Frankie Carbo’s name appears frequently in biographies of mob figures and on Internet mob and boxing history websites. He was known as a member of Murder, Inc., the media’s title for the enforcement arm of the Unione Siciliana that was run by Albert Anastasia and Louis “Lepke” Buchalter and responsible, according to authorities in New York, for at least sixty-three murders. After World War II, Carbo cleaned up his act—somewhat. Though he had been already arrested eighteen times, including five times for murder, he became a boxing manager and promoter, controlling the sport from behind the
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