July 24, 2025 • 11 mins
Giuseppe Morello: The Clutch Hand of the American Mafia dives into the life of the man who laid the foundation for organized crime in America. From his Sicilian roots to his brutal reign in New York, Morello—nicknamed “The Clutch Hand”—was the original Mafia boss, feared for his cunning, counterfeiting empire, and ruthless methods. Join us as we explore the rise and fall of this criminal pioneer and his lasting legacy in the underworld.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, so when you think of the American mafia right away,
names like al Capone, maybe Lucky Luciano, they probably jumped
straight to mine.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, their household names legends really in pop culture.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Absolutely. But what if I told you there was this
crucial architect, a really foundational figure whose name just kind
of gets overlooked, even though he built the very scaffolding
that guys like Luciano later stood on.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's true, most people haven't heard of Giuseppe Morello, or well,
they might know his underworld nickname, the clutch Hand.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
The clutch hand. That sounds ominous. Where did that come from?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It was actually from a childhood condition. It left his
right hand shriveled, sort of claw like a very distinctive
physical mark. But paradoxically, it seems like it only added
to his mystique, you know, huh.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And that's exactly who we're diving into today. Our mission
here is to give you a short cut, basically to
understanding this guy. He was, by all accounts, a brutal tactician,
a bit of a visionary in his own dark way,
and definitely a master of deception.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And he was doing this laying the groundwork for the
American mafia in these shadowy corners of New York City,
way before the mafia was even like a common term.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We're talking about someone born into just grinding poverty in
Sicily who ends up becoming one of the first and
honestly one of the most feared mafia bosses in American history.
I'm really fascinated by how someone with such a visible
physical difference could actually get so powerful. And you know,
what did those early operations even look like?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And that's what's so interesting when you dig into Morello's life,
his story, it really lays bare some of those foundational
principles of organized crime tactics, structures, things that echoed for
decades and really shape the whole American underworld.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So let's start right at the beginning, then, Giuseppe Morello
born May second, eighteen sixty seven in Corleone, Sicily.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yep, that Corleon, the town that obviously became infamous later on,
mainly thanks to fiction, but it had real mafia.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Roots, and his childhood sounds credibly tough. His father died young,
his mother remarried a guy named Bernardo Teranova, right.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And Teranova's own kids Morella's step brothers. They eventually followed
Morello right into that same criminal world. It was almost
a family business from early on.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And that hand, the clutch hand, you mention, it added
to his mystique. But it must have been incredibly hard
growing up with that in nineteenth century sicily.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh absolutely, it wasn't just a physical thing. It was
like a crucible in that rough, unforgiving environment. It probably
forced him to learn very early how to be clever,
how to be resourceful, and yeah, how to be utterly
ruthless just to get by. It became part of his legend,
you know, a visible sign that he'd survived a brutal world.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That's a powerful way to put it. How it perceived
weakness while it almost becomes a defining strength in that context.
So then eighteen ninety two he does what so many
Italians were doing. He immigrates to America looking for something better.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, chasing that promise. He tried New Orleans first than
Brian Texas for a bit, and.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
He actually tried to go straight right, attempted some legitimate businesses.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
He did opened a store, i think, and even started
a newspaper for Italian immigrants. But well, it didn't work out.
Economic hardship, cultural friction, outright racism.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It pushed him back back to New York in eighteen
ninety five.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And it seems like it was there in those teeming
chaotic neighborhoods East Harlem, the Lower East Side, that Marella
really found.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
His true calling, which was, let's be clear, organized crime.
And you got to remember the context right turned to
the century. Italian immigrants facing huge poverty isolation.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Exactly, they were light on each other and for protection
or sometimes less savory things, they turned to figures like Morello,
these emerging strongmen and the well the mafia structures they were.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Building, and he rose fast, became a dominant figure there
in little Italy.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And he wasn't just winging it. He drew directly from
those old Sicilian mafia traditions. He used them to build
a proper criminal enterprise, extortion, loan sharking, gambling and very
notably counterfeiting.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
He was adapting the old ways to the new world.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Precisely. It wasn't just about street rackets. He was building
a structure, an organization.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And what's really striking here, I think is the sheer
significance of it. The Morello crime family became the first
significant mafia family in New York.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Think about that. This is before the five Families we
all know about, way before the commission that Luciano set
up later.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He was literally working with a blank canvas, defining what
an American crime family would even look like, painting it
in blood maybe, as the saying goes.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And his genius, if you can call it, that really
showed in that early counterfeiting operation. It was highly profitable.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
How did that work?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Exactly well? He and his crew actually printed fake US
dollars back in Sicily, the smuggled them very cunningly into America.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
AH printing overseas smart minimize the risk of getting caught
here exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
The smuggling routes were sophisticated too. This wasn't just a
quick score. It was an early example of transnational crime,
complex logistics, a whole network. It became a kind of blueprint.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It was so good the Secret Service gave him a nickname,
right they did.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
They called him the Wolf speaks volumes, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It does? But even the wolf can get trapped. Nineteen
oh nine, he gets arrested.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
YEP, him and several of his guys for the counterfeiting
and he got hit hard. A twenty five year prison
sentence took him off the streets for nearly a decade.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But even while he was inside, his reputation it was
already cemented, wasn't it. Partly because of the barrel murders.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Ah, the barrel murders. Yeah, those were grim and the
message they sent was just undeniable.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
What exactly happened there.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, in the early nineteen hundreds, these dismembered bodies started
turning up stuffed in the wooden barrels, just left out
in public around New York City.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Jesus, that's brutal.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Incredibly brutal. And while Morello was never formally convicted for
those specific murders, the police, the press, everyone pretty much
suspected him or his crew.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So it served a purpose beyond just getting rid of enemies.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So definitely a dual purpose. Silence rivals, yes, but also
send this absolutely chilling message. DeFi Morello cross his organization
and you end up in pieces in a barrel. It
was psychological warfare.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Fear, as you said, one of his most effective tools. Okay,
so he serves about ten years, gets released around nineteen twenty,
but the world he comes back to It's totally different.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Right, completely different. Prohibition had landed like a gold rush
for the underworld. Small time crooks were becoming millionaires overnight,
and new factions had risen up. You had the Neapolitan
Camora guys, and crucially these Castellamma raised Sicilians led by
guys like Salvatorre Marenzano and Joe Massaia, a much.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
More crowded and probably much bloodier landscape. So how does Morello,
this old world boss, navigate that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, he's older, now respected, an elder statesman in the way,
he chooses to ally himself with Joe Massaia, who's a
major rising power.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
But that alliance drags him right into the middle of
something huge, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
The Castle n War exactly. And this wasn't just some
minor turf battle. This was the conflict, the war that
basically blew up the old ways and forged the modern
American mafia structure, the Five Families, the Commission, the whole
hierarchy we recognize utter chaos. Murders were practically daily occurrences
on the streets of New York. Those old Sicilian values, loyalty, honor,
(07:21):
they were being tested twisted, broken, The streets were a
furnace forging the new rules of organized.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Crime, and Morello's role in all this he was still influential.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh yeah, he was definitely a key strategist for Massoria,
used all that experience. But you know, he was older,
maybe a bit wiser, some accounts suggest, maybe not quite
as ruthless as he'd once been, or maybe the game
had just changed too much. The battlefield was favoring younger,
bolder guys. You could feel the shift happening.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And then his end comes pretty violently too.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It does, nineteen thirty, gunned down right outside his home
in East Harlem.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Any idea who was behind it.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, the suspicion, or at least some strong accounts point
towards Lucky Luciano's faction. Luciano, of course, would soon orchestrate
Massi his own betrayal and murder, which finally ended the
Caslombries War and let him establish that modern mafia structure.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So Morello's death it really was the end of an era,
but maybe also the kind of final step in the
transition he himself had started decades earlier.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's a good way to put it. It closed the
book on that first chapter.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So let's tuck a legacy then, because he doesn't have
that same pop culture fame as Capone or Luciano. But
his impact it sounds undeniable.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Absolutely undeniable. He was a first, the first guy to
really organize a structured Sicilian style crime family in the US.
He basically wrote the blueprint.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
He understood the power of fear. You mentioned that, the
value of secrecy too, and the need for political influence right,
getting cops and politicians on side, long before.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It became standard mafia doctrine. He got it early, and.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
His legacy didn't just vanish when he died, not at all.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
His half brothers, the Tarra Novas, kept things going, and
that criminal empire he built it eventually evolved into what
became the Genevese crime family.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Which became arguably the most powerful of New York's five
families for a long time.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Exactly so his foundational work, it just kept reverberating through
decades of criminal history.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
In America, you know, thinking about it, Morello might not
have lived to see the mafia's supposed golden age, but
maybe without him there wouldn't even have been one.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's a strong possibility. His story, it's not glamorous like
some of the later depictions of mobsters. It's just raw grit,
immigrant struggle and just unrelenting violence.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
He really was that bridge, wasn't he, between the old world,
the Sillian mafia, and the American version that took root
and exploded in the twentieth century. He was the template,
the first boss, the first dawn. Yeah, the original so
Jieppe Morello. He was well, he was a lot of things.
An immigrant, a family man in his own way, a
master counterfeitter, a truly ruthless killer, and a pretty brilliant strategist.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
He came to America not hoping for the best like
so many others. It seems like he came with a plan,
a dark one maybe, but a plan.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
And he used fear, loyalty, violence, whatever it took really
to build this criminal empire when you know large parts
of the country were still figuring out basic things like
indoor plumbing.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You build alliances, crushed enemies, made sure his name alone
inspired fear. That hand, the clutch hand seemed like a
weakness maybe.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But metaphorically it held the strings to this huge, terrifying
underworld that he essentially brought into being.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, if you think of Luciano as maybe the architect
of the modern mafia, the guy who designed the building.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Then Morella was the guy who laid the first bloody
foundation stone exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
His life is a real reminder. I think that history's
biggest movers, the ones who really change things. They aren't
always the flashy ones, not always the ones seeking the spotlight.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Often they're the ones working in silence, casting these long shadows,
shaping the world without asking for any recognition.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And in Giuseppe Morello's case, he didn't just you know,
participate in organized crime in America. He basically helped invent
it here, which.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Leaves a pretty provocative thought for you, the listener, doesn't
it when you really consider his foresight, his brutality, his
sheer foundational impact. Where does Giuseppe Morello truly belong in
the pantheon of organized crime legends?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Maybe just maybe right at the head of the table.
Okay, so when you think of the American mafia right away,
names like al Capone, maybe Lucky Luciano, they probably jumped
straight to mine.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, their household names legends really in pop culture.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Absolutely. But what if I told you there was this
crucial architect, a really foundational figure whose name just kind
of gets overlooked, even though he built the very scaffolding
that guys like Luciano later stood on.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's true, most people haven't heard of Giuseppe Morello, or well,
they might know his underworld nickname, the clutch Hand.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
The clutch hand. That sounds ominous. Where did that come from?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It was actually from a childhood condition. It left his
right hand shriveled, sort of claw like a very distinctive
physical mark. But paradoxically, it seems like it only added
to his mystique, you know, huh.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And that's exactly who we're diving into today. Our mission
here is to give you a short cut, basically to
understanding this guy. He was, by all accounts, a brutal tactician,
a bit of a visionary in his own dark way,
and definitely a master of deception.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And he was doing this laying the groundwork for the
American mafia in these shadowy corners of New York City,
way before the mafia was even like a common term.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We're talking about someone born into just grinding poverty in
Sicily who ends up becoming one of the first and
honestly one of the most feared mafia bosses in American history.
I'm really fascinated by how someone with such a visible
physical difference could actually get so powerful. And you know,
what did those early operations even look like?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And that's what's so interesting when you dig into Morello's life,
his story, it really lays bare some of those foundational
principles of organized crime tactics, structures, things that echoed for
decades and really shape the whole American underworld.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So let's start right at the beginning, then, Giuseppe Morello
born May second, eighteen sixty seven in Corleone, Sicily.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yep, that Corleon, the town that obviously became infamous later on,
mainly thanks to fiction, but it had real mafia.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Roots, and his childhood sounds credibly tough. His father died young,
his mother remarried a guy named Bernardo Teranova, right.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And Teranova's own kids Morella's step brothers. They eventually followed
Morello right into that same criminal world. It was almost
a family business from early on.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And that hand, the clutch hand, you mention, it added
to his mystique. But it must have been incredibly hard
growing up with that in nineteenth century sicily.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh absolutely, it wasn't just a physical thing. It was
like a crucible in that rough, unforgiving environment. It probably
forced him to learn very early how to be clever,
how to be resourceful, and yeah, how to be utterly
ruthless just to get by. It became part of his legend,
you know, a visible sign that he'd survived a brutal world.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That's a powerful way to put it. How it perceived
weakness while it almost becomes a defining strength in that context.
So then eighteen ninety two he does what so many
Italians were doing. He immigrates to America looking for something better.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, chasing that promise. He tried New Orleans first than
Brian Texas for a bit, and.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
He actually tried to go straight right, attempted some legitimate businesses.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
He did opened a store, i think, and even started
a newspaper for Italian immigrants. But well, it didn't work out.
Economic hardship, cultural friction, outright racism.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It pushed him back back to New York in eighteen
ninety five.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And it seems like it was there in those teeming
chaotic neighborhoods East Harlem, the Lower East Side, that Marella
really found.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
His true calling, which was, let's be clear, organized crime.
And you got to remember the context right turned to
the century. Italian immigrants facing huge poverty isolation.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Exactly, they were light on each other and for protection
or sometimes less savory things, they turned to figures like Morello,
these emerging strongmen and the well the mafia structures they were.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Building, and he rose fast, became a dominant figure there
in little Italy.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And he wasn't just winging it. He drew directly from
those old Sicilian mafia traditions. He used them to build
a proper criminal enterprise, extortion, loan sharking, gambling and very
notably counterfeiting.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
He was adapting the old ways to the new world.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Precisely. It wasn't just about street rackets. He was building
a structure, an organization.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
And what's really striking here, I think is the sheer
significance of it. The Morello crime family became the first
significant mafia family in New York.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Think about that. This is before the five Families we
all know about, way before the commission that Luciano set
up later.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He was literally working with a blank canvas, defining what
an American crime family would even look like, painting it
in blood maybe, as the saying goes.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And his genius, if you can call it, that really
showed in that early counterfeiting operation. It was highly profitable.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
How did that work?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Exactly well? He and his crew actually printed fake US
dollars back in Sicily, the smuggled them very cunningly into America.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
AH printing overseas smart minimize the risk of getting caught
here exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
The smuggling routes were sophisticated too. This wasn't just a
quick score. It was an early example of transnational crime,
complex logistics, a whole network. It became a kind of blueprint.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It was so good the Secret Service gave him a nickname,
right they did.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
They called him the Wolf speaks volumes, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It does? But even the wolf can get trapped. Nineteen
oh nine, he gets arrested.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
YEP, him and several of his guys for the counterfeiting
and he got hit hard. A twenty five year prison
sentence took him off the streets for nearly a decade.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But even while he was inside, his reputation it was
already cemented, wasn't it. Partly because of the barrel murders.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Ah, the barrel murders. Yeah, those were grim and the
message they sent was just undeniable.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
What exactly happened there.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, in the early nineteen hundreds, these dismembered bodies started
turning up stuffed in the wooden barrels, just left out
in public around New York City.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Jesus, that's brutal.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Incredibly brutal. And while Morello was never formally convicted for
those specific murders, the police, the press, everyone pretty much
suspected him or his crew.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So it served a purpose beyond just getting rid of enemies.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So definitely a dual purpose. Silence rivals, yes, but also
send this absolutely chilling message. DeFi Morello cross his organization
and you end up in pieces in a barrel. It
was psychological warfare.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Fear, as you said, one of his most effective tools. Okay,
so he serves about ten years, gets released around nineteen twenty,
but the world he comes back to It's totally different.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Right, completely different. Prohibition had landed like a gold rush
for the underworld. Small time crooks were becoming millionaires overnight,
and new factions had risen up. You had the Neapolitan
Camora guys, and crucially these Castellamma raised Sicilians led by
guys like Salvatorre Marenzano and Joe Massaia, a much.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
More crowded and probably much bloodier landscape. So how does Morello,
this old world boss, navigate that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, he's older, now respected, an elder statesman in the way,
he chooses to ally himself with Joe Massaia, who's a
major rising power.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
But that alliance drags him right into the middle of
something huge, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
The Castle n War exactly. And this wasn't just some
minor turf battle. This was the conflict, the war that
basically blew up the old ways and forged the modern
American mafia structure, the Five Families, the Commission, the whole
hierarchy we recognize utter chaos. Murders were practically daily occurrences
on the streets of New York. Those old Sicilian values, loyalty, honor,
(07:21):
they were being tested twisted, broken, The streets were a
furnace forging the new rules of organized.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Crime, and Morello's role in all this he was still influential.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh yeah, he was definitely a key strategist for Massoria,
used all that experience. But you know, he was older,
maybe a bit wiser, some accounts suggest, maybe not quite
as ruthless as he'd once been, or maybe the game
had just changed too much. The battlefield was favoring younger,
bolder guys. You could feel the shift happening.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And then his end comes pretty violently too.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It does, nineteen thirty, gunned down right outside his home
in East Harlem.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Any idea who was behind it.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, the suspicion, or at least some strong accounts point
towards Lucky Luciano's faction. Luciano, of course, would soon orchestrate
Massi his own betrayal and murder, which finally ended the
Caslombries War and let him establish that modern mafia structure.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So Morello's death it really was the end of an era,
but maybe also the kind of final step in the
transition he himself had started decades earlier.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's a good way to put it. It closed the
book on that first chapter.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So let's tuck a legacy then, because he doesn't have
that same pop culture fame as Capone or Luciano. But
his impact it sounds undeniable.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Absolutely undeniable. He was a first, the first guy to
really organize a structured Sicilian style crime family in the US.
He basically wrote the blueprint.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
He understood the power of fear. You mentioned that, the
value of secrecy too, and the need for political influence right,
getting cops and politicians on side, long before.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It became standard mafia doctrine. He got it early, and.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
His legacy didn't just vanish when he died, not at all.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
His half brothers, the Tarra Novas, kept things going, and
that criminal empire he built it eventually evolved into what
became the Genevese crime family.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Which became arguably the most powerful of New York's five
families for a long time.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Exactly so his foundational work, it just kept reverberating through
decades of criminal history.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
In America, you know, thinking about it, Morello might not
have lived to see the mafia's supposed golden age, but
maybe without him there wouldn't even have been one.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's a strong possibility. His story, it's not glamorous like
some of the later depictions of mobsters. It's just raw grit,
immigrant struggle and just unrelenting violence.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
He really was that bridge, wasn't he, between the old world,
the Sillian mafia, and the American version that took root
and exploded in the twentieth century. He was the template,
the first boss, the first dawn. Yeah, the original so
Jieppe Morello. He was well, he was a lot of things.
An immigrant, a family man in his own way, a
master counterfeitter, a truly ruthless killer, and a pretty brilliant strategist.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
He came to America not hoping for the best like
so many others. It seems like he came with a plan,
a dark one maybe, but a plan.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
And he used fear, loyalty, violence, whatever it took really
to build this criminal empire when you know large parts
of the country were still figuring out basic things like
indoor plumbing.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You build alliances, crushed enemies, made sure his name alone
inspired fear. That hand, the clutch hand seemed like a
weakness maybe.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But metaphorically it held the strings to this huge, terrifying
underworld that he essentially brought into being.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, if you think of Luciano as maybe the architect
of the modern mafia, the guy who designed the building.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Then Morella was the guy who laid the first bloody
foundation stone exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
His life is a real reminder. I think that history's
biggest movers, the ones who really change things. They aren't
always the flashy ones, not always the ones seeking the spotlight.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Often they're the ones working in silence, casting these long shadows,
shaping the world without asking for any recognition.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And in Giuseppe Morello's case, he didn't just you know,
participate in organized crime in America. He basically helped invent
it here, which.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Leaves a pretty provocative thought for you, the listener, doesn't
it when you really consider his foresight, his brutality, his
sheer foundational impact. Where does Giuseppe Morello truly belong in
the pantheon of organized crime legends?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Maybe just maybe right at the head of the table.
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