Talk:Baltimore Crew

Sources

This article needs sources, but I can't find any. I would greatly appreciate it if somebody could help find them. It doesn't seem like there ever was a major mafia presence in Baltimore, at least according to this article -

Though, strangely enough, nearby Baltimore attracted Italian immigrants and the sorts of industries ripe for mob activity, like ports, but it never had a serious Mafia presence. In his tell-all book Wised Up, reformed Baltimore gangster Charlie Wilhelm offers this idiosyncratic theory: “From the time I was a teenager, I was told there were just too many rats in Baltimore for the Mafia to trust any of us.”

Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 06:01, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Agree, sources are badly needed, including for the list of Baltimore Crew leaders. Antonio 'Tony' Corbi disappeared in 1923, fleeing a murder charge, and didn't surface publicly in Ohio) until at least the following decade so it's unclear how he would have fulfilled the role of leader from 1929 to 1932. A 1926 AP article claims he is back in the US, in a 'Western city' and will be arrested soon, but he was not (See Salisbury Times, Maryland, 22 February 1926 page 1).207.172.95.204 (talk) 17:57, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Agree. I've also tried and tried to find any information at all on the d'Urso family - Antonino 'Nino' or Vincenzo as named in this article, but I cannot find any evidence of their existence, based on the information given here (approximate dates of birth and death/disappearance) in the US or in Canada. A man named Salvatore Urso was arrested as part of a mass round up of 'Black Handers' in West Virginia in February 1923 - the same round up that led to the eventual conviction of Patsy Corbi - but I cannot find any connection between him and Baltimore or any other family members d'Urso or Urso or otherwise. No one named Vincenzo d'Urso is named in press coverage of individuals linked to the Belle Lemons murder, or the series of other murders that the Fairmont, WV Black Hand crew were responsible for. Also worth noting that the Corbis came from Calabria, not Sicily or Naples - and most of their relatives and associates did too - making them much more likely to have been structured like the 'ndrangheta and not the Costa Nostra or Camorra. This might also explain why they were less well-known and why it was assumed that Baltimore didn't have a significant 'mob' presence, 'ndrangheta clans operate very differently. 207.172.95.204 (talk) 14:06, 28 January 2023 (UTC)