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  Carlos Marcello   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Marcello was born in 1910 of Sicilian immigrants in French-governed Tunisia.
Marcello might have missed out on the lucrative bootlegging operations of the 1920s but he "arrived" just in time to grab a share of gambling rackets that were flooding the New Orleans area in the later 30s and 1940s.
Marcello was back in the country within weeks (his legal fight against deportation continued for many years) and appears to have held a grudge against the Kennedys.
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 Carlos Marcello
They came to the conclusion that they "did not believe Carlos Marcello was a significant organized crime figure" and that Marcello earned his living "as a tomato salesman and real estate investor." As a result of this investigation the Warren Commission concluded that there was no direct link between Ruby and Marcello.
Carlos said that he was sorry, but that he'd already promised his support at the convention to Lyndon Johnson.
Blakey: Carlos Marcello was being subject to the most vigorous investigation he had ever experienced in his life, designed to put him in jail.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKmarcello.htm   (3059 words)

  
 SSR 87-12c
Appellant, Carlos Marcello, was brought to the United States as a baby and admitted as a legal resident in 1910.
Marcello's attorney objected that there was no kind of notice provision regarding the effectuation of Marcello's deportation; he wanted several days' notice of a pending physical removal of Marcello from the United States.
As the district court properly recognized in concluding that Marcello could not attack the legality of his deportation in the context of his action challenging the denial of Social Security benefits, Social Security proceedings are limited in scope and are not appropriate fora to challenge the legality of the execution of a deportation order.
www.ssa.gov /OP_Home/rulings/oasi/23/SSR87-12-oasi-23.html   (3007 words)

  
 The Murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: There Never was a Camelot by Thomas L. Jones
Marcello, who by the way, forgot to ever become a United States citizen was kidnapped by RFK and deported to South America based on the evidence of a phoney birth certificate he himself had made up.
Marcello was most influential in arranging the details along with Giancana because he controlled, along with Trafficante, all of the South.
Carlos was lifelong close friends with Louisian Bred and born, Joseph Civello, the leader of Dallas organized Crime.
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 LUNCH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Family boss Carlos Marcello; his brother Joseph Marcello, Jr.; Anthony Carolla, the son of former New Orleans boss Sam "Silver Dollar" Carolla; and Frank Gagliano, the son of another deported mobster and the cousin of Eboli’s driver, Alongi.
Marcello had complied with a court order to notify the New Orleans immigration office when he traveled in order to simplify surveillance on him.
According to Marcello, as he was trying to make his way through the crowd, someone stepped in front of him, blocking his path and, losing patience, he swung out in frustration.
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 Carlos Marcello - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the other hand they also said that they "did not believe Carlos Marcello was a significant organized crime figure" and that Marcello earned his living "as a tomato salesman and real estate investor." As a result of this investigation the Warren Commission concluded that there was no direct link between Ruby and Marcello.
Marcello was convicted on charges relating to an undercover sting in 1981.
Carlos Marcello died in one of his mansions in Metairie, Louisiana on March 3, 1993 as a free man, having been released in 1989 after his initial conviction on bribery charges was overturned.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carlos_Marcello   (1360 words)

  
 Carlos Marcello
Marcello's first contact with the law came on November 29, 1929, when he was arrested at the age of 19 by New Orleans police as accessory before and after the robbery of a local bank.(3) The charges were subsequently dismissed.
Carlos Marcello was called to testify before the McClellan committee on March 24, 1959, during the committee's extended investigation of labor racketeering and organized crime.
Marcello surrendered at the Federal courthouse and was subsequently freed on a $100,000 bond on October 8, after the U.S. attorney noted that a search by 10 FBI agents had been unsuccessful in locating him the day before.
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Marcello angrily announced that Robert Kennedy "would be taken care of." But he hinted that it would be done in a round-about manner.
Marcello was found innocent of all charges brought against him by Robert Kennedy.
Though Ferrie's relationship with Marcello was obvious and a matter that Marcello publicly acknowledged, there is no mention of Marcello in Garrison's 1970 book on the assassination, A Heritage of Stone, nor is there any mention of Marcello in the Warren Commission Report.
www.acorn.net /jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/05th_Issue/ferrie.html   (4283 words)

  
 Carlos Marcello: Big Daddy in the Big Easy by Thomas L. Jones
His overseer, also Minacore, chose as a new name for Guiseppe the appellation Marcello, which was more generally found in the north of Italy than Sicily.
Carlos grew into a squat, tough and muscular image of his father.
He was always the leader of the pack among his siblings, who learned to accept the fact that he was the boss and gave him their untiring loyalty and support.
www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters/marcello/index.htm   (1444 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Wiretap came between mob, Louisiana gambling
For the better part of 40 years, Carlos Marcello, a Sicilian whose family had immigrated to the United States from Carthage in 1910, had been the undisputed organized crime boss of New Orleans.
Marcello proved to be as adept in finding homes for Costello's machines as he had his own juke boxes and pinball machines.
By the time Marcello left prison in 1989, he was in ill health and unable to run his far-flung empire -- or what was left of it.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/gaming/2003/sep/23/515653954.html   (1467 words)

  
 Preserving the legacy
Mobsters like Carlos Marcello relied upon "the Fix" or the working relationship between public officials and the Mafia and they were accustomed to sharing power.
When Marcello's lawyer warned Ferrie about his library card being in the possession of Oswald, it was only a matter of time before the lingering panic to cover up the truth caught up with David Ferrie.
In the last analysis, it is not possible to dispute the fact that Marcello, Ferrie, Banister and Hoover were all absorbed by a cooperative, well coordinated effort to cover up the truth and that betrays all the secrecy, all the deception and all the deliberate disinformation which can and was conveniently manufactured.
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 SIGHTINGS
Marcello told the committee he was not involved.
In one taped conversation on June 21, 1979, Marcello is overheard talking on the phone with Irving Davidson, a Washington lobbyist and apparent contact of organized-labor officials.
Marcello says on the phone that the government once had him picked up and taken to Guatemala.
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 A FAll From Grace
By the early 1970's the connections between Marcello and the Kennedy assassination were common rumors that floated in intelligence agencies and questions about the role of organized crime's relationship with the White House was also coming under question.
Marcello's reaction was to have attorneys review all the evidence from FBI files to discredit the efforts of the government's case.
When Carlos went off to prison in April 1983, he lost most of his political influence almost immediately after he was behind bars and no one was able to replicate his drive and energy; his imprisonment and ongoing illnesses would make it difficult to act as a de facto boss.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/80643   (614 words)

  
 Cut Off the Head Not the Tail
Marcello was feeling the heat and it was having an adverse effect on his business interests and his position on the Commission.
Carlos made his feelings clear and stated that efforts were under way to deal with the Kennedy clan.
You go for the head." The meaning, to Becker, was very clear, but then Carlos elaborated by stating that he planned to have President Kennedy murdered, using someone not in any way connected to him or his organization.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/78366/1   (529 words)

  
 Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - Allan May, Organized Crime Historian and Journalist
Marcello was convicted and sentenced to one year in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary and was fined over $75,000.
Unlike his American-born brothers who were drafted, Marcello remained in New Orleans and helped exploit the war effort for the benefit of the Carolla family and himself.
     By the end of the war, Marcello had so impressed his superiors and his new friends from New York City that he was being touted as the successor to Carolla who by now was in peril of being deported back to his Sicilian birth place.
www.americanmafia.com /Allan_May_12-20-99.html   (2145 words)

  
 THE HSCA ON JACK RUBY'S MAFIA LINKS
It was Vincent who first introduced him to Carlos and Joe, and Carlos had taken to him to such an extent that he invited him several times to his fishing camp at Grand Isle, where Campisi would cook spaghetti for Carlos and all the brothers and their friends.
The committee took note that Jack Ruby had dined with a Dallas-based member of the Marcello organization the evening before the assassination of the President and that the same Dallas-based member of the Marcello organization was the first person to visit Ruby after he had been jailed for the murder of the President's alleged assassin.
As for Jack Ruby's connections with the Marcello organization in New Orleans, the committee was to confirm certain connections the FBI had been aware of at the time of the assassination but had never forcefully brought to the attention of the Warren Commission.
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 Your Right Hand Thief
The criminal organization of Carlos Marcello was by far the largest "industry" in Louisiana during the sixties and seventies, bringing in over $2 billion per year.
Marcello became the wealthiest, most influential, most powerful, most independent Mafia leader in the U.S..
Marcello generously funded LBJ's Senatorial campaigns, and was amply rewarded by "the Master of the Senate", who made sure anti-racketeering legislation wasn't passed.
righthandthief.blogspot.com /2005/02/something-new-every-day.html   (382 words)

  
 Gun Lost On Fatal Brown Flight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Carlos Marcello was a man with many friends in high places: state and federal judges, governors, senators, labour leaders, the list went on.
Carlos was tight with Angelo Bruno, powerful head of the Philadelphia family, and of course for many years he was a good friend and business partner of Frank Costello, who had run what is now known as the Genovese family until 1957.
Carlos also had strong ties to the Dixie-Mafia, an inchoate bunch of loosely connected criminals, some of who traced their history back into the days of Prohibition.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/659696/posts   (8906 words)

  
 Your Right Hand Thief
Mosca's was not only an epicenter for garlic and red gravy, it was the epicenter for Carlos Marcello and his many associates.
Also, in a previous post I brilliantly juxtaposed a Carlos Marcello quote with a quote from the movie 8mm.
Marcello purchased this land a long time ago, and tried to steer interstate development through the area, so that he could resell it for commercial purposes (along the long-delayed I-49).
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 Guest Contribution: Thom Hartmann
Marcello, Trafficante, and Rosselli undertook this extraordinary act of vengeance in order to halt the Kennedy administration’s unrelenting prosecution of them and their allies.
Robert Kennedy told several close associates that Carlos Marcello was behind JFK’s death, but he couldn’t reveal what he knew to the public or to the Warren Commission without C-Day being uncovered.
In 1963, Carlos Marcello was America’s most ruthless and secretive Mafia boss, completely free of FBI wiretaps.
www.buzzflash.com /contributors/05/12/con05463.html   (6855 words)

  
 Welcome to the Best of New Orleans!
Gambit has learned that federal authorities are privately calculating the odds that reputed Mafia boss Carlos Marcello would rather skip the country than serve time in a federal penitentiary.
Marcello and former Commissioner of Administration Charles Roemer are scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 13 as a result of their convictions in last year’s Brilab trial.
Additionally, Marcello is looking at a maximum sentence of five years for his conviction in Los Angeles on obstruction of justice charges.
www.bestofneworleans.com /archives/2001/0130/feat-newsA2.html   (1090 words)

  
 Jerry P. Shinley Archive: Garrison, Haggerty Deny Marcello Links: JFK assassination investigation: Jim Garrison New ...
Copies of legal documents compiled by the Metropolitan Crime Commission of New Orleans, Inc., [ie, Aaron Kohn] shows that in the early 1950's Carlos Marcello and his brother, Salvador, along with Frank Occhipinti and his brother Rosario (Roy) set up a partnership and built the Town and Country Motel, 1225 Airline hwy.
The MCC documents reflect that Carlos' son, Joseph C. Marcello, later replaced Salvador as a partner and in February, 1964, the partners sold the motel to Stevie Motel Inc. Casano signed as witness to the sale.
Ingrassia and Anthony P. Marcello, Carlos' brother, who were listed as agents, each held 100 shares and Frank and Roy Occhipinti each had 50 shares.
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He may have been very instrumental in it, but even Carlos Marcello, powerful as he may be, did not have the power to cover-up the facts afterwards.
And he did not have the power to misguide, misdirect and blunt the investigation by the FBI, and to alter the wounds on the President's body between Parkland Hospital and Bethesda Naval Hospital, and to do all of the things that are KNOWN to have been done.
The other [compatriot of Giancana], of course, was Santos Trafficante, the Mob chieftain in Miami, who was closely connected to the anti-Castro Cubans, who, in fact, had been jailed on the Isle of Pines by [Cuban Premier] Fidel Castro back at the time of his takeover, and who was in contact with JACK RUBY.
karws.gso.uri.edu /Marsh/Jfk-conspiracy/PACIFI34.TXT   (648 words)

  
 The mafia, the coup and the murder - Salon
After spending several years reviewing all the theories about the assassination, we were pointed toward a conspiracy led by Marcello, Trafficante, and Rosselli by a knowledgeable Kennedy associate in 1992, and quickly found a huge amount of supporting evidence.
Plus, Marcello was already on trial by RFK's men and Rosselli's Chicago mafia was under attack from RFK and the attorney general had just announced a massive crackdown on Las Vegas, where Rosselli represented the Chicago mob.
Rosselli and Marcello weren't even U.S. citizens, and feared deportation even if they were only convicted of a relatively minor offense.
dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2005/12/07/response/index.html?pn=2   (1161 words)

  
 Hell in Miami
One was New Orleans don Carlos Marcello, whose territory included Dallas, and whose employee David Ferrie was an anti-Castro militant and longtime acquaintance of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged JFK assassin.
Marcello bitterly hated the president's brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, for having him summarily deported ("kidnapped," in Marcello's words) in 1961.
His longtime attorney Frank Ragano claims to have taken a message to Trafficante and Marcello from another of Ragano's clients, the Kennedy-hounded Hoffa, in 1963: "Jimmy wants you to kill President Kennedy." Ragano also claims that Trafficante, talking from his deathbed with Ragano, made a remorseless confession: "Carlos f---ked up.
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 Jerry P. Shinley Archive: Dean Andrews Breaks up Judge for Marcello: JFK assassination investigation: Jim Garrison New ...
The agreement through which Marcello is to comply with the subpoena was reached after Judge Mitchell heard arguments for over an hour Thursday [3rd] morning.
Judge Mitchell announced after the meeting that he was dissolving the temporary restraining order and amending Marcello's subpoena so that it calls for his appearance Tuesday.
Andrews said that an appearance by Marcello before the committee would produce "nothing but more mileage for the news media" and in the interest of justice the hearing should be in executive session.
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 INSIDE THE DIXIE MAFIA
Carlos Ledher Rivas was a good pilot, fresh from U.S. prison on car theft charges at Miami and Chicago; Lehder Rivas was pretty much an independent.
The drug traffickers' alliances with leftist rebels against the government, or with right-wing elements in the security forces against leftist revolutionaries, have been purely tactical in nature and intended by the drug traffickers at preserving their relative autonomy in a fractured and weak Colombian state.
Marcello who spent time in prison at Texarkana, Texas, has always been a key figure in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
www.insider-magazine.com /inside_the_dixie_mafia.htm   (16693 words)

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