late in 1924, he did so after spending a month in the Havana area. When future New York Mafia leader Joseph Bonanno entered the U.S.Torrio, his wife, Al Capone and others are known to have visited the Cuban capital in November of 1925. Chicago gang boss Johnny Torrio, his wife and a number of associates spent some time in Havana in the winter of 1921-1922.When Frank 'Butsey' Morelli, a gang leader in Providence, Rhode Island, was imprisoned in Atlanta in 1922, he is known to have exchanged letters with a contact in Havana named George Forbes.The timing was right for the Commission to assemble at the end of 1946, but there is some reason to believe that the scheduled meeting occurred in nearby Florida, separate from any goings-on in Havana. The arbitration panel met as needed and held formal meetings every five years after creation. The Commission had been put in place near the end of 1931 as a replacement for the failed system of trusting in a single boss of bosses to settle disputes. Other Commission members are not known to have gone to the island at all. Some Commission members did travel to Havana in 1946-1947 but at different times. The Mafia's supreme arbitration board, the Commission, is believed by some to have met in Havana during this period. Instead, it appears that a number of very small and casual social events and meetings of organized crime figures occurred in Havana from late 1946 into the early days of 1947. It seems unlikely that a single, large-scale convention of mafiosi occurred on those dates or at any other date in that period. Some sources point precisely to December 20 or December 22 as the date of the massive assembly.

FRANKIE CASINO FORT LAUDERDALE MOB