Coke and a slice was their daily special.

[willychichi]

A mobbed up Queens couple and their son were arrested Wednesday, accused of ​using their ​pizzeria and a produce business as mom​-​and​-​pop fronts for a cocaine operation that stretched from Corona to Costa Rica, according to a Brooklyn federal court complaint.

Read more: http://nypost.com/2015/03/11/nyc-couple ... -pizzeria/

[joeycigars]

Guy was moving some weight

[toto]

'Ndrangheta guys. Probably Roccisano's people. Vincenzo Roccisano a big 'Ndrangheta drug guy connected to Tony Federici did lot of jail in time in America; I think he's deported nowadays but these are probably guys he put there.

[East Bronx]

Fucking retarded. The year 2015 and they're talking on the phone. And the "Casino" reference? How many times have I posted that life imitates art with some of these guys?

Looks like a solid case. International, with serious weight involved. They're fucked. They'll try to get the Father and Son to plea to spare the Mother. That's just the Feds' style.

[toto]

Fucking retarded. The year 2015 and they're talking on the phone.

It's even more suspicious if they never talk on the phone. At least now they can try to make defence they were ordering legal goods. I always wonder why these people don't bother so much with smuggling legal goods mixed in with smuggling drugs. This way they can make defence they were smuggling but only legal goods.

[East Bronx]

Fucking retarded. The year 2015 and they're talking on the phone.

It's even more suspicious if they never talk on the phone.

Fair enough, but not to that degree. Making veiled threats in reference to a well-known mob movie, when you have 'Ndrangheta ties, is just fucking stupid.

[bronx]

getting women involved in street biz is a lowlife move, if the G thinks it goes beyond them to NY CN also, she may not get let off the hook by the men taking more time, leverage to make them flip. pizza , could you ever imagine going home for dinner and saying, hey mom how our coke, you taste it yet/ ?that's good stuff son.. remember the other geniuses on the phone...i want to order one and a half shirts.. i'll meet you at mr. howard a johnson's house

[toto]

Fucking retarded. The year 2015 and they're talking on the phone.

It's even more suspicious if they never talk on the phone.

Fair enough, but not to that degree. Making veiled threats in reference to a well-known mob movie, when you have 'Ndrangheta ties, is just fucking stupid.

I guess if they were really capable to do that they would be doing and not talking. It's like the guy makes threats to do this and that is usually less dangerous. The real dangerous one doesn't make the threat he just does it.

[East Bronx]

pizza , could you ever imagine going home for dinner and saying, hey mom how our coke, you taste it yet/ ?that's good stuff son.

Never in a million years. Other than offering coffee and a pizzelle to the occasional sheet writer, my Mother was happily naive about such things. And God rest her soul, anyone who ever knocked on my Mother's door got coffee and pizzelle anyway.

[East Bronx]

I guess if they were really capable to do that they would be doing and not talking. It's like the guy makes threats to do this and that is usually less dangerous. The real dangerous one doesn't make the threat he just does it.

Also true. Tough talk is easy. I guess we'll see how tough he is soon enough.

[bronx]

pizza , could you ever imagine going home for dinner and saying, hey mom how our coke, you taste it yet/ ?that's good stuff son.

Never in a million years. Other than offering coffee and a pizzelle to the occasional sheet writer, my Mother was happily naive about such things. And God rest her soul, anyone who ever knocked on my Mother's door got coffee and pizzelle anyway.

hey i would have gone to her home ! sounds they way we grew up by me. never took the street home..that's why it's called street biz..when you run the street into your kitchen, you wind up with shit on your floors..

[toto]

It's not 1955 anymore. These women don't get dragged in to anything. Most of them grow up with fathers, uncles, brothers, cousins all doing drug trafficking. Its all they know and its the livelihood the family depends on. They help because outsiders are more likely to flip or cheat. Its not the first time such a thing has been discovered. In the investigation which found Piromalli cosca was doing drug trafficking through Philadelphia port they found on one wiretap the sister laughing and joking with her brother about drug trafficking.

[East Bronx]

It's not 1955 anymore. These women don't get dragged in to anything. Most of them grow up with fathers, uncles, brothers, cousins all doing drug trafficking. Its all they know and its the livelihood the family depends on. They help because outsiders are more likely to flip or cheat. Its not the first time such a thing has been discovered. In the investigation which found Piromalli cosca was doing drug trafficking through Philadelphia port they found on one wiretap the sister laughing and joking with her brother about drug trafficking.

Well, I wasn't born until 1959, Toto .

And yes, there have always been some women directly involved in the criminal activity of their family. But it's undeniably more common in Italy than in the United States. I mention this because you brought up the Piromalli cosca. But the women who do it in Italy do it because they're duty bound to do it (and I mean that as a compliment).Whereas the broads who get wrapped up in their boyfriends' drug deals in America are usually doing it because they're just trashy enough to do it. There's a difference. It's all subjective anyway, and I ain't judging. But I agree with Bronx. Over here, especially in New York, most of the guys who dragged their women into the life paid for it dearly.

[rayray]

This almost reads like a Ndrangheta cell? Especially, how it seemed like a real family business affair.

[toto]

It's not 1955 anymore. These women don't get dragged in to anything. Most of them grow up with fathers, uncles, brothers, cousins all doing drug trafficking. Its all they know and its the livelihood the family depends on. They help because outsiders are more likely to flip or cheat. Its not the first time such a thing has been discovered. In the investigation which found Piromalli cosca was doing drug trafficking through Philadelphia port they found on one wiretap the sister laughing and joking with her brother about drug trafficking.

Well, I wasn't born until 1959, Toto .

And yes, there have always been some women directly involved in the criminal activity of their family. But it's undeniably more common in Italy than in the United States. I mention this because you brought up the Piromalli cosca. But the women who do it in Italy do it because they're duty bound to do it (and I mean that as a compliment).Whereas the broads who get wrapped up in their boyfriends' drug deals in America are usually doing it because they're just trashy enough to do it. There's a difference. It's all subjective anyway, and I ain't judging. But I agree with Bronx. Over here, especially in New York, most of the guys who dragged their women into the life paid for it dearly.

I see what you mean. But I think women are involved in these types of operations because its just a case of looking after some stuff or moving here and there or looking after the legitimate business where some drugs are stored. They don't exactly go and deal in the street level. I think even even in Italy this type of activity will be frowned on. Its a different type of dealing than in dealing in the street level.

If your born 1959 means you're my parents generation. I better call you "uncle"...