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Carlos Joseph Marcello [1] (Sicilian Italian); [Mor-sel-lo] born Calogero Minacore [kaˈlɔːdʒero minaˈkɔːre]; February 6, 1910 – March 3, 1993) was an Italian-American crime boss of the New Orleans crime family from 1947 to 1983.
Apr 21, 2024 · A powerful Italian American crime boss, Carlos Marcello reigned as the leader of the New Orleans mob from the 1940s to the 1980s. The committee on JFK's assassination concluded that Carlos Marcello "had the motive, means, and opportunity" to have him killed in 1963.
Carlos Marcello was an Italian-American crime boss operating in New Orleans region of Louisiana. This biography of Carlos Marcello profiles his childhood, life, criminal career and timeline.
Oct 3, 2009 · New Orleans godfather Carlos Marcello – with Jimmy Hoffa as his bagman – funded Richard Nixon's 1960 presidential bid with $500,000 in cash stuffed in a suitcase. Later Marcello – known as the Big Daddy of the Big Easy – would be named a key conspirator in President Kennedy's assassination.
Sep 5, 2020 · The American Saga of Carlos Marcello. The final chapter of the Bayou Brief's "Godfather Trilogy" about the life of Carlos Marcello turned into a book, and for the first time ever, members of Marcello's tightly-knit family, including his son Joe, are sharing their side of a remarkable story.
Carlos Marcello rose to the top of the venerable New Orleans criminal underground and became an ally of mobsters from across the United States – and not a few politicians along the way. Marcello, born to a Sicilian family in Tunisia as Calogero Minacori or Minacore, immigrated to Louisiana in 1911.
Born Calogero Mincore (Minacori) on Feb. 6, 1910 in the ancient North African port city of Tunis, when Tunisia was a French protectorate, Carlos Marcello arrived in New Orleans as an infant and later would rise from obscurity to become one of America’s most enduring and most beguiling celebrity gangsters of the 20th celebrity.
May 2, 2020 · Yet Carlos Marcello— the self-described “tomato salesman” who rose to become one of the most fearsome and powerful Mafia bosses in America— could never escape Calogero Minacore of Sicily.
Mar 3, 1993 · Carlos Marcello, a reputed boss of organized crime, died today at his home in this suburb of New Orleans. He was 83. The Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office said it did not have the cause...
Carlos Marcello controlled organized crime in Louisiana and across the Southeast in the 1950s and '60s. He was untouchable until he met the Kennedy Brothers. Once Robert...
