![]() ![]() Alito and Chief Prosecutor Michael Chertoff. It was revealed by the FBI in 2004 that prior to Manna's sentencing he was involved in a murder plot of Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, the United States Attorney Samuel A. On September 26, 1989, Judge Maryanne Trump-Barry sentenced Manna to 80 years in federal prison. Manna was later indicted and on June 26, 1989, Manna was convicted of conspiring to murder John Gotti, Gene Gotti, and Irwin Schiff in aid of racketeering. On August 8, 1987, Schiff was shot in the head while dining in a Manhattan restaurant. While discussing the John Gotti murder, Manna advised the hitman to wear a disguise as the target area was fairly open. In addition, Gotti wanted to take the lucrative South Jersey holdings that used to belong to the Philadelphia crime family and leave the less desirable North Jersey territory to the Genovese family.įBI chart of the Northern N.J./Hudson County Genovese family factionīetween August 1987 and January 1988, the Federal Bureau of Investigation recorded 12 conversations in which Manna and other Genovese mobsters discussed murdering John Gotti, Gene Gotti, and New York contractor Irwin Schiff. Manna was especially unhappy about Gotti's unsanctioned coup against Castellano. A Gambino capo, Gotti had arranged the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano in 1985 and taken control of the Gambino family without the approval of The Commission. In 1987, Manna began pushing the Genovese family to murder John Gotti, the new boss of the Gambino family. Manna became the lead man for the Genovese family in discussions with the Gambino crime family on how to equitably divide up that area. He ran his personal criminal operations out of an Italian eatery called Casella's at 615 First Street in Hoboken, New Jersey. He supervised four caporegimes while also serving as consigliere. He is the brother-in-law of Genovese crime family mob associate Gerald Dirazzo. However, Manna's power base was in New Jersey. Manna was a close associate of family boss Vincent "the Chin" Gigante he rented an apartment in Greenwich Village, New York to be close to Gigante's headquarters at the Triangle Social Club. Įvery 3 years, since 1961, an award named after her called the Anni Swan -mitali, has been given to a distinctive young-adult fiction of high quality, published in Finland and written in either Finnish or Swedish.Louis Anthony " Bobby" Manna (born December 2, 1929, in Hoboken, New Jersey), is an American mobster and former consigliere of the Genovese crime family operating with the family's New Jersey faction. She furthermore translated, among others, Brothers Grimm and the tales of Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox as well as the first Finnish translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Swan was a journalist for the children's magazines Pääskynen (1907–1918) and Nuorten toveri/Sirkka (1919–1945). The courageous and resourceful main characters in Swan's young-adult fiction had been a role-model for many heroes and heroines in later young-adult fiction. Often the protagonist is experiencing challenges when suddenly meeting people of higher or lower social class. In many of her books she writes about juxtapositions like poor and rich people, good and bad people. Her other well-known books are Iris rukka ( "Poor Iris"), Ollin oppivuodet ( "Olli's Apprentenceship") and Sara ja Sarri ( "Sara and Sarri"). This book is about an orphan farm-hand, Yrjö, who turns out to be, in reality, an heir to a large fortune. Her first book for young adults, which was partly based on her father's recollections, was Tottisalmen perillinen ( "The Heir of Tottisalmi"), published in 1917. Swan's first collection of fairy tales, simply called Satuja ( "Fairy Tales"), was published in 1901. They had three sons, youngest of which was the theatre director Mauno Manninen. In 1907, she married writer Otto Manninen. She became an elementary school teacher in Jyväskylä in 1900 and worked in Helsinki from 1901 to 1916. Swan went to an all-girls school in Mikkeli and graduated in 1895 from Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu. The family lived in Lappeenranta from 1884 until the turn of the century. Anni Swan's mother Emilia Malin was a literature enthusiast and taught all of her nine daughters to read fairy tales and narratives at an early age. Swan's father was Carl Gustaf Swan, a well-known figure of culture of his time, who founded the first newspaper of Lappeenranta. She is considered the creator of Finnish literature for girls. Swan wrote many books for children and young adults, was a journalist for children's magazines and worked as a translator. Anni Emilia Swan (married name Anni Manninen 4 January 1875 in Helsinki – 24 March 1958 in Helsinki) was a Finnish writer. ![]()
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