Antonio Comito

Anto­nio Comito was born in 1880, in Catan­zaro, Cal­abria. He worked as a printer before leav­ing Italy for New York in June, 1907. He found work in Man­hat­tan as a printer at Park Row and lived in an apart­ment at 72 James Street. Comito was Grand Deputy in an Ital­ian soci­ety called the “Sons of Italy” a sup­port group for recently arrived Ital­ian immi­grants to America.

In 1908 Comito began coun­ter­feit­ing Cana­dian and US cur­rency for the Morello gang. On Jan­u­ary 4^th, 1910 Comito was arrested when nine secret ser­vice offi­cers and police­men raided his flat. Comito was taken to see Cap­tain Flynn where he began to tell him every­thing he knew about the Morello gang. The result­ing court case saw Giuseppe Morello, Ignazio Lupo and gang jailed under heavy sen­tences whilst Comito was set free after act­ing as the prin­ci­pal wit­ness for the prosecution.