NEW ORLEANS FAMILY
After the 1891 lynchings in New Orleans, Charles Matranga was one of the founding fathers of the La Cosa Nostra families in New Orleans. By 1895 Matranga's family neared a hundred members. It mainly delt in extortion. In 1922, Matragna decided to retire feeling the new criminal world of bootlegging too m uch trouble, he handed Sylvestro Corollo the family. Corollo turned it into a gigantic moneymaker. He dominated the booze racket and controllled the police. After a short stay in prison Corollo came out to find Frank Costello, Charlie Luciano, and Meyer Lansky had made a deal with Senator Huey Long to bring in slot machines. Corollo and his aide Carlos Marcello made an agreement with the New York mobsters to split the profits. In 1930, he was convicted on narcotics charges and did two years in Atlanta. He was deported in 1945, delayed five years due to the World War going on. In Italy he dealt with Luciano, who had also been deported. Corollo was liason between Luciano and the American crime families, being caught in 1950 and sent back to sicily. He made it back to New Orleans in 1970 and died two years later. Carlos Marcello inheriated the family in 1947, when Corollo was deported back to Sicily. The estimated income of the family was around $11.5 billion annually. Marcello was thought ot ahve been involved in the assassination of J.F.K.. At present time, Anthony Corollo, son of former boss Sylvestro, has control of the family, having it since 1993.
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