The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder and the Birth of the American Mafia (58 page)

301.
Pellegrino Marano:
New York Times
, July 1, 1926, p. 7.

301.
Alessandro Vollero:
Maas,
The Valachi Papers
, pp. 55, 60-61, 101.

302.
Vito Cascio Ferro:
Barzini,
The Italians
, pp. 263-66 (career and influence); Petacco,
Joe Petrosino
, p. 195 (incorrect details of death); Hess,
Mafia
, p. 51 (charges); Ianni,
A Family Business
, pp. 32 (inscription), Servadio,
Mafioso
, pp. 60-63 (Mafia career); Dickie,
Cosa Nostra
, pp. 176, 185-86 (death); “Description and information of criminals,” vol. 39 of 40, fol. 370, RG 87, NARA (physical description).

304
Ignazio Lupo was able to return:
Washington Post
, June 13, 1922, p. 5;
New York Times
, same date, p. 1, and February 23, 1938, p. 40.

304
handsome sixteen-room home:
New York Times
, July 17, 1935, p. 42, and July 16, 1936, pp. 1, 3.

304
resuming his old trade:
“Statement of parole violator,” n.d. (July 1936?) (La Rosa Fruit, bakery, working habits); Salvatrice Lupo to Myrl Alexander, director, Social Services Unit, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, n.d. (July 1936) (bakery trade, jealousy); John Lupo to Alexander, July 22, 1936 (hardworking); copy of Lupo’s NYPD record, July 21, 1936 (homicide arrest); “Office memorandum,” December 18, 1946 (commutation), all in inmate file 2883, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary papers, Records of the Bureau of Prisons, RG 129, NARA-SE;
New York Times
, October 9, 1930, p. 29 (Consiglio), July 17, 1935, p. 42 (Rose Vitale), July 16, 1936, pp. 1, 3 (lottery), January 22, 1937, p. 42 (bakery racket), and February 23, 1938, p. 40 (violence, grapes);
Atlanta Constitution
, July 18, 1936, p. 1 (banks $3 million, runs at cost);
Washington Post
, August 29, 1931, p. 8 (grapes racket); Terrett,
Only Saps Work
, p. 96 (Uale’s grapes racket);
Reppetto, American Mafia
, pp. 154-55 (LaGuardia).

306.
Retribution was not far:
Harding commutation, October 29, 1921, presidential warrant, July 10, 1936, and “Record of Court Commitment,” July 31, 1936, in inmate file 2883;
New York Times
, July 16, 1936, p. 1 (Lehman);
Atlanta Constitution
, July 18, 1936, p. 1 (hurried arrest).

307.
writ of habeas corpus:
Lupo v. Zerbst
, 92 F.2d 362, October 19, 1937;
Lupo v. Zerbst
, April 2, 1937, inmate file 2883.

307
Rocco Lupo was declared bankrupt:
New York Times
, September 29, 1937, p. 39.

307.
physical and mental state:
“Record of Ignatio Lupo,” undated; “Admission summary,” undated (medical, time to serve); presidential order, July 10, 1936 (recall); John Lupo to Myrl Alexander, July 22, 1936 (breakdown); Ignazio Lupo to Joseph Sanford, warden, June 8, 1938; “Special progress reports” of June 27 and August 31, 1940; A. Hughes (parole assistant) to Sanford, October 14, 1946 (visits); Sanford to director of prison service, July 15, 1946; Sanford to Walter Urich, parole executive, Bureau of Prisons, July 19, 1946 (recommendations); “Clinical record,” December 1946; “Institutional memorandum,” December 26, 1946 (funds at release), all in inmate file 2883; Selvaggi,
The Rise and Fall of the Mafia in New York
, pp. 65, 70 (religion, exercise, letter to daughter).

308.
daughters had married, and Salvatrice:
“Admission summary: Lupo, Ignatio,” undated (1936); Salvatrice Lupo to Myrl Alexander, director, Social Services Unit, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, n.d. (July 1936); all in inmate file 2883.

308
the money was lost:
Cf. Mondello,
A Sicilian in East Harlem
, p. 9.

308.
a rented room in Queens:
Queens death certificate 524, January 13, 1947, NYMA.

309.
Angela Terranova:
Queens death certificate 4526, June 20, 1941, NYMA.

309
last years of Morello’s wife:
Private information from the Morello family (Down syndrome); index to New York City death certificates 1950-82, New York Public Library (date of death).

309
The Artichoke King retained:
Maas,
The Valachi Papers
, pp. 110-11 (Schultz and the numbers racket);
New York Times
, February 3, 1933, p. 8 (new artichoke king), July 29, 1935, p. 17 (wedding), November 10, 1935, SM6 (canter), June 5, 1936, p. 20 (police harassment), May 14, 1937, p. 6 (foreclosure and bankruptcy), February 20, 1938, p. 26 (stroke and death).

311
His grave in Valhalla:
Private information from the Flynn family (Valhalla); Selwyn Raab,
Five Families
, pp. 492-501 (D’Arco, vegetable rackets); author’s visits to Petrosino Park, March 2006 (neglected) and Calvary Cemetery, July 2007 (Petrosino and Morello graves).

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