Francesco Ioele (1893 - July 1, 1928), better known as Frankie Uale or the alias of Yale, was a Brooklyn gangster and original employer of Al Capone, before the latter moved to Chicago to start his own gang. Wikipedia
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Yale was John Torrio's partner in the Five Points Gang in Brooklyn and had killed a dozen men before his twenty first birthday. www.gambino.com/bio/frankieyale.htm
In 1917 he is charged for carrying a revolver.The charge is almost dropped until a Judge by the name of Fawcett upholds the charge, and sends Yale for year to prison. ... After another sucessful hit Frankie Yale returns to New York. Things later chang www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id35.htm
Yale was a strong link between New York and Chicago during the Prohibition Era. His death in 1928 marked the ascension of Al Capone as a crime boss. ... There is some disagreement over Yale's role in the Unione Siciliana. Some historians have written www.onewal.com/w-uale.html
Britannica online encyclopedia article on Frankie Yale: American gangster and national president, during its heyday (191828), of the Unione Siciliane, a Sicilian fraternal organization that by World War I had become a crime cartel operating in several U. www.britannica.com/eb/article-9077743
