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This is a missing topics list for Carl Sifakis's The Mafia Encyclopedia.
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[edit] A
- Anthony Joseph Accardo, [Antonino Leonardo Accardo] "Joe Batters" (1906-1992)
- Ace of Diamonds: Mafioso "bad luck" card
- Joe Adonis [Giuseppe Antonio Doto], (1902-1972)
- Evsei Agron
- Joseph Aiello, [Giuseppe Aiello]
- Joseph Aiuppa, "Ha Ha" "Joey Doves" (1907-1997)
- Felix Anthony Alderisio, "Milwaukee Phil"
- Alibis and the Mafia
- Vincent Alo
- Louis Alterie
- Samuzzo Amatuna, "Samoots" (1899-1925)
- Louis Amberg
- Vic Amuso (see Gas Pipe Casso and Vic Amuso)
- Albert Anastasia, [Umberto Anastasio] "Mad Hatter" "Lord High Executioner" (1902-1957)
- Anastasia crime family (see Gambino crime family)
- Anthony Anastasio, "Tough Tony"
- Gennaro J. Angiulo
- Moses L. Annenberg
- Albert Anselmi and John Scalise
- Harry J. Anslinger
- Ignacio Antinori
- Apache Indian job: Mob bombings
- Apalachin Conference
- Argos Lectionary: Capone Gang "Bible"
- "On the Arm": Freebies, Mafia style
- Atlantic City Conference
[edit] B
- Bagman: Payoff man or collector
- Baldwin Wallace College: "Mafia U"
- Frank P. Balistrieri
- Banana War
- Bandidos
- Bank manipulation by Mafia
- Bankruptcy scams
- Joseph Barbara, Sr., "Joe the Barber" (d. 1959)
- Leroy Barnes
- Barrel murder: Early mafioso execution method
- Tobia Basile
- Fulgencio Batista
- Sam Battaglia, "Teets" (1908-1973)
- Jose Miguel Battle, Sr.
- Bay of Pigs invasion: Mafia's great disappointment
- Tony Bender
- Otto Berman, "Paulie Guns"
- Thomas Bilotti
- Charles Binaggio (1909-1950)
- William Morris Bioff
- Black Book: Las Vegas Mafia blacklist
- Black Hand
- Black Mafia
- Ruggiero Boiardo
- Frank Bompensiero, "Frankie Bomp"
- Joseph Bonanno, "Joe Banannas" (1905-2002)
- Salvatore Bonanno
- Bonanno crime family
- Making your Bones: Supposed requirement for being made
- Cesare Bonventre
- Putting up a Book: Bring up a Mafia member up on mob charges
- Bootlegging
- Boss etiquette: Survival code for wise guys with a new boss
- Boss of Bosses: Mythical Mafia leader
- Boss's annual income: No limit for the man at the top
- Frank Bourg
- Donnie Brasco
- Bribery and the Mafia
- Bridge of Sighs
- Broadway Mob
- Samuel Bronfman
- Dominic Brooklier
- Leo Vincent Brothers
- Angelo Bruno, "The Gentle Don" (1910-1980)
- Fiore Buccieri
- Louis Buchalter (see Louis Lepke)
- Buckwheats: Painful murder methods
- Russell A. Bufalino
- Buffalo crime family (see Stefano Magaddino)
- Bug and Meyer Mob
- Bullet eaters: Hard-to-kill victims
- Buriel grounds of the Mafia
- Burning the G: New mob tax dodges
- Tommasso Buscetta
- Business penitration by Mafia
- Buster from Chicago
[edit] C
- Joel Cacace
- John Michael Caifano
- California crime family (see Jack Dragna)
- Camorra: Neopolitan crime society
- Louis Campagna
- Al Capone, "Scarface" (1899-1947)
- Ralph Capone, "Bottles"
- Sam Cardinelli
- Anthony Carfano
- Sylvestro Carolla, "Sam" (1896-1972)
- Enrico Caruso
- Cashing: Countrtfeit scam for Mafia juniors
- Casino junkets: Mob-sponsored gambling trips
- Gas Pipe Casso and Vic Amuso
- Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily
- Castellammarese War
- Paul Castellano (1915-1985)
- Saca Catalano
- Toto Catalano
- Jackie Cerone, "Jackie the Lackey" (1914-)
- Charity and the Mafia
- Chauffeurs: Mafia road to success
- Chicago amnesia: Mob intimidation of witnesses
- Chinese Mafia
- CIA-Mafia Connection
- Cicero, Illinois: Mob-controlled Chicago suburb
- Cigarette bootlegging
- Dominick V. Cirillo
- Nicholas Civella
- Claiming racket: Payoff for finding new recruits
- Clean graft: Payoffs to politicians and police
- Cleveland crime family (see James T. Licovoli)
- Clothesline: Hanging an imprisoned guy out to dry
- Cocaine-Heroin shuttle scheme
- Mickey Cohen
- Roy Cohn
- Eco James Coli
- Vincent Coll
- Colombian Mafia
- Joseph Colombo, Sr. (1914-1978)
- Colombo crime family
- Colony Sports Club: Mob-owned gambling casino
- Jim Colosimo, "Big Jim" (1877-1920)
- The Commission: Mafia "ruling body"
- Concrete scam: Huge Mafia construction racket
- John J. Connolly
- Contract
- Jimmy Coonan
- Michael Coppola
- Anthony Corallo, "Tony Ducks"
- Corleone, Si.
- Joseph Corozzo
- Cosa Nostra
- Frank Costello, "The Prime Minister" (1891-1973)
- Cotroni Gang
- Cramming: Mafia's $200 million telephone scam
- Cuban Mafia
[edit] D
- William Daddano, Sr., "Willie Potatoes" (1912-1975)
- Morris Barney Dalitz
- Philip D'Andrea
- William E. Dauber and Charlotte Dauber
- Julius Richard Davies
- Dead Man's Tree
- Dead Rabbits
- Dead Rabbits Riot
- Death Corner
- Angelo DeCarlo
- Samuel Rizzo Decavalcante "Sam the Plumber" (1913-1997)
- Aniello Dellacroce, "Neil" "The Lamb" (1914-1985)
- Frank Deluca
- Joseph Deluca
- De Mau Mau Gang
- Mario Anthony DeStefano (1915-1975)
- Sam DeStefano, [Samuel DeStefano] "Mad Sam" (1909-1973)
- Thomas Edmund Dewey
- Jack Diamond
- Paul DiCocco, Sr.
- Giuseppe Di Cristina
- Paul Di Cristina
- John DiFronzo, "No Nose"
- Vincent DiNapoli
- Johnny Dio
- Joseph DiPalermo
- Frank DiSimone
- Joseph Vincent DiVarco
- Johnny Dolan
- Jack I. Dragna
- Louis Tom Dragna
- Shang Draper
- Vincent Drucci, [Victor D'Ambrosio] "The Schemer" (1898-1927)
- Druggan-Lake Gang
- Duke's Restaurant
- Dutch Mob
[edit] E
- Thomas Eboli (d. 1972)
- Egan's Rats
- Eighth of the Eighth: Crime spawning area
- Charles Carmen English
- Envelope: Mob gift custom
- Eyes in the Sky: Crooked gambling technique
[edit] F
- "FBI Badfellas": Worst alliance between feds and mobsters
- Don Vito Cascio Ferro
- Five Iron Men: Kansas City crime rulers
- Five Points Gang
- Flamingo Hotel: Las Vegas's first plush casino
- Forty Thieves, Depression-era criminal organization
- Forty-Two Gang
- Four Deuces: Capone mob headquarters and vice den
- Steven Franse
- Peter von Frantzius
- Michael Franzese "Mickey" (1951-)
- Jimmy Fratianno, "The Weasel"
- Friday and Saturday nights
- "Friend of ours" and "Friend of mine": Code introductions
- Funerals of gangsters
[edit] G
- Carmine Galante, "Cigar Galante" (1910-1979)
- Joe
- Carlo Gambino
- Michael Gambino: Bogus mafioso
- Gambino crime family
- The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: Book and movie parody of the Crazy Joe Gallo Gang
- Garment industry rackets
- Genna Brothers
- Vito Genovese (1897-1969)
- Genovese Family
- Diane Giacalone
- Sam Giancana, "Momo" (1908-1975)
- Eugenio Giannini
- Vincent Gigante
- Give-Up guys: Hijacking scam
- The Godfather: Novel and movie
- Waxey Gordon
- John Gotti
- John Gotti, Jr.
- Peter Gotti
- Gotti Fan Club
- Sammy Gravano
- Greed of crime bosses: Top of the mob shakedown artists
- Greek Mafia
- Gus Greenbaum
- "Green eyes": The Mafia's greediest
- Guarantee: Mafia's protection plan
- Jake Guzik
[edit] H
- Hams: Smuggling technique
- Havana Conference
- Hawthorne Inn
- Mike Heitler
- Hell's Angels
- Hijacking
- Virginia Hill
- James J. Hines
- "Hitmobile": Mob car for assassination missions
- James R. Hoffa
- Herbert Hoover
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Horse killings and mobsters
- Hotsy Totsy Club
- Howard Hughes
- Murray Humphreys
- Sam Hunt
[edit] I
- Matthew Ianniello, "Matty the Horse"
- Ice pick murders: Efficient execution methods
- Independent criminals and the Mafia
- Initiation rites of the Mafia
- In-Your-Face: High honor for an esteemed murder victim
- Italian rope trick: Murder method
[edit] J
- Jamaican Posses
- Jewish Mafia
- Ellsworth Johnson
- Jukebox racket
[edit] K
- Alvin Karpis
- Kefauver Committee hearings
- "Kefauveritis": Mystery "ailment" of mobsters under parole
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Kid Dropper
- Kidnapping of mafiosi
- King's Man: Mafioso with direct access to the godfather
- Kiss of Death: Mafia murder signal
- Knockdown: Demotion, Mafia style
- Sidney Korshak
[edit] L
- La: Dirty word for new century mafiosi
- Labor leasing
- Gennaro Langella
- Meyer Lansky
- Lanskyland: Florida Jewish community
- Joseph Lanza
- John Sebastian Larocca
- Las Vegas: Organized crime's Promised Land
- Last Chance Tavern: Kansas City gambling den
- Peter LaTempa
- La Tuna Federal Correctional Facility
- Laundering
- Louis Lepke
- Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary (See "Mafia Manor")
- Nick Licata
- James Licavoli
- Alfred "Jake" Lingle
- Little Joe: Mafia execution signature
- Loan-Sharking
- Loan shark scams
- Lockstep surveillance: Law enforcement harrassment
- Frank J. Loesch
- Antonio Lombardo
- Carmine Lombardozzi
- Huey Long
- Loose mouth disease: Deadly ailment
- Los Angeles crime family (See Mickey Mouse Mafia)
- Lovefellas: Mafiosi's woes to cheeting affairs
- William Lovett
- Tommy Lucchese
- Lucchese crime family
- Charles Luciano
- Luciano-Costello crime family (See Genovese crime family)
- Lumping: Construction racket for skimming federal dollars
- Lupo the Wolf
[edit] M
- "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn
- Hugh "Apples" MacIntosh
- Owen Madden
- The Mafia
- Origin of Mafia
- Mafia Coffin: Corpse disposal method
- Mafia gun
- "Mafia Manor": Special prison accomodation for wise guys
- Mafia social clubs
- Stefano Magaddino (1891-1974)
- Joseph Magliocco, [Giuseppe Magliocco] (d. 1963)
- Malliocchia: Attempt to rattle witness
- Vincent Mangano, (1888-1951)
- Mangano crime family (see Gambino crime family)
- Martin T. Manton
- Salvatore Maranzano (1868-1931)
- Carlos Marcello (1910-1993)
- Marion Penitentiary: For the Mafia's most dangerous
- Joe Masseria, "Joe the Boss" (1879-1931)
- Joe Massino, "Big Joey"
- Charles Matranga
- Hitting the Matresses: Gang war tactic
- Mickey Mouse Mafia: California crime families
- Midnight arrests of mobsters
- Midnight Rose's: Candy store "office" for Murder Inc.
- John Mirabella
- George "Bugs" Moran
- Don Pellagrino Morano (See Camorra; Nicholas Morello)
- Morelli Gang
- Nicholas Morello
- Peter "The Clutching Hand" Morello
- Morello family
- Willie Moretti (1894-1951)
- Cesare Mori
- Samuel J. Morton
- Motorcade murders: Automobile procession assassinations
- Movie racketeering
- Murder, Incorporated
- Murder of Dons
- Murder Stable
- Mussolini Shuttle
- Mustache Petes
[edit] N
- Narcotics racket
- John Nardi
- Neighbors of Mafiosi
- Nepotism and the Mafia
- Eliot Ness
- New Orleans Mafia mass lynchings
- Night of the Sicilian Vespers
- Frank Nitti
- No hands rule: Mob code of conduct
- No narcotics rule: Alledged Mafia code
- SS Normandie: Mafia wartime sabotage
- Nose jobs: Punishment for wise guy addicts
- No slander rule (See Gerlando Sciascia)
- Nut: Backing for a Mob enterprise
[edit] O
- Sir Harry Oakes
- Charles Dion O'Banion
- John Patrick O'Brien
- O'Connor's Gunners
- Odessa by the Sea: Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, as center of Russian Mafia activities
- Omerta
- Onorta
- Open hit: Free-for-all murder order
- Open territories: Organized crime apportionment plan
- Operation Mongoose: CIA-Mafia plan to kill Fidel Castro
- Jacob Orgen
- Other Mafias: Supposed inheritors to the Mafia's power
- Vincenzo Ottumvo
- Outlaw bikers and the Mafia
- the Outlaws
[edit] P
- Pagans,
- Palermo Connection: Mafia's heroin pipeline
- Parsley racket: Restaurant extortion
- Pass: Forgiveness, Mafia style
- Raymond L.S. Patriarca, "Junior"
- Pension bandwagon for wise guys: Security for the insecure
- Carmine Persico
- Joseph Petrosino
- Pigeon coop tip-off: Is a wise guy gone for good ?
- Pillow Gang
- Pineapple Primary
- Little Augie Pisano
- Pittsburgh crime family (see John Sebastian Larocca)
- Pittsburgh Phil
- Plants: Secret Mafia members
- Political contributions and the Mafia
- Pre-hits: Preludes to a major mob assassination
- Ross Prio
- Prison gangs and the Mafia
- Joseph Profaci (1897-1962)
- Profaci crime family (see Colombo crime family)
- Mob style profiling
- Prohibition
- Anthony Provenzano
- Public enemies: Organized crime mobsters
- Purple Gang, Infamous Detroit mob
- Purple Gang, modern
- Pushcart rackets: Enduring scams for the mob
[edit] R
- George Raft
- James M. Ragen
- Ragen's Colts
- Phillip Rastelli, "Rusty" (1918-1991)
- The Rat Pack and the Mafia: Sinatra's Hollywood followers
- Reading, Pennsylvania: Mafia's East Coast "Cicero"
- Red dye murders Mafia extortion hoax
- Tom Reina, [Gaetano Reina] (1889-1930)
- Abe Reles
- Respect in the Mafia
- Restaurants and the Mafia
- Paul Ricca, "The Waiter" (1897-1972)
- Harry Riccobene
- RICO: 1970 Rackateer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act
- H. Paul Rico
- "Take for a ride": Underworld murder method
- Victor Riesel
- Johnny Roberts
- Luigi Ronsisvalle
- Room of death: Palermo torture and murder chamber
- John Roselli
- Arnold Rothstein
- Rum Row: Bootleg fleet
- Ernest Rupolo
- Russian Mafia
[edit] S
- St. Valentine's Day
- Anthony Salerno, "Fat Tony" (1911-1992)
- Ralph Salerno
- Sanctioned stoolie: Inter-crime family spy
- John Saupp
- Frank Scalise
- Scarface: Gangster movie
- Nicodemo Scarfo, "Little Nicky" (1929-)
- John Scarne
- Dutch Schultz
- Arnold Schuster (see Frederick J. Tenuto)
- Gerlando Sciascia
- Anthony Scotto
- Steven Seagal: Action film tough guy and Mafia victim
- Seven Group
- Sex and the Mafia
- Jacob Shapiro
- Shotgun Man
- Fiore Siano
- Sicilian flu: Imaginary and real mafioso ailments
- Bugsy Siegel
- Silver Street: Capone Mob vice area
- Frank Sinatra
- Michele Sindona
- Skimming: "Tax-free" gambling profits
- Slot machines
- Len Small
- Sneakers: Drug-dealing mafiosi
- The Sopranos: Making the mob a smash hit on television
- Spending habits of Mafiosi
- Anthony Spilotro, [Anthony John Spilotro] "Tony the Ant" (1938-1986)
- Jimmy Squillante
- Joseph Stacher
- Battles of the Standard Oil Building
- Stand-In
- Stand-Up guy: Mobster who won't "talk"
- State Street Crap Game
- Walter Stevens
- The Stockade: Torrio-Capone syndicate brothel
- Stock "geniuses": Financial wizards, Mafia style
- Stock theft and manipulation
- Street tax: Payment to mob to okay non-member criminal operarion
- Suckers: Expendible wise guy wanna-bes
- Surveillance tricks by mafiosi
[edit] T
- Talent hunters: Spanning the globe for recruits
- Joseph Tangorra
- "Tap game": Moves and countermoves in use of wiretaps
- Abraham Telvi
- Frederick J. Tenuto
- Vincent Teresa
- Ciro Terranova
- Philip Testa
- Salvatore Testa
- Frank Tieri, "Funzi" (1904-1981)
- Tommy gun: Mobster weapon
- Johnny Torrio, "Papa Johnny" (1882-1957)
- Roger Touhy
- Santo Trafficante
- Santo Trafficante, Jr. (1914-1987)
- Trapman: Mob security specialist
- Carlo Tresca
- Twenties Group
[edit] U
- the Undertaker's Friend: Underworld "Green Chair Curse"
- The Untouchables (see Eliot Ness)
[edit] V
- Joe Valachi, "Joe Cargo" (1903-1971)
- Rocco Valenti
- Lewis J. Valentine
- Valley Gang
- Vietnamese Mafia
- Vigilantism and the Mafia
[edit] W
- Walk/Talk: Mob effort to avoid evesdropping
- War of the Jews
- Waterfront rackets
- Earl Weiss
- Westies
- West Suburban Citizens' Association (see Vigilantism and the Mafia)
- Whack: Term for murder
- Grover A. Whalen
- White Hand Gang
- White Hand Society
- White Spot: Mafioso operating in black areas
- Edward Bennett Williams
- Frank J. Wilson
- Walter Winchell
- Wise guys and connected guys
- Mafiosi's attitude towards Women
- Women as Mafia victims: Mob gallantry myth
- "The Wop with the Mop": Alcatraz disparagement of Al Capone
[edit] Y
- Yakuza
- Frankie Yale, [Francesco Loele] (1885/1893-1928)
- Youngbloods
[edit] Z
[edit] References
- Sifakis, Carl. The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
