Tony Corallo 20 years later

[IrishDave]

Any info on Eddie Coco?

[richard_belding]

When was Macaluso made? He seems to have been pretty active in the mid to late 60's, name coming up in quite a few contempt cases. One of which involved Genovese members John Masiello and Alfred Cupola.

Also I believe the Luongo hit took place at Genovese member Swaggy Carlucci's home, IIRC. Or somewhere near his home.

[chin_gigante]

D'Arco's account of the Luongo murder:

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Casso's account of the Luongo murder:

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[richard_belding]

It was William Oldham - the mob cops detective- who also mentions Carlucci's home as the site of the murder

[chin_gigante]

It was William Oldham - the mob cops detective- who also mentions Carlucci's home as the site of the murder

Ah yes, found it. Thank you.

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[TwoPiece]

great thread

the way they took out luongo was right out of a movie. i see there's a small variation in the sources about whether it was vic or his brother who pulled the trigger though.

[MSFRD]

Still a very confusing scenario. Who gave permission and why would Amuso and Casso need to kill Luongo if they had already been tapped as the new leaders? Probably an era that will always be shrouded in mist. Five and half decades of smooth leadership and stability, and then absolute chaos and discord.

[TwoPiece]

Still a very confusing scenario. Who gave permission and why would Amuso and Casso need to kill Luongo if they had already been tapped as the new leaders? Probably an era that will always be shrouded in mist. Five and half decades of smooth leadership and stability, and then absolute chaos and discord.

from the sources it seems like tony ducks ordered it. santoro was gonna have his guy luongo take over, inevitably boosting his own power even from behind bars. so tony ducks uses his consigs (christy tick) BK guys to handle it and puts them up instead.

that one source that says santoro himself led luongo to the sitdown is interesting though since it doesn't say that anywhere else.

[Pmac2]

Santoro is un trial when they killed buddy. Hes to hot to be doing a hit around . If they used a genovese soldiers house I bet that guy would have had approval from chin to be mingling in another family's hit. Chin would have had him killed for not telling him

[Ozgoz]

I wonder how Corallo faired in Leavenworth.

There’s a book called the hot house tales from Leavenworth which covers his time there but I don’t know if he’s mentioned in it?

Corallo is an interesting character to me, one of those Italian Harlem old world relics that dresses like a nice old grampa but actually is gobbing all over the sidewalk and speaks like “you gotta sell the cocksucking shit.”

One of the unanswered questions is did Amuso / Cassio wrest the family from him because being a boss of a family is going to help your status in prison. And as Amuso has shown, doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll chuck you in the supermax.

I suspect at Corallo’s age and wealth it must’ve been a hard pill to swallow going to prison. But he seemed like a mean old bastard so que sera

[Ozgoz]

I wonder how Corallo faired in Leavenworth.

There’s a book called the hot house tales from Leavenworth which covers his time there but I don’t know if he’s mentioned in it?

Corallo is an interesting character to me, one of those Italian Harlem old world relics that dresses like a nice old grampa but actually is gobbing all over the sidewalk and speaks like “you gotta sell the cocksucking shit.”

One of the unanswered questions is did Amuso / Casso wrest the family from him because being a boss of a family is going to help your status in prison. And as Amuso has shown, doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll chuck you in the supermax.

I suspect at Corallo’s age and wealth it must’ve been a hard pill to swallow going to prison. But he seemed like a mean old bastard so que sera

[Pmac2]

I read somewhere boston underboss gerry anguilo was also with tony ducks in Leavenworth. Seem close in age and status

[TwoPiece]

I wonder how Corallo faired in Leavenworth.

There’s a book called the hot house tales from Leavenworth which covers his time there but I don’t know if he’s mentioned in it?

Corallo is an interesting character to me, one of those Italian Harlem old world relics that dresses like a nice old grampa but actually is gobbing all over the sidewalk and speaks like “you gotta sell the cocksucking shit.”

One of the unanswered questions is did Amuso / Casso wrest the family from him because being a boss of a family is going to help your status in prison. And as Amuso has shown, doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll chuck you in the supermax.

I suspect at Corallo’s age and wealth it must’ve been a hard pill to swallow going to prison. But he seemed like a mean old bastard so que sera

i love the hot house, great book and i have it on google play. corallo is only mentioned once in a segment where the author is describing some of the different groups in the prison. here's the segment:

The dozen Italians sitting below Pierce were Mafia “wiseguys.” Each wore prison-issued white shorts and cotton shirts, but their clothing had been pressed and was brand-new. Some smoked William Penn cigars at fifty cents apiece, the highest-priced stogies in the commissary. Gold chains dangled from their necks, and a stack of graphite tennis rackets, the most expensive item a convict could special-order at the Hot House store, was nearby. Even though they were watching the ball game, each of the wiseguys was sitting so he could face and hear an older convict in the group. Anthony “Tony Ducks” Corallo didn’t say much, but when he spoke, his comments either brought a solemn nod or a boisterous laugh, depending upon which was appropriate. Corallo was the boss of the New York-based Lucchese crime family, a real-life Mafia godfather, and no one at the Hot House bothered him. Not that anyone had reason to. He was a perfect gentleman. In prison, a Mafioso did his time as quietly as possible because it improved his chances for parole. There was only one time anyone could remember that a Mafia member got into trouble, and that had happened at the penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where Mafia members are frequently housed because of its proximity to New York City. A guard, for some reason, began harassing a wiseguy. Every day the guard searched the inmate’s cell, went through his mail, and frisked him as he walked the compound, until the wiseguy had simply had enough. One day a visitor from outside the prison came to see the wiseguy. The guard saw the visitor slip something into the wiseguy’s hand. “What you got there?” the guard six-year-old daughter playing at her elementary school. “See how easy it can be?” the Mafioso asked. Whether or not the story was true was impossible to tell, but every guard and most inmates in the Hot House had heard it. The message was clear. The Mafia could “reach out into the streets,” and that made guards and other convicts nervous.

[Ozgoz]

I wonder how Corallo faired in Leavenworth.

There’s a book called the hot house tales from Leavenworth which covers his time there but I don’t know if he’s mentioned in it?

Corallo is an interesting character to me, one of those Italian Harlem old world relics that dresses like a nice old grampa but actually is gobbing all over the sidewalk and speaks like “you gotta sell the cocksucking shit.”

One of the unanswered questions is did Amuso / Casso wrest the family from him because being a boss of a family is going to help your status in prison. And as Amuso has shown, doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll chuck you in the supermax.

I suspect at Corallo’s age and wealth it must’ve been a hard pill to swallow going to prison. But he seemed like a mean old bastard so que sera

i love the hot house, great book and i have it on google play. corallo is only mentioned once in a segment where the author is describing some of the different groups in the prison. here's the segment:

The dozen Italians sitting below Pierce were Mafia “wiseguys.” Each wore prison-issued white shorts and cotton shirts, but their clothing had been pressed and was brand-new. Some smoked William Penn cigars at fifty cents apiece, the highest-priced stogies in the commissary. Gold chains dangled from their necks, and a stack of graphite tennis rackets, the most expensive item a convict could special-order at the Hot House store, was nearby. Even though they were watching the ball game, each of the wiseguys was sitting so he could face and hear an older convict in the group. Anthony “Tony Ducks” Corallo didn’t say much, but when he spoke, his comments either brought a solemn nod or a boisterous laugh, depending upon which was appropriate. Corallo was the boss of the New York-based Lucchese crime family, a real-life Mafia godfather, and no one at the Hot House bothered him. Not that anyone had reason to. He was a perfect gentleman. In prison, a Mafioso did his time as quietly as possible because it improved his chances for parole. There was only one time anyone could remember that a Mafia member got into trouble, and that had happened at the penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where Mafia members are frequently housed because of its proximity to New York City. A guard, for some reason, began harassing a wiseguy. Every day the guard searched the inmate’s cell, went through his mail, and frisked him as he walked the compound, until the wiseguy had simply had enough. One day a visitor from outside the prison came to see the wiseguy. The guard saw the visitor slip something into the wiseguy’s hand. “What you got there?” the guard six-year-old daughter playing at her elementary school. “See how easy it can be?” the Mafioso asked. Whether or not the story was true was impossible to tell, but every guard and most inmates in the Hot House had heard it. The message was clear. The Mafia could “reach out into the streets,” and that made guards and other convicts nervous.

Man that was tremendous thank you for posting what a gentleman

[TwoPiece]

I wonder how Corallo faired in Leavenworth.

There’s a book called the hot house tales from Leavenworth which covers his time there but I don’t know if he’s mentioned in it?

Corallo is an interesting character to me, one of those Italian Harlem old world relics that dresses like a nice old grampa but actually is gobbing all over the sidewalk and speaks like “you gotta sell the cocksucking shit.”

One of the unanswered questions is did Amuso / Casso wrest the family from him because being a boss of a family is going to help your status in prison. And as Amuso has shown, doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll chuck you in the supermax.

I suspect at Corallo’s age and wealth it must’ve been a hard pill to swallow going to prison. But he seemed like a mean old bastard so que sera

i love the hot house, great book and i have it on google play. corallo is only mentioned once in a segment where the author is describing some of the different groups in the prison. here's the segment:

The dozen Italians sitting below Pierce were Mafia “wiseguys.” Each wore prison-issued white shorts and cotton shirts, but their clothing had been pressed and was brand-new. Some smoked William Penn cigars at fifty cents apiece, the highest-priced stogies in the commissary. Gold chains dangled from their necks, and a stack of graphite tennis rackets, the most expensive item a convict could special-order at the Hot House store, was nearby. Even though they were watching the ball game, each of the wiseguys was sitting so he could face and hear an older convict in the group. Anthony “Tony Ducks” Corallo didn’t say much, but when he spoke, his comments either brought a solemn nod or a boisterous laugh, depending upon which was appropriate. Corallo was the boss of the New York-based Lucchese crime family, a real-life Mafia godfather, and no one at the Hot House bothered him. Not that anyone had reason to. He was a perfect gentleman. In prison, a Mafioso did his time as quietly as possible because it improved his chances for parole. There was only one time anyone could remember that a Mafia member got into trouble, and that had happened at the penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where Mafia members are frequently housed because of its proximity to New York City. A guard, for some reason, began harassing a wiseguy. Every day the guard searched the inmate’s cell, went through his mail, and frisked him as he walked the compound, until the wiseguy had simply had enough. One day a visitor from outside the prison came to see the wiseguy. The guard saw the visitor slip something into the wiseguy’s hand. “What you got there?” the guard six-year-old daughter playing at her elementary school. “See how easy it can be?” the Mafioso asked. Whether or not the story was true was impossible to tell, but every guard and most inmates in the Hot House had heard it. The message was clear. The Mafia could “reach out into the streets,” and that made guards and other convicts nervous.

Man that was tremendous thank you for posting what a gentleman

No problem at all bro. Also, in that story at the end the wise guy had a photo of the guards daughter, I must have fucked up copying and pasting it cause it was in segments and I see now that part got cut. Definitely check out the whole book if you get the chance tho!