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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.
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Apr 21, 2024 · Known as "The Godfather" of the New Orleans Mafia, Carlos Marcello was a prime target of President Kennedy's campaign against organized crime. Bettmann/Getty Images Carlos Marcello (center) was known as Louisiana’s “most sinister racketeer boss” and single-handedly ran the New Orleans crime family from the 1940s through the 1980s. In the ...
At that point, his lieutenant, Carlos Marcello, stepped into the top job of the New Orleans Mafia. Marcello was known to the police: He had served nine years on an assault and robbery charge, and had been arrested in 1929 for a bank robbery, although he beat that rap. In 1938, he served less than a year on a marijuana trafficking charge.
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Oct 3, 2009 · Carlos Marcello's pilot and employee, David Ferrie, is by far the oddest character in the Kennedy assassination saga. He was a friend of Oswald, and possibly, of Ruby. Ferrie was bald from head to toe—but sported part of a red floor rug as a hairpiece, and drew brows over his eyes with stage greasepaint.
Carlos Marcello was born as Calogero Minacori/ Minacorein French Tunisia on February 6, 1910. In 1911, the family shifted to the Unites States of America and settled down in an old plantation in the suburbs of New Orleans.
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Mar 14, 1993 · Carlos Marcello was born Cologers Minacore in 1910 in Tunis, Tunisia, of Italian parents. They brought him to the United States when he was a baby but he never obtained U.S. citizenship.
Learn about the life and crimes of Carlos Marcello, the reputed boss of the New Orleans Mafia and a suspect in the JFK assassination. The book by Lamar White, Jr. explores his Sicilian origins, his rise to power, his conflicts with the government, and his legacy.
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