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EPISODE · Sep 7, 2026 · 11 MIN

The Morello Counterfeit Ring: How Printing Money Brought Down the Early Mafia

from A History of the American Mafia Podcast: Organized Crime, Mob Families, Bosses, Gangsters, Prohibition, Criminal Trials, and the Rise of La Cosa Nostra · host Podily & Josh Linsk

Explore how Giuseppe Morello’s clandestine printing press and its counterfeit five-dollar bills disrupted early New York organized crime, triggered federal investigations, and reshaped the power structure of Italian-American gangs in the 1910s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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