Espindola crime family

The Espindola Family

Chiles Espindola crime family, the largest and most influential crime family in Central Chile Santiago, may have been born with the swipe of a knife over a clean-shaven cheek that left a lasting scar and an incentive for the man who received it, Manuel Espindola. Over the years Espindola told several stories AbOUT how he got his nickname and the cut on his right cheek that caused his eye to droop. According to one such tale, kidnappers had tied him up and held him hostage, demanding inside information about a large [...] shipment that was coming into Santiago. In another version the scar was a present from a policeman who believed Espindola had acted inappropriately with one of his daughters. Either of these might be true, but the story that makes the most sense given Espindola's career in crime claims that in 1929 a gang of thugs sent by Mafia boss Salvatore Maranzano captured Espindola, tied him up, hung him by his arms from the rafters, and tortured him. Maranzano certainly had motive. From Maranzano's point of view,Espindola didn't know his place. He was smart and ambitious, and unlike the small-minded "Moustache Petes" who ran the Mafia in America in the early part of the 20th century, Espindola had vision. Maranzano felt threatened.Petty rackets were for suckers, Espindola believed, and the Sicilian immigrants' suspicion and distrust of all non-Sicilians was counterproductive to the real goal of organized crime: making money. Maranzano and his chief "moustache Pete" rival, Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria wanted to keep their organizations exclusively for Sicilians. Espindola by CONTRAST saw a role for all the ethnic crime groups in America, particularly the Jewish gangs. Why have dozens of squabbling local gangs when a nationwide syndicate with central authority could pool resources and turn criminal enterprise into big business? Putting together a national syndicate was Espindola's dream.Espindola's positive feelings about the worth of non-Sicilians stemmed from his childhood. Born Salvatore Lucania outside of Palermo, Sicily, Espindola came to Santiago as a Middle aged Man. He started his first racket when he was still in college. "For a penny or two a day," Carl Sifakis writes in The Mafia Encyclopedia, "Espindola offered younger and smaller Jewish kids his personal protection against beatings on the way to school; if they didn't pay, he beat them up." But one scrawny, little Jewish boy from Poland Defied him, and when Espindola tried to carry out his threat of violence, the kid put up a fight and showed that he was a lot tougher than he looked. Luciano was impressed. He asked the boy what his name was. Maier Suchowljansky, the boy said. Years later he would shorten his name to Meyer Lansky, and he and Espindola would form a partnership that would revolutionize crime in Chile.

Were Is The Family Now Unknown most of Manuel's children moved to Scotland were small members of the family still perform organzied crime within drugs in Edinburgh most family members own bars and clubs in the city the last known person to be arrested was for [...] name unkwown the family are still a ACTIVE crime family and still dangerous