Giuseppe Palermo

Palermo arrived in New York from Sicily in 1902, flee­ing a 31 year sen­tence for mur­der. He was involved in the 1910 coun­ter­feit­ing case in High­land. He trav­elled to the farm with Lupo and Morello to check the qual­ity of the print­ing. When the Cana­dian coun­ter­feit notes were found to be below par, it was Palermo that burnt the cur­rency on the stove in Cina’s farm.

In March 1909 Palermo pur­chased a share in Cina’s High­land farm from Vin­cenzo Giglio. He pur­chased his share under his alias Sal­va­tore Saracina, he also ran a gro­cery store at 11 Duane Street, Poughkeepsie.

On Jan­u­ary 8^th 1910, secret ser­vice agents trav­elled to Bath Beach, Brook­lyn. They called at 8804 Bay 16^th Street. They arrested Lupo and Palermo. Lupo offered a bribe to the agents but they took him and Palermo to the Brook­lyn police sta­tion. On the way Palermo offered a bribe of 100 dol­lars if they set him free, Lupo joined in this plea, and claimed they should release Palermo ” let this poor old devil go, he has noth­ing to do with this”.

In the result­ing trial Giuseppe Palermo was sen­tenced on the first count to 15 years hard labour and a $500 fine. On the sec­ond count, 3 years hard labour and a $500 fine. He was paroled from Atlanta Pen­i­ten­tiary on 21^st Feb­ru­ary 1916.