Asaro has a absolute attackness.B. wrote:I'm not sure how serious of a target Valenti was in any investigations at the time, but apparently Asaro's abusive treatment of him was one reason he flipped. From reading what's been released of his recordings, Asaro sounds like an absolute menace.
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Hoping we get to hear a lot more about DiFiore's history. He was a Giaccone associate who ended up a soldier under Massino/Vitale. Hope there is a lot of info on the Queens crews in general.
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How did assaro abuse valenti ?
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‘Goodfellas’ mob snitch explains why he turned his back on his cousin as Vincent Asaro’s trial continues
The Goodfella who helped pull off the biggest heist in U.S. history was a brokefella some 30 years later when he helped the feds set a trap for his cousin — Bonanno crime family captain Vincent
Asaro. Gaspare Valenti began secretly taping Asaro after they had a falling-out three decades after the infamous 1978 Lufthansa robbery that netted them and their crew $6 million in cash and jewelry.
“Over money, as usual,” Valenti testified Wednesday, when asked at Asaro’s racketeering trial what their argument was about.
Testifying in Brooklyn federal court, Valenti said that by 2010 he was out of cash and sick of the mob life.
“I called the FBI,” he said. “I needed help financially to support my family. I was just tired of that life. I was having nightmares about things that I had experienced.”
Valenti, who returns to the stand on Thursday, said the FBI quickly signed him up to be an informant and he agreed to wear a wire to tape Asaro.
In the meantime, Valenti said, the government paid his expenses, including the rent and electrical bill.
“All this time you’re with me I never got you pinched,” Asaro told Valenti at the Esquire Diner in Ozone Park, Queens, unaware that his cousin is taping him.
But Asaro, who is also charged with strangling a suspected snitch in 1969 with a dog chain, had also became a shadow of his formerly fearsome self, the tapes revealed.
In one taped conversation, Asaro described his bleak existence.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/g ... -1.2405940
The Goodfella who helped pull off the biggest heist in U.S. history was a brokefella some 30 years later when he helped the feds set a trap for his cousin — Bonanno crime family captain Vincent
Asaro. Gaspare Valenti began secretly taping Asaro after they had a falling-out three decades after the infamous 1978 Lufthansa robbery that netted them and their crew $6 million in cash and jewelry.
“Over money, as usual,” Valenti testified Wednesday, when asked at Asaro’s racketeering trial what their argument was about.
Testifying in Brooklyn federal court, Valenti said that by 2010 he was out of cash and sick of the mob life.
“I called the FBI,” he said. “I needed help financially to support my family. I was just tired of that life. I was having nightmares about things that I had experienced.”
Valenti, who returns to the stand on Thursday, said the FBI quickly signed him up to be an informant and he agreed to wear a wire to tape Asaro.
In the meantime, Valenti said, the government paid his expenses, including the rent and electrical bill.
“All this time you’re with me I never got you pinched,” Asaro told Valenti at the Esquire Diner in Ozone Park, Queens, unaware that his cousin is taping him.
But Asaro, who is also charged with strangling a suspected snitch in 1969 with a dog chain, had also became a shadow of his formerly fearsome self, the tapes revealed.
In one taped conversation, Asaro described his bleak existence.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/g ... -1.2405940
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Pretty embarrassing when one of the top guys in the family is broke.
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Bonanno's are hopeless. Nicky Mouth I believe is known for being a brokester.TommyGambino wrote:Pretty embarrassing when one of the top guys in the family are broke.
Don't give me your f***ing Manson lamps.
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It's pretty common. Some big guys even during the "mob's heyday" were described by informants as brokesters.TommyGambino wrote:Pretty embarrassing when one of the top guys in the family is broke.
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Some things that have come out in court testimony:
- Gaspare Valenti was proposed for membership but never got made because the list with his name on it was intercepted by the FBI.
- Sal Vitale testified that Asaro was a problem during sitdowns: "You're supposed to be respectful to people across the table. Vinny gets hostile."
- Massino gave a gold chain from the Lufthansa heist as a gift to Vitale.
- Asaro built the fence around Sal Vitale's yard: "The fence is still there. He did an outstanding job."
- Asaro is said to have a tattoo related to his "mob oath".
- FBI agent testified that while surveilling Asaro in the 1980s, "He ran up to me and said a few things I don't think I can say in court."
- Gaspare Valenti was proposed for membership but never got made because the list with his name on it was intercepted by the FBI.
- Sal Vitale testified that Asaro was a problem during sitdowns: "You're supposed to be respectful to people across the table. Vinny gets hostile."
- Massino gave a gold chain from the Lufthansa heist as a gift to Vitale.
- Asaro built the fence around Sal Vitale's yard: "The fence is still there. He did an outstanding job."
- Asaro is said to have a tattoo related to his "mob oath".
- FBI agent testified that while surveilling Asaro in the 1980s, "He ran up to me and said a few things I don't think I can say in court."
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Bonanno soldier and son of Gaspare Valenti "Fat Sammy" Valenti
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If these guys were careful with their money they probably wouldn't have become mobsters in the first place.B. wrote:It's pretty common. Some big guys even during the "mob's heyday" were described by informants as brokesters.TommyGambino wrote:Pretty embarrassing when one of the top guys in the family is broke.
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According to John Marzulli who is in court, Asaro went ballistic in road rage rant against tow truck blocking a car wash and said "All tow truck drivers are rats!!!"
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Vincent Asaro refers to Lufthansa Heist as ‘the thing,’ laments not getting his due in tape played at racketeering trial
The Bonanno gangster accused of helping pull off the biggest heist in U.S. history complained that he was part of a dying breed in tapes played Thursday at his racketeering trial.
Broke and bitter and 76 years old, Vincent Asaro bemoaned his fate in a car while his cousin Gaspare Valenti secretly recorded the conversation the feds. “I’m the only wiseguy left in my neighborhood,” Asaro complained.
Referring to the 1978 Lufthansa robbery that netted $6 million in cash and jewelry as “the thing,” Asaro complained that he didn’t get a big enough cut. “We never got our right money, what we were supposed to get, we got f----- all around," Asaro ranted in a February 2011 conversation. "Got f----- all around, that f-----g Jimmy (Burke) kept everything."
Burke, aka Jimmy the Gent, was one of the masterminds of the spectacular robbery at Kennedy Airport that was immortalized in the movie “Goodfellas.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/vin ... -1.2407654
The Bonanno gangster accused of helping pull off the biggest heist in U.S. history complained that he was part of a dying breed in tapes played Thursday at his racketeering trial.
Broke and bitter and 76 years old, Vincent Asaro bemoaned his fate in a car while his cousin Gaspare Valenti secretly recorded the conversation the feds. “I’m the only wiseguy left in my neighborhood,” Asaro complained.
Referring to the 1978 Lufthansa robbery that netted $6 million in cash and jewelry as “the thing,” Asaro complained that he didn’t get a big enough cut. “We never got our right money, what we were supposed to get, we got f----- all around," Asaro ranted in a February 2011 conversation. "Got f----- all around, that f-----g Jimmy (Burke) kept everything."
Burke, aka Jimmy the Gent, was one of the masterminds of the spectacular robbery at Kennedy Airport that was immortalized in the movie “Goodfellas.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/vin ... -1.2407654
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The more I read about Asaro, the more I wonder how he's still alive.
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Not just alive, but he was a leading candidate to be boss not long before these tapes were made.Lupara wrote:The more I read about Asaro, the more I wonder how he's still alive.