Robert Reynolds: 504 books

William Landon Gorilla Jones was a middleweight champion in 1932, winning an elimination tournament in Milwaukee a year after Mickey Walker gave the title up. Jones beat Italian boxer Oddone Piazza for the title. Jones conceded the title a year later in France following a unification bout that he...

George "Blah Blah" Smurra was a button/soldier for the Genovese crime family. He first gained notoriety as one of the shooters in the gangland murder of Ferdinand "the Shadow" Boccia on September 19, 1934. It is likely that Smurra and an associate murdered Boccia and dumped his...

Hyman "Curly" Holtz was a Murder Inc. associate who was in charge of the then newly organized drug traficking operation. Murder Inc. operated out of the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York. Newspaper accounts date Holtz's disappearance to 1932. Some sources report that law enforcement...

Damiano Thomas Vonnie Licavoli was a powerful bootlegger in the Prohibition era. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he made his fortune in Detroit before a grand jury investigation forced him to move elsewhere. He relocated to Toledo where he dominated the beer and liquor racket until the end of Prohibition....

George Schachter, aka Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg was a Murder Inc., associate who was gunned down in his Ford convertible coupe on Thanksgiving Eve, 1939. Greenberg was raised in New York's East Side with future Murder Inc., leaders Louis Lepke Buchalter and Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro....

Aniello Ercole doubled as a fight manager and gambling supervisor of the New York docks. He was closely associated with mobsters Albert Anastasia and Joe Adonis. Anastasia attended lightweight Pat Marcune's fights while the boxer was managed by Ercole. Adonis was heavily involved in mob gambling activities....

Anthony Granza was a Gambino soldier who was most often involved in large scale drug trafficking. In 1951 and 1967 he was busted for trafficking heroin. Both incidents are profiled in my e-book. The 1951 operation was penetrated by a combination of New York Police and federal agents. This drug ring...

Nancy Ling Perry was an integral player in a radical terrorist group that emerged in 1973 and existed until 1975. The Symbionese Liberation Army came to life through a network of university students and prisoners, who initially formed the Black Cultural Association. Nancy was a graduate of the University...

My e-book looks at a large scale cigarette smuggling ring that operated in New York and various eastern U.S. states. The gang that ran the ring was closely linked to the Gambino, Bonanno and Colombo crime families. Among the lynchpins in the illegal operation was Mari family associate John Carneglia....

Ernest Rupolo was a Mafia informant who started his life of crime in the 1930s as a nineteen-year-old. On May 19, 1934 Rupolo appeared in a Manhattan Police lineup, charged with trying to kill William Gallo. Reportedly the target of a plot to poison him Rupolo received extensive police protection...

The Mafia began making inroads into Sullivan County via paper unions that threatened the livelihoods of legitimate Teamsters unions. Later the son of Colombo syndicate boss Joseph Colombo Sr., teamed with an entrepreneur to enter the vending machine business. They began introducing cigarette machines...

Carmelo Liconti was a racketeer in Brooklyn who was involved in the barber shop, funeral home and policy rackets. From Reggio, Calabria, Liconti came to the United States in the early years of the 20th Century to join his father, His mother emigrated a year later. Carmelo was tied to other noteworthy...

Five defendants were tried in Federal Court in Los Angeles in November 1980. The accused were members of the Los Angeles La Cosa Nostra. They were charged with killing mobster turned informant "Frank the Bomp" Bompensiero and defrauding pornographers who ran a firm called Forex. Bompensiero...

Dominic (Dominick) D'Agostino was a lynchpin in the Magaddino crime family of upstate New York. Based in Niagara Falls, the syndicate reached as far as portions of Ontario and Ohio. Closely associated with the illegal narcotics trade, D'Agostino was also linked to mob boss Vito Genovese. My e-book...