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by THunt
Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 9:32 am
Forum: Books and Periodicals
Topic: October 2023 issue of Informer
Replies: 1
Views: 32814

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...
by THunt
Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 2:58 am
Forum: Books and Periodicals
Topic: October 2023 issue of Informer
Replies: 1
Views: 32814

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...
by THunt
Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 2:53 am
Forum: 1950-1957: Kefauver thru Apalachin
Topic: FBI ignored pre-Apalachin informer
Replies: 0
Views: 34519

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. ...
by THunt
Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 5:05 am
Forum: 1950-1957: Kefauver thru Apalachin
Topic: FBI Top Hoodlum Program
Replies: 1
Views: 29494

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...
by THunt
Mon, Oct 31, 2022, 5:38 am
Forum: Books and Periodicals
Topic: November 2022 issue of Informer
Replies: 2
Views: 12237

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...
by THunt
Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 3:33 am
Forum: Books and Periodicals
Topic: November 2022 issue of Informer
Replies: 2
Views: 12237

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 ...
by THunt
Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 6:10 pm
Forum: Books and Periodicals
Topic: November 2022 issue of Informer
Replies: 2
Views: 12237

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...
by THunt
Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 4:48 pm
Forum: 1963-1970: Post-Valachi
Topic: Zeid became an informer then became a corpse
Replies: 0
Views: 39483

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...
by THunt
Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 5:49 am
Forum: 1957-1963: Post-Apalachin
Topic: KC mobster's son guided feds
Replies: 0
Views: 39178

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...
by THunt
Sat, Oct 2, 2021, 3:34 pm
Forum: Books and Periodicals
Topic: Youngstown: Topic for 2022 Informer
Replies: 0
Views: 26416

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....