Garden State Gangland

by Scott M. Deitche

  ———. “Government Trying to Stop Helping to Making Crime Pay.” April 8, 1973.

  ———. “Indict Mayor, 20 Ocean City Police.” March 22, 1929.

  ———. “Juror Ousted after Talk with Defendant.” May 3, 1980, 12.

  ———. “Jury in State Mob Case to Hear Opening Views.” March 31, 1980, 6.

  ———. “Las Vegas a Roller Coaster to Late Shore Rackets Boss.” January 13, 1980, 90.

  ———. “‘Longie’ Zwillman Gets Six Month Term.” December 12, 1930.

  ———. “9 Arrested Unloading Stolen TVs,” June 29, 1977, 57.

  ———. “Rum Runners Boast of Busy Christmas Trade,” December 26, 1923, 1.

  ———. “Says Booze Flows in Atlantic City,” March 10, 1924.

  ———. “Sinatra Wins Round, Gets Writ against NJ,” December 2, 1969.

  ———. “State Ready to Aid Vote Probe,” November 19, 1932, 3.

  ———. "The Mob and Ocean County: FBI Tapes Show Penetration." February 2, 1970.

  ———. “Two Men Slain in Jersey Gang War,” September 14, 1929.

  ———. “Shooting Witness Held.” August 27, 1935.

  ———. “Witness Killed, Cop Shot in Rising Sun Outgrowth,” November 7, 1932, 1.

  Associated Press. “Jury Acquits Mob Figure of Murder, Conspiracy.” Los Angeles Times, March 9, 2004. http://articles.latimes.com/2004/mar/09/nation/na-mob9.

  ———. “Police Make Slot Machine Raids.” New York Times, March 26, 1985. http://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/26/nyregion/police-make-slot-machine-raids.html.

  ———. “The Region; 3 Guilty of Aiding Mobsters at Casino.” New York Times, October 23, 1981. http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/23/nyregion/the-region-3-guilty-of-aiding-mobsters-at-casino.html.

  ———. “Reputed Crime Figure Is Cleared of Charges.” New York Times, October 10, 1981. http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/10/nyregion/reputed-crime-figure-is-cleared-of-charges.html.

  Atlanta Constitution. “Liquor Schooner Seized Despite British Registry.” September 27, 1921.

  Baltimore Sun. “Atlantic City Police Don’t Want Capone Around.” May 16, 1929.

  ———. “Zwillman, Ex-Bootlegger Cited in Probe Hangs Self.” February 27, 1959.

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  Berger, Meyer. “City Gambling Mob a Power in Jersey; As Gambling Flourished in Bergen County.” New York Times, December 4, 1951, 36.

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  (Bridgewater, NJ) Courier-News. “Attend Outing.” May 14, 1928.

  ———. “Berkeley Notes.” August 24, 1928.

  ———. “Cosa Nostrans Summoned.” October 20, 1964.

  ———. “Extradition Hearing Being Resumed.” November 14, 1947.

  ———. “FBI Seizes Suspect.” January 4, 1946.

  ———. “Gangster Slain in Hospital by Pair Who Flee.” November 4, 1930.

  ———. “In Terror of Black Hand.” January 16, 1905.

  ———. “Italy and America Both Warring on the Italian Criminal.” January 28, 1911.

  ———. “Jersey’s Youngest Sheriff.” November 12, 1908.

  ———. “Louis Luciano Assassinated.” February 13, 1971.

  ———. “Nick Delmore Deportation Ruling Due.” September 3, 1953.

  ———. “Request Township to Erect Building.” October 18, 1928.

  ———. “Several Court Cases Heard in Westfield.” December 30, 1938.

  ———. “Slain Detective Was Known Here.” September 16, 1918.

  ———. “3 Dockworkers Denied Licenses.” January 2, 1954.

  ———. “Two Held in Robbery of Berkeley Heights Store.” August 3, 1926.

  ———.“Zwillman Balks in Crime Quiz; Faces Recall by Jury Today,” August 16, 1939, 1.

  Brooklyn Daily Eagle. “Son Born to Schultz during US Tax Trial.” August 4, 1935, 1.

  ———. “Weighted, Bound Bodies of 2 Found in Jersey Waters.” September 14, 1931, 19.

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  ———. “Tax Men Win 2.4 Million of N.J. Gambler.” July 13, 1965. Archived at http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1965/07/13/page/36/article/tax-men-win-2-4-million-of-n-j-gambler.

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  Conohan, Sherry. “Riggi Described as Mob Boss at Racketeering Trial.” Asbury Park (NJ) Press, May 25, 1990, 31.

  ———. “Russo Tapes Tell of Mob’s Atlantic City Casino Tie-Ins.” Asbury Park (NJ) Press, February 11, 1980, 2.

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  ———. “The People v. The Mob; Or, Who Rules New Jersey?” New York Times, February 1, 1970. http://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/01/archives/the-people-v-the-mob-or-who-rules-new-jersey-the-people-v-the-mob.html.

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  Culnan, Dennis M. “2 Bruno Associates Found Executed in New York.” (New Jersey) Courier-Post, April 30, 1980.

  Daniszewski, John. “Bruno Death Blamed on Power Struggle.” (New Jersey) Courier-Post, September 11, 1980.

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  Delaware County Daily Times. “Wiretaps Records Involve Officials,” July 11, 1969.

  Delmore v. Brownell, 236 F.2d 598, 600 (3rd Cir. 1956).

  Detroit Free Press. “Union Leader Shot Dead,” January 5, 1988, 5.

  Devlin, John Patrick. La Cosa Nostra. Newark. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1967.

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  ———. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.

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  ———. “Jury Charged in Gem Case,” February 10, 1937, 10.

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