‘New Orleans was the first American city that the Sicilian mafia began to inahbit.’ Lords of the Mafia V: New Orleans, comment
Within the American mafia families the individual with the most power, influence and wealth is known as The Boss. ibid.
The longtime supreme ruler of the Mafia of New Orleans, Carlos Marcello. ibid.
For years he and his mafia family seemed to be able to operate with virtual impunity. ibid.
‘He ran a vast conglomerate, maybe of 50 businesses under his umbrella.’
Hoover had long maintained that the Mafia was a myth. In 1957, however, 60 Mafia leaders were rounded up at a house in upstate, New York. ibid.
The legality of the deportation has always been in question. ibid.
His fury towards Kennedy reportedly became an obsession. ibid.