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marcelo was a thug with no apparent education  and no command of the language he had a   phd in understanding people his power and his  context they didn't seem to have any limit i know   i was innocent and i know it would come out the  way it did the governor's office state legislature   like the judicial system were all corrupt under  marcelo's iron hand all roads led to marcelo   he was the guy who was the overseer of  everything that went wrong in new orleans   as you leave his office there was a sign he said  that three can keep a secret of two are dead new orleans november 22nd 1963. reputed louisiana mob boss carlos marcello made  his way to a new orleans courthouse to hear the   verdict in his deportation trial marcelo's nemesis  bobby kennedy wanted him out of the country the   young attorney general was on a mission to rid the  nation of mobsters and marcelo was at the top of   his list but marcelo had a juror in his pocket  the verdict acquittal on all charges he would   walk free but the day had only begun it appears  as though something has happened in the motorcade   something i repeat has happened in the  motorcade when the court adjourned they heard   that the president had been killed in dallas  virtually all of america was stricken by the news   but not carlos marcelo he was relieved marcelo was  doubly elated because john kennedy was dead and he   was acquitted marcelo hated kennedy and never made  any bones about it the mobster was now free to   continue building his enormous empire and at least  one enemy was unable to stop him the power that   kennedy had by being the president's brother was  immediately stopped as soon as the assassination   occurred but the struggle between marcelo  and the u.s government would rage for decades new orleans was a fascinating town because there  was so many different cultural elements operating   all at the same time there's a very large italian  population irish population and the general roman   catholic majority in the city of new orleans have  always been tolerant towards habits like drinking   and gambling among the immigrants hoping to  make it in the new world were the marcelos   originally from sicily joseph marcelo immigrated  to louisiana in 1909 as his wife prepared for   the long journey to join him she bore their  first child carlos the date was february 6 1910   marcel of course was born in tunisia north africa   and technically was a citizen of that country and  possibly sicily where his parents came from as a   young illegal immigrant marcelo helped his father  on the family farm as soon as he was old enough to   manage a horse and cart he delivered the family's  homegrown vegetables to new orleans french market there young marcelo ran into  the city's darker element   the mafia the city's criminal influence  had a rich history the historical   tradition of new orleans going back to the  french and spanish period bribery political   corruption were not only tolerated but an  almost expected part of the political system   and carlos fit right in bargaining with the  mob henchmen who patrolled the city's markets in 1928 when marcelo was 18 he left home and  rented a room in new orleans french quarter   the neighborhood had a reputation  as a breeding ground for criminals   carlos started pulling off petty  burglaries but he had bigger plans the next year carlos and three accomplices pulled  off a bank heist after making off with seven   grand they abandoned their getaway car and trudged  through a swamp back to joseph marcelo's farmhouse   police received a tip to check out the farmhouse  and when they arrived they confiscated the stolen   money the bank happy to have the money  returned decided not to press charges but carlos was undeterred a few months later  he held up a grocery store this time he was   turned in by his young accomplice and  landed behind bars his first arrest   was for armed robbery and he  was sentenced to a prison term   we don't know the details of how his sentence  was commuted but it was done through politics   once released carlos went to work for his father  he saved every penny and bought a rundown bar near   new orleans that he used as a front for selling  marijuana in order to operate young marcelo   learned the power of connections they tell story  upon story and how he had bribed this politician   that politician and what it took to get business  done in the south marcelo was becoming a criminal   entrepreneur but to keep his business running he  had to pay off the local mob hood who monitored   the block and kept the cops at bay in particular  he got to know a local mobster who worked for   louisiana mafia boss sam silver dollar corolla  the local hood immediately took a liking to carlos   who started helping out with mob business when  he was 26 marcelo joined corolla's mafia family marcelo's own family was about to  grow when his younger sister married   carlos served as best man and immediately fell  for a tall bridesmaid named jacqueline tadaro   just four months later carlos  and jacqueline were married   as a newlywed carlo's focused his attention on  his budding pinball and vending machine company   and used his mob connections to strong arm local  business owners all the bars restaurants saloons   who wanted to have pinball machines are slot  machines in their establishments they had to   go through them if they went to somebody else  a competitor they found themselves in trouble   up in new york city somebody else was worried  about slot machines newly elected mayor   fiorello laguardia was on a mission rounding  up the italian mobsters who ruled the streets   laguardia focused on mob boss frank costello's  illegal slot machines taking a sledgehammer to   one in front of press cameras let the gamblers  ten horns rocketeers and gangsters take notice   that they have to keep away from new york from now  on during laguardia's crackdown costello realized   he needed a new market in which to operate frank  costello moved the slot machines into new orleans   to do that they had to enter into an agreement  with carlos marcelo marcelo helped arrange a   deal that allowed new york and louisiana bosses  to share the gambling profits and paid off local   officials to assure political protection in  the racket the bosses agreed to the terms the cash coming in from the slot  machines wasn't enough for marcelo   so he continued his drug trade but in 1938  he got caught selling 23 pounds of marijuana   to an undercover officer at the time the  biggest pot bust in new orleans history   marcelo would spend a year in the atlanta federal  penitentiary on narcotics charges for distributing   marijuana but his political connections  probably enabled him to get out quickly in 1942 america was engaged in a world  war fighting enemies across two oceans   marcelo's native-born brothers got drafted but  carlos knew he would not with his status as an   alien born abroad he stayed in new orleans carried  on with illegal rackets and built an empire   marcelo actually increased his power during world  war ii he operated bourbon street nightclubs   a number of bars and restaurants  around the city a trucking business   in 1944 marcelo got a big break top new york  mobsters like frank costello and meyer lansky   offer the 35 year old marcelo a partnership in  an illegal casino in nearby jefferson parish   it was almost all public gambling it was not  underground at all and the police and the mayor   everybody tolerated it carlos greased  their palms to keep the casino running   there's a famous uh legend in louisiana about  marcelo's deep trouser pocket in which he   he could carry as much as twenty thirty  thousand dollars he would just go around   reaching into that deep pocket and this payoff  everybody policemen judges and coal cash   the casino was such a big success that marcelo  again gained the respect of the nation's mafia   leaders the high school dropout was riding  high and raking in the cash but he would have   to leave the comforts of the big easy when  lawmakers in washington put him on the spot in the 1940s mob boss carlos marcello was  rising through the ranks of the louisiana mafia   he was raking in so much money from his  gambling rackets the father of four moved   his family to a mansion in jefferson parish  world war ii really accelerated marcelo's   operations because new orleans was  a major part of embarkation for   troops during the war with so many troops in  and out of the city of new orleans and all   of the opportunities for vice and gambling  it enhanced his opportunities to make money   mafia leaders saw potential in the uneducated  marcelo they knew he was primed for bigger things   times were good for the new orleans mafia awash  in gambling profits but the good times were almost   over for boss sam's silver dollar corolla  like marcelo corolla was an illegal alien   after a decade-long court battle he knew that the  government was about to deport him to his native   sicily in may 1947 corolla called a meeting of  top louisiana mobsters to name a successor hoping   to remain discreet the men met at an all-black  nightclub in a run-down part of town when they   got to the business of naming a successor a  small faction nominated corolla's son anthony   but an overwhelming majority supported carlos  marcello to head the family including national   leaders in new york like frank costello and meyer  lansky the national organized crime commission   all unanimously agreed that marcelo would be  the one to take over the new orleans syndicates   marcelo became the new boss of new  orleans but not everyone was happy   anthony carolla believed he deserved the post  and brooded about the decision for decades as boss marcelo commanded respect despite standing  barely five feet tall to some he became known   as the little man when he came into a room you  knew power was coming into a room he exuded that   that sense of power and and people took  notice he was a handsome fellow large head   the head projected power on a short squat  plump little body the head didn't fit the body   despite his wealth marcelo used a small discrete  tavern in jefferson parish as his headquarters   he didn't try to advertise  himself around the country as   one of the most powerful mafia bosses in america  he tried to keep himself out of the headlines   but the 1950s brought pressure from washington  tennessee senator estes cafavre made it his   goal to expose the secret underworld of  organized crime eventually he set his sights   on new orleans he went around and looked at uh  the illicit gambling because it was public view   keith offer told everybody on television  what everybody in new orleans knew anyway   marcelo was called to testify but shared very  little with the committee the 40 year old   mobster invoked the fifth amendment 152 times and  even refused to reveal his age or marital status contempt of congress charges followed marcelo  was convicted but the decision was overturned   on appeal ruling that the boss was  within his rights to plead the fifth   but the mobster didn't escape unharmed the trial  pushed marcelo's dirty business into public view   cafe recommended deportation proceedings  begin against the foreign-born mob boss   but the publicity didn't stop marcelo from ruling  new orleans with an iron fist he had an estate   in the west bank of mississippi where there  were bayous swamps and if someone crossed him   he would get severely clubbed over the head by  martial's henchmen the men would place the body   in a tub full of lye which would make it decompose  then they would dump the decomposed liquid into   the swamp and it would flow away and they would  have no corpus delicta no body and the story   got around that if you cross carlos mozilla that  would be your fate eight years after the kefarver   testimony carlos marcelo was still in the country  using his team of lawyers to stay the deportation   arkansas senator john mcclellan established a  committee to investigate labor racketeering and   organized crime mcclellan's chief counsel was  33 year old robert kennedy mr uh hoffa can you   refresh your recollection at all now on uh  in connection with this or connection with   anything robert worked on the committee with  his brother massachusetts senator john f kennedy   former fbi agent aaron cohn provided compelling  testimony he detailed marcello's corrupt kingdom   of gambling and payoffs on march 24 1959  marcelo appeared before the committee   like his last appearance before lawmakers he  was not forthcoming that was a hallmark of   marcelo of course that the fact that  marcelo always kept his mouth shut   then one of the senators on the committee said  how in the name of god have you been allowed to   remain in this country eight years after you were  officially deported and marcelo's response was i   really wouldn't know sir i don't know anything  about that bobby kennedy then said to his   associates someday i'm gonna get rid of that guy  for now marcelo was in the clear but kennedy was   about to earn a powerful new position and in it he  would turn up the heat on the louisiana mob boss during the 1950s two congressional  investigations failed to bring down   new orleans mob boss carlos marcello in a round of  tough questioning from lead counsel robert kennedy   marcelo took the fifth infuriating kennedy  who emerged as the mafia's chief antagonist robert kennedy viewed carlos marcelo as  one of the major figures in organized crime   and kennedy was about to become very powerful let the word go forth to friend and foe alike that  the torch has been passed to a new generation of   americans when john f kennedy became president  in 1961 he installed his younger brother robert   as attorney general robert kennedy's priorities  were to convict and incarcerate as many leading   mobsters as he could by any possible means  the heat was definitely on and getting hotter   one of bobby kennedy's first targets was carlos  marcello marcelo never was a naturalized citizen   he technically was still an illegal alien in the  united states efforts to get the mobster out of   the country had started long before but marcelo's  legal team had slowed the wheels of justice   the law was such that a candidate for deportation  could file an unlimited number of motions to stay   deportation marcelo obviously had almost unlimited  economic resources and they were able to exploit   that law to keep filing motion after motion  while his lawyers worked the legal system   marcelo paid regular visits to the immigration and  naturalization service in order to maintain his   resident alien status in april 1961 bobby kennedy  saw his opening kennedy head federal agents   kidnapped marcelo when marcelo went to report to  the immigration and naturalization service and   office in new orleans they took him and put  him on a plane and dropped him off in guatemala   the feds chose this central american country  because marcelo had once used a forged guatemalan   birth certificate to make his deportation  more difficult now the government used it   as a means to get marcelo out with little regard  to what would happen once he reached guatemala   the story that has come down is that marcelo when  he arrived in guatemala was literally driven into   the wilderness and uh dropped there marcel  basically stumbled around through the jungle   in his alligator shoes and silk suits he  was not in the kind of physical condition   that he should be he fell once and broke two  ribs he had no cash he didn't have a toothbrush   and didn't have a change of clothes but finally  was able to make a telephone call to his wife   in new orleans after three days in the wilderness  marcelo made it to civilization family members   rushed to join him marcelo was outraged it wasn't  just business it was personal by methods that   remain unclear marcelo sneaked back into the u.s  two months later courts upheld the legality of   marcelo's deportation and kennedy increased his  efforts to get the mobster out of the country   kennedy ordered the fbi office in new orleans  to step up its investigation of marcelo   they did nothing an agent down there kept sending  back reports to bobby kennedy that enraged him   saying that carlos isn't involved in any  rackets he's just a tomato salesman that's all   though marcelo did own a successful tomato canning  company it was hardly his main source of income   if he was a tomato salesman he was one of the  most prosperous tomato salesmen that i ever saw   marcelo seethed under the heat  of bobby kennedy's attention   ed becker a businessman with ties to marcelo  said that in 1962 the usually discreet boss   let it slip that he had murder on his mind  it was a bigger target than becker thought   i said you killed bobby kennedy you'll have a  whole united states government on you know who   says they're going to kill he says but what  you do you cut off with a head the tail dies   by 1963 while marcelo awaited trial for conspiracy  in connection with his fake birth record new   orleans teamed with questionable characters among  them was an ex-marine named lee harvey oswald he   had abruptly moved from dallas but was no stranger  to the big easy lee harvey oswald had lifelong   family ties to carl's marcelo's organization he  had an uncle who had become a bookmaker in the   martial organization when oswald was arrested for  disturbing the peace in new orleans he was sprung   from jail by a man who had close connections  to the marcelo organization though there's   no evidence marcelo and oswald ever met they did  run in the same circles and shared a common enemy on november 22nd 1963 marcelo was in court  for the verdict in his deportation case   he was acquitted on all charges but  that was hardly the news of the day when the court adjourned they heard that  the president had been killed in dallas   near washington bobby kennedy was devastated and  believed his tough stance on the mob may have led   to the assassination the power that kennedy had  by being the president's brother was immediately   stopped as soon as the assassination occurred  suddenly the heat bearing down on marcelo and   his cronies seemed to lift but the assassination  wouldn't be the end of all marcelo's problems on november 22nd 1963 carlos marcello learned  of his acquittal in a deportation case   while the nation learned the  grisly fate of their president the assassination happened in dallas marcelo's  territory with the arrest of suspect lee harvey   oswald people from new orleans came under  scrutiny in the frenzy days that followed on that weekend the main investigative effort  was the interrogation of oswald who stuck to his   story through several hours of interrogation just  two days after kennedy's murder police transferred   oswald to the county jail swarms of reporters and  photographers gathered to catch a glimpse of the   suspected assassin suddenly a man emerged from  the crowd and fired a single bullet into oswald's   abdomen oswald was pronounced dead two hours  later police immediately arrested the murderer   he was dallas nightclub owner jack ruby another  man with alleged ties to mob boss carlos marcelo   kennedy's successor lyndon johnson quickly  established the warren commission to investigate   all aspects of the assassination who's jack ruby  the warren commission concluded that he had no   significant organized crime connections the magic  word is significant there to say that he had no   connections organized it's just bizarre that the  women that he had in the strip club in dallas   were on a circuit that included the show  bar in new orleans which is carlos marsalo   whatever the supposed connections information  about marcelo and the mafia was absent from the   warren commission's investigation the fbi they  ever gave him the electronic surveillance that   indicated the mob thought about killing kennedy  the warren commission began with the fbi report   stating that oswald was the sole assassin the  warren commission's report says that all of   the resources of the federal government could  not find a conspiracy it was not a conspiracy   investigation it was a shooter investigation the  mob escaped any connection to the assassination   and grief stricken bobby kennedy's efforts  against organized crime disintegrated the organized crime efforts were indeed  substantially cut back as measured by numbers   of attorneys in the section time spent in court  indictments handed down they were scaled back   significantly during the next few years but carlos  marcelo would find that the relief was short-lived   in august 1964 a juror in marcelo's deportation  trial revealed that he had accepted a bribe to   throw the case after carlos's henchmen didn't pay  up the juror was ready to testify against the mob   boss when the jury was picked the paper printed  the names in the hometowns of all the jurors   making it much easier for anybody who wanted  to contact them to find them marcelo and an   associate were implicated in the bribe and  indicted for conspiracy to obstruct justice   marcelo's attorney argued that the bribe did  occur but there was no proof marcelo was involved   he could give orders to people that eventually  would have to carry those orders out and maybe   expose themselves more than he would be he was  safe his evidence by the number of years that we   tried to investigate him and  got nowhere the strategy worked   on august 17 1965 marcelo was acquitted the  following month the usually reclusive carlos   traveled to new york to meet with other leading  mobsters the police walked in by happenstance   and arrested everybody and after the arrest they  immediately got bail everybody went back the same   restaurant with their lawyers a picture  of the monster's return to the restaurant   made headlines carlos who had always denied any  association with the mob was now caught on film   sources alleged that new orleans mobster anthony  carolla requested the meeting still upset that   marcelo was chosen over him to head the new  orleans syndicate corolla wanted a greater   share of the action in marcelo's organization  but marcelo prevailed and kept his power   the headlines from the new york arrest  made him a local celebrity in his hometown   marcelo returned to a throng of spectators  at new orleans international airport   according to carlos a stranger from the crowd got  in his way he lost his patience and took a swing   the man on the receiving end of the punch was  no stranger it was fbi agent patrick collins   according to him marcelo hit him to  prove that he was the real boss in town   but others speculate on marcelo's motivation  one theory is that marcelo found out   that that fbi agent was sleeping with his  brother's wife whatever his reason marcelo   was arrested and charged with assaulting an fbi  agent a federal offense and the joke was can't   you investigate him and get some evidence against  him you've got to provoke him into hitting you   the powerful mob boss was looking at time behind  bars unless he could figure out a way to work the system in the late 1960s carlos marcello's legal  and illegal businesses were thriving his   criminal organization was generating  a reported two billion dollars a year   making it the largest industry in the state  of louisiana but marcelo didn't let it go to   his head marcelo remained a pretty down-to-earth  individual he would shake hands with common people   when he walked down the sidewalk he didn't have  a phalanx of bodyguards around him but his arrest   for assaulting an fbi agent threatened to put him  back in the cooler for the first time in decades in 1967 new orleans district attorney jim  garrison opened his own investigation of   the kennedy assassination unsatisfied with the  warren commission's report he focused on a plot   involving several marcelo associates jim  garrison concluded that a conspiracy to   kill kennedy was hatched in new orleans  questions arose about garrison's findings   especially when the d.a became linked to marcelo's  crime family in 1967 life magazine publicized   an article about the marcelo empire in  louisiana and all of the politicians that   marcelo had bribed and this brought to national  attention some of marcelo's illegal activities   the magazine described marcelo as the unchallenged  giant of organized crime it claimed he ruled by   intimidation and those who crossed him wound  up dead by 1968 marcelo's nemesis bobby kennedy   had moved on he was a first-term senator from  new york and engaged in a presidential run on june 5th kennedy fresh from  a win in the california primary   addressed supporters at the ambassador  hotel in los angeles the great effort   not on behalf of the democratic party it's a  great effort on behalf of the united states   on behalf of our own people on behalf of mankind  all around the globe and the next generation after his speech he walked through the  hotel kitchen suddenly a 24 year old   palestinian immigrant named sirhan sirhan  walked up to kennedy lifted a revolver and shot the senator four  times kennedy died the next day   and the nation was forced to deal  with yet another kennedy assassination but it wasn't a sad occasion for marcelo  he was elated that his nemesis was dead   but focused on his upcoming trial for assaulting  an fbi agent marcelo was tried in laredo texas   a change of venue because of the publicity  the case generated in the big easy amid whispers of jury tampering  the trial ended with a hung jury   refusing to give up the u.s attorney  in new orleans refiled the charges   and put the boss back on trial three months later  marcelo was found guilty of assaulting collins   some hoped the government could get  the mobster on more substantial charges   get him in for assault and battery give me a break  that's hardly a major victory for the government   after constant wrangling by his attorneys a  federal judge reduced marcelo's two-year sentence   to six months the boss was released from  the medical center for federal prisoners   in springfield missouri in march 1971.  he'd lost weight and was in great shape   some observers likened the effect of  his prison stay to a health spa visit   but the controversy surrounding the assassinations  of the 1960s and the mafia's possible involvement   was far from over in september 1976 congress  established the house select committee on   assassinations to further investigate the  murders of john kennedy and martin luther king jr   as part of the investigation marcelo testified  under a grant of immunity in january 1978. we   got carlos marcelo's testimony about every  issue that touched on him in the assassination   did he threaten to kill the president once and  say how he was going to do it right down the line   of course he denied all of those points  marcelo basically stonewalled the committee   and denied any of the possibly significant  connections that he had with people who knew lee   harvey oswald despite marcelo's elusive testimony  the committee drew some alarming conclusions   we demonstrated i think beyond a serious  question that the warren commission   didn't do a conspiracy investigation and  that its statement that all the investigative   agencies of the government couldn't find  it was an overstatement they never looked   the committee issued a report saying that  president kennedy was probably assassinated by   conspiracy by 1979 the house committee ran out of  time to fully investigate all they had uncovered   despite the committee's suspicions marcelo was  free to continue his enterprise unfettered but   the boss who had ruled new orleans for more than  30 years was about to see his empire unravel in 1979 the house select committee on  assassinations investigated a possible   conspiracy to kill president kennedy and  several roads led back to new orleans mob boss   carlos marcello while the allegation was shocking  it did little to dent the mobster's business   marcelo didn't know that a much  more damaging investigation   was already underway there had never been any  electronic surveillance of marcelo whatsoever   whether it be by court order or otherwise  and i thought that was very unusual in 1979 feds found someone they thought could  get them inside marcelo's trusted circle   there was a fella by the name of joe houser  who had his own criminal problems he had been   convicted of insurance fraud and he wanted  to do whatever he could to keep his sentence   as manageable as possible and said this fellow  claims that he can put us into carlos marcello   i said good let him prove it feds hoped to catch  marcelo illegally obtaining contracts for a phony   insurance company they set up for hauser two  undercover fbi agents including agent michael wax   accompanied hauser i became the nephew of  mr hauser and then i had a business partner   the agent's name was larry montague  and larry and i and joe would pose as   his owners and operators of a company that dealt  in insurance contracts there was an unprecedented   surveillance effort targeting marcelo's home and  his headquarters at the town and country motel   we had his house phone we had his office  phone also we had a microphone in the ceiling   of his office directly over his desk still the  ever cautious marcelo would not be easy prey   he was very very careful about speaking in his  office when conversations were even a little more   sensitive he would you know give you a finger wave  and say get down and you'd be down on all fours on   your knees in the well of his desk it was just  amazing to see this very powerful well-dressed   mafia boss down on his knees despite marcelo's  tactics the investigation yielded an enormous   amount of evidence including 35 000 conversations  captured on 1400 recorded reels it was just   a rolling history of corruption and payoffs  and how you got things done in in the state   the operation captured marcelo in an effort  to bribe public officials in order to secure   lucrative insurance contracts but marcelo had  always disputed what he was doing was against   the law carlos never understood that it was a  bribe to pay a politician for doing something   that was good for the state the sale line was all  we want is a fast shake at getting this business   and we're entitled to it because we're going to  save the state a million dollars the insurance   scam was bad enough for marcelo and soon  another avenue opened for investigators   members of a mafia family in los angeles were  awaiting trial he thought that possibly he   could approach us to to do something for  his friends in california they devised   a scheme to bribe the judge he finally got hooked  into it but with the understanding that that was   the only way his friend was not going to go to  jail feds cooked up a story of a corrupt judge   the bugs caught marcelo in an attempt to buy the  judge's favor with an expensive painting when the   operation drew to a close harold hughes went to  marcelo's headquarters and broke the news himself   and i never shall forget the look on his face  when he saw this agent lifting his arm through the   ceiling there to start to take this microphone and  the wiring out of it he appeared almost stunned he   just couldn't believe what he was seeing marcelo  and a handful of associates were indicted in   connection with the insurance contract scheme the  trial was set in a friendly territory new orleans   for 18 weeks marcelo was forced to listen to  the tapes of his secretly recorded conversations   he seemed pretty confident throughout the whole  trial i just don't think he ever thought that   people in louisiana would  ever convict him of anything   on august 4 1981 marcelo was found guilty of one  count of conspiracy i think he finally realized   that that was going to be it for the rest of his  life probably but things got worse four months   later a california jury found marcel guilty of  three counts related to bribing a federal judge   now he's facing two different sentences and he'd  gotten serious at this point i think he was very   very very fearful that his uh empire was crumbling  in april 1983 marcelo's efforts to appeal the   conspiracy conviction were denied it looked like  the 73 year old marcelo was headed back to prison   he had me call his wife he walked over to the  courthouse and started doing his time this time   the big house wasn't as therapeutic marcelo  was moved from prison to prison as his health   deteriorated the once powerful mobster struggled  to keep his empire going he suffered multiple   strokes and battled alzheimer's disease the  federal penitentiary effectively ended his   reign as mafia boston new orleans nobody was there  to take his place and the whole empire collapsed   though there was little follow-up on the  house committee on assassinations findings   one more chance for the truth about  the kennedy assassination emerged   he had problems while he was in prison  he looked like it was dementia he would   talk at night and even talk to the people in the  room as if they worked for him on three occasions   during a two-day period marcelo remarked quote  that kennedy that smiling mf will fix him in   dallas we are going to get that kennedy in dallas  the fbi was sufficiently disturbed by this report   that they decided they had to actually reopen  the investigation of president kennedy's   assassination the bureau tapped michael wax  now eight years removed from the investigation   despite wax's undercover work against him  marcelo was cordial but not very helpful   to me it was an act of being very very confused  not remembering anything and not wanting to talk   about it it looked like he was just putting on  some sort of show from the fbi's perspective   the case was closed but for many questions  remain it's plausible to think that there   was a conspiracy and these are the people who  could have been involved and one of them being   the mob and that means marcelo others will never  be convinced marcelo was capable of such a plot   all these disgruntled powerful underworld figures  come together and they murder the president   great fiction on july 23 1989 marcelo finally  caught a break and his conspiracy conviction   was overturned on a technicality the once  feared boss could return home and resume   what was left of his life but his health  was fading he started with the long goodbye   alzheimer's by the time he got out i remember  his son brought him over to see me and i really   don't have the sense that carlos uh recognized  me all that remained was a quiet existence   in his native new orleans on march 3rd 1993  carlos marcello age 83 died of natural causes   in his own bed but his legacy lives on  more than most of the other mafia bosses   carlos marcella was a man of the people he  arose from the lower class instead of living   a lavish lifestyle marcelo remained a pretty  down-to-earth individual all roads led to marcelo   he was the guy who was the overseer of  everything that went wrong in new orleans you

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