Vito Genovese person
also: Genevieve, Vito Genevieve, the Genovese
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“we get the introduction of a guy by the name of Vito Genovese. He happened to be Luciana's right-hand man and chief translator. He also was at the army headquarters in Naples. The New York former lieutenant governor, a guy by the name of Ch…”
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▶ 31:33
we get the introduction of a guy by the name of Vito Genovese. He happened to be Luciana's right-hand man and chief translator. He also was at the army headquarters in Naples. The New York former lieutenant governor, a guy by the name of Ch…
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was appointed the military governor in Italy. You can see already that they're establishing the network here. And it was Genevieve's men who controlled all of the Italian ports. So there was a lot of black market going on during that time. …
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Paul Helliwell's plan required veto Genevieve's return to the United States for the creation of the system of heroin distribution to all of the nightclubs of Harlem. This posed a problem since Genevieve was a fugitive and wanted inside the …
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And Lucky Luciano's reappearance in Italy aids in that reestablishment because he's basically now viewed as a wartime hero as well. So in October of 1946, and this is very important, Lucky traveled to Cuba where he met Frank Costello, Vito …
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The drugs, when they were brought into the United States, had to be distributed. And then I come up with the drug connection, and I start digging into organized crime. And I realized that Lucky Luciano, during World War II and Vito Genovese…
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There was a huge meeting of the mafioso in Cuba in 1997, and it was a huge event to honor Luciano, and Traficanti was there, and the Genovese were there, and Frank Sinatra was there. You know, I mean, it was a huge thing. And that was when,…
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So, but yeah, I did. And I had a couple of words with him. I mean, he found out who I was and closed the door. But in any case, you know, I had a background in that. And once again, I was writing about Vatican affairs. So I had known Marcin…