The Sixth Family: The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto

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John Wiley & Sons, 12 mei 2009 - 386 pagina's
From The Sixth Family, according to witness testimony:

BROOKLYN, MAY 5, 1981

"We were in the closet. We all had our weapons loaded. We sat there and waited for the doorbell to ring," said Salvatore Vitale, a slender New York mobster known as Good-Looking Sal. "We left the door open a smidge to look out."

The ringing of the bell at the private social club’s entrance signaled the arrival of the first of the invited guests. Vito Rizzuto crouched low, peeking out from his vantage point. Through the swelling crowd and loud chatter from tough men all accustomed to having their say, Vito kept his eyes on one man, Gerlando Sciascia, a fellow Sicilian who was a long-time Rizzuto family friend.

Breathing deeply beneath his mask, Vito watched for the secret signal that would draw him from the closet, a signal that came when Sciascia slowly ran the fingers of his lean, right hand through the silver hair on the side of his head. That simple act of preening brought mayhem to the social club and radically changed the balance of power.

"Don’t anybody move. This is a holdup," Vito said as he confronted the roomful of powerful mobsters, his words muffled by a woolen ski mask pulled down over his long, thin face. Despite those words, this was not about robbery. Nothing would be taken but three lives and the rights to an underworld throne.

 

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AGRIGENTO PROVINCE SICILY 2006
CATTOLICA ERACLEA SICILY 1924
NEW ORLEANS JANUARY 19 1925
HARLEM 1928
PASSAIC NEW JERSEY 1931
WASHINGTON DC 1932
CATTOLICA ERACLEA 1940s
MONTREAL MARCH 1995
QUEENS JUNE 1991
LOWER MANHATTAN MAY 1992
MONTREAL JULY 1991
MANHATTAN FEBRUARY 1995
LONG ISLAND MARCH 1999
BROOKLYN MARCH 1999
WHITE PLAINS NEW YORK MARCH 1999

HALIFAX CANADA FEBRUARY 1954
MONTREAL 1950s
PALERMO SICILY OCTOBER 1957
NEW YORK 1960
MONTREAL 1960s
BOUCHERVILLE QUEBEC MAY 16 1968
MONTREAL AND TORONTO NOVEMBER 1966
MONTREAL 1969
MONTREAL DECEMBER 1972
NEW YORK EARLY 1970s
CATANIA SICILY 1972
MONTREAL MAY 1972
MONTREAL SEPTEMBER 1972
CARACAS VENEZUELA 1973
MANHATTAN AUGUST 1973
MONTREAL 1974
MONTREAL 1975
QUEENS NOVEMBER 4 1976
BROOKLYN 1977
MONTREAL 1977
MONTREAL FEBRUARY 1976
MONTREAL LATE JANUARY 1978
MANHATTAN JULY 1978
VALLEY STREAM LONG ISLAND JUNE 5 1979
BROOKLYN JULY 12 1979
MANHATTAN NOVEMBER 16 1980
BUCKS COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA JANUARY 1973
FIUMICINO AIRPORT ROME 1980
BROOKLYN SPRING 1981
CATTOLICA ERACLEA SICILY
BROOKLYN SPRING 1981
BROOKLYN MAY 5 1981
THE BRONX MAY 6 1981
QUEENS MAY 24 1981
QUEENS FALL 1981
ATLANTIC OCEAN OFF SAVANNAH GEORGIA MAY 6 1982
NEW YORK EARLY 1980s
THE BRONX SUMMER 1981
MANHATTAN JANUARY 1985
MONTREAL SPRING 1992
CARACAS VENEZUELA 1982
CARACAS FEBRUARY 1988
MONTREAL SPRING 1993
IRELANDS EYE ATLANTIC COAST OCTOBER 1987
SEPTÎLES QUEBEC OCTOBER 1988
MONTREAL SUMMER 1989
ST JOHNS NEWFOUNDLAND FALL 1990
WEST PALM BEACH FLORIDA 1993
LAKE WORTH FLORIDA 1993
CENTRAL SQUARE NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 1993
CORNWALL ONTARIO AUTUMN 1994
MONTREAL DECEMBER 1993
PUERTO CABELLO VENEZUELA DECEMBER 1994
MONTREAL JANUARY 1995
MONTREAL JUNE 3 1995
NEW YORK AND MONTREAL 1994
LUGANO SWITZERLAND AUGUST 1994
MONTREAL EARLY SEPTEMBER 1990
COAST OF COLOMBIA AUGUST 17 1994
MONTREAL AUGUST 30 1994
BERN SWITZERLAND AUGUST 31 1994
MONTREAL 2001
MONTREAL 1990
TORONTO APRIL 1993
SAINTDONAT QUEBEC FEBRUARY 1995
MONTREAL 1995
MONTREAL APRIL 2000
MONTREAL MARCH 2001
TORONTO JANUARY 2001
TORONTO JULY 15 1998
TORONTO SUMMER 2000
TORONTO OCTOBER 3 2000
WOODBRIDGE ONTARIO OCTOBER 2001
TORONTO MAY 2002
MONTREAL MAY 30 2002
MONTREAL MAY 21 2003
MONTREAL JANUARY 20 2004
BROOKLYN DECEMBER 31 2003
MONTREAL JANUARY 2004
NEW YORK AND MONTREAL JANUARY 20 2004
NEW YORK 2001
BOCA RATON FLORIDA MARCH 2002
BROOKLYN OCTOBER 2002
BROOKLYN JULY 30 2004
QUEENS FALL 2004
BROOKLYN MAY 2004
OTTAWA 2005
MONTREAL AUGUST 6 2004
BROOKLYN 2005
LAVAL QUEBEC MARCH 2005
MONTREAL MAY 2005
ROME FEBRUARY 2005
NEW YORK AUGUST 17 2006
LAVAL QUEBEC SEPTEMBER 14 2006
MONTREAL JUNE 2003
MONTREAL AUGUST 30 2006
MONTREAL AND LAVAL NOVEMBER 6 2006
MONTREAL NOVEMBER 22 2006
BROOKLYN MAY 4 2007
ROME OCTOBER 23 2007
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Adrian Humphreys covers organized crime for the National Post and is the author of The Enforcer, the best-selling biography of Johnny "Pops" Papalia, one of North America's longest-reigning Mafia bosses. He was the principal consultant for History television's popular series "Mob Stories" and has written on crime for the Chicago Sun Times, Britain's Daily Telegraph and Reader's Digest. he can be contacted at humphreys@canada.com.

Lee Lamothe is the author of the bestseller bloodlines: The Rise and Fall of the Mafia's Royal Family; Global Mafia: The New World Order of Organized Crime; Angels, Mobsters & Narco-Terrorists; and The Last Thief, a novel about the Russian Mafia. As a journalist and writer, he has covered organized crime across North America, Europe, South America and Asia.

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