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Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by Laughmatics » Sun Sep 01, 2024 3:28 am

Why the hell would anyone want to bump into a mobster? I love following them through reading and keeping up with current events, but I have zero interest in actually meeting any of these guys.

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by Rusd » Mon Aug 05, 2024 7:01 am

It's salmon

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by Russ » Wed Jul 03, 2024 1:42 am

Sorry didn't know it was that tricky if ud rather I name names I have permission from two of my friends to discuss family one did biggest teamster fraud in a real estate deal in history died in prison answered to Jimmy messeria who recently passed other was a lucheses in the last huge russian gas scam answered to captain Marco minuto from jersey

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by AntComello » Mon Dec 04, 2023 2:56 pm

Russell wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:29 pm LONG ISLAND. EVERYWHERE. THEY ARE BUSINESS OWNERS AND NOT WEARING MEMBERS ONLY JACKETS BUT THINK ABOUT THIS. IM 45 FROM SO Southern Nassau county mom from far Rockaway dad from Greenpoint Brooklyn and the many of my best friends in fact half of my high school were sons and daughters of well-known associates or made people even of the month when you ask their parents where they're from New York I forget all the other answers but the bottom line is once they made it to a certain financial level their wives told them the raising their children in a better school district and got them out now Howard Beach decided to stay with their own town and build their own neighborhood and not run away but unfortunately East New York it was too late for that people were taking over Greenpoint became more polish Williamsburg you know but people do not realize how many gangsters there are living in the streets and suburbs of Long Island especially Southern Nassau county you've seen it recently on the bbust but it's always been like that
My brain hurts from reading this

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by SonnyBlackstein » Mon Dec 04, 2023 12:46 pm

Pink's a bold choice.

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by Russell » Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:29 pm

LONG ISLAND. EVERYWHERE. THEY ARE BUSINESS OWNERS AND NOT WEARING MEMBERS ONLY JACKETS BUT THINK ABOUT THIS. IM 45 FROM SO Southern Nassau county mom from far Rockaway dad from Greenpoint Brooklyn and the many of my best friends in fact half of my high school were sons and daughters of well-known associates or made people even of the month when you ask their parents where they're from New York I forget all the other answers but the bottom line is once they made it to a certain financial level their wives told them the raising their children in a better school district and got them out now Howard Beach decided to stay with their own town and build their own neighborhood and not run away but unfortunately East New York it was too late for that people were taking over Greenpoint became more polish Williamsburg you know but people do not realize how many gangsters there are living in the streets and suburbs of Long Island especially Southern Nassau county you've seen it recently on the bbust but it's always been like that

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by NJShore4Life » Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:07 am

Andy is extremely close with both Nicky Scarfo Jr and Jackie Nose.

-Dante

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by johnny_scootch » Sun Dec 03, 2023 9:13 am

PolackTony wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:41 pm The Knapik surname doesn’t come from a stepfather and Merola wasn’t his mother’s maiden name.

Andy Merola spent most of his life as Andrew Knapik Jr. He was born in 1967 and his parents were Andrew Charles Knapik Sr and Rosemarie Ann Luzzi. Andrew Sr was born in 1934 in rural SW PA near the WV border to Slovakian parents. In the late 50s, he moved to North Jersey and was attending Newark Engineering College in 1960 when he married Rosemarie. She was born in 1938 in Essex County to Angelo Luzzi, of San Demetrio Corone, Cosenza, Calabria, and Rosa Lavelli of Troina, in what is today the province of Enna, Sicilia. Rosemarie grew up in Verona and Caldwell and went on to become a teacher’s aide and then an executive secretary at Nabisco, while Andrew Sr was an engineer at Bel Fuse in JC. Both also were highly active in St Rose of Lima Parish in East Hanover and the Knights of Columbus/Columbiettes. Totally belies the low class vibes that Merola had always given me from his past cases and appearances in the papers.

Now, I’ve heard before that Merola was adopted and that Merola was his birth father or birth mother’s name. It could well be the case that he was in fact adopted, as his parents seem to have been rather devout Catholics and he looks, IMO, nothing like either his mother or older sister. It could also be that he made this up to qualify for membership. I have no idea myself. No one in his family tree, at least for the people who were his parents legally, had the surname Merola.
Thanks Tony that was it, adopted not step father.

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by Chazzy » Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:53 am

Thank you. My family went to school with him, attended church where his family went to church. If you knew him in high school, you might not be surprised by the violence, but the whole mafia thing…he was and hung with “burnouts” in high school.

One of the replies brought up a separate question…if a guy is an associate only, not a made guy…he has no sons nor does his brother…yet they have involved the rest of the family. Can an Italian born son in law continue sort of in the role once the older generation is dead? I appreciate any help.

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by PolackTony » Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:41 pm

johnny_scootch wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 6:27 pm
Chazzy wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:26 pm I’m not sure if this is the right place for this question, but it’s about Andy Merola. Does anyone know his story? I grew up in the same town and he had a different last name until way after high school when I first learned he was a made guy. He’s also part of the Gambino family in a town that’s filled with Luchesse guys. Anyone?
In regards to his name I believe Knapik was his stepfathers name, I think the story goes Jackie D’Amico made him change it before they would straighten him out. Merola being his biological fathers name or mothers maiden I can’t recall.
The Knapik surname doesn’t come from a stepfather and Merola wasn’t his mother’s maiden name.

Andy Merola spent most of his life as Andrew Knapik Jr. He was born in 1967 and his parents were Andrew Charles Knapik Sr and Rosemarie Ann Luzzi. Andrew Sr was born in 1934 in rural SW PA near the WV border to Slovakian parents. In the late 50s, he moved to North Jersey and was attending Newark Engineering College in 1960 when he married Rosemarie. She was born in 1938 in Essex County to Angelo Luzzi, of San Demetrio Corone, Cosenza, Calabria, and Rosa Lavelli of Troina, in what is today the province of Enna, Sicilia. Rosemarie grew up in Verona and Caldwell and went on to become a teacher’s aide and then an executive secretary at Nabisco, while Andrew Sr was an engineer at Bel Fuse in JC. Both also were highly active in St Rose of Lima Parish in East Hanover and the Knights of Columbus/Columbiettes. Totally belies the low class vibes that Merola had always given me from his past cases and appearances in the papers.

Now, I’ve heard before that Merola was adopted and that Merola was his birth father or birth mother’s name. It could well be the case that he was in fact adopted, as his parents seem to have been rather devout Catholics and he looks, IMO, nothing like either his mother or older sister. It could also be that he made this up to qualify for membership. I have no idea myself. No one in his family tree, at least for the people who were his parents legally, had the surname Merola.

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by Philly d » Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:10 pm

Chazzy wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:26 pm I’m not sure if this is the right place for this question, but it’s about Andy Merola. Does anyone know his story? I grew up in the same town and he had a different last name until way after high school when I first learned he was a made guy. He’s also part of the Gambino family in a town that’s filled with Luchesse guys. Anyone?
He married a gambino wiseguy's daughter

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by Philly d » Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:46 pm

Chazzy wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:26 pm I’m not sure if this is the right place for this question, but it’s about Andy Merola. Does anyone know his story? I grew up in the same town and he had a different last name until way after high school when I first learned he was a made guy. He’s also part of the Gambino family in a town that’s filled with Luchesse guys. Anyone?
He married a gambino wiseguy's daughter

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by johnny_scootch » Sat Dec 02, 2023 6:27 pm

Chazzy wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:26 pm I’m not sure if this is the right place for this question, but it’s about Andy Merola. Does anyone know his story? I grew up in the same town and he had a different last name until way after high school when I first learned he was a made guy. He’s also part of the Gambino family in a town that’s filled with Luchesse guys. Anyone?
In regards to his name I believe Knapik was his stepfathers name, I think the story goes Jackie D’Amico made him change it before they would straighten him out. Merola being his biological fathers name or mothers maiden I can’t recall.

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by Chazzy » Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:26 pm

I’m not sure if this is the right place for this question, but it’s about Andy Merola. Does anyone know his story? I grew up in the same town and he had a different last name until way after high school when I first learned he was a made guy. He’s also part of the Gambino family in a town that’s filled with Luchesse guys. Anyone?

Re: Places with the highest chance to encounter a Mobster

by NJShore4Life » Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:32 am

I guess we can now add Lanni to list of guys here in Toms River…..

Mob Big Goes Low — Charged In Brutal Beating Of Husband & Wife Owners Of New Jersey Restaurant

Gambino capo Joseph Lanni, a member of the powerful Sicilian faction that now runs the crime family, has been arrested for a crime way beneath his privileged position in organized crime: Lanni is charged with assaulting the husband and wife owners of an eatery on the Jersey Shore where he owns a nearby home. The tirade included a threat to kill them both after he was thrown out for being drunk and disorderly, Gang Land has learned.

Lanni is a close associate of consigliere Lorenzo Mannino, who also serves as "street boss" for official boss Domenico (Italian Dom) Cefalu. But Lanni allegedly behaved like a low life miscreant on a busy Friday night and early Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend at Roxy's Bar and Grille restaurant in Toms River, according to law enforcement authorities and court records.

Authorities say that Lanni, who has a home in Toms River, brutally assaulted the restaurant owners when they left the restaurant, and slashed the tires of their car. He fled before police responded. The 52-year-old mobster was arrested and jailed two weeks ago following an investigation by the Toms River Police, according to court records.

Noting that Lanni had punched and beaten the husband and wife owner of Roxy's and had "threatened both of them with a knife" because the owners "simply asked the defendant to leave" after he became disruptive, Ocean County prosecutor Iva Krasteva argued strongly that Lanni should be detained while he awaits trial on charges that carry up to ten years in prison.

After spending nine days at Rikers Island following his September 19 arrest by the NYPD on a warrant obtained by the Toms River police, Lanni was transferred to the Ocean County jail.

At a detention hearing yesterday, Krasteva stated that after Lanni made threatening phone calls to the owners and left "angry voice mail messages" for them, he returned to the restaurant more than four hours later, "after midnight," and terrorized the owners with threats of violence after they had cleaned up and "were going home for the night."

As the woman owner got into her car, the prosecutor told Superior Court Judge Wendell Daniels, Lanni, who had been hiding behind their car, "entered the vehicle, and stated, 'I'm going to kill you,' and punched (her) on the right side of her head with a closed fist."

When the woman's husband, who was apparently locking up, heard his wife's screams and saw her being attacked, Krasteva continued, "he ran to the vehicle and was attacked by the defendant and an unknown male" who "threw the victim to the ground and proceeded to strike him" several times. The accomplice fled and has not yet been identified.

The arrest complaint states that Lanni punched and kicked her husband "multiple times" while he was on his back laying on the ground next to the couple's Jeep Cherokee as his beaten and terrorized wife remained in the front seat of their car.

"As the victim was getting to his feet," the prosecutor continued, "the defendant took out a knife and punctured the driver's side tires" and "then pointed the knife at the male victim and stated, 'I'm going to get you.'"

Krasteva argued that since Lanni allowed an argument with another patron to escalate into a violent assault against the restaurant owners during which he threatened both victims with a knife, "detention in this case is appropriate" in order to protect the community and Lanni's two victims of any further violence from by the defendant.

Lanni's lawyers Fred Sosinsky and Ed Dimon countered that their client should be released based on the Garden State's laws regarding pre-trial detention, which are similar to New York's. They noted that while the charges were serious, they were merely unproven allegations and that Lanni, who has several convictions for illegal gambling, and one for stock fraud, has no allegations of violence in the past, and should be released without bail.

Judge Daniels agreed. Lanni, who told the judge that while he lives in Staten Island with his wife of 31 years, he purchased a home in Toms River four year ago, was ordered to stay away from the Roxy Bar and Grille restaurant and its owners when he's in Toms River and to return to court for a status conference in the case next month.

Lanni is a longtime ally of the family's late underboss, Francesco (Frank) Cali, who was killed by a mentally troubled Staten Islander in 2019. In December, Lanni's appearance with Mannino at the wake of Luchese wiseguy Frank (Big Frank) Lastorino, a former antagonist who had killed a John Gotti pal for his leaders, indicated that Lanni is close to the current Gambino family leaders.

Allegations that Lanni terrorized the husband and wife owners of an eatery in the same town where he now has a home can't be seen as a positive event by Mannino or Cefalu, who are each viewed by their mob peers, as well as by most mob busters that Gang Land speaks to, as low-key, respectful wiseguys.

Sources also tell Gang Land that Lanni, who took over Frank Cali's rackets and who has benefitted financially from the senseless killing of the family underboss, recently told Cali's widow to sell her home on Todt Hill when she told him that she was having a difficult time making ends meet while raising her three children.

"I'm not surprised," said one law enforcement source who stated he hadn't heard that. "More often than not," he said, "that's the way the cookie crumbles for family members of mobsters who get convicted and receive long prison sentences that they deserve, or when they die. We heard a lot more stories about that years ago, when they were killing each other left and right."

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