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	Joe Valachi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph 'Joe Cargo' Valachi (September 22, 1903 – April 3, 1971) was the first Mafia member to publicly acknowledge the existence of the Mafia.
		In October 1963, Valachi (a "soldier" in New York City's powerful Vito Genovese crime family, whose primary "job" within the family was that of a driver) had testified before Arkansas Senator John L. McClellan's congressional committee on organized crime that the Mafia did exist.
		Although the low-ranking Valachi's disclosures never led directly to the prosecution of any Mafia leaders, he was able to provide many details of its history, operations and rituals, aiding in the solution of several uncleared murders, as well as naming many members and the major crime families.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Valachi (318 words)

	Joe Valachi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		While it is true that many of the incidents and facts that Valachi described were known to police, he still filled in some gaps and provided a rationale linking one development to another and added to an understanding of the dimensions of syndicated crime.
		Valachi joined Salvatore Maranzano's organization in the late 1920s and was indoctrinated officially in the organization in 1930.
		Valachi was terrified and in his terror later mistook a prisoner named Joe Saupp for Joe Beck (Joe DiPalermo), whom he identified as the man assigned to kill him.
	kiss206756.tripod.com /genovesecrimefamily/id13.html (1476 words)

	Joe Valachi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Valachi was a man at the end of his tether.
		Valachi was the first to betray the rule of Omerta, the first to break ranks and confirm that there IS a MAFIA.
		Valachi became the first person to blow the lid on the Italian Mafia in the United States, Don Vito Genovese, the head of the...
	www.jolt12.co.uk /joe_valachi.html (330 words)

	Gaetano Gagliano
		Valachi claims he refused to take money from Gagliano for his work because he wanted to be perceived as a "friend" instead of a goon for hire.
		Valachi was rewarded for his participation in the murders by becoming a made member of the Mafia.
		Valachi claims that during the initiation rite Joe Bonanno was named his "godfather" and was to be responsible for him.
	www.crimemagazine.com /gagliano.htm (1786 words)

	Joseph Valachi
		Confined to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, Valachi was a cellmate of Genovese, who had become head of the Luciano crime family and, after Luciano's deportation to Italy, according to Valachi, the "boss of bosses" within the Mafia.
		Clearly, Valachi was in no position to comprehend the workings of the national crime syndicate or gauge the vital importance to organized crime of men like Meyer Lansky, Longy Zwillman, Doe Dalitz and others.
		In all it was said that Valachi helped to identify 317 members of the Mafia, and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy called Valachi's testimony "a significant addition to the broad picture" of organized crime.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/valachi.html (1476 words)

	ipedia.com: Joe Valachi Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Joseph 'Joe' Valachi was the first person to acknowledge the existence of the Mafia.
		Joseph 'Joe' Valachi (September 22, 1904 - April 3, 1971) was the first person to acknowledge the existence of the Mafia.
		Valachi died of natural causes in at La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution in Texas, the $100,000 bounty having been placed on his head by the Mafia going uncollected.
	www.ipedia.com /joe_valachi.html (197 words)

	The Legacy of Joe Valachi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 1963, Joseph Valachi appeared as the star witness before a government inquiry into the mob, it was generally referred to as “The McClellan Committee” because Democratic Senator John L. McClellan chaired it.
		Valachi came across to the committee as a man who displayed little remorse for the crimes he had carried out.
		Valachi attempted suicide by trying to hang himself in a shower; he was eventually transferred to a federal penitentiary in Texas.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/70466 (480 words)

	The Biography Channel - Joe Valachi Biography
		Joe Valachi cut an unimpressive figure as the squat, chain-smoking, coarse, thug with the crew cut.
		Valachi had been part of the infamous Genovese crime family since its beginning, but it was his role as informant that would propel him to national notoriety and shake the very core of the Mafia's secret and corrupt society.
		Joe was an unremarkable foot soldier who seemed to fail at everything but informing.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_story/1293:1449/1/Joe_Valachi.htm (317 words)

	Joseph Pinzolo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following the murder of capo Tom Reina, mob boss Joe Masseria tried to take control of the family by backing Pinzolo, a close supporter of his, as Reina's replacement.
		Joe Bonanno later revealed that Gagliano and Lucchese formed a splinter group within the family along with a several other key members, including Dominick "the Gap" Petrilli, a friend of Joe Valachi.
		Their festering resentment and personal distaste along with the general lawlessness unleashed by the Castellammarese War ultimately led to Pinzolo's murder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Pinzolo (359 words)

	Mafia Cities - New York - New Jersey
		It was under the control of Joe Profaci in 1959, but Joe Colombo became famous in the 1960's and therefore, his name has been used to identify the family since then.
		Joe Profaci was the first boss of this family that originally beared his name.
		Joe Bonanno succeeded Maranzano as the family boss, and he was in power until 1964.
	www.carvelli.com /noFlash/mafia-cities-New_York_New_Jersey.html (2606 words)

	Joe Valachi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Valachi blew the whistle on the inner workings of the Mafia, or La Cosa Nostra.
		Valachi begamn to believe that Genovese suspected him of being a snitch, and was planning to have him murdered.
		Valachi confronted and killed a man he had mistaken for a known mob assassin that he thought was sent to kill him in the prison yard by Genovese.
	www.ipsn.org /valachi.html (235 words)

	History/Background
		Valachi had also been convicted of heroin charges and was suspected of being an informer.
		Believing he was marked for death, Valachi killed another prisoner whom he mistook for a mobster preparing to kill him.
		Joe Valachi later said he knew of 40 or 50 members of the family who were millionaires.
	kiss206756.tripod.com /genovesecrimefamily/id1.html (3320 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - Tony Parsons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Burrell is the royal family's equivalent to Joe Valachi, the first man to break the code of omerta - total, tight-lipped, shaddup-ya-face silence - in the Mafia.
		Valachi's torrid tales of murder, corruption and secret brotherhood were as sensational in 1962 as last week's revelations about pampered royals who can't give a urine sample unless their valet holds the bottle.
		Joe Valachi shone a fatal light on the Mafia.
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/tonyparsons/tm_column_date=11112002-name_index.html (1183 words)

	Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - Allan May's Mob Report current mob stuff
		Valachi states that as 1930 began Masseria was "bidding for absolute supremacy in the Italian underworld." In his bidding Masseria set out to eliminate Maranzano and all the Castellammarese powers in New York City and other parts of the country.
		On the day of the shooting Valachi, Buster and two other gunmen forced their way into a ground floor apartment in the building before Catania was due to arrive across the street.
		Valachi states that after the death of Catania the tide of war was turning against Joe the Boss, "two of Masseria’s most trusted sidekicks, Charley Lucky Luciano and Vito Genovese, secretly turned against him." Luciano invited Masseria to lunch at a Coney Island restaurant.
	www.americanmafia.com /Mob_Report/7-15-02_Mob_Report.html (4942 words)

	The Dying of the Light: The Joseph Valachi Story
		It was the one that Joe had originally joined, which was controlled by Gagliano and his right hand man, a tiny, tightly wound hoodlum called Gaetano Lucchese.
		Joe refused to give up any and was called to a meeting with his boss at a famous gangster rendezvous, Duke’s restaurant in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.
		Joe prospered sufficiently with his gas stamp scam---to the tune of $150,000---to buy himself another racehorse and another restaurant, the Aida in Harlem.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/valachi/tony_7.html (1626 words)

	TIME.com: Killers in Prison -- Oct. 4, 1963 -- Page 1
		Valachi is an aging (60), two-bit punk—once a thief, a dope pusher, a willing killer for syndicate chiefs, now turned stool pigeon.
		When Joe went to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary on a narcotics conviction in 1960, the Cosa Nostra "boss of bosses" Vito Genovese, a prisoner, was there too.
		Valachi quickly kissed Genovese back "to let him know I was smart and I would answer him in the same style—kill him too." Valachi was so frightened he asked prison guards to put him in solitary confinement.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,875227,00.html (679 words)

	DVD: The Valachi Papers $4.95
		Many have denigrated Joe Valachi's testimony as bеing only the limited view of a street-level Mafia soldier, largely hearsay and often possibly еrrоnеоus.
		On the other hand, Valachi was a "made member" оf what he called Cosa Nostra for over thirty уеаrs and his criminal саrееr dated to the 1920's.
		This is great book Mr.Maas has written.It takes you into the undеrwоrld like few have since.With Joe Valachi's words.He tells the story of the birth of the underworld as we know it today.How it was organized into families.What rackets he was involed in and hоw he worked day to day in his crew.
	www.cultmoviesstore.com /tvr30303630353037343258.html (770 words)

	Valachi Sings a Song of the Mob: A Request by Bobby Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Joe Valachi had served in the mob as a soldier for over thirty years and had be witness to the rise of the organization that had created the Commission.
		Valachi had been formally brought into the Mafia in 1931 and rose through the ranks during the period in which Luciano rose to power.
		He had not risen far in the ranks of the organization but had collected enough information about mob activities over the years to be a walking history book of the rise of organized crime.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/29967 (458 words)

	Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - Allan May, Organized Crime Historian and Journalist
		Valachi states, “He is a big tall guy, a little bald.
		Valachi claims Reina was murdered after he resisted the efforts of Masseria to muscle in on his ice distribution business.
		Valachi claims he was one of three gang members initiated in a home ninety miles north of New York City.
	www.americanmafia.com /Allan_May_6-19-00.html (1783 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Valachi Papers: Books: Peter Maas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		With a phenomenal memory for names, dates, addresses, phone numbers -- and where the bodies were buried -- Joe Valachi provided the chilling facts that led to the arrest and conviction of America's major crime figures.
		On the other hand, Valachi was a "made member" of what he called Cosa Nostra for over thirty years and his criminal career dated to the 1920's.
		The Valachi Papers is the book that set the Mafia on its heels and allowed the world to see and finally get a look into the "real" underworld.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/006050742X (769 words)

	Joseph Profaci
		If the average crime family "godfather" is supposed to inspire respect, Joe Profaci, the longtime boss of the Brooklyn crime family, missed the boat.
		There probably was not a boss hated by more of his own men than Profaci, precisely because he ran his outfit in the "approved" old Sicilian manner, requiring every member of the family to pay him monthly dues of $25.
		In theory, the $25 monthly payments were to establish a slush fund to take care of legal fees, bribes and support payments to a soldier's family if he was imprisoned, but it was a custom long abolished in other crime families.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/profaci.html (991 words)

	The Screen: 'Valachi Papers' Arrives:Work Covers 30 Years of Criminal History Bronson in Lead Role of Mafia Informant - ...
		Often ludicrous and often just dull, Terence Young's "The Valachi Papers" has the look of a movie project that ran short of ideas before it was finished, and ran short of class almost before it was begun.
		It is the only gangster movie of recent memory in which the hoods still say "dese" and "dose," and which simulates an Italian accent by adding "a" to the ends of words: "You live by the knife and the gun-a.
		Wiseman, normally a fine actor, but also Charles Bronson (as Valachi), Lino Ventura (as Vito Genovese), and others — all seem to be working out of their proper idiom.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE2DC1631E63BBC4C53DFB7678389669EDE (522 words)

	Joe Adonis (Giuseppe Doto) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Joe Valachi stated that Adonis -- who directed criminal activity at the Brooklyn docks and ran a Brooklyn eatery, Joe's Italian Kitchen on Carroll Street and Fourth Avenue -- was among those targeted for elimination by Maranzano after the conclusion of the Castellamarese War.
		Joe Bonanno, who probably knew Adonis' title, doesn't speak of it in his autobiography, and Valachi seems not to know anything about the Brooklyn leader.
		Evidence suggests that Adonis was, at least nominally, part of the leadership of the Mangano mob, but owed his primary allegiance to his long-time friends Luciano and Frank Costello.
	www.onewal.com /w-adonis.html (565 words)

	Joseph Stracci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Joseph Stracci ("Joe Stretch") was a longtime friend of Mafia informant Joe Valachi.
		According to Valachi, Stracci was present at the assassination of "Joe the Boss" Masseria at a Coney Island restaurant in April 1931.
		In the mid-1930s, Stracci and Valachi, along with Frank Livorsi and Joseph Rao, combined their efforts in a numbers racket.
	www.onewal.com /w-stracc.html (86 words)

	barnaland.is - Heimur barnsins á netinu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Joe Valachi was the first to betray the rule of Omerta, the first to break ranks and confirm that there IS a MAFIA.
		Many of Valachi's exposures are still discussed by O.C experts to this day, the identity of 'Buster from Chicago' is still one of the most frequently speculated upon mysteries of mafia history.
		In the confinement of prison where their was no escape, he had two options, die by the hands of the Mafia and be forever wrongly branded as a rat in death, or actually become a rat and live.
	www.barnaland.is /store/Product.aspx?ProductId=006050742X (541 words)

	Colombo
		Profaci (left) and underboss Joe Magliocco were the only leaders of the five families who survived the Castellammarese War of the early 1930's still in their positions.
		Discrediting his enemies, including Valachi, was one of the underlying themes of Bonanno's autobiography.
		Another mob informer, Joe Cantalupo, was involved in the sale of Profaci's New York residence and told of a table set that was made of hand-polished mahogany and 30 feet long.
	www.ganglandnews.com /colombo.htm (1533 words)

	Twisted History, One Day at a Time - 22 September 2000
		Valachi was convinced that the hit was coming, and thought that Joseph DiPalermo had the assignment.
		One odd change that Valachi made was in the names of the families - each family had always been named after its own capo, with one exception the families are now called by the names of their capi in 1963, the names Valachi used in front of the television cameras.
		In 1940 Valachi had loan sharking and numbers businesses, ran a clothing factory, moved into fl market specializing in gasoline ration stamps as the war started.
	www.twistedhistory.com /issues/september/0922.html (1322 words)

	DVD: The Valachi Papers $13.56 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sentenced to 15 years in prison, former mob "buttоn man" Joe Valachi (Charles Вrоnsоn) turns informant when he learns top Маfiа capo Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura) has put a $100,000 contract out on his life.
		From thievery and extortion to vengeance and murder, Valachi spills the innermost workings of the Cosa Nostra, culminating in his riveting testimony bеfоrе a Senate subcommittee on organized crime.
		The movie focuses on Joe Valachi who was the first of the Mafia informants and set the stage fоr others to follow.
	www.funnydvdmovies.com /tvr42303030425830565447.html (965 words)

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