Mob Corner is written by Thom L. Jones. A retired businessman, he has had a long interest in organized crime, and in particular the Sicilian and American Mafia. A hobby triggered by a book he read while studying at university "God Protect Me From My
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By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
Carmine DiBiase went out on Christmas Day and got drunk. Very drunk. Very, very drunk. And then he shot and killed someone.
Not just any old someone, but a best friend someone. A guy who had stood by Carmine at his
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
The alliteration is perhaps inexcusable. The description however, is almost as perfect as you will get.
A man who allegedly bit off part of another man’s ear in a bar brawl. Who terrified a family as he tried to de
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
It was bloodletting out of all proportion, even for the men who ran the Mafia in Sicily.
Eight men killed for eighteen horses.
The worst day of mass killing in its history since May 1947, when 11 people were sho
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
It begins and ends with a man who had a name that sounded like a musk melon.
His impact on the American Mafia was much more than to just have helped the law incarcerate a man who at the time, they considered perh
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
The man with the heavy black beard had left his comfortable, six-room apartment at 130 West Twelfth Street. It was late in the morning, and he had to go to his office; but first he had a lunch meeting.
It was Jan
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
By all accounts he wasn’t that nice a person.
Described as small, lecherous and ugly, with a temperament to match, it’s hard to find anything redeeming in a life like his, cut short by the mid forties. He played
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
I think he is one of my favourite mobsters of all time. The one-eyed killer who couldn't shoot straight.
Most people have never heard of him. He never achieved any immortal status as a big player in the Mafia cri
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
Missing Person #75-3425.
To paraphrase that famous line from The Scarlet Pimpernel, 'they seek him here, they seek him there, trouble is, Jimmy’s buried everywhere.'
There never really was any serious doubt abou
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
He could easily have been the first Mafia boss of bosses from Sicily to come to the United States, although when he hit New York, he may not yet have reached that lofty position. There were at least three men whos