Your Daily Hood: Carlos Marcello

9Carlos Marcello (1910 – 1993) ruled the New Orleans crime family from 1947 until the 1980s. Credible sources believe Marcello masterminded the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in retaliation for prosecution that threatened his $2 billion organized criminal activities across Louisiana and Texas. Marcello appeared before the U.S. Senate's Kefauver Committee on organized crime in 1951 and pleaded the Fifth Amendment 152 times. The Committee called Marcello "one of the worst criminals in the country. In 1981, Marcello was convicted of bribing state officials in a multimillion-dollar insurance scam. His conviction was reversed after serving six years. He died after a series of strokes.