Informer issue 1 available for free download

The first electronic issue of Informer: The Journal of American Mafia History is now available for download (5.9mb PDF file). Issue #1 is available free of charge. Beginning in January 2009, quarterly electronic issues of Informer will be available only to subscribers.

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Informer combines carefully documented historical articles with coverage of significant current events in American organized crime.


Contents of Issue #1:

• The Mob's Worst Year: 1957
• Capone's Triggerman Kills Michigan Cop
• Newspaperman Reveals Lynch Mob Role
• A Look Back: 100 Years, 75 Years, 25 Years
• Ask the Informer: KC's DiGiovanni
• Book News and Reviews
• In the News
• Deaths

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U.S. escorts Mafia boss back to Italy

U.S. immigration agents today turned reputed Sicilian Mafia big shot Giuseppe Baldinucci, 65, over to police officials in Rome, Italy, according to a report by the Italian AGI news service. Baldinucci had been a fugitive from Italian justice for 11 years.

Believed to be a leading member of the Vitale Family of Partinico, in the Palermo region of Sicily, Baldinucci will serve an eight-year solitary prison sentence for the crime of Mafia association. Baldinucci helped to hide Giovanni Brusca from authorities back in 1996. He became an intermediary between the U.S. and Sicilian Mafias during the "Pizza Connection" operation, according to AGI.