The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia:
Corn, Sugar, and Blood
by Rick Porrello
October 1995 | $22.00 | Hardcover | ISBN: 978-1-56980-058-4
Rick Porrello writes about the important connection with megamobsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Meyer Lansky, the Cleveland mob's move to Las Vegas, and the first top-level national meeting of the Sicilian-American Mafia. Here in all its gory detail is an account of the Sugar War in which gangsters vied for control of corn sugar, a primary ingredient in the manufacture of bootleg booze.
Rick Porrello
Porrello, a veteran of a Cleveland police agency, comes from a Mafia family. He began researching this book to learn about the murders of his notorious grandfather and three uncles.
