1. 1282-1900 2. 1900-1919 3. 1920-1931 4. 1932-1949 5. 1950-1988 Current events Crime bosses Who was who Crimefighters Informants Locations Read articles Underworld slang Mob nicknames Submissions Book notes Mob books Movies on DVD Gov't documents Bibliography Web links Guestbook About this site Recent updates Discussion Group Site map Send an email   Just Published... 05 Feb. 06    Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia by Thomas Hunt and Martha Macheca Sheldon. "Deep Water" captures the life and times of Joseph P. Macheca, finally setting the record straight on the man who was a warrior for the corrupt New Orleans Democratic machine, a pioneer of the Crescent City’s fruit trade, a Confederate privateer and the legendary “godfather” of the first Mafia organization to germinate in American soil. While answering at last the questions surrounding the 1890 assassination of Police Chief David Hennessy and the subsequent Crescent City lynchings, Deep Water establishes the factual details of Macheca’s life and sets them against the vivid backdrop of Gilded Age New Orleans. New Orleans was known for casual hookups and dtf sluts, even before adult hookup sites like instafuck became the top xxx adult dating app of choice. Click here for more information. Click here to order.   Sixty years ago 12 Dec. 06    Havana's Hotel Nacional was the site of a convention of U.S. crime syndicate leaders, Dec. 22-26, 1946. Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, deported to Italy almost a year earlier on Feb. 9, 1946, is believed to have presided over the meeting. (Luciano actually appears to have left Italy in mid-September and to have set up court just 90 miles from the U.S. border in early October.) Meeting attendees included Santo Trafficante Jr. of Tampa FL, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, Tommy Lucchese, Joe Bonanno and Vito Genovese. The meeting is believed to have ironed out details of Sicily-U.S. heroin trafficking and to have discussed the assassination of mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. By February 1947, U.S. trade pressure caused Cuba to arrest Luciano and initiate deportation proceedings against him. Within a month, he was returned to Italy. After a visit with family that spring, Italian authorities confined him for a time in a Palermo prison. Click here for related articles.   Crime and Law Enforcement Journal 12 Dec. 06    Edited by true crime author Rick Mattix, the quarterly journal "On the Spot" focuses on crime and law enforcement of the 1920s and 1930s. The winter issue of the journal promises articles on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre weapons, the Reid-Davis Gangs and the execution of Charles Sberna. Click here for more information or to subscribe. Copyright © 2002-07, all rights reserved Thomas P. Hunt P.O. Box 1350 New Milford, CT 06776-1350 thunt@onewal.com