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THE SECRET SERVICE'S INVESTIGATIONS
In the summer of 1909, the secret services received complaints from banks and shop owners for the large amount of counterfeit currency injected. init…
4 years, 8 months ago
COUNTERFEIGHT IN HIGHLAND (2° part)
In January 1909, media were procured for printing the counterfeit dollars. Therefore Comito and the men on the farm began printing Canadian $ 5 proof…
4 years, 10 months ago
COUNTERFEIGHT IN HIGHLAND (1° part)
The character on which this case revolves is Antonio Comito. Born in 1880 in Catanzaro, before emigrating to New York in June 1907, he had worked as …
4 years, 10 months ago
THE TWO MURDERS ATTRIBUTED TO THE MORELLO GANG
Music by Syon (Thomas Nicosia) Prelude in Em. The crimes for which the Morello gang was suspected were numerous and varied. Most of these went undisc…
4 years, 11 months ago
LUPO WOLF
Music by Syon (Thomas Nicosia) Prelude in Em. Ignazio Lupo was born in Palermo in March 1877. His family of origin was part of a Palermo mafia gang a…
4 years, 11 months ago
GIUSEPPE MORELLO LEADS THE FIRST MAFIA FAMILY IN AMERICA
Music by Syon (Thomas Nicosia) Prelude in Em. Giuseppe Morello was another and dangerous, he used to wear a .45 caliber pistol on his belt and a knif…
5 years ago
THE FIRST AMERICAN MAFIA FAMILY
Music by Syon (Thomas Nicosia) Prelude in Em
Thanks to the investigations of the Secret Services aimed at the contrast and the falsification and spend…
5 years, 1 month ago
THIS IS NOT THE AMERICAN DREAM
Music by Syon (Thomas Nicosia) Prelude in Em
It is not the American dream that pushes Italian migrants to reach the American shores. Therefore to unde…
5 years, 1 month ago
EXTORTION LETTERS
The activity of extortion always began with a latch letter of which a dark association called The Black Hand materializes. What was a letter of scroc…
5 years, 1 month ago
THE BLACK HAND
Music by Syon (Thomas Nicosia) Prelude in Em
In the early years of the twentieth century a wave of terror unprecedented in peacetime crossed the Unite…
5 years, 2 months ago