[5] On June 15, 1932, the gangster Ezra Milford Jones was shot dead at the bar of the Stork Club in Detroit, an exclusive speakeasy.

[3] On October 4, 1934, Massei, Charles Bracco, and Joe Bommarito left a Detroit club at 2:30am with the gambling kingpin Gerald Jimmy Hayes.

[9] He seems to have maintained his links with Detroit mobsters running the numbers racket such as Peter Licavoli, William Tocco and Joe Zirilli.

Apparently he was the "money man" of the Detroit mob, investing the profits from criminal activities in Miami hotels, bistros and casinos.

He then moved to the Grand Hotel in Miami Beach, a haunt of hoodlums and gambling operators such as Joe Adonis, Anthony Carfano, Charles Fischetti, Jake Guzik and Ralph Buglio from Chicago.

[1] In 1946 Massei was one of the regular visitors to Al Capone's estate on Palm Island, as were Lansky, Tony Accardo, Jimmy Doyle and Joseph Fischetti.

[11] When the Desert Inn opened in Las Vegas on April 24, 1950, Massei was among the mafiosi attendees, as were William Tocco, Sam Maceo, Peter Licavoli and Frank Milano.

[13] Massei was arrested for the last time in a downtown Detroit motel in 1952 when police broke up a formal meeting of leading gambling operators.

[4] The Chicago Crime Commission records include a memorandum dated February 13, 1953 that reported "... that information was received that Leonard Patrick, Dave Yaras, and Joe Massei, the latter formerly of Detroit, had been operating the Sans Souci gambling establishment in Havana, Cuba.