Mafia scion is marijuana king of NYC

[willychichi]

During Prohibition, it was booze. Then gambling, racketeering and cocaine. But today, the New York mob makes big money from an unlikely product — marijuana.

And the godfather of ganja is from one of the storied names in Mafia lore: Eboli. Silvio Eboli, 44, is the grandson of Tommy Eboli, who ruled the Genovese crime family from 1969-72, and grandnephew of Patsy Eboli, a Genovese capo and head of the what the family called the Greenwich Village Crew. Tommy Eboli was killed, his family believes by Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, a k a the “Oddfather,” who replaced him as boss of the Genovese. Patsy, the family tells me, figured he was next, so he fled to Lagos, Nigeria, then made his way over land and by boat to Sicily, where he lived in exile.
But the Ebolis were already part of the pop-culture mafia before their fall. Actor Al Lettieri — whose sister, Jean, married Patsy — played Virgil “The Turk” Sollozzo in “The Godfather.”

Lettieri had to ask Tommy Eboli for permission to take the role, and during filming, the cast and crew came over to Patsy’s house in Fort Lee, NJ, for dinner. Legend has it Al Pacino leaned over into the crib of infant Silvio and kissed the ring finger of the “little Don” as a joke.
It was a bit of foreshadowing. In 2013, during the Feast of San Gennaro, Silvio took over what was left of the Eboli crime family — forging his own enterprise outside the Genovese.
Silvio Eboli has been steadily building his marijuana-delivery empire since the 1980s. He started at the bottom, “muling” bud in from Jamaica strapped to his legs. When Rudy Giuliani cracked down on street dealing in the mid- 1990s, the rise of the marijuana home-delivery market began.

Read more: http://nypost.com/2015/05/17/mafia-scio ... ng-of-nyc/

[DonnieB]

I read the rest of the article, kinda sounds a little far fetched for me.

[Pogo The Clown]

Tommy Eboli was killed, his family believes by Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, a k a the “Oddfather,” who replaced him as boss of the Genovese. Patsy, the family tells me, figured he was next, so he fled to Lagos, Nigeria, then made his way over land and by boat to Sicily, where he lived in exile.

That is interesting. I always thought Patsy got whacked in the mid 70s.


Pogo

[toto]

Tommy Eboli was killed, his family believes by Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, a k a the “Oddfather,” who replaced him as boss of the Genovese. Patsy, the family tells me, figured he was next, so he fled to Lagos, Nigeria, then made his way over land and by boat to Sicily, where he lived in exile.

That is interesting. I always thought Patsy got whacked in the mid 70s.


Pogo

I doubt he lived in Sicily considering his family was from near Naples. Do you know if Vincent Cafaro or George Barone commented about the murder of Tommy Eboli?

[East Bronx]

I read the rest of the article, kinda sounds a little far fetched for me.

It reads like something out of the New York Post. Oops .

While Patsy was supposedly living in exile in Sicily, was he under the protection of Don Tommasino and marry a sixteen-year-old named Apollonia Vitelli? I mean, if his nephew kissed Al Pacino's ring from his crib, maybe this family should be getting royalties from Paramount.

I don't doubt the kid moves weed. If you're lazy and criminal minded, who doesn't deal weed today? As for the rest of the story, I'd take the whole thing with a big grain of salt.

As for the book? There's a better shot of me co-writing a book with Ed Leiber than me reading that thing.

[Dellacroce]

He launders his money by ordering multiple meals when goes out to eat at a restaurant. Yeah hes a real criminal mastermind, a worthy heir of the "Eboli crime family".

[Wiseguy]

Looks like the article's main purpose is to promote the book. Never heard of the guy before.

[joeycigars]

He launders his money by ordering multiple meals when goes out to eat at a restaurant. Yeah hes a real criminal mastermind, a worthy heir of the "Eboli crime family".

Why? Silvio doesn’t like to make choices. He wants it all

[joeycigars]

How much money he makes is a mystery, but he has several storage closets in Westchester filled with locked trunks of cash.

[B.]

https://books.google.com/books?id=slz7B ... li&f=false

Check it out on Google books. It's absolute garbage, complete with a ridiculous take on the Castellammarese war. It even has a photo of Maranzano's murder scene but says it's Masseria.

I don't believe the story about Patsy Eboli, either, unless there is some proof.

[Pete]

The eboli family is interesting but maybe not quite enough for a book. Also tommy Ryan's son Louie the mooch was a soldier in the Chicago famIy and was involved in many notorious things like the whacking of the spilotro brothers

[East Bronx]

The eboli family is interesting but maybe not quite enough for a book.

A real writer could probably pull it off. Look how far we've come as far as John Q. Public's overall knowledge of the Mafia. Thirty years ago, ninety percent of people in the United States didn't even know what a made guy was.

Point being, if a professional journalist can write a masterpiece about a bottom-feeding lowlife like Henry Hill, there's someone out there who can do justice to Eboli's story. But it ain't this clown.

[Pogo The Clown]

Check it out on Google books. It's absolute garbage, complete with a ridiculous take on the Castellammarese war. It even has a photo of Maranzano's murder scene but says it's Masseria.

What can he possibly have to say about it considering all of that went down 40 years before he was even born? His father and uncle were also nobodies at the time (really little more than kids during 1930-31) and really wouldn't have been in a postion to have any real direct knowledge about it. Besides they were both dead before they could have told him anything any way.


Pogo

[B.]

Check it out on Google books. It's absolute garbage, complete with a ridiculous take on the Castellammarese war. It even has a photo of Maranzano's murder scene but says it's Masseria.

What can he possibly have to say about it considering all of that went down 40 years before he was even born? His father and uncle were also nobodies at the time (really little more than kids during 1930-31) and really wouldn't have been in a postion to have any real direct knowledge about it. Besides they were both dead before they could have told him anything any way.


Pogo

I think it's the author who is explaining "what happened" back then.

Reading the beginning of the book is embarrassing. Even the way they talk about weed is ridiculous if this guy was really some kind of "marijuana king"... the author talks about this Eboli selling small amounts and how he sells ounces to celebrities. If he was some kind of kingpin he'd be trafficking huge amounts and wouldn't be selling to anyone on an individual basis, much less relatively small amounts.