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The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia by Mike Dash, Random House Giuseppe Morello, nicknamed the “Clutch Hand” thanks to a deformed arm tipped with a claw, rises from street thug to America’s first capo dei capi. His chief opponent, William Flynn, New York Secret Service chief, uses …
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