Editing Morello crime family (section)

==Formation and activities==
Morello's relatives and paesani established businesses and residences in Lower Manhattan before expanding into East Harlem and the Bronx. His counterfeiting combine relied heavily, but not exclusively, on trusted immigrants from Corleone. Palermo-born Lupo became a family connection through his 1903 marriage to Morello's half-sister Salvatrice Terranova.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA45 Critchley, ''Origin of Organized Crime'', pp. 39–60].</ref>

Counterfeiting was the organization's strongest documented early enterprise. Extortion attributed to a unified “Black Hand society” was greatly exaggerated by authorities and newspapers; Critchley concludes that Black Hand ventures were secondary to counterfeiting and that no centralized national Black Hand organization was demonstrated.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA23 Critchley, ''Origin of Organized Crime'', pp. 23–29, 43–47].</ref>

The 1903 Barrel Murder investigation publicly exposed Morello, Lupo and associates to intensive police and Secret Service scrutiny. Arrest or surveillance established suspicion and association, not guilt or a complete organizational chart.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1903/04/16/archives/eight-sicilians-held-for-barrel-murder-secret-service-men-saw.html “Eight Sicilians Held for Barrel Murder”], ''The New York Times'', April 16, 1903.</ref>