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Giuseppe Battista Balsamo
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Giuseppe Balsamo "Battista" "The Brooklyn Godfather" was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. Balsamo immigrated to New York in 1895 and moved to Brooklyn. Balsamo soon established a criminal carrer, Balsamo started making Racketeering operations in Brooklyn and founded a small gang involved in Murder, Racketeering, Loansharking and Numbers racket. Balsamo soon got his name "The Brooklyn Godfather". Balsamo soon retired from Crime and gave his criminal organization to Philip Mangano. Books William Balsamo is Giuseppe's great nephew and author of Mafia Inc a book based about Giuseppe. Based on previously unavailable information and nearly two decades of research, Crime Incorporated reveals for the first time all the unsavory facts of the Mob’s bloody evolution from a gang of uncouth, bumbling killers into the highly organized, smoothly running “corporation” it is today. William Balsamo, great-nephew of the first godfather, Don Giuseppe — “Battista” — Balsamo, and George Carpozi, Jr. disclose the Mob’s savage beginnings in the group of Italian immigrants — the “Black Hand” — who tore control of New York’s waterfronts away from the Irish racketeers — the “White Hand” — and went from there. They trace the Black Hand’s coalescence into an organization whose insidious influence reached across the country and into a presidential administration 
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