Carlos Marcello

Carlos Marcello was an American gangster. It was born under the name of Calogero Minacore with Tunis in 1910, and died in Metairie (Louisiana) in 1993. His/her parents were sicilian, they emigrated in the United States shortly after the birth of their son. They settled with the New-Orleans.

In 1929, Marcello is stopped for the steering of a bank. He was not condemned in this business, but the same year, he is condemned to a nine years sorrow for armed robbery. He purged five years in a federal pénitentier. In 1938, it was stopped and shown to have sold narcotics. Intiallement condemned to a heavy sorrow and a door amends, it was left there with less than ten months imprisonment. When it left prison, Marcello became a associate of Frank Costello, heir to the family of Lucky Luciano in New York.

Before the end of the year 1947, Marcello took the control of the network of the rooms plays in Louisiana. It had joined Meyer Lansky to buy some of the most important casinos of the area. Marcello was then the undeniable chief of the Maffia with the Orleans News, position which it preserved during the thirty years which followed. The legend wants that many corpses of its enemies broke up or were devoured by the Alligator S of the Bayou S.

March 24th, 1959, Marcello was convened by the Board of inquiry of the Sénat on the organized crime (McClellan Commission), at which sat John and Robert Kennedy. Marcello called upon the fifth amendment of the Constitution of the United States (authorizing not to testify against oneself), not to answer the questions of the committee about its past, its activities and its associates.

Robert Kennedy, Minister for Justice named in 1961 by his/her brother, got busy to fight against the Organized crime. In March 1961, it ordered the deportation of Marcello to the Guatemala. This last had indeed indicated this country like its birthplace on falsified documents. April 4th, Marcello was sent of force and by surprised to Guatemala. It needed little time to return to the United States in an illegal way.

Witnesses reported that Marcello uttered many threats with the address of John Kennedy. During the summer 1962, Marcello declares at the time of a meeting between gangster which president Kennedy will reduce and which it will have had only what it deserves. In September 1962, it would have said to the private detective Edward Becker who a dog continuous to bite if his tail is cut, while if his head is cut, it ceases being dangerous. It would have meant thus that the man to be cut down was less the Attorney General Robert Kennedy, initiator of the continuations in his opposition, than president John F. Kennedy. Indeed, Robert Kennedy would become inoffensive if it is the president who was made kill. November 22nd, 1963, John F. Kennedy parades in the convertible limousine in the town of Dallas when, suddenly, it is victim of an attack. A series of shots are drawn in its direction by un/des sniper (S), a ball makes him burst the back of the head: he dies in the hospital 30 minutes later.

After the Assassination of Kennedy, the FBI inquired into Marcello but considered that it was not an important figure of the organized crime, and the Commission Warren concludes with the absence from bond between Marcello and Jack Ruby, although this one would have met it the assassination day before. Thereafter, several authors, whose Robert Blakey, director of the House Select Committee one Assassinations, affirmed that Carlos Marcello took part in a Complot to assassinate Kennedy, with in particular other gangster chiefs, such as Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante Jr or the trade unionist Jimmy Hoffa.

In 1966, Marcello was stopped with New York after a meeting between gangsters. He was shown of criminal conspiracy. Following a long legal battle, he was finally condemned to a two years of prison sorrow of which he purged only six months, and left in March 1971. Carlos Marcello died in March 1993, in one of his properties in Louisiana.

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