January 14, 2024 • 74 mins
In this episode, we discuss Joseph Barbara Sr., the mobster who famously hosted the ill-fated Apalachin Mob Meeting in Apalachin, New York. In this first of a two-part series, we discuss the beginning of Barbara's mob career including:
- His birth in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy
- His immigration to the United States in 1921
- His first jobs in and around Endicott, New York as well as Old Forge, Pennsylvania
- His introduction to the Pittston mob of Northeastern Pennsylvania (more famously called the Bufalino Crime Family)
- How we gets started in the rackets during the 1920s
- His relationship to top Pittston mob leaders Santo Volpe, Charles Bufalino (the uncle of Russell Bufalino), Angelo Polizzi, and more
- His involvement in up to four murders in the Northeastern Pennsylvania area in the early 1930s
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