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Carlos Joseph Marcello (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.
Apr 21, 2024 · A powerful Italian American crime boss, Carlos Marcello reigned as the leader of the New Orleans mob from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Carlos Marcello was an Italian-American crime boss operating in New Orleans region of Louisiana. He was of Sicilian origin and came to the United States of America with his parents when he was just one year old.
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.
Marcello was a longtime underboss to his older brother, Carlos Marcello. He and three other members of the New Orleans family were among thirteen mobsters arrested during a Mafia summit at La Stella Restaurant in Queens, New York on September 22, 1966.
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.
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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...
Carlos Marcello, the reputed boss of the nation’s original and oldest Mafia syndicate, was a distinctly American invention: A Sicilian emigrant, born in a North African country during French colonial rule, whose earliest memories were of an old city in the New World.
Aug 4, 1981 · Carlos Marcello, reputed head of organized crime in the Gulf Coast region, was found guilty today of conspiracy in a trial that began in Federal District Court here four months ago.
Carlos Marcello was the epitome of the Sicilian Mafia and its far-reaching “black hand” in the United States. His employment of Mafia strong-arm tactics and the Omerta code of silence worked very effectively for him throughout the majority of his long life.
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