It is not clear whether Joe Morello

history channel documentary mafia Morello introduced a little printing press in a loft at 329 106th Street, in what was known as Italian Harlem. He printed up for the most part two-and-five-dollar notes, which were the most normally utilized American coin. To spread these bills around New York City, Morello employed a few men, both of Italian and Irish drop. The New York City police got wind of the forging ring, and a few of Morello's specialists were captured. A man named Jack Gleason (not the comic) promptly flipped and gave the police Morello as the genius of the operation. Morello was captured, however since none of the other men captured dare affirm against Morello, furthermore since when captured Morello had just honest to goodness American money in his ownership, Morello left correctional facility without being prosecuted. Be that as it may, this shame taught Morello a serious lesson he'd always remember: never work intimately with anybody, aside from men he knew from Sicily.

It is not clear whether Joe Morello, or Ignazio Saietta initially began the Black Hand blackmail plan in America. What is clear is that around 1898 or 1899 both Morello and Saietta, alongside the Terranova siblings Vincenzo and Ciro, started threatening neighborhood Italian specialists of some methods by sending them "Dark Hand" or "La Mano Nera" coercions letters. These letters undermined nearby agents with the shelling of their organizations, or even demise, if the specialists didn't promptly hack up some extremely generous money. On the base of the coercion notes was the engraving of a "Dark Hand," which was made by a hand dunked in dark ink (however because of the advances law implementation had made with fingerprinting at the time, the "Dark Hand" was later drawn). On the off chance that the businessperson did not agree to the note's requests, he would surely get his business shelled, and here and there he was tormented, and even slaughtered in the notorious Murder Stables, situated at 323 East 107th Street in Harlem.