Chapter 6 second quarter

On the evening of September 19, 1952, the three "hair boys" arrived at the scheduled ambush point, which was near a building on East 112th Avenue.This dilapidated and huge residential building spans the entire block, and there is a back door leading to Route 111 in the building.The front door of the residential building is never locked, and the back door has a latch that can be opened from the inside.This is definitely a very ideal retreat route.Wallach visited the scene in person and checked repeatedly to ensure that all the details were perfect. According to the plan drawn up by Wallachi, the corresponding car parked outside the back door of the residential building on East 111th Avenue, the driver stayed in the car, and the two gunmen lay in ambush where Chianini must pass.While the venues for gambling change frequently, Ciannini's parking lot and meeting point for poker players remains largely constant.Because there was a special person to escort Ciannini into the casino, they had to wait there until the "target" left alone before doing anything.

Before leaving, Valacchi told his nephew, Fioli Siano, that he would be waiting to hear from them at a restaurant on 2nd Street and East 114th Avenue, and that he would call Cianini on the phone. for "girl".Wallach also told them to remember to throw the pistol into the river when they drove over the East River Bridge on 3rd Street after they were done. To create an alibi for himself, Wallach invited three friends to dinner at the restaurant. At around 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, Fioli called and said, "The girl didn't come." "Got it," Wallach said, "I'll go back first." He returned to the Lido Nightclub.

At 4:00 a.m., the second phone call.Fioli said: "We saw her." Meaning, Eugenio Ciannini had been killed. "We're leaving now for our vacation." "Okay." Wallach hung up the phone.It's not too late for me to go home, he thought. (According to the records of the New York City Police Department, at around 6 am on September 20, 1952, a resident of No. 221, East 107th Road, found a male body in a ditch beside the road in front of the door. After verification, the deceased was Eugene Neo Ciannini, 42, home address: 282 West 234th Avenue. Cause of death: Multiple gunshot wounds to the head. Perpetrator: Unknown. Further investigation revealed that the crime took place at 2nd Street and East 112th Avenue Intersection. The deceased was arrested several times during his lifetime. Reliable sources have confirmed that this person was an informant for the Federal Drug Administration.)

Later, Joseph Wallach heard two different explanations.The gang members of the underground casino said that they found the dead Ciannini on the sidewalk not far from the casino. In order not to invite the police to search nearby, they moved the body to East 107th Avenue.But two other young men at the casino said they thought he was alive when they saw Ciannini.On the way to the hospital, Ciannini was found dead, and the body was thrown out. The Federal Drug Administration has always denied that Eugenio Ciannini's death was related to his informant status.According to the information they had, after the 10 kilograms of heroin smuggled out of Italy by Ciannini arrived in the United States, the uneven distribution of the spoils led to fights among accomplices, so Ciannini sent his wife and brother to Italy quietly, and 6kg of heroin was brought back.His brother-in-law was arrested a month before Ciannini was assassinated.Therefore, the Drug Administration determined that Ciannini's death was due to infighting among drug gangs.

The author later learned that a large part of the above is from the Wallach Memorandum, also known as the Wallach Archives, or Wallach Documents. What is the Wallach Memorandum?In short, a comprehensive account of Joseph Wallach's Mafia career, including FBI and FDA interrogation transcripts, Wallach's own account and testimony before the Senate, and later at the U.S. Department of Justice. A memoir written at the urging of Then-president of the Supreme Court, Robert Kennedy, evaluated the Wallach memo as "the most significant intelligence breakthrough in the United States of America's battle against the forces of the domestic underworld."

Before the Wallach Memorandum, what law enforcement agencies saw were isolated, seemingly unrelated, but endless murders, kidnappings, disappearances, drug cases, arson, bombings... Wallach The memo lays out all these sporadic cases, along with their perpetrators and behind-the-scenes manipulators, on a huge, carefully woven map of the evil network. Before the Wallach Memorandum, to give an example, in the office building of the FBI in the New York area, the "Gangster Division" had only four staff members and one office, while the "Communist Division" had more than 400 people, occupying an entire office building. floor.After the Wallach Memo, the Gangster Division exploded in numbers, and by the late 1960s it had become one of the largest divisions there.

In the early 1970s, about ten years after the Wallachi Memorandum came out, the Italian Mafia, or "Cosa Nostra," which had been proliferating on American soil for more than 70 years, fell apart.Although the five major families in New York and some remnants or stragglers in other areas continued to resist, the more than 20 families that once occupied the major cities ceased to exist. What is intriguing is that the Wallach memo is not the "veteran" of the mafia - for more than 30 years, Joseph Wallach's rank in "Kosha Nostra" has never been higher than "soldier" - after careful consideration, The result of careful planning.The cause of the incident was purely accidental, because the person involved made a mistake that could not have been made under normal circumstances.

At 7:30 in the morning on June 22, 1962, it was time for the Federal Prison in Atlanta to go out after breakfast.Recently, several houses in the prison needed repairs, and the workers piled up the demolished garbage and other materials in the corner of the playground.Prison officials don't particularly care about bricks and sticks that could be used as weapons, because the prison is full of non-violent prisoners. Suddenly, Prisoner No. 82811, 57-year-old Joseph Wallach, who was imprisoned on suspicion of drug trafficking, picked up a two-foot-long iron pipe from the ground and rushed towards a prisoner whose back was facing him.In the blink of an eye, the man was bleeding profusely and collapsed to the ground.

Wallachi was immediately taken into a confinement room, commonly known as "squatting in a small cell".When the heavy iron door slammed shut behind him, he actually felt an unprecedented sense of relief and security, and then he felt hungry.He has been afraid to eat for several days, always afraid that someone will poison his food. Wallach's good mood quickly faded.The guard came and told him, the doctor said, that John Joseph Shoppe, whom he had thrown down with the iron pipe, was dying. Wallach didn't care if the man was dying or not.But, "John Joseph Shoppe?" Wallach was stunned for a moment. He remembered that his blow had obviously hit Joseph Diplemo on the head.

A few weeks before this, Wallach had already had a premonition of impending disaster.Another inmate arrested in the same case as Wallachi accused him of snitching on the federal drug agency.Overnight, Wallach found himself the target of his own successful Mafia assassination schemes. Valacci was arrested 12 times in his life. In exchange for a lighter punishment, he did inform the relevant authorities about some drug smuggling news, but he had nothing to do with Eugenio Cianini, who died in his hands. Similarly, Wallach never dared to reveal any information about "Kosha Nostra". Since June, Wallachi has narrowly escaped three attacks that nearly killed him.The first time someone gave him poisoned food.The second time was when a group of mafia elements in prison blocked him naked in the corner of the bathhouse.The third time was to deliberately get him involved in a fight, and then stabbed him while taking advantage of the chaos.

"Old Man" Victor Sinovance was also here at the time. In the early 1950s, because Charlie Luciano had no hope of returning to the United States, the old man sat on the throne of the boss as he wished.According to the regulations, their family should be renamed the Jinnovance, but people still call it the Luciano family behind their backs. In April 1959, Victor Jinnovance was arrested for "planning a drug trafficking conspiracy" and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Joseph Wallach came to Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in March 1962, and the old man not only kindly invited him to move into his cell-only five people lived in the eight-person cell-but also personally came forward to find accommodation with the guards.Victor had also been best man at Wallach's wedding years ago.Just days after the fight, according to Wallach's memo: One night in our cell, Victor started to say to me, you went to the market and bought a basket of apples and there was a rotten one in it, what do you do?Of course, the rotten apples must be removed, otherwise the whole basket of apples will rot later. I kept trying to interrupt him, but he waved me off.I couldn't bear it any longer and said, "If I really did something wrong, just tell me and give me a pill," referring to potassium cyanide, "and I'll swallow it right in front of you." He said, "Who says you did anything wrong?" I have nothing to say. He also said, we have been friends for many years, and I want to send you a kiss, for those good days we used to be together. I said to myself, OK, I will give you a kiss too, and I kissed him back. He asked me, "How many grandchildren do you have?" I said, "Three. How about you?" I remember him saying six, and I said, "You're lucky." I meant to let him know that if he's interested in my grandson, I'm interested in him too grandson is interested. I went to bed when Raof Wagner in the next bed muttered softly, "Kiss of death." I knew he was warning me.I lay on the bed and pretended not to hear.But, who can sleep? I don't believe in the "kiss of death" nonsense, but I know that every time I want to "do" someone, I will be very friendly to that person so that he will not be defensive.It's an old tradition to give each other a kiss on the cheek when you see another member.It was changed to a handshake when Charlie Luciano became the boss. "However," Charlie said, "if we meet outside, such as in a restaurant, we still have to kiss." On June 16, Joseph Wallach took a final step in self-defense and asked his guards to put him in a solitary confinement cell.Asked the reason, Wallach said: "Someone is going to kill me, or be killed by me. Is this reason enough?" Wallach asked to see George Gaffney of the Federal Drug Administration by name in the confinement room , this person was originally the head of the New York Office of the Drug Administration and is currently the executive director of the headquarters of the Drug Administration. He is the largest government official who has dealt with Wallachi.Wallach's message to him was: "I'm going to tell you everything." However, George Gaffney, who was far away in New York, did not reply for a long time, and Wallach was unwilling to "tell" the officials in the prison, "You don't understand." He said to them.Later, in the Wallach memo, he admitted that he had no real intention of revealing anything at the time, but just wanted to make another deal with George Gaffney, and use some information to buy a way to another prison.A few days later, Wallach was sent back to the cell with the Don. Wallach had no choice but to fight with his back.He was already ready to die, just thinking about how to put on a few backs.The first name he circled in his mind was Joseph Diplemo. One day in early June, Diplemo, who had never had much acquaintance with him, suddenly handed him a very good beef sandwich, which he said was stolen from the small stove in the kitchen for the old man.Wallach didn't answer it, because he felt strange, and because he always hated this little guy who hung around the old man all day long.Sure enough, Wallach later found out that Joseph Diplemo had quietly tossed the sandwich in the trash. Wallach didn't intend to kill the old man, he thought it would be too cheap for him.He knew all kinds of bad deeds of the old man in the family, especially after Charlie Luciano left Naples.Victor killed countless subordinates who were at odds with him, and then planted them as police informants.Wallach knew that many family members hated the old man, and he also knew that if he wanted to deal with a boss-level figure in "Kosha Nostra", he had to go through a trial.Wallach believed that sooner or later there would be such an opportunity for a public reckoning with Victor Genovance. Then came the morning of June 22.Ever since he got out of the “trumpet,” Wallach has been able to live off the few cans of food he can get his hands on.There are mafia prisoners in the kitchen, he heard about it when he first came.They not only dared to make a small fuss for the old man under the watchful eyes of the guards, but also blatantly put arsenic in the lunch box.Wallachi didn't even dare to take a bath, and even looked around cautiously when going to the toilet.Another night without closing his eyes, Wallach felt top-heavy and walked like a robot, because of hunger, lack of sleep, and nervousness.He stayed as far away from the crowd as possible, but he didn't dare to get too close to the corner.Just when he was nervous, according to Wallach's memo: I suddenly saw three people staring at me and whispering to each other, they were about 50 yards away from me, and then started walking towards me. I backed away slowly, looking behind me.There is an iron pipe on the ground next to the pile of rubbish.I bent down to pick up the iron pipe, and heard someone very close to me say, "Hello, Joseph." When I looked up, the man had turned around, as if he was gesturing to the three people.His back was too much like Joseph Diplemo. ………… The warden showed a photo through the small window on the door of the confinement room and asked, "Do you know him?" I said, "No." He said, "Really? He is the one you injured." I suddenly fell into the cloud mountain.