by Luca Brasi » Tue Mar 20, 2018 5:43 pm
Before he past away and still active with the happenings of the streets, a gentleman by the name of Joe Trevasani would tell me constantly about a couple of wiseguys that really made a big impression on him while he was inside. The first was Joseph Laforte Sr, soldier in the Gambino clan, owned the building where the Ravenite was located, and the second was Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggerio. He would talk about walking the yard with someone who was the definition of a Street guy. He would always call him a Gangster's Gangster, and would get extremely agitated at young 16 yr old kid that felt apart of because he asked "You mean the character in "Donnie Brasco"? The reason was he didn't get it. He didn't get how the man he thought so highly of was made to be a bumbling idiot in Hollywood. He would always talk about near the end of his stay inside, when Ruggiero's health was progressing slowly downwards, to where they couldn't go to far on their walk talks in the yard and how Ruggiero always had one story after another about the old days, the old ways, and the reason why NOT doing 20 yrs ever made since too him, and was never in the cards. He would tell Joe T. on many occasions that he wished that they had got to him on the outside, instead of ending up where he was: Slowly dying from cancer, literally rotting away in the can. These stories would continue for hrs til the predawn light started to show, at the old social club in Revere, and I would give anything to get the chance to hear one from my dear friend Joe T, and know how too really appreciate what was being said.
Take care,
Luca
PS: Yes I know, its another famous gangster I'm writing about, Sorry shit happens
Before he past away and still active with the happenings of the streets, a gentleman by the name of Joe Trevasani would tell me constantly about a couple of wiseguys that really made a big impression on him while he was inside. The first was Joseph Laforte Sr, soldier in the Gambino clan, owned the building where the Ravenite was located, and the second was Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggerio. He would talk about walking the yard with someone who was the definition of a Street guy. He would always call him a Gangster's Gangster, and would get extremely agitated at young 16 yr old kid that felt apart of because he asked "You mean the character in "Donnie Brasco"? The reason was he didn't get it. He didn't get how the man he thought so highly of was made to be a bumbling idiot in Hollywood. He would always talk about near the end of his stay inside, when Ruggiero's health was progressing slowly downwards, to where they couldn't go to far on their walk talks in the yard and how Ruggiero always had one story after another about the old days, the old ways, and the reason why NOT doing 20 yrs ever made since too him, and was never in the cards. He would tell Joe T. on many occasions that he wished that they had got to him on the outside, instead of ending up where he was: Slowly dying from cancer, literally rotting away in the can. These stories would continue for hrs til the predawn light started to show, at the old social club in Revere, and I would give anything to get the chance to hear one from my dear friend Joe T, and know how too really appreciate what was being said.
Take care,
Luca
PS: Yes I know, its another famous gangster I'm writing about, Sorry shit happens