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CARLOS MARCELLO
New Orleans Mafia don Carlos Marcello (born Calagero Minacore) was a protegé of New York mob boss, Frank Costello. By 1963 Marcello ran a multi-million dollar empire spread over several states, including Texas, yet according to New Orleans FBI agent Regis Kennedy, he was a mere tomato salesman earning $1600 a month. In 1961, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, aware that Marcello held only a questionable Guatemalan passport, had him abducted, flown to Guatemala City and unceremoniously dumped. After sneaking back to the U.S. via Miami, Marcello was heard making threats against Robert Kennedy. A Marcello associate to the HSCA that in 1962 Marcello had said, “Don’t worry about that little Bobby son-of-a-bitch, he’s going to be taken care of”. He also supposedly spoke of using a nut, someone who couldn’t be traced back to him to kill the President. But Oswald would have been a poor choice for Marcello, since his uncle and surrogate father, Dutz Murret, was a bookie for Marcello lieutenant, Nofio Pecora, and Oswald’s associate David Ferrie had helped plan legal strategy for Marcello’s deportation hearings and was with him in court the morning of the assassination. Marcello also had strong ties to Jack Ruby‘s friend, Dallas Mafia chief, Joe Civello.
Marcello’s operations benefited greatly from the largess of Hoffa’s Teamster Pension Fund. In 1965-7, with the help of lobbyist Irving Davidson, and $1 million dollars donated by his mob friends, Marcello spearheaded the “Save Hoffa” movement, later to become the “Spring Hoffa” movement. Currently serving time for wire and mail fraud, and reportedly suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, he is due to be released in 1994.
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He claimed however, that he was simply a salesman for the Pelican Tomato Company and earned $1500 a month.bar and restaurant that came to be known as Willswood Tavern. It sat on Highway 90, about fifteen miles west of New Orleans .Carlos Marcello, the O’Dwyers opened a club at 100 Jefferson Highway in 1949 called “O’Dwyer’s.
Carlos Marcello 500 club 441 Bourbon Street New Orleans,that Anna Lewis ,David Lewis,Lee Harvey Oswald went to as well Old Opera house.On Bourbon Street leads to Court of Two Sisters cornerBourbon and Royal St. (cooper/marcello rumored owned)Carlos Marcello Town N Country Hotel 1225 Airline Highway New Orleans. Barry seal died Salvation Army 7361 Airline Highway Baton Rouge.David Ferrie Gas station 2316 Veterans Highway Metairie Lousiana.B.C.Seal Texaco located corner Acadian Thuway /Gov’t St Baton Rouge. Carlos Marcello He bought a bar in Gretna, ran a liquor store in Metairie, dabbled in illegal slot machine dealings and gobbled up real estate in Jefferson and St. Charles parishes.1981, Marcello, along with three others, was indicted in a scheme to bribe state officials.
e was finally sentenced in 1983 to a long prison term &After he had served six years, Marcello suffered a series of strokes. In July 1989, his conviction was set aside and he was released in October.
Marcello served eight years in prison and was released when a federal appeals court threw out the Brilab conviction. He returned home to Metairie and died in his sleep four years later.After retiring from organized crime he spent his last days in his two-story mansion made out of white marble in Metairie. There he died on March 2, 1993.