1. Carlos Marcello's father adopted a different family name to avoid confusion with his supervisor on the sugar plantation where he had started work.
18 Facts About Carlos Marcello
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Carlos Marcello had eight siblings: Peter, Rose, Mary, Pascal, Vincent, Joseph Jr.
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Young Carlos Marcello turned to petty crime in the French Quarter.
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Carlos Marcello was later imprisoned for masterminding a crew of teenage gangsters who carried out armed robberies in the small towns surrounding New Orleans.
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On his release from prison, Carlos Marcello became associated with Frank Costello, the leader of the Genovese crime family, in New York City.
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Carlos Marcello provided the muscle and arranged for the machines to be placed in local businesses.
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Carlos Marcello had joined forces with Genovese crime family associate Meyer Lansky in order to skim money from some of the most important casinos in the New Orleans area shortly after becoming associated with the Todaro family through marriage.
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Carlos Marcello held this position for the next thirty years.
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Carlos Marcello appeared before the US Senate's Kefauver Committee on organized crime on January 25,1951.
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Carlos Marcello continued the family's long-standing tradition of fierce independence from interference by mafiosi in other areas.
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Carlos Marcello enacted a policy that forbade mafiosi from other families from visiting Louisiana without first asking permission.
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On March 24,1959, Carlos Marcello appeared before the United States Senate's McClellan Committee investigating organized crime.
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Carlos Marcello was acquitted later that month on both charges.
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However, in October 1964, Carlos Marcello was charged with "conspiring to obstruct justice by fixing a juror [Rudolph Heitler] and seeking the murder of a government witness [Carl Noll]".
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Carlos Marcello's attorney admitted Heitler had been bribed but said that there was no evidence to connect the bribe with Carlos Marcello.
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Carlos Marcello was sentenced to two years but served less than six months.
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Ragano later claimed that four days before Trafficante died, the mob boss described to Ragano how he and Carlos Marcello organized the murder of President Kennedy.
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In 1936, Carlos Marcello married Jacqueline Todaro, the niece of senior New Orleans Mafioso Frank Todaro.