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After his father was murdered by a member of the Porrello crime family on October 13, 1927, 16-year-old Lonardo swore revenge. On June 11, 1929, the 18-year-old Lonardo and his cousin, Dominic Sospirato, shot and killed Salvatore "Black Sam" Todaro at a cigar store owned by the Porrellos at the corner of East 110th Street and Woodland Avenue. [ 2 ]
Producer Tommy Reid heard that Rick Porrello, an Ohio policeman, was about to publish a book about Greene called To Kill the Irishman. Reid flew to Ohio and met with Porrello, who told Reid his grandfather was a high-ranking Mafia figure in Cleveland during the Prohibition era. On March 17, 1998, they signed a deal for the film rights to the ...
Rick Porrello, a former Cleveland-area police lieutenant, wrote To Kill The Irishman: The War that Crippled the Mafia (1998), about Greene's engagement with the Mafia. He won a national non-fiction award for the book. [32] Porrello's book was adapted as a movie first entitled The Irishman: The Legend of Danny Greene. [33]
Media reports in 1951 said the amount was closer to $300,000, [102] although mafia historian Rick Porrello puts the amount at $400,000 ($6,769,685.7671 in 2023 dollars) [74] [l] George and John Angersola settled near Coral Gables as well. [ 74 ]
The Pittsburgh crime family, [4] also known as the LaRocca crime family [5] or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] The LaRocca family is one of the original twenty-six Mafia families in the United States. [ 7 ]
The Cleveland crime family, also known as the Scalish crime family or the Cleveland Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Cleveland, Ohio, and throughout the Greater Cleveland area. The organization formed during the 1900s, and early leadership turned over frequently due to a series of power grabs and assassinations.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia. Indianapolis: Alpha Books, 2002. ISBN 0-02-864225-2; Neff, James. Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the FBI. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. ISBN 0-87113-344-X; Porrello, Rick. To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia. Novelty, Ohio: Next Hat ...
The Mafia Made Easy: The Anatomy and Culture of La Cosa Nostra. Tate Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1-60247-254-8; Dietche, Scott M. The Everything Mafia Book: True Life Accounts of Legendary Figures, Infamous Crime Families, and Chilling Events, Everything Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59869-779-7; Waugh, Daniel. Gangs of St. Louis: Men of Respect ...