Giuseppe Masseria's Autopsy

[jmack]

He’s a fat pig.


Pogo

Some people are out there stuffing themselves.

[The Greek]

Yeah Masseria was slightly chubby and had a round face but he's been mythologized as Fat Bastard.

Despite Bonanno insisting Masseria was going to keep getting "crazier and crazier and fatter and fatter" and detailing his eating habits (how do you know, JB?), someone pointed out that Maranzano had a worse BMI when he died and wore a girdle. Maranzano was eating a lot of those "bread and onions".

This is one of the odder legitimizing myths for the post-1931 regimes.

"Yeah so that one Mustache Pete we all hate? He was... uh... ALSO FAT!"

Dunno, seems unnecessary.

The death photo of Morello shows him to be a lot fatter than Masseria