Alphonse Attardi

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Alphonse "The Peacemaker" Attardi alias Jim Carra (born April 1, 1892 in Sicily - July 17, 1970 in Suffolk County (New York) ) was an Italian-American mobster in the vicinity of the Gambino family of the American Cosa Nostra , who belonged to the Pentito has been.

Ostensibly operational Attardi an import trade with olive oil , but was in the drug trafficking of the Mafia involved.

Life

According to one source, Attradi is said to have been born in 1897 and to have joined the original Cosa Nostra in Sicily before immigrating to the United States of America in 1919 .

Attardi's criminal career picked up speed in the roaring 1920s, when the various gangs fought among themselves and power struggles took place within the mafia families and Attardi was right in the middle of it.

Like many others, he was initially involved in alcohol smuggling during the prohibition period and then switched to drug trafficking.

Attardi was subordinate to Albert Anastasia , but the head of the family was still Vincent Mangano . At this point the Gambino family was already involved in the drug trade before Lucky Luciano's business was intensified within the entire Mafia.

Had been reported as Luciano in 1946, he organized drug smuggling from Italy to the United States, which over the pier of 54 Street in Brooklyn was settled. Ships of the American military were unloaded there and garbage trucks were used to transport the illegal goods.

In the early 1950s, Attardi's illegal activities came to an abrupt end after he was arrested for drug trafficking in Houston , Texas . While serving his sentence, his wife died and the bank also closed its legal business through a foreclosure sale .

After his release, he moved into a rundown apartment on Delany Street in the Manhattan borough of New York City , which is part of the Lower East Side .

In 1952 the United States Department of the Treasury offered him to become their informant , which Attardi initially refused; after six months, however, he agreed to the offer and was supposed to help the officers with covert investigations .

In particular, Attardi instructed the undercover agent Joe Tremoglie in the network of associates - people who are not (yet) or cannot become full members of the Mafia - who were involved in drug trafficking, including, among others. a. in particular Benny Bellanca and Pietro Beddia counted. In this way he enabled Tremoglie to penetrate these connections, thereby minimizing his risk to life and limb and increasing the chances of success.

As a reward, Attardi received $ 5,000 and immediately left the country with his girlfriend.

Possibly was Attardi but in 1947 an informant for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics become.

In 1968 Attradi gave an interview to Parade Magazine under the pseudonym Jim Carra about his time as a drug dealer for the Mafia.

There is also a different information about the date of his death, so he could not have died until 1972.

Attardi as a source

  • In contrast to other theses, Attardi names Salvatore Mambrao as the murderer of the Gambino chief Salvatore "Toto D'Aquila" when he was gunned down on October 28, 1928.

literature

  • Donals F. Whitehead: Border Guard: The Story of the United States Customs Service , 1963.
  • David Chritchley: The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891-1931

Web links

Individual notes

  1. ↑ Jay Robert Nash: The Great Pictorial History of World Crime ( en ). Scarecrow Press, 2004, ISBN 9781461712152 .
  2. ^ David Critchley: The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891-1931 ( en ). Routledge, New York 2009, ISBN 9781135854928 , pp. 289 ff.
  3. ↑ David Chritchley: The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891-1931 ; P. 157
personal data
SURNAME Attardi, Alphonse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carra, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mobster and pentito
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Sicily , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1970
Place of death Suffolk County (New York) , USA