Guys who only become criminals later on

[aleksandrored]

We usually see the guys who since they were teenagers were criminals and then joined the mafia, but what are the guys who became criminals as an adult? guys who led honest lives and then turned to crime?

Frank Sheeran, for example, who, if I'm not mistaken, only entered the crime at the age of 35, being an associate of the Bufalino family.

[Pogo The Clown]

Joe Ligambi in Philly doesn't appear to have become involved in crime until he was well into his 30s when got into the untaxed cigarette racket. Even then he worked a legitimate job (bartender) until he was in his 40s.


Pogo

[chin_gigante]

Luigi Tripodi was in his 50s when he got involved with Stanfa

[Rocco]

Joe Ligambi in Philly doesn't appear to have become involved in crime until he was well into his 30s when got into the untaxed cigarette racket. Even then he worked a legitimate job (bartender) until he was in his 40s.


Pogo

Joe was always a Bookie ! Even before he was a bartender he always took action !

[Rocco]

Ron Previte was a cop first !

[stubbs]

Ron Previte was a cop first !

Wasn’t he always a crooked cop, or am I wrong?

[Peppermint]

My Great Grandfather Louie Lombardi, there is a long family story that I’m not going to bother sharing that involved his father after having migrated to America to escape persecution in Italy for murdering his mistress and stuffing her in a oven, and the mob attempting to extort the bakery his father opened in NYC. Long story short, it ended with my Great Grandfather as a child being found wrapped up in a rug in the dump, and his father giving into the mob’s demands only after they killed the rest of my Great Grandfather’s siblings so he could at least spare my Great Grandfather’s life, the only remaining sibling.

Clearly not a family with any relations, or willing association with the mob. Some where down the line, don’t even know if my family knows how this ended up happening, but some where down the line my Great Grandfather starting running the Peppermint Lounge along with Dick Cami, as a front on behalf of Dick Cami’s father-in-law Capo Johnny Biello.

Obviously, he wasn’t doing this all his life. What compelled him to work with the mob, after what they done to him and his siblings is beyond me. I guess my Great Grandfather was a psychopath and lacked empathy, makes sense because according to the book, and according to Dick Cami’s own words in the book my Great Grandfather had a real knack for breaking bones.

[aleksandrored]

Thanks Guys.

[Pogo The Clown]

Sal Vitale was a prison guard. I think he only turned to crime after his sister started going out with Massino.


Pogo

[motorfab]

Tony Canzoneri who was a boxer before joining the Bonanno Crime Family

[furiofromnaples]

Pasquale Galasso was a rich med student and joint the Nuova Famiglia after 3 men tried to kidnap him and his sister and he was forced to kill 2 of them and after the cutolo men continue to shake down his father's car sale.

[TommyShots]

Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Barney Bellomo attend Fordham university & graduated from it? Or he was doing crime & going to school which is very much possible?

[furiofromnaples]

Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Barney Bellomo attend Fordham university & graduated from it? Or he was doing crime & going to school which is very much possible?

Thomas Gambino graduated from Manhattan College in the Bronx,Jack Tocco in 1949, Tocco received a degree in finance from the University of Detroit and so on.
Its rare but not the old school guys that was poor but the second generations of mobsters sometimes went to university and graduated but in most cases they drop it for work for the mob.

[Southshore88]

Sal Vitale was a prison guard. I think he only turned to crime after his sister started going out with Massino.


Pogo

Didn’t Massino’s testimony state he started dating Vitale’s sister when they were teenagers and he knew Sal since he was also a teenager?

[Pogo The Clown]

I believe that was correct.i got the timeline bit messed up.


Pogo