Gangsters And Organized Crime In Buffalo
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Author |
: Michael F. Rizzo |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2012-06-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781614235491 |
ISBN-13 |
: 161423549X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gangsters and Organized Crime in Buffalo by : Michael F. Rizzo
Take a tour of Buffalo, NY's mobster and mafia history. Local mob expert reveals gangsters' stories, hangouts and more. Buffalo has housed its fair share of thugs and mobsters. Besides common criminals and bank robbers, a powerful crime family headed by local boss Stefano Magaddino emerged in the 1920s. Close to Canada, Niagara Falls and Buffalo were perfect avenues through which to transport booze, and Magaddino and his Mafiosi maintained a stranglehold on the city until his death in 1974. Local mob expert Michael Rizzo takes a tour of Buffalo's mafia exploits everything from these brutal gangsters' favorite hangouts to secret underground tunnels to murder.
Author |
: Michael Rizzo |
Publisher |
: History Press Library Editions |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2012-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1540206866 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781540206862 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gangsters and Organized Crime in Buffalo by : Michael Rizzo
Author |
: David Lane |
Publisher |
: Profile Books |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2010-12-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847651990 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847651992 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Into the Heart of the Mafia by : David Lane
Lane shows how globalisation has transformed the Mafia into more than simply a local phenomenon. It describes in painful detail the daily accommodation to Mafia pressure endured by priests, politicians and prosecutors, businessmen, trade unionists and ordinary citizens. At the same time he incorporates a portrait of the South's long and tumultuous history and powerful flavours to provide a richly coloured portrait of a European region under siege.
Author |
: MR Matt Gryta |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2012-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0974925365 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780974925363 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Real Teflon Don by : MR Matt Gryta
The two most famous mobsters of the twentieth century were Al Capone and Don Corleone. The most powerful American mobster of the twentieth century was Stefano Magaddino. This book tells the story of a decade-long war against the Magaddino crime family waged by an elite stealth New York State police team. Veteran crime reporter Matt Gryta, who covered many of the events and trials described in the book, and former State Trooper George Karalus, a member of the undercover unit that shadowed Magaddino, have teamed up to tell the story of the secret unit's war against the Mafia. From The Real Teflon Don: "Magaddino quieted the complaints about his Apalachin strategy by issuing "assignments" that led to the deaths of several of his biggest mob critics. As Magaddino always did when he approved an "assignment" to have someone killed he said nothing, but raised his right hand over his head. His henchmen knew that meant the "assignment" had his approval. His Apalachin "critics" were handled that way, quieting the criticism fairly quickly within years of that public embarrassment for the entire mob family nationwide."
Author |
: Thomas E. Leary |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0752408291 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780752408293 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Buffalo's Waterfront by : Thomas E. Leary
Author |
: Joe Griffin |
Publisher |
: Prometheus Books |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2010-09-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781615924028 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1615924027 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mob Nemesis by : Joe Griffin
While J. Edgar Hoover was denying that there was such a thing as organized crime, in the forties, fifties, and sixties the mob was busy forming powerful syndicates in many northeastern cities. This book tells the fascinating, first-hand story of how FBI Special Agent Joe Griffin, with the help of a team of courageous professionals, succeeded through dogged determination and uncanny street smarts to convict major La Cosa Nostra leaders in Buffalo, Cleveland, Rochester, and Youngstown. Forget Hollywood''s version of the mafia; this is the real inside story from a man who observed the day-by-day behavior of these "instinctual killers" and for whom "it was a matter of principle to destroy them." FBI Medal of Valor recipient Joe Griffin, with the help of writer/researcher Don DeNevi, provides intimate details of mob intrigue, drug deals, gambling rings, hits, bloody gangland wars, and even a plot to plant a "mole" in the Cleveland FBI office. All the more fascinating because it''s true, Mob Nemesis is an engrossing story of the underworld from a man who took them on and won.
Author |
: Peter Edwards |
Publisher |
: Vintage Canada |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2022-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780735275416 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0735275416 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wolfpack by : Peter Edwards
Joined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Nájera, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards introduces a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival in Canada of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations: the drug cartels of Mexico. A man watching the Euro Cup on a restaurant patio is shot dead on a busy Sunday afternoon in Toronto. Another dies in a sidewalk ambush just outside a bus-tling college campus. Two men in a Vancouver hotel lobby are gunned down in an attack that sends an American soccer star scrambling for cover. In Mexico, a Canadian is killed at a Nuevo Vallarta coffee shop, his death barely registering amidst the terrifying death tolls of President Calderón’s war on drugs and the cartels’ response; while a Montreal cop is beaten within an inch of his life in a Playa del Carmen nightclub. An infamous heckler from an NBA Toronto Raptors game turns up dead in a bullet-riddled car in a midtown lane-way. Throughout the 2010s, these and other disparate acts of violence entered the public awareness like iso-lated tragedies—but there was nothing isolated about them. In this masterly investigation, veteran journalists Peter Edwards and Luis Nájera introduce readers to the common cause of a near-decade of chaos. Meet the Wolfpack, millennial-aged gangsters from across the spectrum of Canada’s underworld. Vying to fast-track their way into the criminal void left by the death of Montreal godfather Vito Rizzuto, the Wolfpack sought advantage in a steady supply of cocaine from El Chapo Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel, among the deadliest and most far-reaching of criminal organizations. The juniors had just stepped into the big leagues. This is the roiling landscape of The Wolfpack, a brilliant examination of a time of criminal disruption and rapid adaptation, when one gang’s unchecked ambition unwittingly gave away the most hotly contested corner of the Canadian underworld without a fight. Brazen criminal disruptors or entitled upstarts looking to get rich without paying their dues--whatever you think of them, you will never forget the Wolfpack.
Author |
: Ronald Fino |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2020-07-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 108788599X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781087885995 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Mr. Undercover: The True Story of Undercover Operative Ronald Fino by : Ronald Fino
Ronald Fino, one of the FBI's foremost undercover operatives, does not scare easily.That is why he's not afraid to name names in this undercover exposé. For years, Fino wanted to write about his experiences, but each time the FBI managed to stop him. Even requests from major authors like Tom Clancy were placed on old. Today, Ronald Fino is retired from his service to the FBI and is ready to tell his story. Because of his unique position as the son of a Mafia boss, Fino got to know the ins and outs of organized crime from the ground up. He learned how they control members of Congress and local officials as well as their ties to presidents, politicians, and law enforcement officials.But working to bring mob members to justice and exposing political corruption wasn't enough for Fino. He also managed to infiltrate the Russian Mafia, made underground contact with Muslim terrorists, and exposed illegal arms smugglers, child porn organizers, narcotics dealers, and international money launderers. It's all here. It's all true. And as Ronald Fino says, "It's not going away anytime soon."
Author |
: Tommy Dades |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 2009-05-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061876325 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0061876321 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Friends of the Family by : Tommy Dades
“One of the most spectacular cases of police corruption in the city.” —New York Times Friends of the Family is a look deep inside the most notorious case to rock the NYPD: The story of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, the two police detectives who moonlighted as mob hit men. As told by Tommy Dades and Michael Vecchione—the cop and District Attorney investigator who solved New York’s coldest case—along with co-writer David Fisher, Friends of the Family is shocking true crime in the tradition of Nicolas Pileggi’s Wiseguys and Underboss by Peter Mass—a chilling, in-depth examination of what the New York Daily News calls “the worst betrayal of the badge in the NYPD’s history.”
Author |
: Mark Goldman |
Publisher |
: Prometheus Books |
Total Pages |
: 423 |
Release |
: 2010-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781615920679 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1615920676 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis City on the Edge by : Mark Goldman
BUFFALO, NEW YORK IS ENJOYING A RESURGENCE, AND HAS BECOME A RECOMMENDED TRAVEL DESTINATION. THIS BOOK TELLS THE STORY OF HOW IT GOT HERE. In a sweeping narrative that speaks to the serious student of urban studies as well as the general reader, Mark Goldman tells the story of twentieth-century Buffalo, New York. Goldman covers all of the major developments: - The rise and decline of the city's downtown and ethnic neighborhoods - The impact of racial change and suburbanization - The role and function of the arts in the life of the community - Urban politics, urban design, and city planning While describing the changes that so drastically altered the form, function, and character of the city, Goldman, through detailed descriptions of special people and special places, gives a sense of intimacy and immediacy to these otherwise impersonal historical forces. City on the Edge unflinchingly documents and describes how Buffalo has been battered by the tides of history. But it also describes the unique characteristics that have encouraged an innovative cultural climate, including Buffalo's dynamic survival instinct that continues to lead to a surprisingly and inspiringly high quality of community life. Finally, it offers a road map, which-if followed-could point the way to a new and exciting future for this long-troubled city.