Issue 1 now available for download

Volume 1 Issue 1 of Informer: The Journal of American Mafia History is now available for download: CLICK HERE and select "Download" option. You will require a free PDF reader in order to view the issue. For assistance view the Informer Distribution notes.

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Contents of Issue 1

• The Mob's Worst Year: 1957


• Capone's Triggerman Kills Michigan Cop


• Newspaperman Reveals Lynch Mob Role


• A Look Back: 100 Years, 75 Years, 25 Years


• Ask the Informer: KC's DiGiovanni


• Book News and Reviews


• In the News


• Deaths

Informer would like to thank the following advertisers for participating in the journal launch: The First Vice Lord: Big Jim Colosimo and the Ladies of the Levee by Art Bilek; The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob by Frank R. Hayde; Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia by Thomas Hunt and Martha Macheca Sheldon; Niagara Falls Mobtours (themobtours.com); On the Spot Journal of Crime and Law Enforcement History edited by Rick Mattix; The American Mafia History website (onewal.com). We also would like to thank our early subscribers for their support.

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In the News

Vol. 1, Issue 1, Sept. 2008 Contents

In the News

• Gotti faces federal murder, drug charges
• Appeals court throws out NJ racketeer convictions
• Murdered restaurateur linked to Bonanno clan
• FBI doubles reward for Whitey Bulger info
• Bonanno Family members indicted for racketeering
• FBI supports mob museum
• Two Coloradans suspected of New Jersey gangland killing
• Caught: Giuseppe Coluccio

Deaths

• Pittsburgh's Bazzano Jr.
• Chicago's Frank Schweihs
• Kansas City's Carl DeLuna

Eight pages of articles
13 photos

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