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	Frank Costello - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank Costello (January 21, 1891 - February 18, 1973) was an Italian-American gangster who was one of the most powerful and influential Mafia bosses in American history.
		Costello was considered by his fellow gangsters as an important link between the Mafia and politicians, judges, and the police, and he earned the respect of many of his gangmates, including Luciano, as a man who could pay off anyone.
		Mafia leaders from across the country were interviewed as part of these investigations, and Costello became the most well-known gangster of the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Costello (1096 words)

	Books: "The Stork Club" by Ralph Blumenthal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gangsters running amok in New York coupled with elegance as crystalline as a polished diamond do not seem to go together at all, but there was a time when it did.
		From the mid twenties, Dwyer had partnered with Owney Madden in the Phoenix Cereal Beverage Company, (also one of the owners of the Cotton Club in Harlem), that freely operated a block-long brewery on 10th Avenue, dispensing gallons of beer known as "Madden's Number One" to New York's illegal saloons and restaurants.
		Madden was gangster partner number two, spoke like a gangster with lashings of "dese," "dems" and "doses," and had the look and attitude one would expect of a classic underworld character.
	www.thecityreview.com /stork.html (3592 words)

	markgribben.com » Vivian Welsh
		He was also a dirty cop who didn’t understand until it was too late just how tough the gangsters he was shaking down were and paid for his ignorance with his life.
		It was February 1927 and Detroit was a war zone between state and federal lawmen and gangsters of all types and sizes.
		“Gangsters will be arrested and re-arrested as long as they stay in Detroit,” said Inspector Henry J. Garvin of the police homicide squad.
	markgribben.com /?page_id=21 (1137 words)

	Lucky Luciano
		New York area mafiosos started taking notice, and by 1920, Luciano was working for various gangsters as a bootlegger and meeting such legendary mafiosos as Frank Costello and Vito Genovese[?].
		Many old time mafiosos recommended Luciano to stay away from Costello, but Costello and Luciano kept their friendship going, and Costello introduced Luciano to mafiosos of other nationalities, such as, Big Bill Dwyer[?], Dutch Schultz[?] and Arnold Rothstein[?].
		In 1928, the Castellamarese war[?] broke, pitting Joe The Boss and his men against those of the up and coming gangster Salvatore Maranzano.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lu/Lucky_Luciano.html (941 words)

	Wikipedia: Lucky Luciano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		New York area mafiosos started taking notice, and by 1920, Luciano was working for various gangsters as a bootlegger and meeting such legendary mafiosi as Frank Costello and Vito Genovese.
		Many old time mafiosi recommended Luciano to stay away from Costello, but Costello and Luciano kept their friendship going, and Costello introduced Luciano to mobsters, politicians and powerbrokers of other nationalities, such as Big Bill Dwyer, Dutch Schultz and Arnold Rothstein.
		In 1928, the Castellamarese war broke out, pitting Joe The Boss and his men against those of the up and coming gangster Salvatore Maranzano.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/l/lu/lucky_luciano.html (1067 words)

	eight
		Big Bill Dwyer set up Rum Row, the meeting point for ships and dock workers just outside of the 3 mile limit outside of NYC.
		Maranzano's structure, which he outlined at a meeting of 500 gangsters in the Bronx: boss, underboss or soto capo, consigliere (advisor) caporegimes (lieutenants) and soldiers.
		Jewish gangsters who were thought to be constitutionally unsuited to the new "interfaith" combination of shared spoils with other ethnics, such as the "unsuited" Waxey Gordon, bootleg king of Philadelphia, were eliminated.
	www.fsu.edu /~crimdo/faculty/waddell/eight.html (1212 words)

	Powell's Books - Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T J English
		History shows that the heritage of the Irish American gangster was established in America long before that of the more widely portrayed Italian American mafioso, and has held strong through the modern age.
		Prohibition —; the high point for the Irish mob in America — first was viewed by the Irish as a WASP attack on their way of life, and eventually as a way to get rich.
		Re-created by the bestselling author of "The Westies, Paddy Whacked" is the shocking history of Irish-American gangsterism from the 19th century to the present.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0060590025-0 (586 words)

	Vannie Higgins
		He served at times as a lieutenant to fellow Irishman, Big Bill Dwyer, New York’s most notorious rumrunner, who was in partnership with Frank Costello.
		Some sources claim he was aligned with Dwyer, Pisano, and Diamond, while other sources state that he was in direct conflict.
		Higgins and "Bad Bill" Bailey were arrested in November 1931 for the murder of Robert "Whitey" Benson, one of their own gunmen who they suspected of working with Dutch Schultz.
	www.crimemagazine.com /higgins.htm (1718 words)

	KILL THE DUTCHMAN! by Paul Sann
		The gangster's 25-year-old wife, Rose, mother of his five-year-old son, dropped in at the District Attorney's office and announced that "my husband wants an interview with the law." Taken to Turkus, who was chief of the Homicide Division, she said she had to see Mr.
		Tannenbaum was going to furnish the key testimony once he decided, with the help of the persuasive O'Dwyer, that sometimes it's better for a man to polish up his singing voice than to face a rap that might land him in that horrible little green room at Sing Sing.
		On April 8, O'Dwyer and Burt Turkus called Bill Wachenfeld over from Newark and told the prosecutor that it was a man called Charles Workman who fled the Palace Chop House on that night of painful memory and traded shots on the sidewalk with one of the Dutchman's wounded soldiers.
	www.killthedutchman.net /chapter_XXII.htm (4570 words)

	List of Irish-Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bill Maher, comedian, mixed Irish and Jewish descent
		Bill Murray [76] "Murray, who will be spending more time at home in upstate New York, has come a distance from his humble Irish roots.
		Bill Rancic, entrepreneur, of Irish and Croatian descent
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Irish-Americans (2212 words)

	Frank Costello
		When Luciano went to prison in 1936, he was sent to Dannemora in upstate New York, almost at the border with Canada.
		Mafia leaders from across the States were called for interviews to be investigated, and Costello became the United States' best known gangster of the time.
		The hearings were called by the Kefauver commission, which wanted to investigate organized crime in the States.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/f/fr/frank_costello.html (770 words)

	Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - Books and Gifts
		Marty English (born Iglesia) is an ad whiz and son of a Chicago gangster who finds himself entangled with the Mafia after his father, Tony Iglesia, is poisoned with a potent new drug...
		Bill Bonanno, was a "made" member of the Mafia by the time he was in his early twenties.
		Now retired, Bill is finally ready to give an eyewitness account of his life as a high-ranking captain in the Bonanno crime family, one of America's most powerful Mafia syndicates.
	www.americanmafia.com /BooksandGifts.htm (8788 words)

	week of 12-28-99
		Among some gang-wars in New York's street-gang laden Bronx, Ice-T is 'Corrupt,' a real badass gangster who is at war with the other gangs in the hood, who have banded together to force the dangerous kingpin off the throne.
		Fact-based story about Bill Tilghman, law enforcement figure who rode with the Earps and was the hero to many turn of the century western towns.
		In 1924, after retiring from a seat in the U.S. Senate, Tilghman was asked to be the Marshall of the growing ‘oil patch’ town of Cromwell, OK. While he attempted to fight drug trafficking and other criminal nuisances, he was gunned down by a crooked coke-head of a Federal Agent.
	www.videoretailer.com /12-28-99.htm (1537 words)

	FRANK COSTELLO FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Francesco Castiglia (January 21, 1891 - February 18, 1973), known as Frank "Prime Minister" Costello, was a Prohibition gangster and eventual leader of the Genovese crime family.
		Costello was born in Lauropoli, Calabria, Italy, and in 1895 he boarded a ship to the United States alongside his mother and sister.
		Together, they prospered in such business areas as bootlegging, gambling and slot machines (Prohibition in the U.S. was from 1919 to 1933).
	www.fandcproperties.com /cy:Frank_Costello (1122 words)

	Lucky Luciano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Charles "Lucky" Luciano, without doubt the most important Italian-American gangster this country ever produced, left a far greater impact on the underworld than even the illustrious Al Capone.
		By 1920, Luciano was a power in bootlegging rackets (in cooperation with Lansky and his erstwhile partner Bugsy Siegel) and had become familiar with Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese and, most important among Italian gangsters, Frank Costello.
		Joe the Boss passed up extremely lucrative deals by fighting gangsters with whom he could have cooperated for their joint benefit.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/luciano.html (1849 words)

	Old Speed Air-Cooled VW Bookstore
		It's a small but dynamic part of our culture; Chicago, New York, and Boston would not be the cities they are (and the U.S. would not be the country it is) without the influnce of the Irish underworld.
		This book is not condemning nor lauding the Irish gangsters it presents, merely telling their story in a colorful way they would have appreciated.
		Gangsterism is as fundamental a component of the American dream as Mom's Apple Pie.
	www.oldspeed.com /vwaws/0060590025.htm (965 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - CHARLES "LUCKY" LUCIANO
		By 1916 Luciano was a leading member of the notorious "Five Points Gang" and named by police as the prime suspect in a number of murders.
		They were the most powerful gangsters of the U.S. more powerful than Al Capone and they made the decisions about who got what and how much.
		Luciano and Lansky even decided it was time for a special hitteam that would take care of mobsters who fell out of favor or might snitch, they decided to start Murder Incorporated.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /LuckyLuciano.html (1630 words)

	The Irish Times interviews Harvey Weinstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Harvey Weinstein is a big movie producer in the old style - and Gangs of New York, his epic tale of Irish immigrants in 19th-century New York with all its violence, squalor and corruption, is a film made in 'colossal' Hollywood style, with huge expensive sets, rumours and rows.
		It captures the animosity and pitched battles between the Irish immigrants, who were arriving in New York at the rate of 15,000 a week at the time, and the self-styled Nativists of English, Welsh, Dutch and German stock who despised them.
		The squalor of the settings and the brutality of the film's graphic violence make it clear that this is no shamrock-tinted picture of the Irish immigrant experience in the souffle style of Far and Away.
	www.dicapriodreams.com /Leo/gony/irishtimes2002.html (2274 words)

	Proviso Probe: September 2005
		Bill Dwyer of Wednesday Journal wrote the story.
		The town's lawsuit comes after bills were found to have been paid not only defending Bruno and Donahue in a civil rights lawsuit, but also in defamation suits the two filed in response to that lawsuit.
		Tipton talks of visiting gangster Al Capone's grave before it was moved from Chicago to Hillside, Illinois, and feeling "something powerful" being 1.8m up from the iconic gangster.
	provisoprobe.blogspot.com /2005_09_01_provisoprobe_archive.html (5886 words)

	Texas Guinan: Queen of the Night by Leo Trachtenberg, City Journal Spring 1998
		In just a few years, Pro-hibition had made gangsters into millionaires, venal politicians into corrupt fat cats, much of the adult population into lawbreakers, and Texas Guinan into the mistress of Gotham's nighttime revels.
		That he was a racketeer with disreputable connections, that secret mob money helped bankroll his club, and that gangsters frequented it—none of this troubled Texas.
		After too many years of middling show-biz success, on the threshold of middle age, at last she had the celebrity she craved.
	www.city-journal.org /html/8_2_urbanities-texas.html (4224 words)

	NYU > Office of Public Affairs > Rare 16th Century Altarpiece,
		Assisting her in the project were Nica Gutman, associate conservator, and IFA graduates Monica Griesbach and Matthew Hayes.
		This unique program, which provides expert instruction in the treatment of paintings to graduate students, draws on the large number of Kress Collection paintings that are housed in institutions without resident conservation departments.
		As Kress Conservator, Dianne Dwyer Modestini carefully selects pictures that are suitable as student projects.
	www.nyu.edu /public.affairs/releases/detail/255 (755 words)

	Archives for The GONY Project - July 2000
		You/he/she can challenge this way Bill “The Butcher” (the butcher) Poole, assassin of his/her/their father and undisputed leader of the Native Americanses.
		With an objective solo: to be immortalized in a frame close to the myth DiCaprio.
		After playing the eponymous criminal in The General, the busy Irish actor Brendan Gleeson is set to play another gangster known as The Monk.
	www.thaistudents.com /gony/archives_0700.html (1371 words)

	Lord High Executioner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Being the only gangster in recorded history to survive a "ride," Luciano earned the nickname "Lucky" and it would stick with him for the rest of his life.
		It was a few weeks before Luciano was ready to leave the hospital, but in that time he began formulating the plan that would rid the Underworld of the old school Dons and place himself and his young turks in power.
		Knowing a big time gangster in the 1930's was the "in" thing to do and Luciano was at the top of the list.
	dks.thing.net /Lord_High_Executioner.html (7857 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews DVD: Cotton Club (Widescreen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As an upscale homage to classic gangster films it's frequently astonishing, cramming a thick novel's worth of plot and characters into 129 minutes, gloriously serviced by impeccable production design, elegant cinematography, and stylistic flourishes that show Coppola at the top of his game.
		Complementing the period story, Coppola evokes the style of '30s gangster movies and musicals through an array of old-fashioned devices like montages of headlines, songs and shoot-outs.
		Conceived by producer Robert Evans as his crowning achievement and directorial debut, Evans had to hand over the troubled production to Coppola, but the budget spiraled out of control as the script was repeatedly re-written throughout the chaotic shoot.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/dvd/B00005IA7Y/reviews (429 words)

	Keaton's Films
		Bill comes back and tortures an Africanandndash;American man by shooting at his feet to make him dance.
		He takes a feather and tickles Bill; the villain is so incapacitated that they are able to kick him out.
		Lake blinds Bill by tossing her drink in his face and Arbuckle tickles him until Lake can escape.
	www.busterkeaton.com /synopses.htm (14216 words)

	A Gangster is Born
		By 1920, Luciano was a power in bootlegging rackets (in cooperation with Lansky and his erstwhile partner Benjamin "Bugsy Siegel), and had become familiar with Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese and most important among Italian gangsters, Frank Costello.
		It was Costello who introduced him to other ethnic gangsters like Big Bill Dwyer and Jews like Arnold Rothstein, Dutch Shultz and Dandy Phil Kastel.
		Luciano was impressed by the way Costello bought protection from city officials and the police, which his buddy Meyer Lansky had already told him was the most important ingredient in any big-time criminal setup.
	www.dark-horse.co.uk /gangsters/lucky/born.htm (491 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Value soars on choice Hub parking spots
		The City of Boston currently assesses each spot for $79,900 and each owner pays an annual tax bill of $810.99 on the property.
		In September, John S. Reed, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, and his wife, Cynthia, purchased a space in the Brimmer garage for $155,000 to go with the Beacon Hill condo they purchased on Chestnut Street for $2.9 million.
		At an October 2001 auction of convicted gangster Stephen “The Riﬂeman” Flemmi’s real estate holdings, three back-alley parking spaces off Marlborough Street fetched an unexpectedly high $342,000.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2004/04/14/value_soars_on_choice_hub_parking_spots (832 words)

	Deep Discount DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The club’s fl dancers and musicians entertain the exclusively white audience made up of gangsters and Hollywood stars.
		Local boy Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere) saves the life of crime boss Dutch Schultz (James Remar) and reluctantly enters the world of racketeering.
		Authentic costuming and sets help make THE COTTON CLUB a stylistic homage to the Jazz Age and gangster films of old.
	www.deepdiscountdvd.com /dvd.cfm?itemid=MGD002205&promotion=y (101 words)

	Copyright 2005 J. David Goldin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A Bogie gangster role and a very well done story about a double crosser in love with a "missionary." The story subsequently produced on "Suspense" on January 17, 1948 (see cat.
		Elliott Lewis (who receives double billing as his pseudonym Raymond Lewis), Judy Garland, Cathy Lewis, Joseph Kearns (announcer), Mel Dinelli (writer), Muriel Roy Bolton (writer), William Spier (producer, director, editor), Ken Niles (commercial spokesman), Lucien Moraweck (composer), Lud Gluskin (conductor).
		Agatha Christie (author), Lilli Palmer, Elliott Lewis (billed as Raymond Lewis), Joseph Kearns (announcer), Harold Medford (adaptor), William Spier (producer, director), Ken Niles (commercial spokesman), Lucien Moraweck (composer), Lud Gluskin (conductor).
	www.radiogoldindex.com /cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Suspense (14294 words)

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