Christmas 2009

I know I keep promising this book, but my intention now is to have Vol 3 ready for Christmas, and to that end I have begun in earnest to break out of may introductory trap and get into the body of the book.

Volume 3 Update

After considerable research I have finally begun writing volume three. The biggest problem in the research was the fact that I've bitten off nearly sixty years of mob activity to write about. The most difficult aspect of which, was the overview, the context in which the stories of the Morgeti needed to be placed. I seem to now have a reasonable handle on the events in Calabria (the Raso-Albanese/Facchineri feud revolving around Cittanova and San Giorgio Morgeto) from the mid-1960's on, events which can be placed alongside the creation of the Siderno Group, the Reggio Group and the Tyrrhenian Group, as per Albert Anastasia and Frank Costello's Mafia Calabrese alliance with Antonio Macri, Domenico Tripodi and Girolamo Piromalli.
The Siderno Group's role in Montreal and Toronto has been much discussed by other writers, but without any reference to (or understanding of the existence of) the Morgeti.
An actual publishing date has not yet been determined. I will try to update more often.
Anyone have a photograph of Guelph's Frank Silvestro I can use ?

Dominic Longo 2

Through various internet searches, and the discovery of the obituary of his sister Katherine Ramella (nee Longo), who died in Welland Ontario on Mar 18 2002, it is now obvious that the transplanted Californian Dominic Longo who was one of the men to whom Johnny Papalia showed respect, was the nephew of Guelph's Domenic Longo, the man interned during the war. The Californian was married to a woman named Lena, they had several children, and they created several scholarship funds in that state, as well as contributed to the Republican Party there. That Dominic is the son of Frank Longo, one of Joe Veroni's pallbearers back in 1922. He was probably born in Welland.

Dominic Longo

I'm working on Volume 3, and it has come to my attention that the Dominic Longo who moved to Calfornia to open what became the largest Toyota dealership there was 65 when he died in 1985, which means that he was born in 1920. Adrian Humphreys in The Enforcer, his book on Johnny Papalia, identified that Domenic Longo as one of the three old dons of Ontario, and an associate of Tony Silvestro's who was interned as an enemy alien along with Tony and Rocco Perri in the 1940's. They are two different men. The Longo who was interned married a Guelph woman named Vittoria Valeriote in 1923 when Dominic was 30, which means he was born in San Giorgio Morgeto in 1893, which makes him a peer of Silvestros. I have yet to figure out when that Dominic Longo died or where.
According to Humphreys, who is quoting from police wiretaps, California's D. Longo had phone conversations with Papalia regarding a Niagara racketeer named Iannuzzelli a purported friend of Longo's, but who disappeared three days after Toronto police learned of Longo's death. Humphreys says that that Longo was an older man, who had Papalia's respect, since had been a friend of his father's. The fact is that Papalia was born on March 18 1924, and was therefor little more than four years younger than the Californian Longo, which doesn't exclude respect, just not for the reasons given by Humphreys. Whoever the police were wire tapping, the D. Longo who was interned was the older man, Frank Longo's brother, both of whom were in Guelph in 1911-12 when Perri was arrested and tried as Rocco Portatelli for the murder of Micahel Fazzari.
Not sure I can clear this all up before Vol. 3 is done, but sorry for the earlier misinformation. What it does of course, is prove to me that the my continuing genealogical searches and efforts to clarify everything I can, whether it was in someone else's book or not, is the right path. My apologies again.

RIP John Lennon

28 years ago today.

Gangsters in Russian High Places

Will democracy falter in Moscow or will popular revolution lead to the creation of the Russian equivalent of the newly emerging 2nd American Republic.

Gangster Capitalism versus Obama

Obama will be defined by the way in which he deals with these realities:
1.) because corporations cannot sign affidavits in court because they "have no conscience to bind them." 2.) because gangsters have no conscience to bind them, 3.) because Reagan, using faux libertarian pretenses of corporate freedom & expansionist national purposes to ensure corporate hegemony in the Caribbean & in the MidEast in the '80's, created his version of neo-corporatism out of what the GOP salvaged & redesigned after the Nixon-Rebezo debacle: Reagonimics reached it's logical conclusion in Noriega-Ollie North: the Iran-Contra 'drugs for arms scandal' 4.) then power dribbled into the hands of Bush-1, GH being the son of a Nazi banker & grandson of an arms dealer, VP-turned-Pres GH was a former CIA boss, whose operatives included Saddam Hussein & Osama Bin Laden 5.) replaced by Clinton neo-liberal (left corporatism) 6.) replaced by Cheney-Bush-2 who developed a virulent strain of gangster capitalism, which was overwhelmingly overthrown 7.) Nov 4. 2008, when the vast majority of Americans voted against the Bush League via Obama-MCain; leaving the Pres.-Elect on the cusp of 8.)the reorganizing of the global economy by right & left corporatists & communists in an age of already organized global gangster capitalists. The solution for Canada should be found in our history: we need to stand for Cooperatve Commonwealth, an expansion of the British Commonwealth based on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms: into which an individual's rights to water must be enshrined. As for the right & left corporatist union of Harper-Obama it must be met in parliament & in the next election with an environmental opposition united on water rights. It must be the next election issue. Because if the gangster capitalists get hold of the water there will be no conscience to bind them.