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- ↑ Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires, by Selwyn Raab, Page 470
- ↑ The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia By Guy Lawson, (Page 147)
- ↑ StoneGreasers.com Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine - South Brooklyn Boys
