Only know what I have read. Powerful, but only in the south/nola. Held almost absolute control over the areas.

If he had went against the NE he probably would have been smacked down and put in his place. The NE guys had lots of respect for him and let him run his business.

Maybe he was the Tulane compared to the Ivy League.

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Posted by BorrisMart

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Posted on 11/21/21 at 9:32 am to fightin tigers

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Only know what I have read. Powerful, but only in the south/nola. Held almost absolute control over the areas.

This is not true. He was the only boss to say he wasn't going to Commission meetings that he would send an answer or emissary. He ran the entire gulf coast (the FBI claims he was making 500 + million a year in bookmaking in Texas alone) and had early interests in Miami and Vegas with Lanksy and NYC and Chicago guys, not to mention worked with Hoffa and the Teamsters using trucks out of Mexico. There are Genovese wiretaps of someone wanting to go to Nola on vacation and he's told there would have to be a sit-down with the boss and Carlos just for him to take his wife to La and it was not worth it. Look up the picture from LaStella in NYC, he was arrested with Carlo Gambino and a bunch of other NYC guys, he was well respected in the NE.

ETA: as said a few posts above, he was one of the original guys in Cuba which was huge for the mob in the "golden years."

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Posted by boxcarbarney

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Posted on 11/23/21 at 3:24 pm to fightin tigers

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If he had went against the NE he probably would have been smacked down and put in his place.

Maybe, maybe not. Marcello's predecessor Sam Corolla didn't put up with other gangs trying to muscle into his territory:

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In February 1928, Al Capone's brother Ralph Capone, was trying to force Carollo to supply his brother's Chicago Outfit with imported alcohol and cut off Joe Aiello, a rival bootlegger in Chicago.[2] Arriving by train in New Orleans with several Outfit mobsters to press his case, Capone's party was intercepted at the station by Carollo and several New Orleans policemen. Carollo's cops reportedly disarmed Capone's henchmen and then broke their fingers. Capone was forced to immediately board another train to Chicago without any concessions from Carollo.

I'd assume Marcello would have felt the same way.

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