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New 8-Disc WWE DVD, Kurt Angle Reacts to Top 50 Superstars Rank

September 2, 2011 by Daniel Bee

Kurt Angle has taken to Twitter after having found out his position in WWE’s Top 50 Superstars of All Time, released on DVD in December 2010. Angle was ranked in #34 for the feature. You can watch his full segment in the video below.

I was #34 of Wwe All time Greatest? Tell You what, take Me off the list. I’d rather not be on it, if I wasn’t top 5. Who Ranks Wrestlers?

I have never been more insulted by WWE Top 50. #34 to me is a kick to the balls! Take me out of ratings. Please. U think fans will buy that crap?

Shawn Michaels deserves #1. He has been putting on awesome matches for well over 20something years. I will not complain. It is what it is!!!

Mick Foley (ranked #33, one ahead of Angle) has been watching through it and tweeted this:

“My kids are THOROUGHLY enjoying the Top 50 WWE Superstars of All Time, and are giving me NO chance of appearing on the DVD. Big surprise! My younger kids are SO into trying to guess the top 10 stars. Really didn’t picture myself watching WWE DVD’s a few years ago. I was pretty happy to be #33. Guessing Kurt Angle wasn’t so pleased to be #34 – kind of a perfectionist.”

A new 8-Disc WWE DVD box set will be released to the United Kingdom later this month.

Produced by Silvervision, WWE 2011 Annual will contain The Best of Raw 2010, The Best of Smackdown 2009-2010 and Live in the UK April 2011 in one release.

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  1. The 8 disc Silvervison set is just too cool. I would want that here

  2. cmvag says:

    wwe annual i think it is a great composition cause you get 8 discs in the prize of a 3-disc set!! i’ll think of buying this one!! :DD

  3. Anonymous says:

    I’m not surprised it took him a while to notice. I doubt he watches DVDs much. He’s too busy working out, drinking milk and polishing his medal. Quite frankly he’s right. He should be far higher on the list, but as we all know the list was silly. I think they did it on purpose to shake up people’s perceptions because its pretty boring hearing the same names touted all the time. But on the other hand there’s good reasons why Rock, Austin, Bret, Undertaker and Shawn get such praise.

  4. SRB says:

    Funny to see Kurt Angle reacting the same exact way that all of the people who bought the DVD reacted. Let’s be honest, that list/countdown was waaaay off right from the beginning. Their #1 pick made total sense, but there were a few spots in there that needed some work. It was a great DVD, but the list was for sure incorrect, but you certainly cannot please everyone. I just looked at it as mini documentaries on each wrestler, not a countdown to the greatest. It helped me not get so upset, like Ange did.

  5. dt says:

    the dvd is a low seller, nobody likes where wwe ranked the wrestlers, nothing new here

  6. Anonymous says:

    Kurt should just get the hell over himself, hes really getting annoying by this point..starting to sound like Matt Hardy dude lol

  7. Ricky Schmidt says:

    Honestly, Kurt should be thankful he’s even on the DVD and I’m glad it took him eight months to react to this. Wonder if he’ll say his account got “hacked” like he did after WrestleMania?

  8. SCSA says:

    And why did Rey make the Top 10???

  9. Alan says:

    Angle should at least be Top 10. He should ignore the rankings anyway, based on Hogan’s position. I’m no Hulk fan – far from it – but if he’s not in the Top 10, you know there’s a problem.

    I don’t really get the point of the 2011 annual. These DVDs are already available, and with superior packaging. And why April 2011 in the UK only? How does that tie in with 2010 compilations? Doesn’t make any sense to me.

  10. Manny says:

    I think Kurt should be #2

  11. Bill says:

    The way Kurt has been lately I could care less what he thinks about a DVD

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Pre-Release REVIEW: WWE ‘Owen – Hart of Gold’ DVD & Blu-Ray

November 21, 2015 by Mark D

WWE Owen: Hart of Gold DVD Review - Logo

It’s hard to deny that this Owen Hart DVD was one of the most hotly anticipated WWE DVD projects since they began releasing DVDs 15 years ago! “Owen – Hart of Gold” was always one which fans hoped one day would finally be released, but never really expected would happen.

Thus it was one of a very small handful of titles which we here at WDN were really excited to announce was finally coming. Now, there’s the problem with such a highly anticipated project — could it possibly live up to the hype?

WWE Owen: Hart of Gold DVD Review - Owen Hart Interview

For the documentary, WWE reached out to a number of different interview subjects including Owen’s family: Bret, Ross & Alison Hart, Jim Neidhart, Natalya and Tyson Kidd. WWE also utilizes a selection of Hart Family interviews from their 2010 DVD. In addition to the family, WWE also has interviews with other superstars (past and present) including: Triple H, Jim Ross, Chris Jericho, Kevin Owens, Mark Henry and even a single instance of Vince McMahon – find out who else is on the list of interviewees in our earlier OWEN WEEK article. In addition WWE also uses an archive interview with The British Bulldog from 1999, which was a pretty cool addition.

WWE Owen: Hart of Gold DVD Review - House Show Footage

In discussing interviews, (as we revealed this week) like last year’s Randy Savage DVD, the biggest surprise interview was one from 1996 with Owen Hart himself! While it isn’t too extensive (unlike the Macho Man one), simply having some thoughts from Owen discussing his life and career was always going to be a highlight. The interview appears to have been recorded as part of an international tour as we also have some other little pieces of handheld camcorder footage scattered through the documentary of Owen and other members of the roster. In addition to this, we also have some footage which (I believe) was taped as part of a “Wrestle Vessel” excursion [– Google it] and some live event matches, one of which even included Dude Love and a bag of popcorn!

WWE Owen: Hart of Gold DVD Review - The Blue Blazer

The documentary begins with discussion of Owen’s early career in Stampede Wrestling, his unique (for the time) in-ring style and his eventual arrival in WWE as The Blue Blazer.

After this the documentary moves on to discussing Owen’s initial WWE departure, his brief tenure with WCW, his time in Germany and Japan before returning to WWE and the formation of his New Foundation and High Energy tag teams with Jim Neidhart and Koko B. Ware respectively.

WWE Owen: Hart of Gold DVD Review - Vince McMahon with Bret & Owen

The next major milestone for the documentary was his feud with his brother Bret, becoming the 1994 King of the Ring, and eventually teaming with Yokozuna and the British Bulldog. This section was fun, as Bret recounts the originally planned storyline (which was to involve Bruce Hart). We also hear stories from Natalya and others about how Bret and Owen would interact with each other outside the ring during this period in which they “hated” each other.

WWE Owen: Hart of Gold DVD Review - The Hart Foundation

Next up the documentary moves with various superstars discussing Owen’s Slammy Awards, the reformation of the Hart Foundation, the incredible Canadian Stampede PPV and what it meant to Owen and the entire Hart Family. This interesting portion closes with Bret’s departure from WWE, how Owen reacted and his stance with the company going forward.

WWE Owen: Hart of Gold DVD Review - Jim Ross & Jerry Lawler Announcing Owen's Death

The final portion of the documentary looks at Owen’s tenure with The Nation, teaming with Jeff Jarrett, his reluctance to be involved with some of the risqué “Attitude Era” storylines, thus bringing back The Blue Blazer character. Finally the feature very briefly touches upon Owen’s untimely death in May 1999 and then closes with a look at the wresting legacy that he has left behind.

WWE Owen: Hart of Gold DVD Review - Owen Tales

In addition to Owen’s story, the documentary is broken up with little segments titled: “Owen Tales”. These segments often involve several superstars recounting a story or series of little stories about Owen. These are very nice, however they possibly did hurt the flow of the documentary somewhat. Some of the tales told of course involve Owen’s infamous ‘ribs’ including a tale which involved hogs and Vince McMahon’s office! Even though they were nice, maybe these would have been better as individual extras or “outtakes” rather than being included within the main feature.

WWE Owen: Hart of Gold DVD Review - Vince McMahon Hog Office Prank

As I’ve alluded to, the documentary places the vast majority of its 71 minute runtime focused on Owen Hart “the in-ring superstar” with really only the aforementioned segments discussing Owen Hart “the man”. The legal issues between Owen’s widow (Martha Hart) and WWE perhaps meant that the discussion was kept primarily to Owen’s in-ring career and may explain why there are no photographs other than from WWE’s library included within the feature. Sadly, this all means that the documentary is quite pedestrian and I’m not sure that after watching it that I know anything more about Owen than I did prior to watching, which was a real shame.

Back in September, when discussing the DVD in an interview with The Fight Network, Bret Hart stated that “[Martha] handcuffed” the project and even called the finished piece “the sh*ts”! At this point Bret hadn’t actually seen the finished documentary and was also incorrect about a couple things (particularly the inclusion of Stampede Wrestling footage).

WWE Owen: Hart of Gold DVD Review

I certainly wouldn’t even consider calling “Owen – Hart of Gold” “the sh*ts”. However, it certainly is missing some of the heart (pun not intended) of other major WWE DVDs which we’ve seen, particularly last year’s big release – “Macho Man: The Randy Savage Story”. In many ways Hart of Gold was very similar to The Randy Savage Story – both documentaries were reliant upon Randy and Owen’s stories being told by their family, friends and colleagues, years after their demise and while both superstars/their families weren’t on great terms with WWE – but Owen’s DVD didn’t turn out anywhere near as good as the Savage one. The documentary certainly wasn’t bad and I’m sure that no one will hate it, but sadly it didn’t quite live up to my expectations.

I really think that if you go into this watching Hart of Gold with an open mind and not expect a documentary to the level of Randy Savage’s you will actually enjoy it. Plus, don’t forget, we do have some rather nice special features and unique matches in the complete package as well, and after all these years it is nice to finally see the honoring of Owen Hart’s pro-wrestling career.

WWE Owen: Hart of Gold DVD Review - In Memory of Owen Hart

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  1. Paul Timmons says:

    Bret Hart would rate this a 4 out of 10.

  2. Anan says:

    I wouldn’t consider calling Hart of Gold “the s**ts either. But that comment must’ve been from an angry Bret, angry at Martha’s “handcuffing.” Certainly is no excuse for him to comment in that manner though. If it wasn’t for Martha’s “handcuffs”, the doc would’ve been much better. Had she by some miracle participated in the project which she should’ve done rather than using “handcuffs”, the finished product may have been even more better.

    Considering the “handcuffs”, I think it’s just about as good as it could’ve been judging by the above review.

  3. Lemo says:

    The real sell is the matches included. It’s the best matches listing for any blu ray / dvd of all time.

  4. Alex says:

    I’m still getting it.can’t wait! Thanks for posting a review !

  5. Mark D says:

    I don’t think the Randy Savage documentary was great, it was good. However Hart of Gold is a clear step down from Randy Savage’s documentary.

    • Jeff Copeland says:

      i did not think randy savages doc was that bad, but its kinda hard to do dvds like this when the said person is no longer here, and some of the important superstars either don’t wanna do said dvd or are passed as well.

      this one i sorta figured would be handicapped cause of martha and her issues with this, which i can’t blame her i guess but its been so many years you would think she might wanna start mending the fences but that’s a different story.

      Also bios are becoming so shorter and shorter these days i dont get it? lawlers, warrior, savage Daniel Bryan,Sting few others have been so short i think last one that was over 2 hours was Triple H from 2013.

      Over all i am gonna get this on BLURAY!!! 😉 just cause i am a owen fan reguardless of how short the bio and if the matches are meh!! BUt this could of been a so much better but HEY at lease we are FINALLY getting a owen hart dvd after so many years of never having one so thats something

  6. RoodyPooDude says:

    I though the Savage doc was good but not great. I think it did a great job of covering Randy on a personal level but did a poor job of covering his career since hardly any of his feuds were covered properly. I think an additional 30-60 minutes to the doc would have made it a classic.

    I have similar concerns about the Owen doc. The fact that it’s just barely over an hour long concerns me. Owen’s doc, even without him being involved in it, should be an easy 2 hours. I am hopeful that it is still decent though.

  7. Victory73 says:

    Nice review. I never knew the Savage doc was thought of so highly. I thought it was average since it wasn’t very detailed in discussing feuds. Just a different opinion I guess.

  8. Shane C. Montgomery says:

    A nice early Christmas present for us all!

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WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett believes that although the recent Mickie James trash bag incident “didn’t sit well with a lot of folks,” both WWE and James are ready to move on from the episode.

In a recent interview with Riju Dasgupta of SK Wrestling, Jarrett opened up about the aftermath of James’ WWE release earlier this month.

“Obviously I’ve known Mickie her entire career,” Jarrett began. “Incredible talent. You know, that story broke and without knowing all the details, it took in my opinion… how the bag got there. Cosmetically it didn’t sit well with a lot of folks. But also know there’s a lot of discussion in the world we live in with social media and clicks. I completely understand it.”

Jarrett added that he was unaware of the contents of the bag shipped to James.

“But without… look, there’s a lot of things that aren’t always what they truly appear to be,” Jarrett said. “I don’t know who shipped it, how it was shipped, what was in that bag, what was in the contents of that bag. There’s so many questions, what if? But I know one thing it made great headlines last week and a lot of discussion.

“But at the end of the day I don’t think either side [is holding any grudges]… Mickie’s a future Hall of Famer without question. But it was a unique situation, difficult for both sides but I think it’s water under the bridge at this point.”

As noted, WWE took swift action and fired Mark Carrano, who was held responsible for the “care package” incident.


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FILE – Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, appears before a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss vaccines and protecting public health during the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, in Washington. Collins says he is stepping down by the end of the year, having led the research center for 12 years and becoming a prominent source of public information during the coronavirus pandemic. A formal announcement was expected Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021 from NIH. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health for 12 years, said Tuesday he is stepping down, capping a career in which he directed crucial research into the human genome and the fight against serious diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and COVID-19.

Collins said he was “grateful and proud of the NIH staff and the scientific community, whose extraordinary commitment to lifesaving research delivers hope to the American people and the world every day.” He said the decision to step down at year’s end was “a difficult one.”

“I fundamentally believe, however, that no single person should serve in the position too long, and that it’s time to bring in a new scientist to lead the NIH into the future,” Collins said in a statement.

Collins was appointed the agency’s 16th director in 2009 by President Barack Obama and was asked to remain in that post by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden. He is the only presidentially appointed NIH director to serve under multiple administrations.

He served as director of the NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute from 1993-2008 and led the international Human Genome Project, which in 2003 completed a finished sequence of the human DNA instruction book.

Biden called Collins “one of the most important scientists of our time.” After his son Beau died of cancer at age 46 in 2015, Biden, then vice president, was asked by Obama to launch their cancer “moonshot,” an effort to fuel innovation and accelerate new treatments.

“I turned to Dr. Collins to help lead the effort to end cancer as we know it,” Biden said in a statement issued by the White House. “There was no one I trusted more.”

The NIH, based in Bethesda, Maryland, is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. It’s the nation’s medical research agency and operates more than two dozen institutes and centers and says it’s the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world.

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra lauded Collins for his work, calling him a “master of scientific breakthroughs.”

“Few people could come anywhere close to achieving in a lifetime what Dr. Collins has at the helm of NIH,” Becerra said in a statement. “It takes an extraordinary person to tackle the biggest scientific challenges facing our nation — and under three presidents, amidst three distinctly different chapters of American history.”

The NIH said Collins will continue to lead his research lab at the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Besides his heralded work for the NIH, Collins is known widely for writing on religion and science and reconciling the two. Last year, he was awarded one of the world’s leading religion prizes, the Templeton Prize, for demonstrating how religious faith can motivate scientific research.

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Death of powerful NE Pennsylvania boss

Some link Bufalino to Hoffa disappearance,
Kennedy assassination, effort to kill Castro

On this date in 1994...

Rosario "Russell" Bufalino, longtime boss of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Mafia, departed this life on Friday afternoon, February 25, 1994, at the age of 90. He may have taken numerous underworld secrets with him. Bufalino was widely suspected of involvement in the disappearance of former Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. He also was believed by many to hold information relating to the assassination of President John Kennedy and to the CIA's efforts to remove Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

A resident of Kingston for much of his life, Bufalino passed away at ten minutes after two in the borough's Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. The cause of death was not released. Relatives kept secret their plans for Bufalino's funeral, irritating state and federal investigators who wanted to document and film the individuals attending it.

Born October 29, 1903, at Montedoro, Sicily, Bufalino was taken to the United States as a baby with his mother Christina Bucceleri Bufalino and several siblings. His father Angelo was already living in the Pittson area of Pennsylvania. Following the deaths of his parents, Bufalino and two sisters were shuttled back and forth across the Atlantic by family members. He and one sister ended up in 1914 with an older brother in Buffalo, New York (who was close to Magaddino underboss John Montana), while the remaining sister was deported for medical reasons. As a teen, Bufalino worked as an automobile mechanic.

Bufalino married Caroline Sciandra at Buffalo in the summer of 1928. The newlyweds subsequently moved to Endicott, New York, and Pittston, Pennsylvania, before settling in Kingston. They both had relatives in the region. Bufalino became involved in the garment industry and held financial interests in the Penn Drape & Curtain Company and the Alaimo Dress Company.

This was a departure from the pattern of earlier underworld-connected Montedoresi in the Luzerne County coal country, who had become leaders both in coal mining operations and in the coalminers' labor unions. Bufalino's early roles in the regional Mafia, known as the "Men of Montedoro" because of the dominance of the Montedoresi, are uncertain.

Bufalino likely succeeded to the leadership of the Men of Montedoro Mafia following the 1949 death of John Sciandra. But he was not really noticed by law enforcement until the Apalachin convention of 1957.

Bufalino's crime family was reported to be closely aligned with the Genovese Crime Family of nearby New York City. Bufalino spent much of his time in New York and is believed to have aided Mafiosi from that area in setting themselves up in non-union garment manufacturing businesses in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Bufalino also appeared to have business interests in Florida and Cuba.

There were reports of a visit to Cuba by Bufalino in November 1951. Documented trips to the island nation in late 1955 and spring 1956 later caused serious legal problems for the crime boss because he improperly claimed U.S. citizenship upon his reentry.

Authorities were confused by crime family relationships following the 1957 Apalachin convention. Due to the proximity of convention host Joseph Barbara's Apalachin estate to Scranton, Pittston, Wilkes-Barre home territory of the Northeast Pennsylvania Mafia, state and federal investigators decided that Barbara was a regional crime boss and Bufalino was his underboss. (This was stated in the 1970 report of the Pennsylvania Crime Commission.) It now appears, however, that Barbara was a remote lieutenant for the Magaddino Crime Family based in Buffalo, New York, while Bufalino was boss of his own organization.

As federal investigators looked into Bufalino after Apalachin, they discovered documents relating to his earlier returns from Cuba. In April of 1958, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered him deported as an undesirable alien. Years of legal appeals followed.

(Some writers have insisted that Bufalino developed a close personal relationship with Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in the late 1950s and worked to return Batista to power after Fidel Castro's revolution. Some connect these claims to incidents relating to Hoffa and the Kennedys. There even have been suggestions that Bufalino personally fled Cuba just ahead of Castro's advancing army at the start of 1959 and may have watched the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion from a ship off the Cuban coast. Given Bufalino's ongoing problems with the INS deportation order, these claims seem far-fetched. It would have been extremely unlikely that Bufalino would have risked setting foot outside the country in this period for any reason at all.)

Late in 1959, Bufalino was among the more than 20 Apalachin meeting attendees to be convicted of conspiring to keep the purpose of the meeting from investigating agencies. In January 1960, Bufalino and fourteen co-defendants were sentenced to serve five-year terms in prison. Others were sentenced to lesser terms. The judge permitted the defendants to remain free on bail pending their appeals. Nearly a year later, an appeals court threw out the convictions.

Bufalino remained virtually untouched by law enforcement until his later years. Near the end of 1969, he was indicted in connection with the transport of stolen televisions across state lines. He was acquitted in 1970 and complained to the press about law enforcement harassment and wiretapping. He was then charged in spring 1973 with engaging in extortion in the cigarette vending machine business. A jury in Buffalo, New York, acquitted him.

At about that time, the U.S. was poised finally to deport him to his native Italy, but Italy halted the plan, refusing to issue the paperwork necessary for his return.

Another extortion case resulted in another acquittal in 1975. In the same period, Bufalino was mentioned but not charged in connection with the disappearance and likely murder of Hoffa, who was attempting to regain power in the Teamsters union. However, in the summer of 1977, Bufalino was convicted of extortion. His first documented experience inside a prison occurred in summer 1978, when his legal appeals concluded and he became an inmate at Danbury, Connecticut, Federal Correctional Institution. He served three years of the sentence before being paroled on May 8, 1981.

During his time in prison, the crime family of Northeastern Pennsylvania was reportedly managed by Edward Sciandra (nephew of former boss John Sciandra).

Less than half a year after his release from prison - at a time when his underworld organization was regarded as the most powerful in the State of Pennsylvania - he was charged with conspiring to kill a federal witness back in 1976. He was convicted and sentenced to ten years in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. He was released in May 1989, after serving six years and eight months of that term. The end of the sentence was served in the federal prison hospital at Springfield, Missouri, as Bufalino's health began to decline in 1987 and a transfer was deemed necessary.

Bufalino spent the final two years of his life in a Kingston nursing home. Following his death, management of the regional crime family fell to Edward Sciandra and former Bufalino driver and confidant William D'Elia.

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02 May 2019

Frank Costello: 'Somebody tried to get me'

NYC underworld leader survives assassination attempt

On this date in 1957...

New York City crime boss Frank Costello suffered only a superficial wound late on the evening of May 2, 1957, when a tall, hulking gunman fired a bullet at the back of his head.

The assassination attempt, along with legal battles relating to a tax evasion conviction and government attempts to revoke his citizenship, convinced Costello to retire from crime family leadership. Vito Genovese stepped in as boss of the organization that has since been known as the Genovese Crime Family.

May 2, 1957

Earlier on the night of May 2, Costello, the sixty-six-year-old leader of Salvatore "Lucky Luciano" Lucania's former organization, had dinner with his wife at the Monsignore Restaurant, 61 East 55th Street in Manhattan. They were joined by a number of friends, including New York Enquirer Publisher Generoso Pope, Jr. (who, with loans from Costello, would build his newspaper into the National Enquirer), and modeling agent Philip Kennedy. Costello decided to leave the party "early."

New York Times
Leaving Mrs. Costello at the restaurant with their friends, Costello and Kennedy took a taxi for the one and a half mile trip to the Majestic Apartments, 115 Central Park West, near 72nd Street. The taxi pulled up to the building shortly before 11 p.m. Costello and Kennedy spoke briefly, and Costello exited the vehicle.

The Mafia leader passed through an exterior door, descended two stairs and was opening an interior door to the building lobby when the large man in a dark suit and dark hat ran up behind him, said, "This is for you, Frank," and fired a single shot.

Kennedy heard the gunshot as his taxi pulled away from the curb. He told the driver to stop, and he jumped out and rushed to Costello.

The underworld boss had staggered to a lobby bench. Blood was oozing from a wound that stretched across the back of his scalp. Red blotches stained his jacket and shirt collar. He told Kennedy, "Somebody tried to get me."

A taxi was summoned to take Costello to Roosevelt Hospital, where it was found that the bullet had not penetrated his skull. Mrs. Costello joined her husband at the hospital at 11:50 p.m.

About an hour later, police escorted a bandaged Costello to the West 54th Street Police Station, where he was questioned.

Though one Roosevelt Hospital doctor believed the nature of the scalp wound indicated that Costello turned toward the gunman at the moment the shot was fired, Costello insisted that he did not see who shot him and had no enemies in the world. "I didn't see nothing," he said. "I feel fine."

Costello claimed that he did not hear the gunman approach and did not even hear the shot that hit him. He merely felt a stinging sensation behind one ear and, when he touched the spot, felt the wetness of his blood.

The doorman of the Majestic Apartments told police that he saw the large gunman get out of a Cadillac double-parked behind the taxi that brought Costello home. He recalled that the man seemed to waddle as he rushed toward Costello. The gunman returned to the Cadillac after firing the single shot, and the vehicle sped away south on Central Park West. The Cadillac had curtains in its rear windows and no light on its license plate, according to the doorman.

(At some point that night, police acquired a slip of paper that had been in Costello's possession. After a fair amount of study, it was determined that numbers written on the paper - 651,284 - matched the gross gambling earnings of the Las Vegas Tropicana Hotel for the period April 3 to April 26. The opening of the Tropicana's casino had been delayed due to reported links to Costello associate Phil Kastel. The State of Nevada granted a license to the casino only after being assured that it had severed its connections with the underworld. Costello's slip of paper strongly suggested a continuing relationship.)

The Chin

For months, dozens of NYPD detectives struggled to identify the shooter. (They even picked up Carl Lucania, cousin of former boss Salvatore Lucania, for questioning, holding him on a vagrancy charge until June 25.) In July, they heard from sources that the gunman was former prizefighter Vincent "the Chin" Gigante. It took until late August to find and arrest Gigante.

Later in the year, resolving the attempted assassination of Costello was shoved to a back-burner, as authorities were busied with the assassination of Albert Anastasia and with a large-scale gathering of known underworld figures at Joseph Barbara's Apalachin, New York, home.

Gigante was tried in May 1958 for the shooting of Costello. On May 27, a jury found him not guilty, and he went free.

Gigante's connection with Vito Genovese - Costello's rival and his successor as crime family boss - became apparent weeks later, when Genovese, Gigante and several dozen others were charged with narcotics conspiracy. Authorities learned that Gigante had been assigned to eliminate Costello, so Genovese could take over the criminal organization.

  • "Carl Lucania is freed by court," New York Daily News, June 26, 1957, p. 16.
  • "Costello gunman is sought in vain by 66 detectives," New York Times, May 4, 1957, p. 1.
  • "Costello is shot entering home; gunman escapes," New York Times, May 3, 1957, p. 1.
  • "Costello notation represents 'take' at Las Vegas Inn," Nyack NY Journal-News, June 12, 1957, p. B1.
  • "Gambler Costello shot in 'murder' attempt," Rochester NY Democrat and Chronicle, May 3, 1957, p. 1.
  • "Genovese freed in bail of $50,000," New York Times, July 9, 1958.
  • "Gigante beats rap in Costello case," Nyack NY Journal-News, May 29, 1958, p. 9.
  • "Hunt ex-boxer in shooting of Frank Costello," New York Daily News, July 17, 1957, p. 5.
  • "Jury frees Gigante in Costello shooting," New York Times, May 28, 1958, p. 1.
  • "U.S. jury indicts Genovese, Gigante in narcotics plot," New York Times, July 8, 1958, p. 1.
  • Federici, William, "Hogan links Costello's 'notes' to Vegas casino," New York Daily News, June 12, 1957, p. 4.
  • Katz, Leonard, Uncle Frank: The Biography of Frank Costello, New York: Drake Publishers, 1973, p. 203-209.
  • Machirella, Henry, and Henry Lee, "Jail ex-boxer for trying to kill Costello," New York Daily News, Aug. 20, 1957, p. 2.
  • McCarthy, Robert, Joseph Donnelly and Jack Smee, "Costello shot in ambush at door of home," New York Daily News, May 3, 1957, p. 2.

13 November 2018

Bosses meet on eve of Apalachin convention

On this date in 1957...

On the eve of a scheduled Mafia convention at the Joseph Barbara estate in Apalachin, New York, underworld bosses and cousins Joseph Bonanno and Stefano Magaddino met November 13, 1957, at a private home nearby in Endicott, New York. The two men debated through the night.

The meeting and the content of the discussion were recalled by Bonanno in his autobiography, A Man of Honor.

Bonanno, boss of a Brooklyn-based Mafia family and the current chairman of the Mafia Commission, criticized the decision of western New York underworld boss Magaddino to set up the meeting while Bonanno was out of the country and unable to speak in opposition. Magaddino argued that Bonanno was upset over nothing. Magaddino reminded Bonanno that, when he left the U.S., he entrusted his underworld authority to Magaddino.

Bonanno noted that Joseph Barbara, called upon by Magaddino to host the large gathering, was in poor health and had misgivings about local police cooperation since he hosted a Commission meeting one year earlier.

Magaddino insisted that Barbara was just making excuses: "I never ask him for a favor. When I do, he tries to get out of it. Joe feels all right."

Bonanno also suggested that rival New York bosses Tommy Lucchese and Vito Genovese used appeals to Magaddino's vanity to manipulate him into quickly scheduling the convention. Bonanno reasoned that Lucchese and Genovese wanted national Mafia recognition of their ally, Carlo Gambino, who was just installed as a crime family boss following the assassination of Albert Anastasia. Recognition of Gambino undermined the leadership claims of rival factions in the former Anastasia organization.

Magaddino left Bonanno and headed to Apalachin around midday on November 14. (Bonanno claimed he did not go to the convention.) A police roadblock had already been set up around the Barbara estate and Mafiosi trying to leave the site were being stopped and taken to a New York State Police barracks in Vestal for identification.

See also:

02 July 2018

July 1958: Profaci infuriates McClellan Committee

On this date in 1958...

New York City-based Mafia boss Joseph Profaci, accompanied by attorney Samuel Paige, appeared July 2, 1958, before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field (McClellan Committee). Conflict between the committee and the underworld-boss witness was evident from the opening seconds of the testimony.
Chairman John L. McClellan:   State your name, your place of residence, and your business or occupation.
Joseph Profaci:   Joseph Profaci, 8863 Fifteenth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
Chairman:   What is your business or occupation, please?
Profaci:   I refuse to answer on the ground it might be incriminating me.
Chairman:   You what?
Profaci:   I refuse to answer on the ground...
Chairman:   I don't think you better use the word "refuse." I think that shows disrespect for your government. Do you want to place yourself in that attitude?
Profaci:   I am sorry.
Chairman:   I would use the word "decline." [1]
Senator Irving McNeil Ives, committee vice chairman, got involved in this conversation, and it was established that Profaci was reading his refusal to answer from a piece of paper provided by his attorney. Profaci said he misread the paper, on which was written, "I respectfully refuse..." Following that explanation, Ives suggested to Profaci and attorney Paige that "decline" would be a more appropriate term than "refuse."

The committee then attempted to move back to the issue of Profaci's business but instantly found itself back where it started.
Chairman: Do I understand that you are stating to this committee that if you answered the question as to what is your business or occupation, that a truthful answer to that question might tend to incriminate you?
Profaci: I refuse to answer...
Senator Ives: I wish you would stop using that word "refuse."
Profaci: I decline to answer. I am sorry.

Senator McClellan ordered Profaci to answer whether a truthful explanation of his line of work could be incriminating to Profaci. Profaci attempted to decline again. The chairman pointed out that it could not possibly be incriminating to answer whether he believed another answer would be incriminating. Profaci yielded to that logic and answered, "Yes, I believe" that stating his business would be incriminating. [2]

Though committee members made an issue of Profaci's refusal to answer this rather superficial question, it was hardly surprising. The previous day, reputed Mafiosi James V. LaDuca, Rosario Mancuso and Louis A. Larasso cited the Fifth Amendment in their refusals to answer all manner of questions.[3]

Robert Kennedy
The committee already had an idea of Profaci's business. A summary provided by Chief Counsel Robert Kennedy's investigative staff as the Mafia hearings opened described Profaci: "At Apalachin meeting. Owner of Carmela Mia Packing Co. Number of arrests in Italy and United States. An old-time, well established gangster." [4]

McClellan conferred with counsel Kennedy about whether Profaci was under indictment. "I don't believe he is," Kennedy responded. McClellan attempted to find out by asking Profaci, but received only "I decline to answer on the ground it may be incriminating to me" from the witness.

The chairman turned questioning over to the chief counsel. Kennedy attempted to open things up on a friendly basis. That didn't last long.
Chief Counsel Robert Kennedy: Mr. Profaci, we had a talk yesterday, a nice conversation; did we not? Didn't we have a little talk in the office?
Profaci: I decline to answer.
Kennedy: Mr. Profaci, your English was so much better yesterday. What has happened in the last twenty-four hours?
Profaci: I don't catch your words right.
Kennedy: You don't?
Profaci: I don't catch you.
Kennedy: You caught it awfully well yesterday, Mr. Profaci. You spoke very good and you understood everything I said.
Profaci: If you will be patient, I will catch it.
Kennedy: I don't have to be. Yesterday you spoke very freely and easily. Your accent has gotten so bad today. What happened overnight, Mr. Profaci? You understood and answered all the questions I asked you yesterday, and you spoke very easily, with very little accent. What has happened since?
Profaci: I don't catch the words right when you use big words.[5]

Profaci subsequently revealed that he was born in Palermo and became an American citizen. He hesitated to discuss his birth date, his arrival in the U.S. and his naturalization. He declined to answer questions about his early days in Chicago, visit to Joseph Barbara's home at Apalachin, family connections to the Toccos and Zerillis of Detroit, links to union officials and other associates, import/export businesses and investments in clothing manufacturing firms. When Detective Thomas O'Brien came forward to outline Profaci's arrest record in Italy and the United States, Profaci refused to confirm any aspect of the record. [6]

O'Brien and Kennedy stated that Profaci had been arrested at an apparent Mafia convention in Cleveland on December 5, 1928. Profaci would not discuss it. Vice Chairman Ives took the opportunity to ask a direct question.
Ives: May I interrupt? I would like to ask him: Are you a member of the Mafia?
Profaci: I decline to answer on the ground it might be incriminating.
Ives: ...Are you a member or aren't you?
Profaci: No; I decline to answer. No, sir.
Ives: You are not?
Profaci: No, sir.
Ives: You are under oath, you know?
Profaci: I decline to answer on the ground it may tend to incriminate me.[7]

Senator McClellan (left), Robert Kennedy (right).
Senator Mundt drew the committee's attention to correspondence from Attorney General William P. Rogers that indicated Profaci might be subject to deportation proceedings. That was generally acknowledged as a possible motivation for Profaci's refusal to answer the questions put to him. [8] Chairman McClellan attempted to resolve the issue, but probably should have known better.
Chairman: Would you like to advise us whether deportation proceedings are now pending against you or not?
Profaci: (Conferred for a time with his attorney.) I don't get you, Senator, excuse me. I am sorry.
Chairman: Let me see if I can get it to you so you will get it. Has any action been started to deport you? You know what "deport" means, don't you?
Profaci: Yes, sir.
Chairman: You know what that means?
Profaci: Yes.
Chairman: Is the government now attempting to deport you from this country?
Profaci: I decline to answer on the ground it may incriminate me.[9]

That was all McClellan could take. In halting the questioning of Profaci, he called for a transcript of the testimony to be sent to the Department of Justice to aid in the denaturalization and deportation of Profaci:
We should rid the country of characters who come here from other lands and take advantage of the great freedom and opportunity our country affords, who come here to exploit these advantages with criminal activities. They do not belong to our land, and they ought to be sent somewhere else. In my book, they are human parasites on society, and they violate every law of decency and humanity.... [10]
When he opened the committee's Mafia-related hearings on June 30, Chairman McClellan stated, "There exists in America today what appears to be a close-knit, clandestine, criminal syndicate. This group has made fortunes in the illegal liquor traffic during Prohibition, and later in narcotics, vice and gambling. These illicit profits present the syndicate with a financial problem, which they solve through investment in legitimate business. These legitimate businesses also provide convenient cover for their continued illegal activities...

"In these hearings, and the ones to follow, we are going to call in some of the leading figures in the national criminal hierarchy. These people are all involved in legitimate enterprises, management and labor... As a starting point for our hearings, we intend to focus on the criminal group which held a meeting at the home of Joseph Mario Barbara, Sr., in Apalachin, N.Y., on November 14, 1957. The discovery of this meeting by the New York State Police had the effect of revealing the scope of the interrelationships of some of the leaders of the national crime syndicate..."[11]

  1.  Hearings before the Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field (McClellan Committee), Part 32 - "Mafia," 85th Congress, 2nd Session, Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958, p. 12337-12338.
  2.  Hearings, Part 32, p. 12338.
  3.  Hearings, Part 32, p. 12231-12321.
  4.  Hearings, Part 32, p. 12199.
  5.  Hearings, Part 32, p. 12339
  6.  Hearings, Part 32, p. 12339-12349, 12351-12353.
  7.  Hearings, Part 32, p. 12346.
  8.  Hearings, Part 32, p. 12353-12357.
  9.  Hearings, Part 32, p. 12357.
  10.  Hearings, Part 32, p. 12357.
  11.  Hearings, Part 32, p. 12192-12193.

14 November 2017

Apalachin party-crashers expose Mafia network

[Following is an excerpt from DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime - Vol. II.]

On November 14, 1957, Sergeant Edgar Croswell of the New York State Police, aided by troopers from the Vestal barracks and agents of the Treasury Department, broke up a convention of American mobsters at the rural Apalachin home of regional crime chieftain Joseph Barbara Sr. Scores of Mafiosi from around the country were rounded up and identified.

With known criminal figures from every region of the country in attendance, the crashed party at tiny Apalachin triggered years of investigations and compelled reluctant federal law enforcement officials to acknowledge the existence of a highly organized, interstate network of racketeers.

Joe Barbara
Croswell learned a day earlier that Joseph Barbara's son made a number of room reservations at the Parkway Motel on Route 17 in Vestal. Knowing of Barbara's underworld connections, the police sergeant and Trooper Vincent Vasisko investigated. They drove up to the Barbara residence, a large stone house surrounded by fifty-three wooded acres on dead end McFall Road in Apalachin. They noted the license plates of the few cars they saw parked on the grounds. One was registered in New Jersey. The officers went back to the Parkway Motel later in the evening of November 13 and found an Ohio-registered Cadillac. When Croswell learned that several men had checked into one of the rooms reserved by the younger Barbara, he asked motel proprietor Warren Schroeder to have the occupants sign registration cards. The men refused to give their names.

Barbara had a record as a bootlegger, so Croswell contacted the Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Unit. Agents of the unit arrived in Vestal on the morning of November 14. The troopers and agents drove over to the Barbara estate. They observed a half dozen, expensive, new cars in a parking lot. Many more vehicles could be seen parked behind the home’s detached garage.

The Barbaras apparently were hosting a large gathering. Croswell called the barracks for additional help and advised Inspector Robert E. Denman of the state police headquarters in Sidney, New York.

With no warrant for Barbara’s home and no official justification for setting foot on his property, the troopers recorded the license plate numbers of visible automobiles and then set up a roadblock on the nearest state road, Old Route 17. They monitored traffic passing through toward McFall Road and stopped every vehicle leaving the area, demanding identification from drivers and their passengers.

Word of the police presence outside the estate reached Barbara’s guests by early afternoon, and dozens of men suddenly poured from the home. Many attempted to leave by automobile but were halted at the law enforcement roadblock.

Elmira NY Star-Gazette, Nov. 15, 1957.

At twenty minutes after one, a car carrying Barbara’s longtime friend Emanuele Zicari and Dominick Alaimo of Pittston, Pennsylvania, was the first to reach the roadblock.

Troopers next stopped a black, 1957 Chrysler Imperial registered to William Medico of Pennsylvania. Inside they found New York-New Jersey Mafia leaders Vito Genovese, Gerardo Catena, Joseph Ida and Dominick Oliveto, along with Rosario “Russell” Bufalino of Pennsylvania. A 1957 Cadillac contained Cleveland Mafia boss John Scalish; John DeMarco of Shaker Heights, Ohio; James LaDuca of Lewiston, New York; and Roy Carlisi of Buffalo. Brooklyn underworld figures Carlo Gambino, Armand Rava and Paul Castellano were stopped in a borrowed car chauffeured by Castellano. In another vehicle police found Pittsburgh Mafiosi Michael Genovese and Gabriel “Kelly” Mannarino, traveling with Pittston, Pennsylvania, gangsters James Osticco and Angelo Sciandra.

Some of Barbara’s guests, either lacking automobiles or deciding that escape by road was impossible, ran off into the hilly woods and open fields surrounding the Barbara estate. Observing that suspicious behavior, police pursued them.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nov. 16, 1957
Antonino Magaddino, brother of western New York Mafia boss Stefano Magaddino, was apprehended at McFadden Road to the east of the estate. John C. Montana of Buffalo and Brooklyn underworld leaders Joseph Bonanno and John Bonventre were found in a cornfield nearby. When police reached him, Montana was tangled in a barbed wire fence. James Colletti of Pueblo, Colorado, and Simone Scozzari of San Gabriel, California, slid down a brushy hill to the west of Barbara’s home and were gathered up by police on the avenue leading to the Pennsylvania state line. Santo Trafficante, the crime boss of Tampa, Florida, and the representative of a growing number of Mafia investors in Cuban gambling casinos, was extracted from a wooded area near Barbara’s home.

The law enforcement operation in Apalachin ultimately collected almost sixty underworld figures. Two more – Nick Civella and Joseph Filardo of Kansas City – were picked up fifteen miles away at the Binghamton train station as they attempted to arrange transport home. All the captured men were brought to the Vestal barracks to be identified and questioned.

None provided a reasonable explanation for the gathering at the Barbara home; most insisted that they had all coincidentally dropped in to visit their ailing friend Joseph Barbara Sr., who recently had suffered a heart attack. Genovese, Ida, Catena and Oliveto refused to answer any questions. The authorities were convinced that the gathering had been prearranged for a far more sinister purpose. (Some suggested the meeting was held in order to establish a uniform policy with regard to narcotics trafficking. Others felt it was to divide up the rackets of the recently murdered Albert Anastasia or to settle succession issues in his Mafia organization, later known as the Carlo Gambino Family. Still others speculated that the purpose was to endorse the takeover of Lucky Luciano's former crime family by Vito Genovese.) However, with no legal grounds for holding the men, police had to turn them loose.

Further investigation led authorities to assemble a list of more than 70 underworld-connected Apalachin convention attendees from twenty-five U.S. regions:
  • Apalachin, Binghamton, Endicott, New York – Joseph Barbara Sr., Joseph Barbara Jr., Ignatius Cannone, Anthony Guarnieri, Bartolo Guccia, Pasquale Turrigiano, Emanuele Zicari.
  • Auburn, New York – Sam Monachino, Patsy Monachino, Patsy Sciortino.
  • Boston, Massachusetts – Frank Cucchiara.
  • Buffalo, Niagara Falls, New York – Roy Carlisi, Domenick D’Agostino, James V. LaDuca, Sam Lagattuta, Antonino Magaddino, John C. Montana, Charles Montana, Stefano Magaddino.
  • Chicago, Illinois – Salvatore “Sam” Giancana, Anthony Accardo.
  • Cleveland, Ohio – John DeMarco, John Scalish.
  • Dallas, Texas – Joseph Civello.
  • Elizabeth, New Jersey – Joseph Ida, Louis Larasso, Frank Majuri.
  • Essex-Bergen Counties, New Jersey – Salvatore Chiri, Anthony Riela.
  • Kansas City, Missouri – Nick Civella, Joseph Filardo.
  • Los Angeles, California – Frank DeSimone, Simone Scozzari.
  • Miami, Florida – Bartolo Frank Failla.
  • New York, New York (Bonanno) – Joseph Bonanno, John Bonventre, Natale Evola, Carmine Galante.
  • New York, New York (Gambino) – Paul Castellano, Carlo Gambino, Carmine Lombardozzi, Armand Rava, Joseph Riccobono.
  • New York, New York (Genovese) – Gerardo Catena, Vito Genovese, Michele Miranda.
  • New York, New York (Lucchese) – Americo Migliore, Aniello Migliore, John Ormento, Vincent Rao, Joseph Rosato, Peter Valenti.
  • New York, New York (Profaci) – Joseph Magliocco, Joseph Profaci, Salvatore Tornabe.
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Dominick Oliveto.
  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Michael Genovese, Gabriel Mannarino, John Sebastian LaRocca.
  • Pittston, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – Dominick Alaimo, Rosario Bufalino, William Medico, James Osticco, Angelo Sciandra.
  • Pueblo, Colorado – James Colletti.
  • Rochester, New York – Frank Valenti, Costenze Valenti.
  • San Francisco, California – Joseph Cerrito, James Lanza.
  • Springfield, Illinois – Frank Zito.
  • Tampa, Florida, and Havana, Cuba – Santo Trafficante, Joseph Silesi.
  • Utica, New York – Joseph Falcone, Salvatore Falcone, Rosario Mancuso.
News of the roundup of national crime figures in tiny Apalachin shook the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C. Despite the earlier discoveries of the Kefauver Committee and other investigators, Bureau Director J. Edgar Hoover had insisted that criminal rackets were organized on no more than local or regional levels. The Apalachin incident revealed that known hoodlums from across the country were closely acquainted with each other. Many of the attendees were connected by business and/or family links.

In the wake of Apalachin, the withering attention of media and law enforcement was focused on American Mafiosi from coast to coast. Investigations into the gathering and its attendees were launched by state and federal legislative committees, including the New York State Joint Legislative Committee on Government Operations and the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field (McClellan Committee), as well as a federal grand jury in Albany and Hoover's greatly embarrassed Federal Bureau of Investigation.

See also:

Additional information on the Apalachin meeting, its attendees and its impact on organized crime can be found in:

DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime - Vol. II
by Thomas Hunt and Michael A. Tona.

Article sources:

  • Fitchette, Woodie, and Steve Hambalek, "Top U.S. hoods are run out of area after 'sick call' on Barbara," Binghamton NY Press, Nov. 15, 1957, p. 1.
  • “65 hoodlums seized in raid and run out of upstate village,” New York Times, Nov. 15, 1957, p. 1
  • "Cops spoil mobster Apalachin reunion," Elmira NY Star-Gazette, Nov. 15, 1957, p. 1.
  • “How hoodlum rally went haywire,” Syracuse Herald Journal, Nov. 16, 1957, p. 1.
  • "Cops probe convention of gangland," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 16, 1957, p. 1.
  • Feinberg, Alexander, “U.S. taking steps to deport aliens at gang meeting,” New York Times, Nov. 24, 1957, p. 1.

14 June 2017

San Francisco boss succumbs to blood disorder

On this date in 1937 - Francesco Lanza, Mafia boss of the San Francisco area, died of natural causes. His son Mariano Vincenzo (James) was deemed too young to succeed him, and the role of boss was passed to Tony Lima.

Originally from Castelbuono, Sicily, where the family surname was Proetto, Francesco Lanza entered the U.S. through New York in the early 1900s. His family, including two-year-old Mariano Vincenzo, joined him in New York in February of 1905.

The family made its way west during the World War I years and settled in San Francisco by the start of Prohibition. A low-profile Mafioso, Lanza ran produce-related businesses and became a legal supplier of grapes to illegal wine-making operations across the U.S. He remained far in the background while more conspicuous underworld figures perished in Prohibition Era gangland conflicts.

In the 1920s, he became part-owner of a vineyard in Escondido, California. Nick Licata, a Mafia leader from the Los Angeles area, later partnered in that business. California Mafioso Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno recalled Lanza as San Francisco's regional Mafia boss and partner with Giuseppe Alioto in a restaurant at the city's Fisherman's Wharf.

Lanza died at the age of 64. Historian Christina Ann-Marie DiEdoardo noted that the apparent cause of Francesco Lanza's death was aplastic anemia, a blood disease that could have been treated through transfusions. "Ironically," DiEdoardo wrote, "this made him the only boss around during the Booze Wars who died because his blood stayed in his body..."

A couple of decades after Francesco Lanza's death, his son James became boss of the San Francisco crime family. Unnoticed by the early 1950s Kefauver Committee, his name came up during the McClellan Committee hearings later in that decade. It was believed that James Lanza traveled east for the 1957 Apalachin convention as representative of San Francisco but managed to escape the notice of authorities. His presence in New York City and Scranton, Pennsylvania, hotels at the time of the convention was noted. The FBI began watching Lanza in the late 1950s and conducted electronic eavesdropping on his operations in the early 1960s. A widely publicized U.S. Justice Department listing of U.S. Mafia leaders in the late 1960s named James Lanza as the boss of the San Francisco crime family. James Lanza died in February 2006 at the age of 104.

See also:

O'Haire, Michael, "San Francisco boss Lanza held key role with Colorado's Mafia," Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement, October 2021.

  • "Mafia's leadership list updated by Justice Dept.," Palm Springs CA Desert Sun, Aug. 22, 1969, p. 7
  • "San Francisco deaths," Oakland CA Tribune, June 15, 1937, p. 35.
  • California Death Index,
  • Demaris, Ovid, The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno, New York: Times Books, 1981, p. 137.
  • DiEdoardo, Christina Ann-Marie, Lanza's Mob: The Mafia and San Francisco, Santa Barbara CA: Praeger, 2016.
  • Hart, Arthur V., "Meeting of hoodlums, Apalachin, New York, November 14, 1957," FBI report, file no. 63-4426-171, NARA no. 124-90103-10092, July 8, 1958, p. 103.
  • Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings Before the Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Part 32, 85th Congress, 2d Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958.
  • Mudd, Herbert K. Jr., "La Cosa Nostra San Francisco Division," FBI report, Aug. 23, 1968, file no. 92-6054-2397, NARA no. 124-10297-10131, p. Cover-C.
  • Passenger manifest of S.S. Sicilia, departed Palermo on January 26, 1905, arrived New York City on Feb. 10, 1905.
  • Polk's Crocker-Langley San Francisco City Directory 1934, San Francisco: R.L. Polk & Co. of California, 1934, p. 635.
  • SAC San Diego, "La Cosa Nostra AR - Conspiracy," FBI airtel, file no. 92-6054-1907, NARA no. 124-10222-10055, March 13, 1967, p. 4.
  • SAC San Francisco, "Mariano Vincenzo Lanza, aka James Joseph Lanza," FBI memorandum, file no. 92-3432-87, NARA no. 124-10222-10385, Dec. 29, 1960.
  • Social Security Death Index,
Read more about the Lanzas of San Francisco in:

14 November 2016

Syracuse Herald-Journal, Nov. 15, 1957
On this date in 1957, the American Mafia's convention at Apalachin, New York, was revealed by New York State Police.

As officers, assisted by agents of the federal Treasury Department, set up a roadblock and began taking a close look at the luxury automobiles parked at the secluded Joseph Barbara estate in Apalachin, dozens of Mafiosi darted out of the Barbara home and attempted to drive or run away from the scene. That suspicious activity permitted police to gather up the fleeing gangsters and take them in for questioning. Leading underworld figures from around the country were identified. It has been speculated that a number of other Mafia conventioneers escaped the notice of authorities merely by remaining within the house until police had departed.

The incident became a media sensation and prompted state and federal investigations. It ultimately compelled federal authorities - including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who long resisted the idea of an vast criminal conspiracy - to recognize the existence of a nationwide Mafia network.

See DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime, Volume II, for a detailed discussion of the Apalachin convention and its aftermath.


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Zone of the Enders 3 ?!

For the longest time I always wanted another “Zone of the Enders” Game.  I played the first of the series back in 2001 and I was blown away by the graphics (PS2 was the shit at the time).   The game was AMESOME.   ZOE  appealed to me on so many levels.   It had a weird Japanese soundtrack (unforgettable, not cause it was good, cause it was weird!) and it had an anime style that I never really saw before in PS2 game.   The sound effects were pretty cool and I loved the art direction. I don’t quite remember the story (its been almost 8 years) but I do remember it being ridiculously weird.   I will never forget my memories of flying around in Jehuty and wrecking havoc on other mechs.  This game was the first time I gave Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear Solid Producer) the credit he deserved.   He gained my silent approval and a big thumbs up.

Remember any of this?

Anyways in 2003, they released the sequel to the original ZOE.  Just like the first game, the sequel evolved the mecha combat and improved upon the controls and gameplay.  The 2nd game had more RPG elements, which I really liked.  A lot of people didn’t like it because it went full blast on the Anime elements but overall I thought it was a solid game.

Anyway, in a recent issue of Famitsu, Metal Gear Solid producer, Hideo Kojima hinted of a new Zone of the Enders.

Here are his exact words:

“ZOE is a title that has an extremely large fanbase requesting a sequel. That holds especially true for The 2nd Runner, the sequel. That game was praised all over the world, and we still get a lot of intensely devoted adulation for that game. After Metal Gear Solid, it’s the Kojima Production title that has the largest and most dedicated fanbase. We’re always fantasizing about how we’d make an advanced new version of ZOE: The 2nd Runner with all the cutting-edge tech we have now if we ever had the opportunity. But there is a mountain of things that have to take priority over that, and we just haven’t been able to make it a reality yet. I’m positive in my heart, though, that I’ll be able to bring a sequel to all the fans someday.”

SEE!  He is positive in his heart!  Although I would like to see a new ZOE game the reality is that we probably wont see a new ZOE game for a really long time.  One can always dream…I’m sure the game would look something like this:

Am I the only one who wants to see a sequel?  Thoughts? comments?

Check out the photo sections for some cool ZOE pictures.


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Music News

Want to collaborate with Justin Timberlake? You can, starting later this year

L-Justin Timberland, R-Timbaland; Kevin Mazur/WireImage

Timbaland and Justin Timberlake have come together to make it easy for any aspiring music producer to have JT featured on their track.

Timbaland is working to launch launched Beatclub, described as a “global marketplace for music makers.”  Users pay a subscription fee and can then upload and download beats, loops and other sounds from top producers and musicians. Ahead of its public launch later this year, Justin is the latest star to join the club, and plans to contribute a capella files and so-called “stem files” —  groups of discrete musical elements — to the platform.

In addition to JT, other members of Beatclub include super-producers Tainy — who worked on Shawn Mendes‘ latest hit, “Summer of Love” — and Mike WiLL Made-IT, who’s created hits for Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé and Rihanna.

“Justin is without a doubt one of the most inspiring songwriters and artists in the world,” said Timbaland in a statement. “Having him join Beatclub is like welcoming an old friend home. I’m thrilled that music creators are going to have the ability to actually collaborate with Justin and me when we launch later this year.”

Justin and Timbaland, of course, have forged a long creative partnership, dating back to JT’s 2002 solo debut, Justified.  They’ve worked together on all of Justin’s subsequent solo albums as well.

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PARIS -- President Nicolas Sarkozy's government presented a draft bill that would effectively scrap the 35-hour workweek, one of France's sacred cows. French labor unions were caught off guard by the move and were meeting late Thursday to decide whether to call for strikes.

Tackling the workweek is becoming one of the toughest tests of Mr. Sarkozy's one-year tenure. The 35-hour week was introduced in 1998 to let more people into the workplace by lowering the time each employee worked -- 39 hours at the time. Jobs were created at first, but results have been mixed, and many critics say the law has contributed to France's low economic growth.

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Agri-Business Centre, Holsworthy

Hills acted as Employer's Agent and Quantity Surveyor for Torridge District Council during the construction of a new livestock market which was handed over to Kivells, the auctioneers, the main users of the market.

In addition to facilities for the buying and selling of livestock there are offices and kiosks for other market businesses, such as agricultural machinery suppliers, various trade stand,  banks, NFU and a café/restaurant.

As well as the usual livestock market pens and rings for cattle and sheep the new building boasts a fully operational four-cow dairy, harvests its own water from rainwater collection and a borehole as well as treating all livestock sewage on site.

Hills carried out a considerable amount of value engineering on the project to ensure that all the facilities could be provided within the funding available.

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National host Roland Martin to speak at UNCW MLK event

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) – UNCW Students as well as guests will be able to hear one of the most celebrated national talk show hosts speak about race and representation on Thursday in the Kenan Auditorium.

TV One’s Roland Martin will be the guest speaker at the UNCW MLK Celebration Event on Thursday. Martin will deliver the keynote speech, which will be followed by a Q & A session moderated by WWAY’s own Amanda Fitzpatrick.

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Questions will cover current issues concerning race and representation of people of color in America, as well as Martin Luther King Jr.’s historical legacy.

Martin is the host and managing editor of TV One’s News One Now, the first daily news program in America to focus on news and analysis from an explicitly African American perspective.

His experience and knowledge of the subjects to be discussed are expected to foster a rich conversation.

Admission is free, but tickets are required as space is limited. Tickets are available at the Kenan Box Office. A maximum of four tickets are allowed per individual.


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