Omerta Man: When Frankie Carbo Ruled Boxing

[thenonpareil]

Among the many criminal charges Frankie Carbo incurred throughout a lifetime of transgression—a list that included vagrancy, felonious assault, grand larceny, robbery, conspiracy, and murder—one rap stands out: suspicious character. It was as apt an overall description as any for a man who was rotten to the marrow. Although Carbo was an underworld force in boxing in the late 1930s, he became the czar of the fight racket ten years later, when he controlled the International Boxing Club behind the scenes, and when television flooded Jacobs Beach with so much money, it might as well have been confetti.

If anything, his long and deleterious association with boxing obscured the gravity of his mafia career. His milieu was that of concrete shoes, double-decker coffins, and Sicilian neckties. A man whose soft-spoken demeanor masked his sociopathic nature, Carbo was a top gun for the Lucchese crime family, and his talent as a torpedo made him a go-to favorite of Murder Inc., the death-dealing clearing house based out of the Midnight Rose Candy Store in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

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