by eboli » Sat Aug 07, 2021 11:47 am
Anthony 'Shorty' Mascuzzio was a close friend of Gotti Sr. and considered part of his inner circle. He was involved in extortion, juice collecting - that sort of thing. On June 17, 1987, he was shaking down the owners 'Bedrox', a nightclub on West 49th in Manhattan. Things got heated, Mascuzzio started pistol-whipping people and the owner wrestled the gun out of his hands and shot him twice, killing him. At the time of his death, Mascuzzio was wearing a big 'Rolex' watch. Years later, his son Tony got jumped and beaten up by a group of people at a McDonald's parking lot for the same watch. As his mother eloquently put it: 'Nine n*ggers, they smacked my son around. They were trying to kill him for his 'Rolex' watch.'
If I remember correctly, Benny's Preston Geritano's nephew, not his son. Preston died because he had a long-standing beef with his brother-in-law, Andrew Gargiulo, over money. Geritano was looking for Gargiulo with a stickball bat. Gargiulo, who wasn't known as a violent person, stabbed and killed him on the street in front of Amici after Geritano escalated the situation. To my knowledge, this wasn't related to the Genovese. This happened more than a decade after the whole beef between Geritano and Boriello from the early 1990s, when Preston and his other nephew - Vinny - were wrongly considered prime suspects in the shooting.
Anthony 'Shorty' Mascuzzio was a close friend of Gotti Sr. and considered part of his inner circle. He was involved in extortion, juice collecting - that sort of thing. On June 17, 1987, he was shaking down the owners 'Bedrox', a nightclub on West 49th in Manhattan. Things got heated, Mascuzzio started pistol-whipping people and the owner wrestled the gun out of his hands and shot him twice, killing him. At the time of his death, Mascuzzio was wearing a big 'Rolex' watch. Years later, his son Tony got jumped and beaten up by a group of people at a McDonald's parking lot for the same watch. As his mother eloquently put it: 'Nine n*ggers, they smacked my son around. They were trying to kill him for his 'Rolex' watch.'
If I remember correctly, Benny's Preston Geritano's nephew, not his son. Preston died because he had a long-standing beef with his brother-in-law, Andrew Gargiulo, over money. Geritano was looking for Gargiulo with a stickball bat. Gargiulo, who wasn't known as a violent person, stabbed and killed him on the street in front of Amici after Geritano escalated the situation. To my knowledge, this wasn't related to the Genovese. This happened more than a decade after the whole beef between Geritano and Boriello from the early 1990s, when Preston and his other nephew - Vinny - were wrongly considered prime suspects in the shooting.