Mob Talk Sitdown 23

[dack2001]

He was also supposedly involved with Alite and associated with New York in prison and tried to get transferred. Pogo is right on, plenty of reasons that guy got killed. I'd love to see them try to indict for that one, just to see Eddie Jacobs take apart each different equally plausible explanation for the hit.

[Niagarafalls]

Was he involved with the Long John hit? And Nicodemo is one of the suspecting hitters of Gongs right?

[Pogo The Clown]

Was he involved with the Long John hit? And Nicodemo is one of the suspecting hitters of Gongs right?

He allegedly took credit for it. Highly unlikely he took part in it. And yeah Nicodemo is a prime suspect in his murder.


Pogo

[Stroccos]

does anyone think if the Merlino crew hadn't abandoned Natale , he wouldn't of flipped ? Its sure a convenient excuse for him and turned out to be the right move for both parties , as his testimony meant nothing to the jury

[SILENT PARTNERZ]

does anyone think if the Merlino crew hadn't abandoned Natale , he wouldn't of flipped ? Its sure a convenient excuse for him and turned out to be the right move for both parties , as his testimony meant nothing to the jury

Yes, I think he would have.
He spent most of his adult life
in prison. Enough is enough.
Too easy to rat and walk nowadays.
Not like the other times he got
busted. Back then, the mob might
retaliate if you were found in hiding.

[Cheech]

he rats for sure

[chin_gigante]

Natale definitely seems like a bullshitter when it comes to his reason for ratting, like Casso. All this, 'I saw the light', and 'there were no more men of honour' nonsense. They bring that up in the same interviews where they say that being a gangster is the best thing in the world. One thing I respected Ron Previte for was he never did that. He was honest. He co-operated because he wanted to stay out of jail and because he was greedy for the money the federal government was giving him. There's nothing else too it.

[Ivan]

Several reasons were given. Taking credit for the Long John Martorano hit, getting into a highly publicized altercation where he stabbed Chico DeBarge, shooting at Phil Ligambi's house in 1992 and probably his biggest infraction was him allegedly boning Joey Merlinos wife (the two were seen together in a restaurant). I'm sure sure there were multiple reasons. To quote Nicky Santoro, "I mean, this guy's just beggin' to be made an example of."

Damn, just one of those would've gotten you killed under Scarfo.

[moneyman]

He might have thought he would be killed if he ever got out of prison. There has to be more to the story that Merlino and crew just stopped sending him payments out of the blue.

[Pogo The Clown]

Here is an old Mob Talk about the Gongs hit. On location of the hit. Looks like Casasanto was involved in quite a few different altercations in public.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ivFoS99hf ... fullscreen