Mafia Trivia

Did you guys know that the first Mafia faction came out of New Orleans?

Surprised me.

yeah Tony "Big Gumbo" Marchetti wacked Sal "beady balls" mazonnne

Archie

yeah Tony "Big Gumbo" Marchetti wacked Sal "beady balls" mazonnne

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So actually they came into being after a group of Italians were wrongly convicted of the murder of a policeman.

CASPERWAIT$

So actually they came into being after a group of Italians were wrongly convicted of the murder of a policeman.

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David Hennessy (Police Chief of New Orleans) was murdered by the mafia. I saw his huge tomb in the Metairie cemetery.

It’s possible that the wrong Italians were charged with the assassination

After a series acquittals and mistrials, a mob, believing that the mafia had rigged the trial, broke into a jail and killed several of the defendants.

CASPERWAIT$

So actually they came into being after a group of Italians were wrongly convicted of the murder of a policeman.

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back when Italians were label the illegal migrants pest of the day

The Mafia had to give the blessing for The Godfather to be made.

Joe Columbo Sr. ( a mafia capo) had started the Italian Defamation League and denounced the making of the film. He said it portrayed Italians in a bad light. He asked for certain compromises in the making of the film or bad things would happen.

The producers agreed not to use the word Mafia in the film and that gesture was said to be what allowed the film to be made.