With the mafia boss dead, Maria De La Cruz's days were more than over. Leaving David Del Valle's body on the beach, she ran inside the mansion to look for her brother Jeremias Lopez. She managed to find him in the basement of the place chained, much like she had found the kidnapped girl.Apparently both brothers had been discovered due to the lack of intelligence that Jeremias had, after devising the failed plan of the attack in Colombia Bogota. Failed because the scenic screen they wanted to implement was discovered by the dark cartel.When the Colombian Pablo Altamirano, interrogates Lautaro Romero, the same day he was taken to Cuba, he manages to realize that as implausible as his story sounded about what could have really happened, it sounded quite real. Then the intelligence corps within the organization, investigated the parallel organization, and discovered that one of Lautaro's calls, found inside his cell phone that was kidnapped, was a number from Argentina, and although tha
Maria De La Cruz, in the blink of an eye, had achieved fifty percent of her goals, in less time than expected, but there was no time to celebrate half a victory, she had to keep working to achieve the complete victory.He returned from Bogota to Argentina, he had to meet with his work team and closely supervise David Del Valle and his cancerous disease. She went one last time to the house in Bella Vista, she had to have a more appropriate talk with Emiliano Romero, who was already waiting for her. Before entering, she had all the cameras and microphones hidden in the house removed, but at the same time she installed her own security equipment. Then she sent for young Romero;- How are you Emiliano? Everything has been really crazy, sometimes I feel a little lost or that I really can not cope with everything, but I try to go ahead despite everything. I came to tell you something important.- We are the same in the face of that feeling, I feel that all this is a lot for one person, but
Maria De La Cruz, and Jeremias Lopez, the twin brothers, left for what seemed to be, a desired destination for many years, the path of revenge was at its peak.They arrived in Colombia, but they were no longer well received, something was going on, they were ready to assume that Pablo Altamirano did not want to negotiate with a simple teacher, but everyone here had alibis.Pablo Altamirano had sent the coordinates that showed exactly where Lautaro Romero had been held captive, but Maria De La Cruz was not going to stay there waiting for anyone, the game changed from that moment on, they left the cooler with David's head in that place and started their return. They made a stop in Mexico, they had to find out what was happening, they knew that there would be a possible answer, they verified that indeed, everything was a chaos, and that the Colombians were managing the clinic, that made the inexperienced Maria De La Cruz furious. She decided to return immediately to Argentina, and tried
When Maria De La Cruz met the Afro-German from Hamburg, she did not have to leave Mexico. The Fischer family came from Hamburg. They emigrated to Mexico, to one of the poorest neighborhoods, exactly where the De La Cruz family was, because their four little ones were murdered by a gang of hired killers. Little Armin was able to save himself because he was only three years old when he managed to hide until everything was over. Apparently the father worked for the German mafia, he was in charge of laundering money for the elite. And it is known that the German mafia has no limits, no mercy.Armin's family would have protected the girl Maria De La Cruz, after a big shooting that killed her whole family, including her siblings. From then on, these two friends grew up together, went to school together, studied together, robbed and killed together. The father of the little German was the one who trained and prepared these two little boys for the world of terror.Together they had formed a s
While Maria De La Cruz was trying to solve the business world, her main piece was dying, her life had to be saved no matter what, and there was no time left. With the little existence she had left, David suggested that he be taken to Mexico, to the clinic "Por Salud" in Cancun, that money be taken out of his safe, and that he would only recover there, because there he would have everything he needed to save him. That is how they prepared a private sanitary plane, and they all left for the Mesopotamian country. That is to say, the Romero's, the twins and Del Valle, only Armin and his family, who had settled in Rosario in a private residence that Maria had bought for them, would be in charge of the business.Maria De La Cruz, had called the clinic in advance, and apparently they were already accustomed to unforeseen events of this type, it was not the first time that an undocumented suspect was taken to that place. Besides, since it was Dr. David Del Valle's clinic, they were used to s
While David del Valle continued to recover, he collaborated with the order of the organization, that which seemed to be so parallel and in the end would end up unifying and becoming one, both together, David and Maria. But before sentencing the victory of De La Cruz, through some signatures, she had to answer some questions that would make her uncomfortable.- I'm already free, now you can ask me whatever you want, can you or would you prefer tomorrow, are you okay?- I think that at this hour I am already very tired, after the first dose of medication is always very strong for me, but I will ask you two questions, what is the goal you have for this organization? and why did you hide for so long?- To be honest with you I still don't have a clear idea of what I want, or what we really want with my brother, I think the only thing we are looking for is justice, we are on the way to feel satisfied so that my parents can rest in peace. But what we want with the organization, we still don'
The day of the twins' hypothetical death was devastating for the Romeros, who were doing business and working hard in Mexico City, and upon learning what was happening through the media, managed to flee just in time.Criminals like these, i.e. drug traffickers and other international drug dealers, are always waiting to be caught, and that is why they regularly have already marked different future escapes, and money stored in some well as if it were the fabulous medieval times, they only have to look where the compass attacks the opponent and they take flight to other sides quickly. That was exactly what happened to this family that quickly communicated with the German assassins and together they undertook the escape trip, they were kept for a while, without going out, without making scandals, with false documents, and a false quiet life, everything in perfect conditions so that nobody would suspect, they had to wait for a signal, an old telephone was on at every moment, always, only
All the international media were aware of David Del Valle, that is, what he did, what he ate, how much of his sentence he had left, before his death of course, and not only that, but he had a security camera that filmed him in his cubicle around the clock, in addition to the heavily armed guards, there was no possibility of an escape.The news, and viral sectors of gossip, both open channels and the Internet, had been commissioned to pry into the life of the mafia villain and dig in all its depth, had discovered for example: That his father was an important Canadian international executive named John Depp, who was not proud of his son at all and claimed to have no knowledge about his private life; for a long time, because they had quarreled especially when the Mexican had become a crook at an early age, anyway the Depp family, seemed to hide information, such as What has to do the surname Del Valle, in them? And why wasn't David Depp? However, their acquaintances did not dare to give
When she picked up the phone, however, she heard the stern rebuke in her father's voice, who shouted, "Arlyne!" She withdrew her hand. With one brief command, Irving had just firmly excluded her from his most intimate affairs. That was the way things worked in the Weiss family. Doors that slammed shut. Mirrors that stared back. And telephone rings that hid secrets. Maria De La Cruz would have been slow to reflect on her mother's writings, at least she discovered that her real name was "Arlyne", and that she had made a kind of auto-bibliography written in the third person, but how could I find out? Well, those sheets hid an admirable truth and bandit, they coincided perfectly with her father's chest. She was confused for a few days, she wasn't sure what her real surname was, her real name, and she certainly had become quite messed up in her mind. However, in the shadows of her questions, she was filled with relief and emotion for the blood that ran in her veins; even though they carrie
Irving and Billie, who were used to frequenting classier joints, had to pop in from time to time, basically because one of the other co-owners was one of Lucky Luciano's friends: Giuseppe Antonio Doto, also known as Joe Adonis. Adonis was an aloof guy and, to Arlyne, a complete mystery. She managed to catch a glimpse of him one night while he sat waiting for her father in front of the apartment. Although Arlyne was not yet a teenager, the sight of Adonis' hazy profile through the tinted glass of the Cadillac aroused some sexual interest in her. His marked, sensual features seemed both exotic and forbidding. Although the question had not been explicitly discussed, it was clear that any daughter of Irving Weiss would stay far away from the Italians, who were widely known for preying on mirror maze 51 Jewish girls and recounting the details of their conquests on street corners and in taverns all over the Lower East Side. On the one hand, Adonis was attractive because he was so strange,
Although pleasant at first, these formalities began to wear on Miss Blum's patience. Constrained by convention, she could not initiate contact without a suitable pretext. Fortunately, one did present itself. One of the funeral homes was going to hold a raffle and all the East Side undertakers were given a handful of ballots to sell. Ida Blum, who usually handled these matters, called her daughter and asked if she was interested in trying her luck with the Weiss brothers. At her mother's timely suggestion, Billie went to Houston Street on the pretext of selling them ten raffle tickets. Irving was willing to buy all ten, but Henry stopped him, telling him that five would be enough. That confirmed what Billie thought: that Irving was the most generous, and the best catch. In fact, Billie had left nothing to chance. Before approaching them and without anyone seeing her, she had lifted the red Mafia Girl 46 stamps from the ballots in order to guarantee that she was selling a winning one t
Those who declined the offer received threats of sabotage and often death. Lansky and Los Chicos ran their criminal enterprises almost unchallenged until 1933, when they found themselves in troubled waters in the political arena. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had emerged victorious at the 1932 Democratic National Convention with the support of the Lansky-controlled political bosses, soon turned against his old allies and launched an all-out war against organized crime. That move made him so popular that local politicians across the country took his lead. New York Governor Herbert Lehman appointed a politically ambitious young man named Thomas Dewey as special prosecutor to bring the mobsters to justice. Dewey set about his task with fervor, lashing out at the bouncers across the spectrum of suspect sectors. However, the onslaught of his prosecutorial fury fell especially hard on Lepke and Gurrah, whom he considered "the two biggest extortionists in the country." Realizing t
They were all avid gamblers, and they all came to Frankie. Sometimes, preferably on Saturday afternoons, because no funerals were officiated and she was allowed to gamble on the front steps, Arlyne would visit her grandmother. On those occasions, she would go down a back staircase leading to the neighboring basement and visit Uncle Frankie and his friends. She used to find them stretched out on a couple of old couches, going over the race sheet and listening to the standings on a big old wooden radio. They didn't seem to mind that little girl hanging around. Sometimes Frankie or one of the others would sneak her a quarter and a pat on the cheek. In fact, as Arlyne recalls, those men were "the Uncles." For example, there was Uncle Milty Tillinger, the loan shark. Once, when one of Milty's relatives was on the run from justice, Ida hid him in the coffin room until the danger passed, earning the loyalty of the Tillinger family forever. There was also Izzy Smith, owner of Zion Cemetery do
As Arlyne observed, Grandma was always surrounded by men, most of them much younger than she was. Among those blowflies flying over Ida's kitchen on Friday night were Jimmy and Jake, the chauffeurs in charge of driving the hearse during the funeral. It was obvious that both young men held their benefactress in high esteem. Jake, a ladies' man, flirted with Ida nicely and then went on his way. The other, however, had been hit harder. Jimmy the Pagan, as he was known, was a shy soul who seemed unable to find a girlfriend. Ida had taken pity on him and offered to teach him to dance. Later, when she had finished her duties as cook, she would take his hand and lead him into the living room, where she would put a record on the phonograph. Then, to the delight of those present, she would show Jimmy the first steps in the erotic pleasures of tango. Their bodies were not a perfect match; Ida was much more muscular than her skinny dancing partner. But Jimmy was eager to learn and Arlyne found i
As far back as Arlyne's memory goes, every Friday night the Weiss family went to Grandma's house. It was a sacred obligation, one they could not skip under any circumstances. As a child, Arlyne looked forward to those outings with innocent enthusiasm, taking them for granted and not understanding them. By 1944, when she was eleven years old, an age when the growing knowledge of the mysteries behind ordinary events pricked her curiosity, those visits took on a new importance. At three o'clock sharp, as soon as they came home from school, Arlyne and her little sister, Barbara, would bathe and change, putting on the dress the maid had left on the bed. They then presented themselves to their mother, who, as was customary at that hour, was seated on a stool before the dressing table. Billie Weiss assessed her daughters with a critical eye and then placed the little girl before her. As she braided her long honey-colored hair, the little girl's head bobbed docilely up and down. But that idyl
In 1957, at the age of twenty-three, she married a furrier named Brickman. However, that union exploded because of her husband's constant flirtations, in addition to his penchant for grand larceny. With a young daughter and an indefatigable spirit, Arlyne resumed her destructive pursuit of glamour and influence only to end up raped and beaten to a pulp at the hands of mobsters she considered her friends. The rape marked in Arlyne's career the advent of a new cruelty, born simultaneously of a desire to ven- The Mob Girl 18 ganza and the need to protect herself. She spent the next thirteen years of her life in a stormy and often violent relationship with a Genovese mobster named Tommy Luca. During that period, she also became an "entrepreneur", engaging first in illegal gambling and then in drug trafficking, and displaying a constant obsession with money. It was that cynical view of the world that allowed her to evolve quite naturally into a career as a confidante. The main reason for t
Before returning to Argentina to begin her plan of revenge against Emiliano Romero and his brother David Del Valle, she wanted to go back to her childhood neighborhood, and remembered the houses of some friends, one of them Lupita, she called her when she saw her walking quietly between the most dangerous streets of Mexico, but with the gun in her waist, she only gave the impression of being part of there, and in fact she was. When Maria saw Lupita, she crossed the street to meet her, there they entered a large house, one of the best, three stories, white, surrounded by fences and more precarious homes, the lack of the place was noticeable. That afternoon they spent the whole day together, but in the evening Maria wanted to return to Guanajuato, since she had rented an apartment there, just before leaving, her friend found a folder with a particular manuscript that she said was from her mother when she was a little girl. Their mothers had been friends in ancient times, and apparently