Hoodwinked: Restaurateur on Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Was a Mobster
Peter (Peter Pasta) Pellegrino, formerly of the Babylon, New York restaurant Peter’s Italian Restaurant, really is -- or was -- a gangster.
The once-promising Bonanno crime family member who appeared in Kitchen Nightmares now calls himself a brokester. And the Bonanno crime family, with which he was once affiliated has disowned him.
So has the rest of New York's Cosa Nostra, according to FBI documents and Peter Pasta himself.
But before all that he appeared on an episode of Kitchen Nightmares in which he acted very much like the mobster he allegedly was trying to become around the time of filming. (See Peter's Italian Restaurant menu here.)
Back then Peter Pasta was an up-and-coming Bonanno associate who "earned" $15 grand a week from bookmaking.
At the time, he also owned two boats that he'd park in a pricey nearby Babylon harbor called Great South Bay.
Gang Land News's Jerry Capeci broke the news about Peter Pasta's mob status, reporting:
Today, like the…
The once-promising Bonanno crime family member who appeared in Kitchen Nightmares now calls himself a brokester. And the Bonanno crime family, with which he was once affiliated has disowned him.
So has the rest of New York's Cosa Nostra, according to FBI documents and Peter Pasta himself.
But before all that he appeared on an episode of Kitchen Nightmares in which he acted very much like the mobster he allegedly was trying to become around the time of filming. (See Peter's Italian Restaurant menu here.)
Back then Peter Pasta was an up-and-coming Bonanno associate who "earned" $15 grand a week from bookmaking.
At the time, he also owned two boats that he'd park in a pricey nearby Babylon harbor called Great South Bay.
Gang Land News's Jerry Capeci broke the news about Peter Pasta's mob status, reporting:
Today, like the…
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