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Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER
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01/27/05 08:57 PM
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El Cortez was the right answer.  El Rancho Grande was the first hotel Siegel tried to get into and was rejected (and the owners lived to tell about it). Q. What Hollywood sexpot was gangster Longie Zwillman's mistress until Howard Hughes took her away (and lived to tell about it). Hint: it wasn't Ava Gardner or Kathryn Hepburn.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER
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01/29/05 01:53 PM
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When you say "rumored," DC, you're opening up a very wide door, because no one knows for sure who pulled the trigger. In descending order of liklihood: 1. Luciano and Adonis ordered the hit because they suspected Bugsy and Virginia had stolen some or most of the $5-6 million they fronted for the Flamingo. The triggerman may have been Frankie (Mr. Gray) Carbo, who was one of the triggers for the Harry (Big Greenie) Greenbaum hit that Bugsy planned earlier. Carbo, who later ran the fight rackets for the Mob in NYC, would have had a personal incentive to kill Bugsy as well: eliminate someone who could have ratted him out on the Greenie hit. The movie "Bugsy" implies that Mickey Cohen may have pulled the trigger, but I doubt it. 2. LA Mafia boss Jack Dragna organized the hit in revenge for Bugsy's muscling in on his rackets. He got permission from Luciano to proceed. If that were the case, it'd validate the claim of Eddie Cannizzaro, who (much later) claimed to be the triggerman. 3. The Berman brothers did it--they were among the dozens of investors to whom Bugsy sold thousands of points in the Flamingo, but they had the muscle to do something about it. 4. Virginia Hill's brother, Chick, did the deed. Chick supposedly hated Bugsy and was known to own a .30 MI carbine, the type of rifle identified as the murder weapon. But so did several hundred thousand others. 5. The Chicago Mob ordered the hit because Hill was their eyes and ears in the West, and Bugsy abused her. I doubt it--she gave as good as she got, and probably abused Bugsy.
Assuming one of the above is the answer you were looking for:
Who assassinated Italian anarchist Carlo Tresca on Vito Genovese's orders?
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER
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01/29/05 02:44 PM
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Don Cardi
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Frankie Carranzo was the name I was looking for. It was rumored that Jack Dragna gave the contract to a Frankie Carranzo.  The answer to your question above is Carmine Galante. Q: Who were the two hitmen that killed Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano? Don Cardi 
Don Cardi Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
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Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER
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01/30/05 06:17 AM
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Paul Castellano and Neil Dellacroce died before the government could sentence them...But Dellacroce wasn't a NYC boss so I would go for Paulie Castellano... But I don't know if that is what you mean..
'This was just another Bronx tale.'
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Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER
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01/31/05 09:43 PM
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Don Cardi
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Turnbull, I believe that both Zia and I are correct. The Bosses charged in the commission case were : Anthony Salerno, boss of the Genovese family. Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino family. Anthony Corallo, boss of the Lucchese family. Philip Rastelli, boss of the Bonanno family. Gennaro Langella, boss of the Colombo family. Don Cardi 
Don Cardi Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
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Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER
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01/31/05 09:58 PM
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Are you going to ask a question?
"If you did so good exposing us, Donnie, whyzit you and your family gotta live a coverup for the rest of your lives?"
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Re: NAME THAT GANGSTER
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02/01/05 09:02 PM
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Don Cardi
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Originally posted by Turnbull: Jack Dragna. Q. Why was LA mobster Tony Cornero called "the Admiral"? Cornero was in the bootlegging business and used a small fleet of boats to run his liquor. His specialty was overseeing the transfer of illegal liquor from ships, waiting off the coasts in international waters, to smaller boats that he owned that would then bring the liquor to desolate areas of shorline, hence becoming known as "The Admiral." After prohibition he eventually transformed those ships, that he had once used for bootlegging, into floating casinos. Q: What are the names of the two Chicago Gangsters who were charged with the theft of a 45 carat diamond from a London jewelry store which eventually became known as " The Mob's Crown Jewel"? Don Cardi 
Don Cardi Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
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