Sex Pros suspected of Mafia ties by Luke Ford
LUZDEDOS
Alphabetized names & companies suspected of working with the Mafia:
Albaum, Neil - Star Dist.
Amerson, William - worked with Stu Segall and Mickael Zaffarano
Arieno, Joseph - worked with Mickey Z. at J&G Sales
Arno, Norman - S & L Dist. 5yrs prison for interstate trafficking
Arnone, Anthony "Tony" - Discount Dist, TVX, Atlanta Video, partner with
Perainos, owned porno theaters in LA
Assid, Steve Martin - Sovereign News
Bagnell, Walter "Frenchy" - M&M Sales, LA
Balsamo, Michael - Arrow
Barkow, Robert - worked with Wisotsky in Florida and with mafia in NY
Peter Sinopoli, Donald Epstein, Jim Rhoat, Samuel Haimowitz, Ronald
Foreman, Donald Jacobson.
Bartenan, Erland - Arizona pornographer w/Sturman
Barry Tobman, Ronald Clinton, Ronald Sellinger
Bernback, Marty - S&L Dist.
Bernstene, Phillip "Chuck" - Discount Distributors, TVX Dist. and Atlanta
Video
Bittner, William - indicted for trafficking porn w/ Thomas Sinopoli,
Bloom, Al - Sovereign News, CID
Bloom, Noel - CID
Bochis, James partnered with Robert DeSalvo
Bon Jay Sales (Jack Gresser) - William Shanks, Jefferey Robbins,
Borello, Ralph - employee of DiBernardo, smuggler
Bouldreault, Roland - Le Salon, SF
Bracco, Vincent and Bonnie and Joseph - worked with
Mafia/Teamsters/Wisostsky
Braverman, Ronald - laundered money for Sturman
Bufalino, Russell - LCN boss of upper Pennsylvania worked w/ Krasner
Burns, Timothy "Tim Simpson" - S&L
Cherubino, Michael - worked with Anthony Peraino
Chicago Mob pornographers - Mike Glitta, Anthony Juliano
D'Apice, Andrew "Andre" - ran Star Dist. w DiBernardo and Teddy Rothstein.
DeFalco, Anthony - A&A News, Chicago
DiBona, Anthony "Butch" - Imperial News
Digiacomo, Vincent - Mafia porn salesman/Wisostsky
DiStephano, Vince - Arrow, claimed to represent several families' porn
investments in LA
Dragon, John - ran LA porn with James Fratianno LCN underboss
Ellman, Samuel - partnered w Milton Moskowitz
Farese, Tony & Angelo - took control of Deep Throat in '79?
Ferguson, Andrew - distributor for Mafia porn/Wisotsky
Fine, Mickey - LA pornographer
Frangoulis, Nicholas - arrested for international dist. porn - worked for
Mohney, and LCN's Louis Ruggirelo and Mike Thomas (Detroit)
Friedman, Melvin - worked for Mike Thevis
Gaswirth, Theodore "Teddy" - T.G.A. Associates
Gentile, Joseph - Colombo family member - porn financier
Gernert, Walter - Walter Dark LA pornographer
Global Industries (Thevis)
Gortese, Bruce - Gambino
Guarino, Kenneth - Imperial News + Mickey Z.
Guglielmi, Lou - Central Sales
Gorman, Paul - A&A News Chicago
Gottesman, Rubin & Barbara - National Film Company
Gresser, Jack - Bon Jay Sales, pimp - worked w Samuel Boltansky, John
Louis Moon, Ronald Lawrence Selinger
Himmelstein, Arnie - Arrow
Hind, Ray - California Publishers Liquidating Corp.w late Al Tapper
Hirsch, Steve. Owner of Vivid Video. Married to ex-performer Jenny Wren.
Inman, Bob - Miami pornographer
Jackmore, Bill - Discount Dist, TVX, Atlanta Video
Komar, Ltd. (Boltansky) - key officials - Attorney Robert Eugene Smith,
Melvin Rankin, Samuel Boltansky, Alvin Tapper, Louis Guglielmi, John
Sanza, William Wheeler, Robert Bond, Mel Ulnick, Melvin Epstein, Michael
Mulherin, Bruno Cortese.
Krasner - John and his son worked w/ LCN Russell Bufalino, Joseph Falcone
Las Vegas porn - Ralph Leon Levine, Jack Lee Marcum, Jack Tuppler worked
w/ Sturman
Lebowitz, Oscar - worked for Bon Jay
Levine, Sidney - worked with DiBernardo
Linhorn Investors, Ltd. (Womack)
Mallen, Joe - CID
Manos, Mickey - M&M Video, Houston
Marzullo, Jimmy. Married Gail Gottesman, Ruby's daughter. General Manager
of X-Citement Video.
Manarite, Samuel - member of Vito Genovese family, worked w/ Richard
Portela, Ferris Alexander.
Mathas, Larry - J&G Sales with Mickey Z
Milano, Pete - an LA crime capo
Miller Road Bingo Hall (Wisostsky)
Mishkin, William and Lewis - Kenneth Guarino, David Grama,
Mitchem, Robert - worked for Mike Thevis
Mohney, Harry - Wonderful World of Video - worked with LCN's Robert
DiBernardo, Vito Giacalone, Joseph Zerilli
Moon, John - Bon Jay Sales
Morrow, Allen Charles - feuded with John Krasner
Musolino, Nicholas - dealt with Mickey Z..heroin..Carol Lombard murder.
With Peter Salanardi were guests at LA homes of Stuart Segall and Theodore
Gaswirth.
Nelson, Larry - Le Salon Dist.
Nitke, Herbert - Joseph Peraino's partner for Deep Throat, DMJ
Nunes, Alvin - Hawaii
Orenstein, Steve. Former managing partner of X-Citement Productions with
Rubin Gottesman. Formed Wicked Pictures. avn 4/93
Palladino, Joseph - Boston
Parrish, William Sherlock - worked for Mike Thevis
Ramirez, Steve - duped tapes in LA
Renzi, Joseph Jr - Imperial News
Richichi, Natale - did porn business with Robert DiBernardo
Rogers, Michael - operated Florida massage parlors for Mafia
Rothstein, Theodore - his sister Irene Golden is married to Stephen
Golden, officer at FCA Films
Salamone, Bart - salesman for murdered mobster pornographer Joseph
Brocchini
Salamone, Pat - undercover agent Patrick Livingston
Salanardi, Peter aka "Sonny Boy" - heroin trafficker, murder of Carlo
Lombardi
Santhon, Phillip - Arizona pornographer with Sturman
Sarnblad, Sandy - S&L
Scuderi, Phillip - Stephen G. Minasian & Bobby Goldfarb - smugglers
Selinger, Ron - Bon Jay Sales
Seltzer, Edward - laundered money for Sturman
Sinopoli, Thomas - S&L Dist.
SFD Productions, Inc. (Levine)
Sovereign News - Samuel Joseph, Melvin Kamins, Joseph Zernic, Antoine
Dostal, Fred Hirsch, Richard Johnson, Gary Rosenthal, Howard Green, Alan
I. Goelman,
Star Distributing - NY (DiBernardo) Marvin Friedman, Gaetano "Corkey"
Vastola,
Stu Segal & Associates (Zaffarano)
Summers, Roger - California International Distributors
Swartz, Alan - Bon Jay Sales
Tedeschi, Robert aka Robert the Machine Gun
Traynor, Chuck Mountain T. Ranch in Clark County, Nevada.
Traynor, Neil - Sturman's man in Chicago
Trombetta, Anthony - Gambino family
Wade, Jerry - Wonderful World of Video
Wakerly, Bruce - undercover agent Bruce Ellavsky
Weintraub, Leo - L&W Sales, Chicago
Williams, William - worked for Mike Thevis
Wisostsky, Michael and Myron - Florida pornographers
Work, Donald - w Robert Barkow and managed peeps for Wisotsky
Zaffarno, Michael - major Mafia pornographer - Samuel Haimowitz, William
Haimowitz aka William BittnerThomas Sinopoli, Dominick Raffone, Michael
Rizzitello, Jack LoCicero, James Fratianno, Thomas Riciardo, Ferris
Alexander,
Zeichick, Bobby - J&G Sales w Mickey Z
Zernic, Joe - Sturman employee
Sources:
* Department of Justice Report on Organized Crime in Porn, 6/8/77
* Investigative Services Division of Washington D.C. Police Department,
11/78
* California Attorney General's Annual Report to Legislature, 1984
Federal Cases:
U.S. v DeFalco 509 F. Supp. 127 (81)
Defendants - Anthony "Tony" DeFalco, Kenneth Guarino, Louis "Butchie"
Peraino, Roland Boudreault, Norman Arno, Theodore "Teddy" Gaswirth, John
Belmont, Leo Weintraub, Phillip Charles Bernstene, Reuben Sturman, Ray
Hind, Robert DiBernardo, Louis Guglielmi, Walter Bagnell, Noel Bloom,
Joseph Arieno
US v Thevis 665 F.2d 616 (1983)
US v Espinoza 641 F.2d 153 (1981)
US v Investment Enterprises 10 F.3d 263 (5th Circ.) 1993 (Donald P.
Browning, Michael Warner, Susan C. Colvin) & California Publishers
Liquidating Corp., Video Team Inc..
US v Wisotsky 83-741-Cr EBD (S.D. Fla.)
US v Sovereign News
US v DiBernardo 552 F. Supp. 1315 (S.D. Fla 1982)
US v DiBernardo 775 F. 2d 1470 (11th Circ. 1985)
448 F. Supp 306
610 F2d 428
674 F2d 484
473 F. Supp. 294
671 F2d 1379
528 F.2d 784
646 F2d 237
641 F2d 237
546 f2d 658
474 F Supp 117, 134
858 F.2d 534
92 F.Supp 175
743 F.Supp 15
965 F.2d 848
93 F.Supp
Federal Operations - Magloclen, Miporn, Postporn, Woodworm
Published Sources:
Cleveland Magazine 8/85
Forbes. 9/18/78
LA Times 6/13/82 Calendar Section
Parade Magazine, 8/19/79
San Diego Reader. Porn Peddlers. 3/13/86 p.17
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Abbreviations:
Mickey Z. = Michael Zaffarano - Colombo crime boss
DiBi = Robert DiBernardo - DeCavalcante then Gambino pornographer
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