Thanks very much for the FBI link. I am now in Boston, but from New York originally. I have always been interested in the mob and know a fair amount about the NY scene from the 20's through 60's. I am writing something about the 1950's now, and as part of this I am investigating the nationwide crime scene at that time. I am especially interested in the lesser-known areas and the mobs in them, like Reading PA, Dallas-Ft Worth, downstate Illinois, and of course the Youngstown-Steel Valley-W Va Panhandle area. If you're a New Yorker like me, you may get the idea that the classic syndicate was just a big city thing, but I am learning that was very far from the case.

I am also interested in Youngstown and area because it seems to have been a particularly crazy, brazen, and violent scene, far from what you'd expect for the 1950's. I think Allan May likened it to Hammett's Personville. I am surprised that no one has written a novel or made a movie about it all. (Yes, there is Kill the Irishman, but that is Cleveland.)