Danny Greene - "The Godfather" of the 70s in America. In his hometown, Cleveland was considered the real king of the mafia. Irish by birth, he helped the poor, paid for school fees, left generous tips in restaurants, and loved the color green. Hitmen were sent to him, but thanks to resourcefulness, sports skills and the instinct of a spy, all 8 were dead.
Danny Green's biography
Hard childhood
Danny Green, real name Daniel John Patrick Green, was born on November 14, 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. His parents were Irish immigrants. Mother - Irene Cecilia Fallon. died on the 3rd day after childbirth. Father John Henry Green named the child Daniel, after his father, and became very addicted to alcohol. He could not bring up the boy, he had to attach the boy to an orphanage. After 6 years, he settled down with drunkenness and married a nurse. The couple decided to take the boy from the orphanage, but both were strangers to Danny, since the father had not visited the child for all these 6 years. The boy runs away from his father as a stepmother. He was taken in by his paternal grandfather with the same name, Daniel. When Danny Green was 26 years old, his father died, but he bequeathed his inheritance only to children from his second marriage.
Danny Green's youth
Danny first attended a Catholic junior high school. The nuns and priests treated the boy well. During the divine services he was instructed to serve as a minister. For diligence, they were allowed to go in for sports. Danny was good at basketball and baseball. Moving to a Catholic high school where the Italian children of mafia members studied, Danny began to fight often. He developed a dislike for Italians in his soul, which he will carry through his whole life. Due to frequent conflicts, the boy was transferred to a Catholic secondary school in another area. Danny did not stop playing sports. But even here he was pursued by bullying from his classmates. Later, having recognized the teenager's mental retardation, they are expelled from school.
Military service
At 18, Denny Green was drafted into the U. S. Armed Forces. He ends up in North Carolina, in the Marine Corps. The soldier's behavior left much to be desired, but he was not transferred to another military base, since the young man had excellent bullet shooting skills. In the future, the soldier even received a promotion - he became a shooting instructor. While still in the Army, he learned how to use explosives. After serving 2 years, he was transferred to the reserve with honor and dignity.
Gangster career
Loader President
In the late 1950s, Green got a job as a loader at the docks of his hometown of Cleveland, where ships were taken for unloading and loading. Already working, he signed up for the trade union of the International Association of Longshoremen (IAG). When the president of the MAG was removed from office, Danny Green was chosen as interim president. Denny wins the next election and becomes president. He really cared about the working conditions of the workers, but he was strict with quitters and drunks. The new executive raised contributions by 25% and forced workers to complete "volunteer hours" to help the construction fund.
While working as a union leader, Greene constantly had problems with the law: waste of money, falsification of union reports, and other actions that were detrimental to the organization. He was kicked out of the MAG, given a suspended sentence and a $ 10,000 fine. But since he was already recruited as an FBI informant, he did not serve a day in prison, did not pay a cent of the fine. Thus, he even benefited from his position. Everyone in town knew he was an informant, but Danny Greene was not a snitch in every sense of the word. I never gave up my own.
Founder of the group
It is at this time that Danny Greene plunges into the swamp of deadly crime. He became involved in racketeering and began to rival the local Italian-American "families" of the mafia. Greene creates his own group, the Celtic Club. The Irishman directed much of Cleveland's criminal operations in the 1970s. The racketeer traded bombs and escaped death many times. Danny Greene of Cleveland was now a formidable force to be reckoned with. The city itself became known as the "Bomb Capital of America". Wars were fought for control of the vending machine empire, over lucrative criminal operations. The police found evidence of Green's involvement in the killings, but never blamed the Irishman.
Hitman and explosives expert James Sterling worked for The Godfather. In just 1 year, 1976, about 40 car explosions thundered in the city of Cleveland. Not only Green blew up, but killers were sent to the Irishman, but they were all dead. In May 1975, Danny Green's house was blown up. He survived by hiding in the refrigerator. Once in his car, he found an explosive device. It was installed incorrectly, so it didn't work. Having disassembled the bomb, he attached it to the car of his nemesis Shondor Byrnes. There was no need to wait for the explosion.
One of the country's most powerful mafiosi, Frank Brancato, used Green as a muscle in the garbage collection business and other racketeering. Thanks to the Irishman, Brancato monopolized and controlled almost every garbage collection company in the city.
In October 1977, an Irishman left the dentist and was about to leave, an explosion thundered, the Irishman was killed.
The personal life of the racketeer
Danny Green was married with two lovely daughters. In my spare time I read a lot of books about my homeland - Ireland. It was reading about the ancient Celtic warriors that inspired the "Godfather" to commit crimes. Craving and love for the color of Ireland, green accompanied him everywhere: the union office, where Green was chairman, green carpets, and only green jackets. He often distributed green ink for pens to passers-by.
