THE BLACK HAND FORUM

I was wrong, it wasn't at least the father Joseph Piraino who was shot with Morello. Piraino was shot on the street and he had a massive funeral in Brooklyn. This article says "fingers of his right hand were gnarled and weirdly distorted by paralysis." Murder son of slain racketeer http://...

This has confused me too. According to this source Joseph Piraino was the last person to see Frankie Yale alive. It also mentions that he was the father of Anthony "Big Tony" Piraino and Joseph S. Piraino. https://books.google.fi/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA163&dq=yale+piraino&h...

But it's interesting how you hear the family referred to as the "brugad," that came up in the Eboli FBI files as well as Salerno in 1987. Isn't that just a misspelling of borgata? Hasn't that been around forever in mob speak? I always thought so, now I'm not so sure. I've seen it used in ...

Chris Christie wrote:But it's interesting how you hear the family referred to as the "brugad," that came up in the Eboli FBI files as well as Salerno in 1987.

Isn't that just a misspelling of borgata? Hasn't that been around forever in mob speak?

I don't know the rhyme and reason behind it, but for example Michael Franzese uses caporegime in interviews where as The Gotti Tapes -book transcripts shows that the Gambino admins talked about capodecina (provided the the transcription is correct). Maybe it could also be that different families or ...