Silvestro Carollo transformed the New Orleans's Black Hand gang into a Cosa Nostra crime family, and acted as street boss from 1922 to 1944.
11 Facts About Silvestro Carollo
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Silvestro Carollo was the boss from 1944 until his deportation in 1947.
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Silvestro Carollo owned several businesses in the New Orleans area, including the St Charles Tavern and a cafe in Terrasini.
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In 1930, Silvestro Carollo was arrested for the near fatal shooting in the face of Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent Clarence Moore, while resisting arrest after an undercover drug buy.
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Silvestro Carollo was arrested and indicted for ordering the December 1930 contract killing with a lupara of William Bailey, an ex-cop, deserter from the United States Army, and liquor hijacker with a very lengthy criminal record.
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Giacona died on July 25,1944, and was succeeded by his underboss Frank Todaro; however he died of natural causes in November of that year, and Silvestro Carollo became leader of the family.
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In 1940, after Silvestro Carollo had served two years in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, a Federal court ordered him deported to Italy.
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In 1949, Silvestro Carollo returned to the United States, but was deported again in 1950.
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In 1952, Silvestro Carollo was arrested in Italy for swindling and narcotics trafficking.
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In 1970, after living in Palermo, Sicily for 20 years, Silvestro Carollo illegally returned to the United States.
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At the time of his arrest and conviction in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Operation Hardcrust" sting related to mob infiltration of the video poker industry in the mid-1990s, Anthony Silvestro Carollo had become the boss of the family.