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FBI File Notes (All)

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Biography: James DeGeorge
Alfred DeCesaro & Ralph Masaro: FBI File Notes
Andrew Lococo: FBI File Notes
August Chiaverotti: FBI File Notes
August Maniaci: FBI File Notes
August Palmisano: FBI File Notes
Balistrieri Years I: 1961-1966: FBI File Notes
Balistrieri Years II: 1967-1972: FBI File Notes
Balistrieri Years III: 1973-1979: FBI File Notes
Balistrieri Years IV: 1980-present: FBI File Notes
Blackie Sullivan: FBI File Notes
Bobby Pick: FBI File Notes
Equals Club, Milwaukee: FBI File Notes
Frank LaGalbo: FBI File Notes
Griff’s on Teutonia, Gambling Den: FBI File Notes
Harold Klein: FBI File Notes
Harry D’Angelo: FBI File Notes
John Seybold and Ruth Dell, Jewel Thieves: FBI File Notes
Joseph Guarniere: FBI File Notes
Louis Fazio: FBI File Notes
Max Adonnis: FBI File Notes
Mortgage Forgery Scam: FBI File Notes
Piscuine Brothers: John, Joseph & Charles: FBI File Notes
Sally Papia: FBI File Notes
Sam Vermiglio: FBI File Notes
Scanlon Scam: Heist of the 1950s: FBI File Notes
Southeast Wisconsin Sex Trafficking: FBI File Notes
Steve DiSalvo: FBI File Notes
Thomas Sorce (and Claude Lodl): FBI File Notes
Vincent Maniaci: FBI File Notes
Walter Brocca: FBI File Notes

Milwaukee Mafia

151

Frank Buccieri
Edward Anthony Buccieri, known as Marty
Murder of Steve Mattano (1975)
The Ogden Social Club (1940s Milwaukee)
Ad Lib and Female Impersonation
Hershey’s Kisses, Fur Coats and Vince Maniaci
John J. Balistrieri: The School Years
Hugh O’Connell and Joseph Balistrieri
Frank Balistrieri in Sandstone Prison
The Scene has Problems 1969-1971
Frank Balistrieri Tax Problems 1969-1970
How Joseph Balistrieri Bought the Shorecrest
The Sendik’s Grocery Chain
William Penn Cole (1908-1992)
Wilbur McCaulley Murder
Milwaukee Alderman Robert Jendusa (1921-1975)
Proposed Overthrow of Frank Balistrieri (1965-1971)
Ramazini Brothers and the Holiday House
Dr. Vito Guardalabene (Bio)
Dominic Frinzi v Hugh O’Connell
Sheriff Cefalu and the Office
The Julius Theilacker Home Invasion (Pipito, DiMaggio)
Lake Geneva Playboy Club and the Mafia
Police Chief George Harrison Sprague
Last Days of Buster Balestrere and Joe Gurera
Balistrieri’s Tax Trial 1967-1968
The End of Loan Shark Harry Kaminsky
Joe’s Spaghetti House 1964-1965.
The Fall of Captain Harry Kuszewski
Dominic Frinzi for Governor 1964
Phil “The Tailor” Emordeno (1911-1981)
Who was Jack Iannello?
The Mafia Expands to Appleton?
The Bug at 2559 Downer
John Morn Changes the FBI?
The 1963 Balistrieri-Johnson Newspaper Exchange
Frank Balistrieri of Des Moines, Iowa
Organized Crime Information System (OCIS)
From the Hobbs Act to RICO
Joseph Enea and the Friendly Dancers
Dr. Anthony Verdone: In Debt to the Mob
Frank Balistrieri Tax Problems, 1962-1963
Frank Balistrieri Tax Problems, 1960-1961
The Sciortino Cousins
Milwaukee Corruption in 1962
John DiBella Goes Public
Gus Marzullo and Acino Cleaners
Mortgage Forgery Scam: Podcast Notes
Atomic Sales and the Bubble Gun
Tommy Machi and the Riviera
Biography
FBI File Notes
General
Podcast-related

Madison Mafia

2

Murder of Alan Dushack (1989)
Dr. Albert F. Ottow, Extorted Abortionist

Kenosha Mafia

11

Calabrian Organized Crime in Kenosha, 1913-1960
The Rise Of Stanley George Haukedahl
The Fall of Stanley Haukedahl
Edward Minkowski murder (1975)
The 1945 Floyd Ventura Murder
Warren Rasmussen and Arthur Wick
Raymond “Squeaky” Matera
FBI File Notes

Non-Mafia (Other)

10

Crimes Against Postal Workers 2022-2024
Links between John Dillinger and the Mafia?
Dominic Frinzi Defends Ed Gein
Casanova Guns
Victor Cobian and Alleged Arms Trafficking
Griff’s on Teutonia, Gambling Den: FBI File Notes
John Seybold and Ruth Dell, Jewel Thieves: FBI File Notes
Milwaukee’s Lopez Gang
Milwaukee’s Third Ward
Southeast Wisconsin Sex Trafficking: FBI File Notes

Chicago Outfit

7

Bio: John Capone (1904-1985)
Bio: Louis Fratto (alias Lew Farrell)
Al Capone at the Old Baraboo Inn
Capone’s Hideout in Couderay, Wisconsin
Paul Hornung’s Gambling Problem
Biography: James DeGeorge
Lake County Gambling: A Kenosha Connection?

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