Does anybody know good sites or info about this??

This site *CLICK* already gives some interesting things, but not enough for me.

I also have two specific questions. On that site, I read this: Did anybody ever hear about these Farach bros.? Where they Sicilians?
Is this the same Scalise which was one of the Valentines Day Massacre murders?

Thanks for the site, it looks very intresting, i'll have a read later... and just out of curiosity, who do you think has the most passion for the mafioso culture, the man who lives for it and it lives for him.

Enzo, I was unable to find anything more on the Farach brothers than in the site you posted. But I can tell you that the Frank Scalise who was whacked in NY in 1930 was not Capone's Scalise--he was John Scalise who, along with Albert Anselmi, was one of Capone's most-often-used assassins.

I read somewhere that John Scalise and Albert Anselmi used to dip their bullets into garlic before loading them into their guns before committing murder, so that if the wounds left by the bullet they shot into their victims' bodies didn't kill them, the garlic would surrounding the bullet would kill them by poisoning.

"Yeah, I HEARD that story," as Woltz would say.
Many such stories accumulated around the Capone mob. One of them was that Snorky himself rubbed his bullets with garlic. But that was unlikely, since he only committed one murder after he came to Chicago. In fact, he probably didn't even carry, since he had others to bodyguard him.

Frank Scalise: when he was killed by an unknown gunman, supposedly Anastasia associate Jimmy Squillante, outside a local fruit stand.

The Godfather i - Vito shot

Frank Scalise is an almost unique figure in American Mafia history. He was head of what later became the Gambino family, and backed Maranzano against Masseria in the famous Castellemmarese War. But after Charlie Luciano arranged Maranzano's assassination, Scalise's closeness to Maranzano became a serious liability. (This is odd, since Maranzano won the war in large part by convicing top Mafiosi--including Luciano--to back him.) Luciano forced him to step down in favor of Vincent Mangano. But Scalise continued to serve as underboss for the family--first for Mangano, then for Albert Anastasia. It's amazing: a Mafia Don (however brief his tenure) forced to step down, and then serving as an underboss for two successors--and surviving for 26 years in that position! Scalise allegedly was whacked in 1957 because he had been selling memberships in the Mob for $50k each. That led to a long "closing of the books."