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Re: The Red-Sauce “Irish” Mafiosi - Part II…
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Joe Valley was Colorado family associate Joseph John Valentich - Bill Feather's website spells his name as "Valentica" but he wasn't Italian
He was associated to Eugene Smaldone and was his driver like 30+ years (he also assisted Clyde and Clarence as well as Paul C. Villano and other Denver crew members at times)
Valentich was also interviewed for the Smaldone book and talks about his relationship with Checkers. He ended up driving him to the hospital on the day he died in 1992
“I am saying for the record there is no organized crime except in the minds of the U.S. government, Mario Puzo and reporters who seem to capitalize on it." – John Vaccaro
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Re: The Red-Sauce “Irish” Mafiosi - Part II…
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G-2 was an original veteran soldier of the old Joseph Bonanno Family by the name of Giovanni "Johnny Bennett" Petrone, aka; "The Ambassador"
In general, Petrone lived a very shadowy existence, but he was reportedly a highly-ranked member of their borgata, who, at one point, was allegedly consulted with, and used as an intermediary, during the so-called "Banana War" of the mid-to-late 1960s.
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Re: The Red-Sauce “Irish” Mafiosi - Part II…
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C-4 was Carlo “Charlie Carr” Torraco (Chicago)
Carlo Torraco grew up in the Melrose Park section of Chicago. As a then-23 year old young hoodlum, back in August of 1928, he and two accomplices were arrested and jailed on two counts of armed-robbery. Torraco was held in lieu of a whopping $75,000 bond. His two buddies were also held, but on lesser bonds of $50,000 apiece.
They ended up getting convicted on the robbery charges. Torraco received an “indeterminate” sentence of one-year-to-life in prison, of which he ended up serving five years on.
After making parole in the mid-1930s, he joined up with the Outfit, and over the next three decades Torraco was considered to be a “card carrying” member of the Chicago Family.
From the 1930s, through the 1950s era, among other rackets, Torraco was said to be active in alcohol-bootlegging. In later years, he gravitated to bookmaking and gambling rackets.
Through the years he was closely associated with the Bravos brothers, Nick and George, known Chicago-area bookmakers and hoodlums, as well as a variety of other top Windy-City racketeers and mafiosi.
An interesting incident occurred back in 1955, when George Bravos reported to the authorities that his brother Nick had been kidnapped for ransom. Torraco and George Bravos were brought into police headquarters for questioning. During the interrogation and grilling about the alleged ransom kidnapping of George’s brother they told the police that $75,000 had allegedly be demanded from them to guarantee Nick’s safe return.
But, no sooner had the FBI been called into the investigation, one afternoon, curious FBI agents went to the Bravos home and discovered that Nick was back in the company of his brother and Torraco, all sitting together in the family’s living room.
...Obviously, there had been a lot more to the story than a simple kidnapping.
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Re: The Red-Sauce “Irish” Mafiosi - Part II…
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C-4 was Carlo “Charlie Carr” Torraco (Chicago)
Carlo Torraco grew up in the Melrose Park section of Chicago. As a then-23 year old young hoodlum, back in August of 1928, he and two accomplices were arrested and jailed on two counts of armed-robbery. Torraco was held in lieu of a whopping $75,000 bond. His two buddies were also held, but on lesser bonds of $50,000 apiece.
They ended up getting convicted on the robbery charges. Torraco received an “indeterminate” sentence of one-year-to-life in prison, of which he ended up serving five years on.
After making parole in the mid-1930s, he joined up with the Outfit, and over the next three decades Torraco was considered to be a “card carrying” member of the Chicago Family.
From the 1930s, through the 1950s era, among other rackets, Torraco was said to be active in alcohol-bootlegging. In later years, he gravitated to bookmaking and gambling rackets.
Through the years he was closely associated with the Bravos brothers, Nick and George, known Chicago-area bookmakers and hoodlums, as well as a variety of other top Windy-City racketeers and mafiosi.
An interesting incident occurred back in 1955, when George Bravos reported to the authorities that his brother Nick had been kidnapped for ransom. Torraco and George Bravos were brought into police headquarters for questioning. During the interrogation and grilling about the alleged ransom kidnapping of George’s brother they told the police that $75,000 had allegedly be demanded from them to guarantee Nick’s safe return.
But, no sooner had the FBI been called into the investigation, one afternoon, curious FBI agents went to the Bravos home and discovered that Nick was back in the company of his brother and Torraco, all sitting together in the family’s living room.
...Obviously, there had been a lot more to the story than a simple kidnapping.
...And then there was one! Only "Frankie Carroll" of the Bonanno clan remains.
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