saw that. Fuckin disturbing.
Born in the Life: Gene Borrello the Story of an Ex-Bonanno Family Mafia Enforcer
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Calandra, Pennisi, Arilotta, Mazza, Visconti and Franzese are believable a lot of the other guys I don't know
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Sorry to dredge this up, but finally decided to read this cause I wanted to see what he had to say about Ronnie G. This book is awful, terribly written and edited.
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I remember Coppa was described in that Born to Steal book as walking around wearing fur coats while smoking cigars. And I remember reading somewhere he broke down in tears when he got pinched before he flipped.newera_212 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:07 pmI'd love some back story on Coppa. Seems like a combo of a thug / street guy and a white collar guy. Him and Belfort... they ever had any dealings or real connection to one another, but Coppa was involved with a ton of stock chop shops . Belfort was out on Long Island , Coppa had his hooks into a variety of different places in the city, mostly because he had his hooks into a few people who bounced between brokerages, started their own, etc. - it sounded like he was involved with a lot more than shaking down promoters and brokers for money too, he was helping pick which stocks to pump, trying to take companies public that he and his family basically controlled , etc. He seemed like a real major money makernizarsoccer wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 6:41 pmFrom the group of the Bonanno's that flipped during 2003/2004, Frank Lino is the best one to write a book (barring Massino of course). He seemed to do it all, big stock fraud cases, murders, you name it. Wouldn't mind Frank Coppa either. He had like a 2nd degree connection to Jordan Belfort, but did he ever meet the guy?
I was driving in Queens recently and figured out that survellience pic of Massino and Coppa where they're coming out of a building with what looks like marble on the outside... it's the City Diner in Maspeth on Grand Ave. Could only imagine the meals those two had at that place... they probably singlehandedly put the owners kids through college
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What's funny is you could flip the page and see it spelled Ronny G. Also spelled Blaise Corozzo Blaise and Blaze different times.
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I couldn't picture it being any other way. The story of a mafia millennial mouth breather.