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Justin Cascio

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in Smithtown, New York, The United States

September 16, 1974

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Justin Cascio is a writer, community leader, and genealogist.

He leads two successful groups for transgender men, one online and one that meets in person.

Justin writes at his own MafiaGenealogy.com and on Patreon, and contributes regularly to Informer Journal. He appears in the 2022 documentary "Pasqualina of Springfield," and he is the author of IN OUR BLOOD: The Mafia Families of Corleone and PASQUALINA: The Bootleg Queen of Springfield, Massachusetts.
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	Manning Up: Transsexual Men on Finding Brotherhood, Family & Themselves by Zander Keig (Editor), Mitch Ellis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heath Adam Ackley (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	RECOGNIZE: The Voices of Bisexual Men by Robyn Ochs (Goodreads Author) (Editor), H. Sharif Williams (Editor), Justin Cascio (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.13 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement - October 2020: Nicola Gentile, Chronicler of Early U.S. Mafia History by Thomas Hunt (Goodreads Author), David Critchley, Steve Turner 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mob in Youngstown: Organized Crime in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys by Thomas Hunt (Goodreads Author), James Barber, Justin Cascio (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mob in Youngstown: Organized Crime in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys by Thomas Hunt (Goodreads Author), James Barber, Justin Cascio (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gangsters of New York's Lower East Side: Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement, October 2023 by Thomas Hunt (Goodreads Author), Justin Cascio (Goodreads Author), Patrick Downey (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement - October 2021: The Mafia in California by Thomas Hunt (Goodreads Author), J. Michael Niotta, Justin Cascio (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heartbreak and Detox 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Our Blood: The Mafia Families of Corleone it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pasqualina: The Bootleg Queen of Springfield, Massachusetts 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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IN OUR BLOOD: The Mafia Families of Corleone [Book]

I’m not the first to write about his family members’ involvement in insurrection and organized crime in Corleone. Don Giovanni Colletto, a priest and Corleone native (who is my fifth cousin, three times removed), wrote the definitive history of the city in 1934. Two of his close relatives, Don Gesualdo Birrittella and his wife Angela Colletto, both related to him through common descent, were bruta

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