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- Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 9:32 am
- Forum: Books and Periodicals
- Topic: October 2023 issue of Informer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 38282
Re: October 2023 issue of Informer
October 3, 2023, is the official release date for Informer's Gangsters of New York's Lower East Side issue. The issue will be released in a total of seven formats: print hardcover, print magazine, electronic PDF magazine, print paperback, Kindle-compatible ebook, EPUB ebook and audiobook. (All forma...
- Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 2:58 am
- Forum: Books and Periodicals
- Topic: October 2023 issue of Informer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 38282
October 2023 issue of Informer
The focus of the October 2023 issue of Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement will be gangsters of New York's Lower East Side. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWLlExueXXeGItW7vCWvLz4ql6sVsHoyPF48duWSp_HnFFLTK9Udt_qgZuNqOOfDu8XSUk1rm2qV9Ke9L4cP9_izRKB7K...
- Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 2:53 am
- Forum: 1950-1957: Kefauver thru Apalachin
- Topic: FBI ignored pre-Apalachin informer
- Replies: 0
- Views: 41663
FBI ignored pre-Apalachin informer
More than a year before the Mafia-denying FBI was embarrassed by the Apalachin convention, an informant attempted to bring the Bureau up to date on the interstate links in a nationwide Mafia network. Largely because the intelligence did not fit with Director Hoover's preconceptions, it was ignored. ...
- Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 5:05 am
- Forum: 1950-1957: Kefauver thru Apalachin
- Topic: FBI Top Hoodlum Program
- Replies: 1
- Views: 32281
Re: FBI Top Hoodlum Program
The recently released Hoover biography by Beverly Gage ( G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century ) repeats the 1953 start date for a small Top Hoodlum Program at FBI. The author quickly blends this into a discussion of U.S. organized crime investigation, inferring that the prog...
- Mon, Oct 31, 2022, 5:38 am
- Forum: Books and Periodicals
- Topic: November 2022 issue of Informer
- Replies: 2
- Views: 15400
Re: November 2022 issue of Informer
The November 2022 issue of Informer , focusing on organized crime in the Youngstown, Ohio, area, is now available for preview/purchase. The issue is available in a variety of formats through several popular online sellers: print magazine and PDF electronic magazine can be acquired through the MagCl...
- Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 3:33 am
- Forum: Books and Periodicals
- Topic: November 2022 issue of Informer
- Replies: 2
- Views: 15400
Re: November 2022 issue of Informer
Thanks to Google auto-narration technology, Informer's November 2022 issue, The Mob in Youngstown, will be available as an audiobook. Informer is not due to be released until Nov. 1, 2022, but the audiobook can be preordered now at a special prerelease discount through Google Play Books. The normal ...
- Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 6:10 pm
- Forum: Books and Periodicals
- Topic: November 2022 issue of Informer
- Replies: 2
- Views: 15400
November 2022 issue of Informer
Informer's November 2022 issue, The Mob in Youngstown , will be formally released on November 1, but ebook editions of the issue can be preordered now. Two ebook varieties are available. KINDLE - A Kindle-compatible ebook can be preordered through Amazon.com. https://www.amazon.com/Mob-Youngstown-O...
- Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 4:48 pm
- Forum: 1963-1970: Post-Valachi
- Topic: Zeid became an informer then became a corpse
- Replies: 0
- Views: 51579
Zeid became an informer then became a corpse
https://mafiahistory.us/rattrap/images/zeid-AbeZeid2.png Edmond Valin's latest Rat Trap article discusses Abe Zeid, a longtime racketeer in western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio, who was murdered shortly after providing the FBI with information on the Pittsburgh and Cleveland Mafia organizatio...
- Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 5:49 am
- Forum: 1957-1963: Post-Apalachin
- Topic: KC mobster's son guided feds
- Replies: 0
- Views: 52187
KC mobster's son guided feds
A fall 1960 shotgun attack wounded but did not deter Joseph Crapisi. The son of a Kansas City mobster jailed for narcotics violations, Crapisi provided the FBI with an early view of KC Mafia structure and membership. https://mafiahistory.us/rattrap/images/cra-kcstarhed.png See Edmond Valin's most re...
- Sat, Oct 2, 2021, 3:34 pm
- Forum: Books and Periodicals
- Topic: Youngstown: Topic for 2022 Informer
- Replies: 0
- Views: 36873
Youngstown: Topic for 2022 Informer
Just penciling things in at this point. We'll try for a November 2022 issue of Informer that is focused on organized crime history in the Youngstown, Ohio, area - the underworld fertile crescent including the Mahoning and Shenango valleys in northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. https://1.bp....