By Thomas Hunt and Steve Turner
Joseph Valachi came into contact with many interesting people, on both sides of the law, during his life. He discussed dozens in his autobiography and in interviews with author Peter Maas, who has become the foundation of Valachi newspapers. Although minor characters in the history of Valachi’s life, many deserve the particular attention of crime historians. In this section, we examine a number of these people, providing a summary of what Valachi had to say about them, as well as the data that we were able to gather from historic files …
(Biographies of judge Matthew Thomas Abruzzo, Frank “Big Dick” Amato, Ludwig “Dutchman” Augustine, brother Abel, Frank “Chic 99” Callace, Edward “Eddie Starr” Capobianco, Angelo Caruso, Stephen “Buck Jones” Casero, Joseph “Muski” Castaldo, Carmine “Dolly Dimple Ettore “” Eddie “Coco, Vincent” Doc “by Anna, John” Johnny Dee “Debelis, Dominick” Dom the Sailor “Diquarto, Michael Dibenedetto, Assoc. Leone, Frank” Cheech “Livorsi, Samuel” Sam Medal “Medaglia, Nick Paduano, Michael” Little Apples ” John “Bum” Rodgers, John “Curley” Russomano, “Sadie”, Fiore “Fury” Siano, Innocenzio “John the Bug” Stoppelli, Giuseppe “Zaccaro.)
86 pages of magazines / 163 pages of books.
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