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Wasn't Bruno also taking money from Peter Casella's drug operation? Or was that during Ida's reign?


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stubbs wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 3:52 pm
Grouchy Sinatra wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 2:59 pm No he wasn't. Angelo Bruno wasn't a drug dealer. He had no choice but to let the Gambino Sicilians sling on his turf and he took a cut because he's a mobster and of course he's taking his cut. But he didn't want it.
Agreed, at least in the sense that, no way Bruno could’ve told the Gambinos or the Cherry Hill faction not to operate there and sell drugs. They were his powerbase. I’m sure they gave him some tribute as a courtesy, but I doubt he had a choice.
Long John could have asked to be released to a group dealing, if he was under Bruno.
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Grouchy Sinatra wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:59 pm There's really no evidence he didn't have moral issues with it, either. His drug revenues coming from Gambino dealers goes a long way to support the theory that he allowed them to do it as a favor to the Gambino family. He's in a position to where he can't say no and as far as him accepting the revenue from it, duh. Never said the guy was a priest just said I really don't think he was a fan of drugs, as many in his generation weren't.
Please explain how one would obtain evidence he had moral issues with it or not? wtf?

Bruno took drug money and got killed because he wouldnt let the rest of his family do the same...
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Explain how one would obtain evidence he didn't.
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Maybe because he was a murdering mob boss who took money from drug dealers?


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Bruno was in the mob? No way!
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Grouchy Sinatra wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 7:48 pm Bruno was in the mob? No way!
Angelo Bruno was a drug dealer.
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People and moral issues are a strange thing. He must had had many moral beliefs and obviously some we don't see as moral.
The same can be said of anyone, including all of us on here. A lot of people loved the guy, there were reasons. I think Grouchy has few morals, he thinks most of us don't have any. That doesn't mean we would all deal heroin or do certain other things.
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Anybody got the picture of bruno with the gambino brothers
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Pogo The Clown wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 7:40 pm Maybe because he was a murdering mob boss who took money from drug dealers?


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How active was Stevie Vento Sr during Bruno's reign? Casella, Riccobene, and Vento- major traffickers- were noted as publicly close to Testa shortly after Bruno's death, seen at Virgilio's, Testa's HQ. What about a few years prior?
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According to GohnJotti and Ivan, Bruno must have been pro drug dealing because he didn't go to war with the Gambino family and all of their allies for selling drugs on their turf.
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Yeah I'm sure he was against drugs when he was spending all of that meth and heroin money.


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Pogo The Clown wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 7:40 pm Maybe because he was a murdering mob boss who took money from drug dealers?


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Leonetti is the source, he was a worse murderer, so his word is no good. It is possible Angelo Bruno had his people stay away from it, that was always the story, now people want to change it. The most disturbing aspect of this entire debate is that somehow I am on the same side of a debate with Grouchy.

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I dont know which family Caponigro served during the early 70s, so if it was the Bruno group then Ive seen some records regarding he being involved in narcotics shipments with some high level Chicago members at the time
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