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Post by james1983 on Jul 11, 2020 17:36:41 GMT -6
Karpis taught Charlie a lot. In the beginning of Ed Sanders dune buggy battalion Charlie use to use the speakers that were strategically located by or under the other inmates pillows to give them messages while they were sleeping. That sounds exactly like Dr. Cameron's technique of "psychic driving" where he'd keep pounding messages into patients minds while they were in an altered state of consciousness vis drugs, deep sleep etc.
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Post by james1983 on Jul 25, 2020 20:34:26 GMT -6
Here's a news article from the NYtimes April 3 1981. It lists Joseph Tocco as a member of this mob drug syndicate. The SOS cult had a member from Yonkers with the last name Tocco, I'm not sure if this is him as I can't remember the first name. A lot of Toccos from Yonkers are related I'm willing to bet. The professor naming Charles Tacko made me remember the name lol.
"in Westchester County were arrested today and charged with conspiracy in an alleged multimillion dollar operation involving gambling, loan sharking and drug trafficking.
The Westchester District Attorney, Carl A. Vergari, said the alleged syndicate, which the authorities said controlled bookmaking receipts of $100,000 a day, operated from 20 Iselin Street in Yonkers. That address is the site of an auto-wrecking yard, a scrapmetal company and a refuse-hauling operation.
Law enforcement authorities had placed an electronic-listening device at the site. Mr. Vergari said John A. Pelose Jr., 41 years old, of Yonkers, was the ''operational head'' of the alleged syndicate. Also cited as a leader was Lawrence Centore Sr., 74, of Yonkers, the group's ''problem solver,'' according to the District Attorney.
Mr. Vergari said Mr. Centore ''has long been regarded as a highranking member of the so-called Genovese crime family in Westchester County, which was until recently headed by Frank Tieri.'' Mr. Tieri died of natural causes on Sunday. Operation 'Infiltrated' The 18-month investigation began when Police Chief Donald Singer of the Town of Greenburgh approached Mr. Vergari in an effort to ''find higher-ups in a local numbers racket.'' The District Attorney's own officers, working in a parallel investigation, eventually ''infiltrated'' the alleged operation.
An undercover officer, given the job of bet collector, ''became so adept, with his fellow officers at picking winning numbers and football teams that the police came out ahead, earning money to further the investigation at the gambler's expense,'' Mr. Vergari said.
Most of the ''victims'' of the syndicate, which Mr. Vergari said made an estimated profit of $250,000 a year, were gamblers with bad debts or ''borderline businessmen with no credit ratings'' who came in contact with loan sharks offering cash at interest rates of 100 to 250 percent a year. Two of the arrests were made in Dade County, Fla., where a drug trafficking link with the Westchester syndicate had just started, the authorities said.
Mr. Vergari said the inquiry also was able to provide New York City investigators with the names of suspects in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Those arrested, mostly at their Westchester homes, were arraigned in County Court on charges of criminal conspiracy, usury, gambling and drug trafficking. The penalties range up to 15 years in prison.
Those arrested, in addition to Mr. Pelose and Mr. Centore, were: Frank Alipo, Yonkers. Frank Calise, Yonkers. Fred Castaldo, Yonkers. Lawrence Centore Jr., Yonkers. Frank Condon, Yonkers. William Fields, Yonkers. Leonard Giordano, Yonkers. Steven Madori, Yonkers. Frank Muscente, Yonkers. Robert Pagliaro, Yonkers. John A. Pelose Sr., Yonkers. Joseph R. Pelose, Yonkers. Joseph Portanova, Yonkers. Joseph Tocco, Yonkers. Henry Burrough, Eastchester. Dominic Collarusso, Eastchester. Michael Leone, Eastchester. Anthony Martin, Eastchester. Frank Mezzone, Eastchester. Darin Mezzone, Eastchester. Louis Wade, Elmsford. Rufus Leath, White Plains. Harold West, White Plains.Burt Maruch, Tuckahoe. Amos Blackwell, Tarrytown. Dominick Colarusso, Monsey. Jimmy Murray, Teaneck, N.J. James LaRocca, Davie, Fla. Michael Scandizzo, Davie, Fla."
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Post by james1983 on Jul 25, 2020 20:42:51 GMT -6
The family owns Valley oil co. Of Yonkers. Said it was started in 1974. I wonder where the money came from to start it?
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Post by james1983 on Jul 25, 2020 20:55:48 GMT -6
After looking further it seems Tocco is a common name, especially among the mafia lol. Don't wanna piss these guys off! Lol. I do know for a fact that a Tocco was a part of the SOS cult though, I'm sure others out there remember the name from the brain web page.
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Post by marionumber1 on Jul 25, 2020 23:27:51 GMT -6
Indeed, it is quite common among Mafia types. Tocco is also the surname for longtime Detroit Mafia leader Jack Tocco: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tocco Among other things, Alex Constantine alleged in one of his JonBenet Ramsey case articles that Jack Tocco was an organized crime partner of Jerry J. Moore, a wealthy Texas businessman and accused pedophile ring participant: Also interesting to see a LaRocca as one of the two Florida people arrested in that drug bust. An Ohio report once said about Jeffrey Epstein's benefactor Les Wexner:
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Post by Jon on Jul 26, 2020 0:26:42 GMT -6
The name Tocco does indeed turn up in the Yonkers cult saga. In August 1963, an Elmsford priest named Francis McShane was stabbed to death in New York City by eighteen-year-old Robert Charles Burger, a former mental patient; one of the Yonkers detectives who booked Burger on the homicide charge was Anthony Tocco. (The Herald Statesman noted that Detective Tocco had known Burger for two years. "'He wasn't a bad kid but he had a terrible temper, a very violent nature,'" Tocco said.) The SOS Cult site featured a newspaper clipping with photos of McShane and Burger, as well as two photos captioned "Robert Tocco Grady." The man in those photos was obviously Burger in old age. I'm not sure exactly how Robert Charles Burger became "Robert Tocco Grady," but the implication seems to be that Detective Tocco had adopted him at some point. In 2011, Burger beat his wife Rebecca Dethlefs to death and pleaded guilty to intentional second-degree murder the following year.
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Post by Jon on Jul 26, 2020 11:43:04 GMT -6
I suspect that prostitution was a factor in the McShane murder, which may have been why SOS Cult listed it as a possible precursor to Son of Sam. From the same Herald Statesman article (August 10, 1963) by Arthur E. Chambers:
"Father McShane met Burger in the Riverdale Pizzeria, 63 Riverdale Ave., late Wednesday night. Burger was playing a bowling game and Father McShane complimented him by saying, 'Nice game, son!' A conversation followed and, as the restaurant was closing, Father McShane is said to have invited Burger to accompany him to the Manhattan home of the priest's sister, who is away on vacation. That is Burger's explanation for his being in the priest's sister's apartment where the fatal stabbing took place, police said."
Police claimed to be investigating a possible robbery motive; Burger is quoted as saying that he "suddenly went berserk and stabbed the priest". Not surprisingly for the time, the question of gay prostitution was avoided altogether--at least publicly. Maybe the Riverdale Pizzeria was one of the locations out of which the cult's call-boy ring operated?
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Post by Jon on Jul 27, 2020 17:15:03 GMT -6
On closer inspection, the Riverdale Pizzeria was also a tavern that served hard liquor--meaning that it might have been *the* location mentioned by John Paul Ranieri (i.e., "They operated out of a bar near the Carr house"). The old Carr house and the former location of Riverdale Pizzeria are separated by 1.7 miles, and are actually on the same street since Riverdale Avenue becomes Warburton Avenue further north. A man named Joseph Molinari owned the pizzeria/tavern in 1961 (and was, in fact, attempting to sell the place that year), two years before the McShane murder, but I haven't turned up anything interesting on him.
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Post by james1983 on Jul 27, 2020 21:27:33 GMT -6
I know in the 70s and 80s pizzerias were fronts for mob activity. They held almost a monopoly on mozzarella cheese producing back then. I'm not sure if it went back into the 60s though. I know the Stone Wall where Ranieri prostituted in the late 60s was owned by the mob as was all gay clubs back then.
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Post by Admin Horan on Jul 28, 2020 5:33:00 GMT -6
As someone who has worked in a lot of restaurants, the mob not only directly "controls" plenty of them (especially back in the day) but also controls them by controlling food suppliers, linen companies, etc. One reason so many governments started favoring big corporate chains when handing out licenses is because that helped get the mob out of the industry.
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Post by james1983 on Jul 28, 2020 6:46:22 GMT -6
The newspapers from the mid to late 80s talked about how pizzerias and supply shipping was being used to ship and sell drugs etc. in the process of trying to the mob out of industry the government made the Walton family the richest family in America, and just as corrupt and the mob lol.
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Post by elantric on Oct 18, 2020 17:06:21 GMT -6
Karpis taught Charlie a lot. In the beginning of Ed Sanders dune buggy battalion Charlie use to use the speakers that were strategically located by or under the other inmates pillows to give them messages while they were sleeping. That sounds exactly like Dr. D. Ewen Cameron's technique of "psychic driving" where he'd keep pounding messages into patients minds while they were in an altered state of consciousness vis drugs, deep sleep etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ewen_CameronDonald Ewen Cameron (24 December 1901 – 8 September 1967)[1] – known as D. Ewen Cameron or Ewen Cameron – was a Scottish-born psychiatrist who served as President of the American Psychiatric Association (1952–1953), Canadian Psychiatric Association (1958–1959),[2] American Psychopathological Association (1963),[3] Society of Biological Psychiatry (1965)[4] and World Psychiatric Association (1961–1966).[5] In spite of his high professional reputation, he has been criticized for, among other things, administering electroconvulsive therapy and experimental drugs, including poisons such as curare, to patients and prisoners without their informed consent, and his role in the history of the development of psychological and medical torture techniques. Some of this work took place in the context of the Project MKUltra program for the developing of mind control and torture techniques, psychoactive poisons, and behavior modification systems.[6] Decades after his own death, the psychic driving technique he developed continued to see extensive use in the torture of prisoners around the world.[7]
Dr Cameron is the subject of Stephen Bennett's film Eminent Monsters (2020), which was funded by BBC Scotland and Creative Scotland.[8]
www.sidewaysfilm.com/eminent-monsters/
vimeo.com/ondemand/eminentmonsters/392692250 vimeo.com/ondemand/eminentmonsters
vimeo.com/ondemand/eminentmonsters/392692250?autoplay=1
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Post by james1983 on Oct 18, 2020 18:29:35 GMT -6
Cameron was the Mengele of psychology. He probably learned his craft from the same source as well.
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