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black-mafia-family — Part 04

31 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Feb 23, 1974 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: black-mafia-family · 31 pages OCR'd
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(Maunt ClippIng in Spocc Bolow) nowapaper, city and stato.) F Page 4 By TYREE JOHNSON Fhiladelphia Daily - Black Brothers, Inc., a community grouy that pulice al-. Phila.. Pa. leged was a from for the Biack Mafia, apparcntly has dis- banded. : "They were really disappointed," said Nino V. Tinari, the. group's attorney. "THEy'VE TAKEN DOWN their sign. They've abandoncd their headquarters (at 143 South st.) and (todeay) I'll file f(: dissolution of their (nonprofit, tax-exenpt) state charter. Tinari said the group didn't have any money to report.. Black B., as the organiza- Hon came to be knoun pened its office last October. Jnnouncing a desire to uplift The Sonth Philadelphia com- munity and stop gang fighting. But the Daily New3 story, disclosed on March 6, that the group was engaged in a bloody power struggle that had left four young men dead. Police and other sources : said the battle involved a dis- . Dato: 4/19/74 pute over the prufits fron al- Edtion: Eight' Star .leged extortion, drug and rob- : bery activities. Police ar- rested six Black B. menibers Editor: ROLFE NEILL on charges ranging from Titlo: weapons possession to murde. MEMBERSOF yOuth gangs said Black B. was try- ing to take over their organi- zations and use them for ilie. gal purposes. Tinari said the fight was. between two "families" James Fox,24, a Black B. of- ficer, and Danald Robinson, 22, leader of the 20th and Car- I penter sts. Tinari said the group - es-. timated to have some 109 I members -- decided to dis- solve because of police i'- rassnent and a bad pr
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