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Some underworld legends, often repeated in mob history books and long cherished by Hollywood, will have to be revised or discarded due to continuing discoveries related to a shadowy Mafia figure named Saverio “Sam” Pollaccia.Though entirely unknown outside of the small fraternity of Mafia historians and little known even within it, Pollaccia was a major figure in Prohibition Era organized crime and had a behindthescenes role in many of the headlinegrabbing events of his day. He quietly rose within New York’s Mafia to become a trusted adviser to gangland bosses, and he contributed substantially to the establishment of the nationwide SicilianItalian criminal syndicate. Surprisingly, he managed to do all this without drawing much attention from the police or the press.

 

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