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Even after he became Tammany's top tiger, De Sapio was plagued by his Italo-Americanism. When Racketeer Frank Costello (born Castiglia) casually told the Kefauver committee that he knew De Sapio "very well," the public assumed the worst. After all, weren't both men Italians? "What do I have to do?" asks De Sapio. "Send a special scout ahead all day everywhere I go to case a joint before I step inside? About a week ago, I was having lunch with some friends at one of the best restaurants in town.† We're all having...
That old frog-throated scofflaw, Gambler Frank Costello (né Castiglia), still at large on $50,000 bail after appealing a five-year jail sentence for dodging 1947-49 income taxes, stood in grave danger of having his wings further clipped. Because he refused to testify about his activities in the U.S. before 1925 (when he became a U.S. citizen), a federal district attorney asked a U.S. court to denaturalize Italian-born Costello immediately...
...from Craps. The twisting road which led Frank Costello to a tower apartment on Central Park West began in Cosenza, Italy, where, in 1891, he was born Francesco Castiglia, sixth child of a debt-burdened farmer. He was brought to New York when he was four; his father opened a hole-in-the-wall grocery on East 108th Street, and he was exposed early.to the neighborhood heroes: the torpedoes who worked for Giro Terranova, red-handed boss of the Unione Siciliana in Harlem and The Bronx...
...sterner enterprise. When he was 17, he was charged with assault and robbery, but the charge was dismissed. In 1912, when he was 21, he was arrested for robbing a woman of $1,600 on the street and again the charge was dropped. But in 1915, Gunman Francesco Castiglia, alias Frank Saverio, alias Frank Stello, was jailed and convicted of illegal possession of a pistol...
...Real name: Frank Castiglia...
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