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Carlos Joseph Marcello[1] (Sicilian Italian); [Mor-sel-lo] born Calogero Minacore [kaˈlɔːdʒero minaˈkɔːre]; February 6, 1910 – March 3, 1993) was an Italian-American crime boss of the New Orleans crime family from 1947 to 1983.
- The Early Petty Crimes of A Future Mafia Boss
- How Carlos Marcello Became The New Orleans Family Boss
- Carlos Marcello’s Deportation by Robert F. Kennedy
- Was Carlos Marcello Involved in JFK’s Assassination?
Carlos Marcello was born on Feb. 6, 1910, in a colonial outpost of Sicily in Tunis, Tunisia. He arrived in New Orleans with his family the following year. His Sicilian parents took on anglicized names, renaming young “Calogero Minacore” Carlos Marcello. Marcello remained the only undocumented one of his eight younger siblings — a status that would ...
Carlos Marcello’s big underworld break would come from the Prime Minister of organized crime: Frank Costello, the nominal boss-of-the-bosses in New York. By 1935, Costello had decided to uproot his gambling slot machine empire. New York had become unreceptive to his endeavors as Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia created a media spectacle of smashing slots w...
Twice in the 1950s, Carlos Marcello was summoned to testify before U.S. Senate committees investigating racketeering and the Mafia. And both times, he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights, refusing to answer questions that might incriminate him. It was an embarrassment to the committees. But one senator took it particularly personally: Robert F. Kenn...
There existed plenty of circumstantial evidence linking Carlos Marcello to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) reportlisted a 1962 conversation between Marcello and business associate Edward Becker during which Marcello said, “Don’t worry about that little Bobby son-of-a-bitch. He...
Oct 3, 2009 · New Orleans godfather Carlos Marcello – with Jimmy Hoffa as his bagman – funded Richard Nixon's 1960 presidential bid with $500,000 in cash stuffed in a suitcase. Later Marcello – known as the Big Daddy of the Big Easy – would be named a key conspirator in President Kennedy's assassination.
Carlos Marcello rose to the top of the venerable New Orleans criminal underground and became an ally of mobsters from across the United States – and not a few politicians along the way. Marcello, born to a Sicilian family in Tunisia as Calogero Minacori or Minacore, immigrated to Louisiana in 1911.
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When Carlos Marcello arrived at the state Capitol on the morning of March 18, 1971, people were genuinely surprised by how good he looked. He’d only recently returned home, after spending five months in prison for assaulting an FBI agent.
Carollo, with lieutenant Carlos Marcello, would run illegal gambling operations undisturbed for several years. Carollo's legal problems continued as he was scheduled to be deported in 1940, after serving two years in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, following his arrest on a narcotics charge in 1938.
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Mar 2, 1993 · NEW ORLEANS -- Carlos Marcello, the longtime New Orleans' Mafia kingpin who was prosecuted in the Brilab case and once accused of plotting the assassination of President Kennedy, died Tuesday. He...
