Just outside of the Tucson city limits, developers found few restrictions and a tremendous demand for new, single-family homes. Among the new neighbors in the Old Pueblo were powerful gangsters.
How the West was Won
Capitano’s Lucchese connection
Some of the most telling of "Capitano" Angelo di Carlo’s associations are those who signed affidavits in support of his release from internment at Fort Missoula in the summer of 1943.
The other Stefano la Sala
The fearsome criminal known as “The Clutch Hand,” because of the birth defect that crippled his right hand, was not a builder in the literal sense, but his Co-op was one of the earliest developers of Italian neighborhoods in East Harlem and the Bronx.
Mafia Genealogy 