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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.
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.
Marcello, Carlos (b. 6 February 1910 in Carthage, Tunisia; d. 2 March 1993 in Metairie, Louisiana), reputed crime boss of Louisiana who has been linked to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by some conspiracy theorists, though none have produced any credible evidence of his involvement. Source for information on Marcello, Carlos ...
My book, The Original Gangster: The American Saga of Carlos Marcello, is a sprawling and definitive biography of “the Little Man” who loomed large in Louisiana, the first book about Marcello since the 1988 publication of John H. Davis’s deeply flawed and poorly researched bestseller, Mafia Kingfish. I am currently seeking the consultation ...
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Nov 15, 2013 · Carlos Marcello controlled organized crime in Louisiana and across the Southeast in the 1950s and '60s. He was untouchable until he met the Kennedy Brothers. Once Robert...
Mar 3, 1993 · Carlos Marcello, a reputed boss of organized crime, died today at his home in this suburb of New Orleans. He was 83. The Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office said it did not have...
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