More than a dozen locked up on gambling and extortion charges in staten island

[Chucky]

Didnt Capeci say Amato is very powerful, 60 years old and stalking women hahaha loser

She must have gave great head

[Lupara]

This goes to show what a laughing stock The Mafia is in 2019. A so called Made Member Of The Mob getting caught with a Mafia history Book in the trunk of his car. On top of that these 20 year olds trying to make a name for themselves with no experience and brains in there head obsessed with Movies like Goodfellas and the Bronx Tale lol. Is this a Mafia or the circus cause it don’t seem like these are a bunch of bright individuals

this is not a new thing, even in italy police nabbed mafia members with mafia books at home, in the past they watched the godfather movie or read mario puzo's book

Yeah Gravano's generation grew up imitating The Godfather.

[mafiastudent]

This goes to show what a laughing stock The Mafia is in 2019. A so called Made Member Of The Mob getting caught with a Mafia history Book in the trunk of his car. On top of that these 20 year olds trying to make a name for themselves with no experience and brains in there head obsessed with Movies like Goodfellas and the Bronx Tale lol. Is this a Mafia or the circus cause it don’t seem like these are a bunch of bright individuals

this is not a new thing, even in italy police nabbed mafia members with mafia books at home, in the past they watched the godfather movie or read mario puzo's book

Yeah Gravano's generation grew up imitating The Godfather.

I thought they hated the Godfather?

[Lupara]

This goes to show what a laughing stock The Mafia is in 2019. A so called Made Member Of The Mob getting caught with a Mafia history Book in the trunk of his car. On top of that these 20 year olds trying to make a name for themselves with no experience and brains in there head obsessed with Movies like Goodfellas and the Bronx Tale lol. Is this a Mafia or the circus cause it don’t seem like these are a bunch of bright individuals

this is not a new thing, even in italy police nabbed mafia members with mafia books at home, in the past they watched the godfather movie or read mario puzo's book

Yeah Gravano's generation grew up imitating The Godfather.

I thought they hated the Godfather?

I thought they all loved it, don't we all?

[NinoFromNYC2]

To me it seems like a bunch of young immature 20 year olds imitating there favorite movie or book they read trying to live it out in real life.
Staten Island is filled with low lives like this

[slimshady_007]

Once again all the post about how young italian american dont want the life anymore, all are doctors,lawyers etc. There are no recruitment pools anymore are quit frankly total crap.. just look at the associate lists and their ages.
Its the same in maybe all the latest indictments across all families, you got tons of young italian americans as associates..

In general, the depletion of the recruiting pool on a national basis is absolutely true. But the New York metro area has always had the biggest pool to select from and obviously still does today. That doesn't mean it hasn't declined though, in both quantity and quality.

All true.. but the recruitment pool in greater NYC and New Jersey its still quite significant and enough for keeping this ”thing” going for another couple of decades. There are still tons of young italian americans around the families as associates. In the NYC area.

Plenty of Italian Americans grow up with a lack of guidance and are attracted to the fast lifestyle of the mafia. The Amato kid spent his entire adolescence without a father at home and that probably had a lot to do with him going down the wrong path. Plus his dad bein in the mafia didn’t help.

From the looks of it, Sounds like Sr. Wanted Jr. All in and had him giving directives and was happy to have his son handling business and grooming him

Yea what an awful father u would think he’d want his son nowhere near the life after all those years in prison

[Moscone65]

Gravano said the godfather part one is what motivated him to join the mob

[Moscone65]

To me it seems like a bunch of young immature 20 year olds imitating there favorite movie or book they read trying to live it out in real life.
Staten Island is filled with low lives like this

A lot of young punks in there but everyone’s got to start somewhere I guess. Some older guys guiding them tho. It’s a blue collar gavone crew but I’d still consider them wiseguys, even tho the younger ones r wannabes.

[mafiastudent]

Gravano said the godfather part one is what motivated him to join the mob

Well, if he based it off a movie, then it makes sense why he became a rat. His fantasy life came crashing down because the big guy yapped about him behind his back. And how does anyone know if that's really true anyway other than him saying it? More bullshit from him for being an asshole.

[NinoFromNYC2]

I knew two of them in this bust and believe me they were as dumb as dog shit

[scagghiuni]

Yeah Gravano's generation grew up imitating The Godfather.

but even the generations before, several young people were fascinated by the mob myths and legends like osso, mastrosso and carcagnosso or they read the book about beati paoli etc.

[Amershire_Ed]

Gravano said the godfather part one is what motivated him to join the mob

Yeah he said in the Diane Sawyer interview that he and the people he was around felt like Godfather was the greatest representation of “the life”. He was borderline emotional talking about how much he loved that film.

[Jbravo]

Plenty of young blood on the island...just not as high quality as the past....half being pill heads...no good

[CornerBoy]

amato must be so proud ,his son and him in the same bullpen, sharing jail house food together ,what a mans man..

so well put
these guys are so dumb- those are the guys in the street these days

And the fed agents are largely from fourth tier law schools, too stupid to go out and make money. But they have billions and still have to play dirty

[Moscone65]

1 out of every 10 of these upcoming gangsters will be actual wiseguys