Mafia Uses Same Initiation Ceremony, As Per Luchese Defector Testimony
The Mafia still makes 'em like it always did...
We're referring to the initiation ceremony -- the one that uses the gun, the knife, the picture of the saint, the pin...
John Pennisi, 49, a Luchese member who flipped last year, detailed on the witness stand his life in the New York Mafia, touching on his initiation ceremony and how members of the Brooklyn crew began moving to Staten Island, raising the existential question of whether Luchese wiseguys who live on Staten Island can still credibly call themselves the Brooklyn crew....
Pennisi was made in a 2013 secret initiation ceremony in the dark basement of a house on Staten Island. (In a refreshing twist, he was made on his wife’s birthday rather than his own birthday.)
Then-acting boss Matty Madonna, who was from the Bronx, presided.
“There was a gun, a knife, there was a picture of a saint, an ashtray, a lighter, and like a diabetic pin, needle to check your blood,” said Pennisi.
Madonna asked Pennisi which finger he used t…
We're referring to the initiation ceremony -- the one that uses the gun, the knife, the picture of the saint, the pin...
John Pennisi, 49, a Luchese member who flipped last year, detailed on the witness stand his life in the New York Mafia, touching on his initiation ceremony and how members of the Brooklyn crew began moving to Staten Island, raising the existential question of whether Luchese wiseguys who live on Staten Island can still credibly call themselves the Brooklyn crew....
Pennisi was made in a 2013 secret initiation ceremony in the dark basement of a house on Staten Island. (In a refreshing twist, he was made on his wife’s birthday rather than his own birthday.)
Then-acting boss Matty Madonna, who was from the Bronx, presided.
“There was a gun, a knife, there was a picture of a saint, an ashtray, a lighter, and like a diabetic pin, needle to check your blood,” said Pennisi.
Madonna asked Pennisi which finger he used t…
