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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.Born in Italy Yale and his family arrived in America circa 1901. He quickly fell in a life of crime as a teenager. Despite his medium height and chubby build, Yale was noted as a fearsome fistfighter and thief. One example of his prowess came at the age of seventeen in 1910 when he and a friend of his, a wrestler named Booby Nelson, laid waste to a bunch of drunks in a Coney Island pool hall, cracking pool cues and hurling billiard balls. One of his early arrests, in October 1912, was for stealing a load of furs. Early in his career, he met Johnny Torrio, who ushered him into the Five Points Gang and groomed him for bigger things.In November 1924, Frankie was summoned to Chicago to help out his old pals, Al Capone and Johnny Torrio, with another murder. It is widely believed that Frankie, along with John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, went to the Schofield flower shop and killed North Side Gang leader Dean O'Banion on November 10, 1924. Eight days later, Yale and Sam Pollaccia were arrested at Chicago's Union Station, but released when their alibi was confirmed.

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Frankie Yale was head of the New York mob called the Black handers. The other rival gang at that time were a group of Irish called the White handers lead by Wild Bill Lovett and Peg Leg Lonergan.These two factions would constantly fight each other for control of the lucreative docks. (Fish markets and shipping).Yales' crew eventually prevails.Back in New York during his younger days, Al Capone went to work for Yale tending bar and even supplying muscle at Yale's * Harvard Inn at Coney Island. Yale tutored Al on the ways of gangstering.Yale was said to be sometimes kind, but was also known as very wicked. One instance had Yale beating the crap out of his younger brother Angelo to teach him a lesson.On his nicer side he liked to help out the fellow italians with food for the poor and coal to heat their homes.He had a vain personality as seen with the manufacturing of his own line of cigars with his likeness on the box.These cigars were apparently atrocious for their smell and taste.He didn't care as long as he made $ from them.He was known as a fixer and managed to beat the rap on many cases against him. He was into bootlegging ,racketeering. He also held repectable businesses such as a funeral parlor and a cafe.the six guys killed in the massacre