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Thanks for posting. I don't see how the hell Goldie testifying against Massino is "selfless and heroic". That's a worthy description of a whistleblower, not a rat who cooperates when he finds himself jammed up. How could it possibly be considered selfless when the only reason he did it was...

He talks about fat Ron a lot lol when they asked the most he ever lost betting sports he said 250k to Ron but didn’t pay lol I asked him how he knew to be so careful around him the whole time and he said “ I knew he was trying to put me in jail and I was trying to rob him “ I feel like Ron gets so ...

Has he ever talked about Previte? I always liked the story where Merlino kicked everyone out of the pool and then helped the autistic kid pretend to clean it.

Thanks for posting this, incredible stuff. This was great content for a newspaper back in the pre-internet days. Interesting that Lefty brought his wife and her friend out to Milwaukee to wait out that decision in the hotel with the agent, I remember that story from Pistone's book but I don't recall...

Good breakdown of the semi-modern era Brooklyn crew, Chin - thank you I agree about Big John probably being nowhere as incompetent as Pennisi made him sound. I've "followed" Pennisi from the jump since his first interview with Levechia and once the ball got rolling and they started droppi...

I just finished this book. It was ok but not great. Maybe a better writer could have gotten more out of D'Elia or maybe not. - Most interesting stuff is about Bufalino, most of the book is about him in fact. D'Elia says that the Hoffa murder was instigated by Provenzano and Salerno but they needed ...

Man that's crazy that Wooley finally got got. How many bodies does he have on him I wonder? He was a major factor in the 90s biker war. He was allied with Rizzuto but was he still allied with the HA? ha most likely had to be the culprits.. street gang members wouldn’t be able to get the intel requi...

Man that's crazy that Wooley finally got got. How many bodies does he have on him I wonder? He was a major factor in the 90s biker war. He was allied with Rizzuto but was he still allied with the HA?

I just finished this book. It was ok but not great. Maybe a better writer could have gotten more out of D'Elia or maybe not. - Most interesting stuff is about Bufalino, most of the book is about him in fact. D'Elia says that the Hoffa murder was instigated by Provenzano and Salerno but they needed B...

"How long can he talk about rats before it gets old" Hmmm, I don't know George, but probably not before the first 75 times you said "Make money, not headlines" while rehashing the same few murders for 20 years. I saw one of their videos a few years ago and Anastasia actually sai...

In the book Anastasia claimed that Alite was jet-setting around the world, visiting Madrid, having local crime bosses provide security for him as he jogged in Albania etc. But I thought I read somewhere else that it was proven that Alite was in Brazil the entire time because he was using an internet...

Alphonse Persico would have been in his 20s when he got made.

Thanks for posting this. That conversation between Carneglia and Gene Gotti is pretty remarkable, what's the deal with that it says it was recorded while Gotti was in Mckean. Wouldn't Carneglia have been on the streets then? They have him being convicted in 2001. My question is where is this recordi...

I highly doubt it because we never heard about this from guys like D'Arco and Kaplan who spent a lot of time with Gaspipe.

I swear some times I look around and feel like I ended up on a Bizarro world, or entered into another timeline or something. There is just so much insane shit happening that would have been unthinkable not that long ago. Drag queen performances for kindergarten-age children. The Republican frontrunn...