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re: How Powerful was Carlos Marcello?
Posted on 1/3/25 at 5:56 pm to Kafka
Posted on 1/3/25 at 5:56 pm to Kafka
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Playboy bunny-turned-playmate-turned-newspaper reporter-turned-mystery novelist Laura Misch, is about NO in the '70s and mentions Mosca's
True story, my Dad was the head bartender at the PB Club in N.O. for a time in the ‘60s. I still have his Playboy cuff links.
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Posted on 1/3/25 at 5:58 pm to Wiseguy
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Wiseguy
You’re the authority
Posted on 1/3/25 at 5:59 pm to prplhze2000
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Given how the bums and thugs are taking over Northeast Jackson, I'd pay the mob for protection.
We could just let the Crips or Bloods be the mafia. They’d do a good job.
Posted on 1/3/25 at 6:12 pm to ChestRockwell
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No mob boss was stronger than Tony Accardo. The outfit was monolific and wasn't sharing any power, unlike the NY families.
this man knows his LCN. The outfit under Accardo/Aiuppa/Ricca were unrivaled in their power and brutality, at least on this side of the Atlantic.
Posted on 1/3/25 at 7:19 pm to EastWestConnection
Thanks, i appreciate the nice compliment. The power the Chicago Outfit had was unmatched. They controlled the Teamsters, and built alot of casinos in Vegas. My aunt was best friends with Joe Marcello (Carlos brother) daughter. They both went to school at Stuart Prep, which was converted into the 8th grade at Rummel HS. I'm not going to mention her name, but her brother Joey, always invited us to swim at the old man's house off Transcontinental. I remember it was a heated pool. I believe Joe Marcello owned Lenfants, and Elmwood Plantation. My old man was booking in his organization , while being a vice cop for Sheriff Cronvich. Back in those days, the Sport Palace off Jeff Hwy was a hot spot for wise guys. My family knew them all very well.
Posted on 1/3/25 at 7:45 pm to TigenPenn
Mr Marcello was a very powerful man. I had a few classes with his smoking hot granddaughter my freshman year at LSU. 
Posted on 1/3/25 at 8:25 pm to Coach72
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but the Feds wiretaps on him were a big part of my old man getting popped.
Wait, you dad was Robert Sutton? Brah you and I grew up together. You had a badass go kart/sports car frame and I went to school with your sister for a few years. I was there when the mansion "burned" and still have it on VHS lol.
Posted on 1/3/25 at 8:29 pm to FizzyPop
Yep, used to ride them bad boys and pretend it was Smokey & the Bandit or Ponch & John from Chips on the mopeds!
Many moons ago...
Many moons ago...
Posted on 1/3/25 at 8:34 pm to Coach72
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Yep, used to ride them bad boys and pretend it was Smokey & the Bandit or Ponch & John from Chips on the mopeds!
Many moons ago.
I remember you well! You were cool AF. I grew up right behind you off of Oak but am several yrs younger than you, Juan R, Chris L., Mike B. And across the street was Scott Y. etc. Cheers man, it's been a long time! What a great childhood we had.
Posted on 1/3/25 at 8:40 pm to TigenPenn
Don't know if he was the most powerful but it didn't take long to call roll when encountering his name. My father, who is deceased, was a bit more of an acquaintance with the family. Dad was all New Orleans and the relationships were long standing.
I grew up around it but never involved with it....am in my 60s and have nice memories of them paying respects to my father at Mom's wake.
I grew up around it but never involved with it....am in my 60s and have nice memories of them paying respects to my father at Mom's wake.
Posted on 1/3/25 at 8:49 pm to FizzyPop
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Wait, you dad was Robert Sutton? Brah you and I grew up together. You had a badass go kart/sports car frame and I went to school with your sister for a few years. I was there when the mansion "burned" and still have it on VHS lol.
Stuff like this is why I love this place so much.
Posted on 1/3/25 at 9:13 pm to TigenPenn
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How Powerful was Carlos Marcello?
I had a friend that worked for Nino in the Quarter, and yes they were very powerful.
One thing for sure, back in the day when the Mafia ran the Quarter it was much safer.
Posted on 1/3/25 at 9:28 pm to PaulDrake
Everything was safer...rules were rules, break them at one's own risk, boundaries were boundaries. .very little recklessness
Once removed, every thug wannabe crawled out from their roach pit
Once removed, every thug wannabe crawled out from their roach pit
Posted on 1/3/25 at 10:15 pm to wfallstiger
3 year thread and no mention of sheriff Frank Clancy in Jefferson Parish?
He was an associate and partner with Marcello in all the Jefferson Parish gaming and prostitution at that time.
Marcello tried to whack him in 1955 when they thought he was cooperating with the feds. Sent a hitman to kill Clancy when the sheriff was in the hospital. Unfortunately, the hitman went to the wrong room next door and killed the man who was in there.
Clancy quit talking to the feds the next day.
He was an associate and partner with Marcello in all the Jefferson Parish gaming and prostitution at that time.
Marcello tried to whack him in 1955 when they thought he was cooperating with the feds. Sent a hitman to kill Clancy when the sheriff was in the hospital. Unfortunately, the hitman went to the wrong room next door and killed the man who was in there.
Clancy quit talking to the feds the next day.
Posted on 1/3/25 at 10:29 pm to ChestRockwell
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No mob boss was stronger than Tony Accardo. The outfit was monolithic and wasn't sharing any power, unlike the NY families.
Mostly true. Accardo was able to be, probably, the most powerful crime boss in the country (maybe Chin had more flex, at least for a brief time), for decades, run things through intermediaries and fronts, never serve serious jail time and die in his own bed as an old man.
The Outfit was known for handling stuff roughly and in-house (somewhat famously the Spilotro brothers folks are familiar with through popular media). There were no other families/crew with whom to go to war, at least locally. There wasn't quite as much money to be made in Chicago proper compared to New York, but they weren't splitting it up between Five (huge at times) Families, either. Chicago was stingy with buttons, frequently running with just a few dozen soldiers and few hundred associates. I doubt at their peak, they were ever as "big" as, say, the Gambino family, at any comparable time and probably much smaller.
ETA: The Outfit also ran more successful operations in Vegas and L.A. (technically both open cities).
This post was edited on 1/3/25 at 10:32 pm
Posted on 1/3/25 at 10:30 pm to TulaneLSU
Friend,
Your earlier comment
I am recalling a half century ago.
My father knew Warren Leruth.
We were heartily welcomed at LeRuth’s, of course properly attired.
Had we journeyed to the surface of the Moon and found a full Thanksgiving meal waiting for us there, we wouldn’t have been more surprised.
Thanks for your work here, Happy New Year to you and also to those who you hold dear.
I remain your loyal correspondent-
M Füt
Your earlier comment
quote:This is amazingly accurate.
We found our way into the great darkness of the Westbank. There is no where in the world so formless and empty. It’s darkness so deep, I think of it every time I read the opening chapter in Genesis.
I am recalling a half century ago.
My father knew Warren Leruth.
We were heartily welcomed at LeRuth’s, of course properly attired.
Had we journeyed to the surface of the Moon and found a full Thanksgiving meal waiting for us there, we wouldn’t have been more surprised.
Thanks for your work here, Happy New Year to you and also to those who you hold dear.
I remain your loyal correspondent-
M Füt
Posted on 1/3/25 at 10:36 pm to Ace Midnight
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Accardo
And, before I forget, Joey and Nick Bosa are his great-grandsons.
Posted on 1/3/25 at 10:47 pm to TigenPenn
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Been told by someone who worked for him he was the most powerful mafia figure in the country. How was that possible from NOLA?
Read Mafia Kingfish.
According to that book he had immense power and was the wealthiest in the early 1960's I believe.
Posted on 1/3/25 at 10:49 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Seems like a cool book. Recommend?
It is, and yes.
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