Borgesi meets with the Gambinos

[Angelo Santino]

My god you guys are too much fuckin funny ass shit in this thread

Don't thank us. Thank our muse and inspiration, Mr. Scott Burnstein.

GA is his mentor and if you notice, wrote TGT and TLG with catchey phrases.

[Ivan]

My god you guys are too much fuckin funny ass shit in this thread

Don't thank us. Thank our muse and inspiration, Mr. Scott Burnstein.

GA is his mentor and if you notice, wrote TGT and TLG with catchey phrases.

Yeah, Anastasia has about a dozen that he uses over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Scott is less repetitive and has more variety in his, but they are much weirder than Anastasia's.

[AG777]

Awww You guys are so cute and funny in this thread. Luv it

[SonnyBlackstein]

New book comming out ...The Fifth faction

I hear they're turning it into a movie staring Bruce Willis.




Or was that John Travolta?

[willychichi]

PHILLY MOB’S BORGESI & GAMBINO FAMILY’S BILOTTI SPOTTED TOGETHER IN SOUTH FLORIDA, POLICE SOURCES SAY

Philadelphia mafia figure George (Georgie Boy) Borgesi attended a meeting in a Florida in February with reputed Gambino crime-family representative Joe Bilotti, a New York wiseguy living in Boca Raton, according to sources in Palm Beach County law enforcement assigned to watch East Coast wiseguys either visiting or taking up full-time residence in the South Florida sun.

http://gangsterreport.com/philly-mobs-b ... urces-say/

[Ivan]

http://gangsterreport.com/philly-mobs-b ... urces-say/

"mobile mob don"

"always-magnetic Merlino"

"1980s Era Goodfellas"

"segmented and seemingly-saturated local underworld"

[TommyGambino]

Didn't know Tommy Bilotti had a son that's involved, unless Scott is mistaken and it's his brother Joe?

[scott22]

I'm glad I've given you guys some fodder for additional ball busting

best,
Scott Burnstein

[Ivan]

I'm glad I've given you guys some fodder for additional ball busting

Scott I should probably say that I actually really like your work. Mafia Prince is one of my all time favorite mob books. (Hell, I bought it twice, one copy for me and one for a friend.)

Glad to hear you're a good sport.

[B.]

Don't take the jokes I was doing personally, Scott. Think of it like the Onion but for mob followers.

I am glad you share info and I find the descriptions really entertaining honestly. I mean it really IS the Cheesesteak City.

Remember too that Capeci gets hated on every Thursday when Gangland comes out and that Dave Critchley who wrote the best mafia history book is practically a supervillain to some folks on the boards.

[Ivan]

I mean it really IS the Cheesesteak City.

and it's the home of cheese steak city goodfellas, such as George Borgesi

[SonnyBlackstein]

I'm glad I've given you guys some fodder for additional ball busting

best,
Scott Burnstein

"Although charged with multiple homicides in the 2001 RICO trial, him and Merlino"

Consistently atrocious English as a journalist doesn't do you many favours. Inexcusable to be honest.

And for the record, for what it's worth, I take your articles on a case by case basis. I have no interest in shitting on you for kicks or boredom. Some of your posts have deserved criticism and have received it. Don't take it personally. Use the critique constructively, as most, on this site, has been.

My experience on this site is posters are educated, intelligent and tough. As a group we don't give something a kicking without warrant.

[Borelli]

I read a lot of posts here and on a couple of other sites and there are some genuine scholars on here. The research is very in-depth, and the presentation ofnt is very well-formulated. Great site.

Scott's on here posting. Cool deal. He's published; I thought it was a very good book. And let's be truthful, he is making a genuine effort to try and carry national mob reporting into the 21st century.

His writing style is entertaining to me. It has this pulp/gonzo style where his nicknames and descriptions paint very vivid images, especially since I live in philly and I get the references. I read a lot of Kerouac, Kesey, and Hunter S Thomspson as a teenager so, I like that style anyway. And I get off on the irony that he's taking about crooks, thieves, and murderers, in such a colorful way. Hell, I've commented a few times that mob baseball cards would be great. Loanshark, stats, kill stats, extortion averages. You see where I'm going. You can't argue that his stories are memorable. Which isn't necessarily bad.

He presents himself as a professional so, I have to trust he does his research. Further, It's not fair I criticize since I can't report anything other than the occasional rumor or mob sighting.

[Angelo Santino]

I'm glad I've given you guys some fodder for additional ball busting

best,
Scott Burnstein

Some of the terms you coin are rather amusing. Cheesesteak Crime Family? LOL. You're great, Scott, what you do, many of us here could not. You have connections to law enforcement as well as the underworld. You were mentored by the great Master George Anastasia. You're the next generation of mob reporters (as seen by both Capeci, GA as well as Sam Giancana even though he was a cunt to work with). You have a law degree and could easily be making more money than writing about this shit. But you have passion. And I thank you for your contributions. I'm still not over Cheesesteak Crime family though.

And I'm still interested in learning more about the Chaldeans and Hollywood Ronnie Morelli. Educate us on these topics. I thought what you told me on the phone was interesting and I'm sure others here would as well. Wasn't GA interested in collaborating on a Chaldean Mafia project with you?

[Angelo Santino]

And as you can see here, Scott, multiple opinions from multiple posters. I think you'll find Sonny's the most offensive and I would too. I support your work. Do I disagree with you on things, absolutely. I found your calling LeMare a "rat for the Feds" to be totally out out of left field. But you're introducing people to things and people that they might otherwise not be. I'm a historian, you're a journalist, my job or role isn't to call you a liar or any other expletive as you are not. But I'd like to perhaps argue with you in an attempt to alter your perspective or thoughts on some things. Mostly the relevance of 1931 and your repetitive labeling of the Tocco's and Zerilli's as Detroit's 'founding dons.' We've had this discussion and you even agreed it goes back further to 1900 no later than 1910 depending on what you consider the Adamos. Now it can be argued that the gangster generation that Zerilli and Tocco fell into amassed great riches in the bootlegging rackets which propelled them to heights that their predecessors couldn't have fathomed. But these guys didn't "form" the Detroit LCN anymore than Mangano "formed" the Gambinos or Luciano "formed" the Genoveses.

I'm open to a respectable and amicable debate if you're interested. Public or private. Not as a gotcha, but as two researchers out on a quest for knowledge. I have sources to back up any assertion I make and will provide them to you. I'll teach you some things, I know you can teach me some things. Even if we don't agree on each other's opposing narratives. And that's how mafia research is done. So if I can help you with the early stuff, please!