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Rocco Perri The Story of Canada's Most Notorious Bootlegger
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Rocco Perri The Story of Canada's Most Notorious Bootlegger Paperback - 2005

by Nicaso, Antonio.


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Rocco Perri came to Canada almost a century ago from Calabria, Italy. Even today his name is well known to historians, police and organized crime and especially to the people of the city he called home Hamilton, Ontario. A poor immigrant, Perri along with his common-law wife, Bessie Starkman, built an unequalled crime empire for the time. During the Prohibition years, Perri provided alcohol to a thirsty clientele in Canada and the United States a business that was very illegal and highly lucrative. Al Capone and Joseph Kennedy were among Perri's customers. The Perris also ran gambling, loan-sharking, extortion and prostitution rackets. ROCCO PERRI: King of the Bootleggers is more than the biography of a man and his empire; it is a riveting portrait of a time when corruption was rampant, murder a business necessity, and discrimination against newcomers forced many to turn to crime as a means of survival. This book also solves a half-century-long mystery about the fate of Rocco Perri.

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  • Title Rocco Perri The Story of Canada's Most Notorious Bootlegger
  • Author Nicaso, Antonio.
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher Wiley, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A
  • Date February 18, 2005
  • ISBN 9780470835265

About the author

Antonio Nicaso is an internationally recognized expert on organized crime. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including "Bloodlines: the Rise and Fall of the Mafia's Royal Family"; "Global Mafia"; and "Deadly Silence." Nicaso is a regular consultant and lecturer to universities, governments and law-enforcement agencies in the US, Canada and Europe.
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