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B. wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 2:26 pm It would take an avalanche of stupid lies for me to lose respect for Capeci. His credibility is well-earned which is why it's surprising he'd lapse in such a lazy way and try to cover it up. When he's made mistakes before he's addressed it head-on. Hopefully he will clear it up in a future article and set everything right.

He is getting older and no doubt it's hard to write a weekly article especially during COVID, so I hope this isn't a medical issue and was just a small error in judgment.

This is a mature response.

Capeci has served us with 30 years of genuinely researched, insightful, novel and exclusive NYC LCN information.
To say he deserves to be discredited from one mistake, egregious or not, is not looking at the big picture.

It would take an avalanche of stupid lies. Wise words.

more from jerry. im sure hes tallking about chin

He got it from Pinterest. Its almost word for word

Capeci is probably shook after being put on blast by Pennisi, so he's getting sloppy.

gmms was right, Capeci has been reading wiki too much.

Did he remove Peter Cataldo's name too?

Cheech wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:11 pm UPDATE

Jerry says he never said Augie Cataldo was a made guy and he edited from the article

Damn this isnt a good look for Jerry.

It's an embarrassing situation for him. I think his (potential) mistake isn't a big deal compared to his great track record, but the way he tried to cover it is lame. It's better to own it and move on.

It would take an avalanche of stupid lies for me to lose respect for Capeci. His credibility is well-earned which is why it's surprising he'd lapse in such a lazy way and try to cover it up. When he's made mistakes before he's addressed it head-on. Hopefully he will clear it up in a future article and set everything right.

He is getting older and no doubt it's hard to write a weekly article especially during COVID, so I hope this isn't a medical issue and was just a small error in judgment.

B. wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:13 pm Brutal turn of events for Capeci's credibility if this is true.

I know firsthand that random internet info can turn out to be right later on and everybody makes mistakes, but if Capeci really is parroting info from Instagram and Pinterest captions that sucks for everyone.

Maybe he's get dementia or alzheimers of some sort.

What gets me about Cataldo is there are photos of him with the Romanos and I've seen Carmine Romano's son (doesn't seem like a fake account, but who knows) respond to the Instagram photos praising his relatives (including Cataldo) and doing nothing to challenge the allegations. Cataldo is a real person connected to the Romanos, that much seems to be true, so it's weird someone picked him out of a hat.

You'd think if someone's obscure relative is getting accused of being a high-ranking underworld figure all over the internet they'd challenge that accusation, not just egg it on with praise, but you see the same thing with the confirmed members on those photo sites, where their relatives respond the same way, just saying "Stand up guy!". We can see these people are proud to have mafia relatives but what gets me with Cataldo is that his relative would egg it on if it's a fabrication.

Gravano seems fairly accessible these days, so like someone said, maybe he can tell us if this guy was a Ramper or if he knew him. Gerry Pappa joined the Genovese family, so maybe Gravano could tell us if other Rampers went the same way.

Very embarrassing

Brutal turn of events for Capeci's credibility if this is true.

I know firsthand that random internet info can turn out to be right later on and everybody makes mistakes, but if Capeci really is parroting info from Instagram and Pinterest captions that sucks for everyone.

He lies about a correction!?! what an asshole. He def got those 2 paragraphs about cataldo from pintrest. Smh