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Cleveland Mafia
Title: Cleveland Mafia
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2118 | Pages: 9.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cleveland Mafia
During the late eighteen hundreds, the four Lonardo brothers and seven Porrello brothers were boyhood friends and fellow sulphur mine workers in their hometown of Licata, Sicily. They came to America in the early nineteen hundreds and eventually settled in Cleveland.
“Big Joe" Lonardo became a successful businessman and community leader. During Prohibition, he became wealthy as a dealer in corn sugar which was used by bootleggers to make corn liquor. He was respected and …showed first 75 words of 2118 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2118 total…York's Genovese Mafia family, Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo of the Luchesse clan and Carmine Persico of the Colombo family. He also testified in 1985 at the Las Vegas casino "skimming" trials in Kansas City. Federal investigators trace these major mob convictions right back to the murder of Greene. Danny would have been proud.
Currently, remnants of the once-mighty Cleveland La Cosa Nostra are thought by many to be under the control of Joseph “Joe Loose” Iacobacci.
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