Robert Reynolds: 504 books

The Gambino and Bonanno crime families struggled over the mozzarella cheese business in Pennsylvania, South New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania. An FBI sting operation in Buffalo, New York began the unraveling of a Gambino family operation that smuggled heroin into the United States from Milan,...

An American Airlines transcontinental flight crashed into the Mississippi River near midnight on February 10, 1944. The cause of the crash has never been entirely explained. The Civil Aeronautics Board promised additional investigation into the tragedy but never went through with it. The plane had...

Nancy Evans married Lewis Titterton in Manhattan in 1929. An aspiring author she met the Englishman, who soon became an executive with NBC, in one of New York's literary circles. They lived for a time in a West Side neighborhood that was a part of Hell's Kitchen. Nancy disliked the noisy area and...

Johnny Dio rose to great heights in the Lucchese crime family of New York City. He was indicted on numerous occasions for bankruptcy fraud and other crimes. Dio had two brothers who were also involved in crime. One of them was a heroin trafficker in Miami Beach and the other had a prominent position...

The Gambino family is one of five that control organized crime in New York City, Most people think of John Gotti when they think of the Gambinos. My book looks at an earlier era, beginning with the family's move to take over the garbage industry in Mount Vernon, New York. This began in 1964 when...

Payola involved the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, celebrity disc jockeys like Alan Freed and Dick Clark, and the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. American President Dwight Eisenhower asked his attorney general to look into the matter following...

My book looks at the dominance of the Squillante Brothers and Teamsters Local 813 in controlling the New York City garbage industry during the 1950s. Vincent J. Squillante was the godson of Albert Anastasia. In fact Squillante was in a barber's chair beside Anastasia's when the Mafia enforcer...

Vincent the Chin Gigante rose to the top of the Genovese crime syndicate, becoming its Boss in 1986. Early in his life he was a heavyweight boxer who fought in various venues around New York City. In 1957 he and Vito Genovese were arrested by narcotics agents of the Treasury Department on drug related...

Frank Matula was convicted of perjury in 1959. A Los Angeles Teamsters official, he was secretary-treasurer of LA Local 396. In 1957 Local 396 members disposed of $20 million of Los Angeles garbage annually. During his judicial ordeal Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa appointed Matula to an important...

Charlie Yanowsky aka Charlie the Jew was boss of the Hoboken docks and an organizer of the International Longshoremen's Union (AFL). My ebook looks at Yanowsky's background from his youth in New Jersey. A New Jersey governor maintained close ties with Charlie before the gangster was ice...

Walter Gottlieb Groebli was a drifter who was originally from Atlanta, Georgia. His grandparents settled there after immigrating from Switzerland. The 18-year-old Walter was taken in by wealthy Percival Wilcox Whittlesey, who had a luxurious home in Nyack, NY. A disagreement occurred when the youth...

John Stoppelli was in trouble with the law from his teenage years when he stole carrier pigeons from a Long Island City coup. In 1938 he was questioned following the death of a beautiful dancer named Thelma Giroux. The woman leaped to her death from a fifth story window of the Lincoln Hotel in New...

Juana Bormann was one of the most tormenting and evil of the women who worked guarding female prisoners at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. From camp survivors we know that Bormann used her Alsatian dog to rip the clothes and flesh from the unfortunate victims of her blind wrath. Age...

Duane Allman was far beyond his years as a unique talent playing his guitar. As a youth he purchased a guitar which he bought from selling the parts of a motorcycle that he wrecked. After playing backup guitar for numerous musicians of various genres, he organized the Allman Brothers Band. The group...