by newera_212 » Thu Mar 31, 2022 12:00 pm
Pogo The Clown wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 6:53 pm
From what I remember he was supposed to gaurd the premises but left it one night which allowed the Feds to go in and bug it.
Pogo
Not the apartment, maybe the Ravenite club itself. Apparently the feds used ConEd to coax the women out of the apartment to say they were doing major gas lines work to the building and it'd be dangerous for her to stay. They paid for a hotel and a trip for her and another relative of hers to accompany her (I don't think she had been anywhere before) and had her away for over a week. This is "confirmed" by the woman's great nephew who's given interviews on YouTube on some of these Mob channels, although the guy himself grew up far out on Long Island, visited his aunt at that apartment like 2 or 3 times in his life, and really has nothing of note to say. But, supposedly this is what he said was told to him by other members in his family. I think today if ConEd needs to do something like that in your building the city might put you up at a local hotel or homeless shelter lmao - but back then I don't think they were doing stuff like that, never the less sending you to AC or Vegas all expenses paid. It's a shock that nobody around the woman found that unbelievable.
It doesn't sound that out of pocket. Even as recent as the late 80s / early 90s, with the demographic we know that neighborhood to have already drying up by then, the Feds still had a tough time doing anything on Mulberry Street re: Gotti. All those surveillance photos and videos of the walk-talks came from blocks away; they rented a South facing apartment on the North side of Houston Street in a newly built building that was in the process of lease up, and used what was crazy expensive camera equipment at the time to get a view down Mulberry. If that club had been another block or two south I don't think the Feds would have been able to get any of that. The news crews were able to get better footage of those guys compared to the Feds. There's a great video of a Captains meeting that some news crew got (it's on YouTube), taken from a camera directly across the street. A bunch of guys just roll up, park their cars on the sidewalk, and walk right in. They'd send Norman out to bring food or anything else that was left in their cars
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From what I remember he was supposed to gaurd the premises but left it one night which allowed the Feds to go in and bug it.
Pogo
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Not the apartment, maybe the Ravenite club itself. Apparently the feds used ConEd to coax the women out of the apartment to say they were doing major gas lines work to the building and it'd be dangerous for her to stay. They paid for a hotel and a trip for her and another relative of hers to accompany her (I don't think she had been anywhere before) and had her away for over a week. This is "confirmed" by the woman's great nephew who's given interviews on YouTube on some of these Mob channels, although the guy himself grew up far out on Long Island, visited his aunt at that apartment like 2 or 3 times in his life, and really has nothing of note to say. But, supposedly this is what he said was told to him by other members in his family. I think today if ConEd needs to do something like that in your building the city might put you up at a local hotel or homeless shelter lmao - but back then I don't think they were doing stuff like that, never the less sending you to AC or Vegas all expenses paid. It's a shock that nobody around the woman found that unbelievable.
It doesn't sound that out of pocket. Even as recent as the late 80s / early 90s, with the demographic we know that neighborhood to have already drying up by then, the Feds still had a tough time doing anything on Mulberry Street re: Gotti. All those surveillance photos and videos of the walk-talks came from blocks away; they rented a South facing apartment on the North side of Houston Street in a newly built building that was in the process of lease up, and used what was crazy expensive camera equipment at the time to get a view down Mulberry. If that club had been another block or two south I don't think the Feds would have been able to get any of that. The news crews were able to get better footage of those guys compared to the Feds. There's a great video of a Captains meeting that some news crew got (it's on YouTube), taken from a camera directly across the street. A bunch of guys just roll up, park their cars on the sidewalk, and walk right in. They'd send Norman out to bring food or anything else that was left in their cars