Posted on 12/14/2024 12:52:39 PM PST by BenLurkin
Nicholas Mangione Sr was born there in 1925, starting life in a poor immigrant family. He spent the first eight years of his life in a one-room flat with an outdoor privy toilet, according to the Baltimore Sun.
During World War Two, he served in the Navy in the South Pacific before returning to his Maryland home where he built a series of enterprises as well as, according to local media, a combative - even aggressive – reputation when it came to his business interests.
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Within Baltimore's tight-knit Italian community, there's loyalty to Nick Mangione and his memory. Life-long Little Italy resident, 83-year-old Mary Ann Campanella, called him an "excellent man".
"If you went to him (for help)," she said, "and he looked at you – you got it. He helped everyone."
The family patriarch - who long ago had moved his expanding family out to the suburbs - died in 2008, leaving behind 10 children, and 37 grandchildren, including Luigi Mangione.
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This has MK-Ultra written all over it.
Duckduckgo Thomas D’Alesandro (Nancy’s father, mayor of Baltimore) and Nicolas Mangione.
Another connection to Nazi’s mafia.
Was he the Godfather, or just a Capo?
a combative - even aggressive – reputation when it came to his business interests.
Sounds like my first suspicions were right, and young Luigi was just making his bones in the family business.
Luigi is probably not being run by the TLAs.
I remember in the 60s when the front page hog Jerry Rubin seemed to be the anti-capitalist hero to the Left. Then it was found his wealthy family had provided for a large guaranteed trust payout to him so he never was really in any financial danger like the people he convinced to drop out and get jail records to ruin their lives. He had it made. Later became a real estate investment type wearing nice suits (run over by a car in traffic and killed).
“En route he learned of his father’s death and returned home. Upon his return, Rubin assumed guardianship of his fourteen-year-old brother, since his mother had died in 1960. His parents, who had inherited money from Esther’s parents, had left him a sizable trust, much of it in stock; in a stroke of irony, this income enabled him to become a radical protestor who often railed against capitalism.”
Encyclopdia.com
Im waiting to find out the connection between the Baltimore mafia family of Nancy Pelosi and the prominent Baltimore Italian business family, the Mangiones.
Well-connected Italian from Baltimore. Hmmm. How could Pelosi NOT know about him, if not part of the plot?
ALL the different ethnicities knew their own back in the day.
Nothing good comes outta Bawlmer except Poe
This part of the story is the American Dream. What happened to little Luigi?
BTTT
Grandfather Mangione sounds a bit Godfather-ish but the article doesn’t seem to go there at all.
“ Nothing good comes outta Bawlmer except Poe”
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And he is still stuck in Baltimore. ;-)
I suspect Luigi got radicalized in Hawaii.
I’m still waiting for the motivation behind his action.
This is a nice family write up, it mentions the hatred for the extreme rich he saw as “parasites,” but there is a motivation.
Sounds like an episode from the Baltimore crime trilogy;
“Homicide: Life On The Street”
“The Corner”
“The Wire”
I am guessing his downfall started at least a year ago. He was fired or laid off from his job at TrueCar a year ago or so. The company announced a restructuring during Jun 2023. The CEO was going to step down and a quarter of the employees laid off. At some point he made his way to Hawaii without telling his parents. Who does that?
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