by Angelo Santino » Thu Aug 30, 2018 5:09 pm
Chucky wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 12:57 pm
SILENT PARTNERZ wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 7:58 am
Ivan wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 2:06 am
DPG wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 12:00 am
I got to thinking about Philly today realized Scarf had to be one paranoid fuck. I mean can you blame him for all the killing. They went thru 2 boss in a year not to mention other top members in on the murder plots. Im sure he felt like he didn't have much of a choice but to kill any possible threat.
Scarfo was justified in his hits by mafia standards. Hi bloodthirstiness is overrated in my opinion.
Testa and Stanfa were just as trigger-happy.
I humbly disagree. If Leonetti, Crow and DelGiorno all
say he was a murderous guy., I believe it. What was it
28 dead guys in under 10 years. That's a lot of dead.
The stories of 'hit crews' driving around all day looking
for guys to kill. To the point that it was getting in the
way of collections and other $ making duties. I do agree
that Salvie (especially) and many other Philly members
were murderous as well. From Bruno's murder to the
end of Scarfo, the family created Killadelphia fo sho!
Leonetti is a sack of shit who conveniently underplays his role in things. Had guys done what they were supposed to do, kick up and follow the rules, they wouldn't have had any problems with Scarfo. They balked and paid the price, Scarfo wasn't playing games. Those hit crews you mentioned were around during the Riccobene thing, who had his own guys doing the same.
Merlino and his guys were dropping guys on a regular basis well into the early 2000s, there's no difference.
According to Burnstein, Leonetti hasn't changed his mindset and will always be a killer. In documentaries he laments Salvie Testa's murder yet informants recall him asking when the hit was going down because he was tired of looking at him. Granted he could have been "caught up" in the life but if so using Testa's murder as a "turning point" has to be voided from his narrative.
One other tidbit, Burnstein originally wanted to name the book: "The Devil's Protege" but Leonetti felt that was disingenuous to the devil. Sorta gives you an insight into his biases and how that may affect his narrative in the book.
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I got to thinking about Philly today realized Scarf had to be one paranoid fuck. I mean can you blame him for all the killing. They went thru 2 boss in a year not to mention other top members in on the murder plots. Im sure he felt like he didn't have much of a choice but to kill any possible threat.
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Scarfo was justified in his hits by mafia standards. Hi bloodthirstiness is overrated in my opinion.
Testa and Stanfa were just as trigger-happy.
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I humbly disagree. If Leonetti, Crow and DelGiorno all
say he was a murderous guy., I believe it. What was it
28 dead guys in under 10 years. That's a lot of dead.
The stories of 'hit crews' driving around all day looking
for guys to kill. To the point that it was getting in the
way of collections and other $ making duties. I do agree
that Salvie (especially) and many other Philly members
were murderous as well. From Bruno's murder to the
end of Scarfo, the family created Killadelphia fo sho!
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Leonetti is a sack of shit who conveniently underplays his role in things. Had guys done what they were supposed to do, kick up and follow the rules, they wouldn't have had any problems with Scarfo. They balked and paid the price, Scarfo wasn't playing games. Those hit crews you mentioned were around during the Riccobene thing, who had his own guys doing the same.
Merlino and his guys were dropping guys on a regular basis well into the early 2000s, there's no difference.
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According to Burnstein, Leonetti hasn't changed his mindset and will always be a killer. In documentaries he laments Salvie Testa's murder yet informants recall him asking when the hit was going down because he was tired of looking at him. Granted he could have been "caught up" in the life but if so using Testa's murder as a "turning point" has to be voided from his narrative.
One other tidbit, Burnstein originally wanted to name the book: "The Devil's Protege" but Leonetti felt that was disingenuous to the devil. Sorta gives you an insight into his biases and how that may affect his narrative in the book.