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Yeah he's a hoot. Everything he says is some kind of joke. I remember saying something about how it's supposed to be the best pizza place in Buffalo and he pretended to be offended by the "supposed to be". I'm assuming you saw the video where the Barstool Sports guy did his pizza review a...

When they were getting sentenced for shooting Chiodo's sister, didn't it come out that Robert Spinelli was borderline retarded? Just a legal strategy? They kinda painted this guy as a dim witted hanger on of his brother, while everything here shows that wasn't the case. You got a guy who wasn't made...

I'm not sure if the son running the restaurant now, is Tough Tony's namesake son - the one who was in a nightclub melee back in the day and got stabbed. Not sure if he has more than one son. Regardless, it's safe to say the kid/s are more than straight. A good example of how the kid was probably nev...

Coincidentally this is the only made guy I've ever met / encountered in my life ( Federici greeting diners at his restaurant shouldn't really count lol ) Wait does this mean I can't tell any more lame anecdotes about how I met Todaro at his pizzeria in Buffalo? :lol: Tell it again! I'd like to hear...

Was he the one who was whining/sobbing about nor being about to get to prison in that bonanno osha case? Yeah, I think that's correct. I don't know if it was pre or post sentencing, but he was trying to make a case that he was too sick to be in prison. Not so much whining IMO, just throwing anythin...

Another funny part of that article was this...

Ragano has yet to be arraigned in the latest extortion case. Defense lawyer Joel Stein, who represented him in the 2021 case, said he hadn’t heard about the new indictment.

“This is all news to me,” he said.

lmao

Was the FBI trolling the day they gave him his new name? Ralph Rogers? HAHAHA I wondered about that too and just assumed Massino made it up himself after he left the program. Maybe he had a more plausible name assigned when he was in the program and couldn't use it when leaving? Not sure if somethi...

Remembers of the sopranos when they make the references of guys flipping going to tgifridays and benihanas. Definitely - and Liota at the end of Goodfellas mentioning his food options as a witness as well. It's definitely common to stereotype Smalltown, USA with chain restaurants (kind of a false s...

When Danny Pagano was born in ‘53, I believe they were living in East Harlem, on 123 by 2nd Ave. Joe Pagano did a bid in 1955 and I believe got out in the early 60s. Sometime after this the Paganos moved to Rockland County, as Danny was living in Spring Valley when he got pinched in 1973 on dope ch...

did the junior paganos, the one thats in his or their mid 70s, grow up upstate or in the city? I know the father had a presence in the counties north of westchester I thought the father was originally an East Harlem guy way back when...but I could be wrong. The currently active (but still old) Paga...

i dont understand anyy of this lol And that made me realize this convo is probably better suited for the Prison Gangs sub-forum, lol Regardless - we're basically talking about guys just like we'd be normally talking about LCN guys, only these guys we're talking about are essentially violent, potent...

SonnyBlackstein wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:58 am

newera_212 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 7:08 am It was just a santaria spell for christs sake!

I read this as sangria.

And I'm sticking with it.

Poor Vinny Gorgeous - him trying to conjure up that santaria spell partially led to where he is today...probably actually making (prison) sangria with the eMe buddies he's been photographed with

My favorite "beefs" are the ones involving wedding invitations, i.e. this and the Philly one. Not getting invited to a wedding is a serious affront in their world. Yeah Italians especially take exception to things like this and with Cosa Nostra it’s next level because it disrespecting peo...

Massino playing dime slots and eating jack daniels pulled pork sliders at TGI Fridays is hilarious . Fall from grace for someone who was used to the besta foods, besta wines I can’t remember the exact wording but the dude who wrote the Basciano book basically said as surprising as it was for Massin...

Ivan wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 6:52 pm

B. wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:30 pm Ivan just outted himself as an undercover fed trying to entrap us in a conspiracy to kill a District Court Judge.

put some meat on this accusation for me

It was just a santaria spell for christs sake!