November 2022 issue contents - Feature
Mallamo and Prato led secret subgroup linked with Mafia
By Thomas Hunt
"During the Prohibition Era, American Mafia units across the United States and Canada absorbed local branches of a Calabrian gangster network. In some cases, remnants of Calabrian gangs lingered informally as factions within crime families. In the Youngstown area, the Calabrian criminal network continued for several more decades as a distinct, locally led, tightly knit and highly secretive organization within the overlapping territories of the Pittsburgh and Cleveland Mafia families. The early history of the Youngstown Calabrian organization and the identities of its first bosses are somewhat hazy..."
(Photo of Nick Mallamo, murdered brother of "Big Dom" Mallamo. Nick likely served as an earlier boss of the Calabrian mob in Youngstown.)
Book page count: Twenty-five pages, including five pages of notes and eight images.
Magazine page count: Thirteen pages, including two and a half pages of notes and eight images.
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