

Hello alfano,can u tell me a bedtime story? remember,im hot 4 the ladies..r u as hot as ur avatar??wanna go grab some wings & beer?lol..just messin.

yes, hoodlum, alfano is a gorgeous girl. you must have missed her photo's one halloween, she was dressed as a moll, and she was very, very pretty and a shape every girl in N.J. would commit cold blooded murder for, just as slender as a ray of moonlight coming through a window, i can say these things because im 75 yrs old, if i were much, much, younger but....... good luck to you hoodlum..... lol