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deadly weapon, being found carrying a handgun. While on bail, in
November 1960, Cotroni led 30 of his men into smashing up the Chez Parée Cabaret, for which he was fined $ 200. On 4 November 1960, Cotroni and his men marched into the Chez Parée and smashed everything with baseball bats that caused $ 30,000 in damages. Cotroni was heard to shout in French, "They will pay me, even if I have to wait until I die". Cotroni and his men were arrested leaving the Chez Parée. A group of students from McGill University were being held in the Montreal jail following allegations of drunken behavior and throwing a beer bottle at a police officer. Cotroni and his men were placed into the same jail cell and the students were impressed with Cotroni's kindness as he gave his expensive fur coat to a student who had no coat. The students were later shocked to learn that the same man who behaved in a kindly fashion to them was the same man who destroyed the Chez Parée earlier that night.
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helped a lot of amateur boxers and amateur teams". Cotroni told the media at the time: "I'm not a gambler and I have never put a penny on the
Hiltons. I just want the boys to have the money because you should see how they suffered when they were young. People know what I do for the poor people, not just the Hiltons". Shoofey, who testified against Cotroni for the Bernier Commission, was murdered in his Montreal office on 15 October 1985. The journalist Claude Poirier wrote in 2019 that Shoofey had told him shortly before his murder that he had been receiving death threats from people associated with the Cotroni family who were unhappy about his criticism of Cotroni's influence on the Hilton family.
514:, Tony Vanelli and Moreno Gallo. Another Cotroni family soldier, Tony Di Genova, was subsequently killed. In another wiretapped talk, Violi expressed much rage at Cotroni whom he stated wasted too much in hunting down the "Frenchmen". Violi stated: "I told Frankie to leave the Italian to me and hit the Frenchmen first... He should have gone into the club, clients or no clients, lined everybody up against the wall and rat-a-rat-tat!" On 9 November 1973, Cotroni together with Frank D'Asti, Paul Oddo, Gudio Orsni and Jorge Asafy Bala were indicted in New York on charges of smuggling nine kilograms of cocaine from Mexico into New York city on 9 January 1971.
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killers and if I didn't pay they would cut off my head with a knife". After making three payments, Chionis was told he had to sign over half of his restaurant to
Cotroni in exchange for being allowed to continue to live. On the second day of the trial, Chionis, who was notably nervous on the stand retracted his previous day's testimony as he maintained he could not remember if he was the victim of extortion or not. The judge dismissed the charges and congratulated Cotroni on "two victories on the same day". At the same time, Cotroni came into conflict with the
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752:, the Ontario Attorney General, summoned all of the police chiefs in Ontario to a secret conference in Toronto, where in a joint memo to McMurtry they collectively stated: "By far our greatest concern must be the Cotroni family of Montreal... Needless to say, we consider Cotroni our most serious threat". Cotroni was reported to have stated that Toronto was just as lucrative a market as Montreal, but unlike Montreal, the police in Toronto were not as corrupt, making Toronto a more difficult market to operate.
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commit robbery under the grounds that he must had known that a tunnel was being dug from the house he rented to the vault of the
Decarie Boulevard City and District Savings Bank. However, Cotroni's associates refused plea bargains offered by the Crown for lesser sentences in exchange for naming him as the mastermind behind the robbery attempt, leading to Cotroni's acquittal at his trial in 1971.
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Frankie. On 15 January 1988, Frankie made a plea bargain with the Crown, pleading guilty to manslaughter, for which he served three years in prison. On 17 April 1996, Frankie was again arrested on the charges of drug trafficking, leading him to make a plea bargain, agreeing to eight years in prison in exchange for a guilty plea, but he was released on parole in October 2000.
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Cotroni said of the killers that they were: "crazy, crazy, crazy... They've killed something like 10 guys already!" It was agreed that Cotroni would have the "crazy, crazy, crazy" bikers killed, while Violi would have Facchino killed. On 2 September 1973, Facchino was killed by two
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and Nicky Furlano, both of were trained by Travis Sugen, who in turn was another friend of Cotroni's. It is generally accepted that boxing fights in Canada were rigged by Cotroni as one policeman noted, "Sometimes they missed a guy and he still fell down". The Ontario Provincial Police alleged that
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started to dig a tunnel from the basement of the house that Cotroni rented to the vault of the bank across the street. On 31 March 1967, the five men were arrested in their makeshift tunnel as they were preparing to break into the bank vault. Shortly afterward, Cotroni was charged with conspiracy to
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of boxers were working for Cotroni and the boxing fights in Montreal were "probably" rigged. The commission stated that Cotroni was treated like royalty whenever he attended a boxing match anywhere in Canada. The Bernier commission wrote that boxers in Quebec as a condition of their employment were
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that he was unhappy with the contract the Hiltons signed with King, saying: "I would have gotten a million-dollar guarantee for the boys, with big bonuses up front". Hilton Sr. praised Cotroni, saying: "There were times when I needed money for rent. He was always there, with no questions asked. He
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to the Cotroni family, which was an unusual promotion for somebody not from southern Italy. On 27 September 1982, Pozza had dinner with Cotroni and Simard, with the former pressing him to cease his shifted allegiance to the Rizzuto family. Midway through the dinner, Simard left early while Cotroni
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529:, which declined his request, thus leading to this extradition. On 7 January 1975, Thomas Puccio, the assistant U.S. district attorney for New York, told a jury that Cotroni along with Frank D'Asti were "the middlemen" who brought the "buyers and sellers together". In 1975, with connections to the
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at his side, Cotroni called a press conference to discuss his arrest in Mexico the previous month. This was the first press conference in Canada ever called by a Mafia leader, which reflected Cotroni's personality, as he was more "audacious" and less bound by the traditional rules of the Mafia as
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would share half of his earnings to Cotroni, to the sum of $ 100,000. The Bernier commission accused Cotroni of exploiting the Hilton family, who were "victims of their youthful ignorance and their thirst for glory". The report stated a contract signed between the Hiltons and the American boxing
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of New York City, Frank Cotroni was convicted in the United States of smuggling $ 3 million worth of cocaine into New York City through Mexico and sentenced to 15 years in prison; he was paroled after four years on the condition he not return to the United States. Cotroni at his trial spoke much
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avoided because of its high crime rate. His father, Nicodemo, was a carpenter whose average weekly income was $ 35. His older brother, Vincenzo, had become involved in organized crime in the late 1920s, and in the 1930s was involved in
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required to sign exploitative contracts that ensured that they had to hand over half of their earnings from not only their boxing fights, but also from any non-boxing jobs they might hold to people associated with Cotroni.
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3212:List of Italian-American mobsters by organization
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2074:. Toronto: John Wiley & Sons.
1957:Police arrest 10 in biker slayings
1933:Les confessions d'un tueur Ă gages
1849:Poirier, Claude (3 January 2019).
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1983:Montreal's Irish Mafia
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2778:Mafia bibliography
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3649:
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3641:
3636:
3631:
3626:
3621:
3616:
3611:
3606:
3601:
3596:
3591:
3586:
3584:Forty-Two Gang
3581:
3576:
3571:
3566:
3561:
3556:
3551:
3546:
3541:
3535:
3533:
3529:
3528:
3526:
3525:
3520:
3515:
3510:
3508:Sicilian Mafia
3505:
3500:
3495:
3490:
3485:
3480:
3475:
3470:
3465:
3460:
3455:
3450:
3445:
3440:
3434:
3432:
3425:
3422:and affiliated
3417:
3416:
3413:
3412:
3410:
3409:
3403:
3396:
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3390:
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3373:
3371:
3367:
3366:
3364:
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3328:
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3315:
3313:
3306:
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3301:
3298:
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3294:
3289:
3284:
3279:
3272:
3267:
3259:
3254:
3253:
3252:
3242:
3237:
3232:
3226:
3224:
3218:
3217:
3215:
3214:
3209:
3203:
3201:
3191:
3190:
3188:
3187:
3184:
3177:
3170:
3163:
3158:
3153:
3151:The Commission
3147:
3145:
3138:
3134:
3133:
3130:
3129:
3127:
3126:
3120:
3115:
3110:
3105:
3100:
3095:
3090:
3085:
3080:
3074:
3068:
3067:(Philadelphia)
3062:
3056:
3051:
3046:
3041:
3034:
3032:
3031:Mostly defunct
3028:
3027:
3025:
3024:
3019:
3014:
3009:
3003:
3001:
2997:
2996:
2994:
2993:
2983:
2973:
2967:
2961:
2959:
2955:
2954:
2951:
2950:
2948:
2947:
2942:
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2912:
2907:
2902:
2897:
2891:
2889:
2881:
2880:
2878:
2877:
2872:
2870:Baltimore Crew
2866:
2864:
2856:
2855:
2850:
2848:
2840:
2839:
2837:
2836:
2834:Sicilian group
2831:
2826:
2821:
2815:
2813:
2802:
2790:
2784:
2783:
2781:
2780:
2775:
2769:
2766:
2765:
2758:
2757:
2750:
2743:
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2722:
2714:
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2698:
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2684:
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2680:
2679:
2677:
2676:
2671:
2666:
2661:
2656:
2651:
2646:
2641:
2639:Gambino family
2636:
2631:
2629:Colombo family
2626:
2624:Chicago Outfit
2621:
2619:Buffalo family
2615:
2613:
2606:
2602:
2601:
2598:
2597:
2595:
2594:
2587:
2585:
2581:
2580:
2578:
2577:
2571:
2564:
2562:
2558:
2557:
2555:
2554:
2548:
2546:
2542:
2541:
2539:
2538:
2532:
2525:
2523:
2516:
2512:
2511:
2509:
2508:
2506:Rizzuto family
2503:
2498:
2493:
2491:Cotroni family
2487:
2485:
2481:
2480:
2477:
2476:
2474:
2473:
2468:
2463:
2461:Joseph Massino
2458:
2453:
2451:Joseph D'Amico
2448:
2443:
2438:
2432:
2430:
2426:
2425:
2423:
2422:
2417:
2412:
2410:Nicolo Rizzuto
2407:
2405:Robert Perrino
2402:
2397:
2392:
2386:
2384:
2380:
2379:
2377:
2376:
2371:
2366:
2361:
2356:
2351:
2346:
2341:
2336:
2331:
2326:
2321:
2319:Gaspar Milazzo
2316:
2311:
2309:Paolo LiCastri
2306:
2301:
2296:
2291:
2286:
2281:
2279:Vito Bonventre
2276:
2271:
2266:
2261:
2255:
2253:
2246:
2242:
2241:
2239:
2238:
2233:
2228:
2223:
2218:
2213:
2208:
2203:
2197:
2195:
2191:
2190:
2188:
2187:
2182:
2180:Joseph Massino
2177:
2172:
2167:
2162:
2157:
2152:
2150:Joseph Bonanno
2147:
2142:
2137:
2131:
2129:
2125:
2124:
2117:
2116:
2109:
2102:
2094:
2088:
2087:
2081:978-0470835005
2080:
2067:
2061:
2048:
2043:978-0771030499
2042:
2027:
2024:
2021:
2020:
2006:
1987:
1974:
1949:
1916:
1894:
1881:
1868:
1841:
1826:
1814:
1787:
1785:, p. 159.
1768:
1735:
1733:, p. 148.
1723:
1697:
1675:
1653:
1640:
1638:, p. 151.
1621:
1614:
1593:
1591:, p. 528.
1589:Schneider 2009
1574:
1554:
1538:
1536:, p. 140.
1523:
1521:, p. 139.
1511:
1507:Schneider 2009
1499:
1497:, p. 526.
1495:Schneider 2009
1478:
1476:, p. 527.
1474:Schneider 2009
1461:
1442:
1423:
1411:
1395:
1382:
1367:
1330:
1318:
1302:
1298:Schneider 2009
1290:
1288:, p. 270.
1286:Schneider 2009
1265:
1250:
1235:
1214:
1202:
1200:, p. 180.
1190:
1175:
1173:, p. 265.
1171:Schneider 2009
1154:
1141:
1134:
1114:
1101:
1085:
1072:
1049:
1036:
1020:
1004:
989:
959:
935:
922:
903:
902:
900:
897:
893:Quebecor Media
866:Johnny Plescio
862:Scott Steinert
850:GĂ©rald Gallant
828:
825:
765:
762:
715:Papalia family
703:Johnny Papalia
698:
695:
636:Dorval Airport
591:American Mafia
583:Rizzuto family
573:NicolĂČ Rizzuto
568:
565:
559:Antonio Nicaso
549:
531:Bonanno family
456:October crisis
448:the Commission
423:Sicilian Mafia
350:
347:
343:Cotroni family
339:Bonanno family
270:
267:
263:Quebecor Media
182:
181:
178:
177:
170:
166:
165:
152:Drug smuggling
149:
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127:
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111:
108:
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98:
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67:(aged 72)
63:17 August 2004
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3799:
3786:
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3766:
3763:
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3756:
3753:
3751:
3750:Barrel murder
3748:
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3745:
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3735:
3732:
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3514:
3513:Siderno Group
3511:
3509:
3506:
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3429:
3426:
3424:organizations
3418:
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3404:
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3381:
3378:
3375:
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3310:
3307:
3303:
3293:
3290:
3288:
3285:
3283:
3280:
3278:
3277:
3273:
3271:
3270:Mustache Pete
3268:
3265:
3264:
3263:Capo dei capi
3260:
3258:
3255:
3251:
3248:
3247:
3246:
3243:
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3121:
3119:
3116:
3114:
3111:
3109:
3108:San Francisco
3106:
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2801:New York City
2798:
2797:Five Families
2794:
2791:
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2785:
2779:
2776:
2774:
2771:
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2767:
2763:
2756:
2751:
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2721:
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2718:Donnie Brasco
2715:
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2517:
2515:Family events
2513:
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2436:Gene Borrello
2434:
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2390:Frank Cotroni
2388:
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2367:
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2359:Anthony Spero
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2259:Vincent Asaro
2257:
2256:
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2231:Thomas Pitera
2229:
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2143:
2141:
2140:Nicolo Schiro
2138:
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2110:
2108:
2103:
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1999:
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1991:
1984:
1978:
1971:
1970:
1969:National Post
1965:
1961:
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1953:
1947:
1943:
1940:
1939:
1934:
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1905:
1903:
1901:
1899:
1891:
1885:
1878:
1872:
1856:
1852:
1845:
1839:, p. 35.
1838:
1833:
1831:
1823:
1818:
1812:, p. 34.
1811:
1806:
1804:
1802:
1800:
1798:
1796:
1794:
1792:
1784:
1779:
1777:
1775:
1773:
1766:, p. 33.
1765:
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1615:0-00-200016-4
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1415:
1408:
1402:
1400:
1392:
1386:
1380:, p. 87.
1379:
1374:
1372:
1355:
1351:
1345:
1343:
1341:
1339:
1337:
1335:
1328:, p. 85.
1327:
1322:
1315:
1309:
1307:
1299:
1294:
1287:
1282:
1280:
1278:
1276:
1274:
1272:
1270:
1263:, p. 78.
1262:
1257:
1255:
1248:, p. 77.
1247:
1242:
1240:
1233:, p. 71.
1232:
1227:
1225:
1223:
1221:
1219:
1212:, p. 70.
1211:
1206:
1199:
1194:
1187:
1182:
1180:
1172:
1167:
1165:
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1131:
1127:
1126:
1118:
1111:
1105:
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1092:
1090:
1082:
1076:
1070:, p. 37.
1069:
1064:
1062:
1060:
1058:
1056:
1054:
1046:
1040:
1033:
1027:
1025:
1017:
1011:
1009:
1002:, p. 68.
1001:
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742:Siderno Group
739:
738:Domenic Racco
735:
731:
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724:
720:
716:
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660:coup de grĂące
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3604:Murder, Inc.
3539:Broadway Mob
3468:Jewish Mafia
3287:Sixth Family
3282:One-way ride
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2545:Social clubs
2471:Raymond Wean
2415:Vito Rizzuto
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2160:Paul Sciacca
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3809:2004 deaths
3804:1931 births
3765:Shotgun Man
3564:The Council
3483:'Ndrangheta
3408:(1985â1986)
3402:(1985â1987)
3385:(1929â1931)
3379:(1914â1917)
3356:(1950â1951)
3167:Consigliere
3123:Trafficante
3083:New Orleans
3022:Los Angeles
3017:Kansas City
2713:(2004 book)
2705:(1988 book)
2593:(1929â1931)
2570:(1985â1986)
2531:(1950â1951)
2501:Purple Gang
2446:Frank Coppa
2420:Paolo Violi
1548:Schneider,
1389:Schneider,
1148:Schneider,
1108:Schneider,
983:Schneider,
929:Schneider,
878:Quebec City
674:consigliere
541:RĂ©al Simard
519:extradition
503:Paolo Violi
470:James Cross
432:Mezzogiorno
246:Paolo Violi
235:RĂ©al Simard
3798:Categories
3666:operations
3664:Government
3245:Black Hand
3174:Caporegime
3093:Pittsburgh
2958:East Coast
2456:Frank Lino
2429:Informants
2383:Associates
2062:155013213X
1981:O' Connor
1910:O' Connor
1888:O' Connor
1875:O' Connor
1853:. 985.fm.
1312:O' Connor
1079:O' Connor
1043:O' Connor
1030:O' Connor
899:References
846:Repentigny
771:Eddie Melo
758:Eddie Melo
734:Rocco Zito
730:Eddie Melo
507:wiretapped
269:Early life
214:, Quebec.
204:crime boss
130:Allegiance
91:Crime boss
87:Occupation
3194:Members (
3186:Associate
3161:Underboss
3137:Structure
3118:St. Louis
3098:Rochester
3088:Milwaukee
3061:(Chicago)
3044:Cleveland
2976:Patriarca
1552:, pp. 528
1393:, pp. 527
1112:, pp. 270
1095:O'Connor
933:, pp. 245
805:promoter
719:strippers
664:informant
587:Lewisburg
464:(FLQ) in
364:'s crew (
121:(brother)
115:Relatives
3785:Category
3347:Hearings
3312:Meetings
3257:Vendetta
3235:Made man
3197:made men
3113:San Jose
3103:Rockford
3077:D'Aquila
3065:Lanzetta
3049:Colorado
3038:Bufalino
2926:Lucchese
2886:Genovese
2788:Families
2522:Hearings
2252:Made men
1998:Archived
1960:Archived
1942:Archived
1855:Archived
1710:Archived
1651:, pp. 34
1453:Archived
1434:Archived
1354:Archived
807:Don King
769:boxers,
707:Hamilton
687:Brooklyn
653:Le Neveu
510:Cotroni
499:soldiers
440:Acapulco
333:mobster
331:New York
325:and the
279:Vincenzo
275:Montreal
219:Vincenzo
212:Montreal
195:Italian:
97:Children
52:Montreal
3639:Westies
3532:Defunct
3438:Camorra
3181:Soldato
3125:(Tampa)
3071:Morello
3012:Detroit
3007:Chicago
2965:Buffalo
2861:Gambino
2852:Colombo
2845:Colombo
2810:Bonanno
1892:p.26-27
1879:p.25=27
1861:28 July
1083:p.80-81
1047:p.24-25
723:pinball
523:cocaine
421:of the
411:hashish
395:Toronto
299:Il Cice
291:Le Gros
283:Mammola
227:Toronto
223:Mammola
206:of the
80:Le Gros
3707:Crimes
3518:Stidda
3431:Active
3393:Trials
3362:(1963)
3339:(1957)
3333:(1957)
3327:(1946)
3321:(1929)
3305:Events
3276:OmertĂ
3240:Bagman
3054:Dallas
2720:(film)
2612:Allies
2576:(1986)
2561:Trials
2537:(1963)
2128:Bosses
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1690:29 May
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764:Boxing
669:Trento
628:omertĂ
616:omertĂ
512:hitmen
427:heroin
405:, and
366:decina
189:(born
164:(1997)
159:(1987)
154:(1975)
107:Parent
3222:Terms
3059:Genna
2026:Books
1409:p.78.
1018:p.62.
987:p.258
957:p.61.
920:p.63.
407:Miami
303:joual
3370:Wars
3292:Zips
3156:Boss
2584:Wars
2076:ISBN
2057:ISBN
2038:ISBN
1985:p.26
1914:p.27
1863:2022
1718:2017
1692:2017
1670:2017
1610:ISBN
1362:2017
1316:p.25
1130:ISBN
1099:p.81
1034:p.24
872:and
624:capo
619:. A
607:capo
578:capo
403:Lima
399:Cali
358:RCMP
250:capo
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48:1931
41:Born
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