Talk:Salvatore Maranzano

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There is discrepancy in these two wikipedia pages, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Maranzano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellammarese_War

The first page says that the killings of 40 mobsters is a myth, while the other page states it as fact. After consulting on IRC, both pages are requested to give sources for the fact. ~Ninjakttty

I'm redacting the mention in both pages, as it's not verified to be either true or false and it makes Wikipedia bad to both state both true *and* false. Dweekly 17:40, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

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A new history of the Castellammare War, revealing the identity of the mysterious "Buster of Chicago," Sebastiano Domingo, and giving many other hitherto unknown facts, can be found in this scholarly article:

David Critchley, "Buster, Maranzano and the Castellammare War, 1930-1931" Global Crime journal, volume 7 number 1 (2006) pages 43 to 78.

Complete sources are given in the article.

~ Joe Bonnano shoots holes in the theory that buster is Sebastino Domingo and most organized crime historians have come to the conclusion that Valachi simply used "Buster from Chicago" as a replacement for himself in certain spots during the war. This most likely due to the fact that there was no statute of limitationson murders like those of Joe Catania.

Maranzano was born July 1886 in Castellammare del Golfo, and left Sicily in about 1925. He initially entered American through Canada, and became involved in bootlegging in Dutchess County, upstate New York until about 1929. Thereafter, his base of operations was Brooklyn. His wife and family journeyed to New York in October 1923, staying with a relative in Brooklyn. But by 1930, they were living in Montreal, Canada, possibly to avoid the fallout from the Castellammare War. There is no evidence that he was "sent" to America by Vito CascioFerro, or anyone else in the Sicilian Mafia. Nor that he ran a vast alien smuggling racket, as is often claimed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ukthesis (talk • contribs).

~ If you go through the New York Times's online archive and I believe you can search Time Magazines online database you will find that Maranzano was primarily known as the man behind a smuggling ring. Articles written about his suspicion and the fact that he was expected to be picked up on that charge are in the NY Time dated September 11th 1931 and the 16th of that same month... It features prominently in those articles