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This is the story of the rise and fall of the Mafia, told by the people who brought it down.
These people aren't heroes. They work for the State, which to me is far worse than the Mafia. The Mafia hasn't committed any where near the atrocities the Government has.
I always think of the Enron era, the billions lost and lives destroyed. They're really no worse than the robber barons who stole fortunes and formed many of today's ruling dynasties.
I have to agree with Anonymous wholeheartedly on this here subject. What these united states of america has gotten away with,and with all the families they've hurt, in my book these "atrocities" should be called what in fact they are, crimes against humanities.
Nobody likes to hear the truth u and me cant leave the country without a passport yet the drugs flow smoothly across the boaders to help finance the CIA to overthrow other countries
Peter (Peter Pasta) Pellegrino, formerly of the Babylon, New York restaurant Peter’s Italian Restaurant, really is -- or was -- a gangster. Gordon gives a pep talk. Peter is ready for action..... 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 Je
Joseph Anthony Colombo Jr. Joseph A. Colombo Junior, affectionately known as "Pop," died on October 29, 2014 at his home in Newburgh, New York. He was 67. He's survived by his wife, Diane, and kids Dina, Denise, and Joe. He died following a long battle with Neurological Lyme Disease, according to one news report . Joe Junior was among Joseph Colombo Senior's five children, which also includes sons Christopher, Anthony and Vincent. Visitation will be held from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday, November 3rd at Brooks Funeral Home, 481 Gidney Ave., Newburgh. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated by Rev. William Scafidi at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, November 4th at St. Mary's Church, Newburgh. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery, New Windsor. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be made in Joseph's name to Hospice of Orange and Sullivan Counties, 800 Stony Brook Ct., Newburgh, NY 12550 or to Lyme Research Alliance, 20
This story from 2014 is one of the most popular on this site—and we didn't even know it until very recently (for reasons stemming from the fallibility of generalized analytics data.) Members of the Bath Avenue Crew were as young as 8 years old when they began to align themselves with the biggest, baddest gang in America: Cosa Nostra, specifically the Five Families. Bath Avenue Crew founding members. They saw the wiseguys on the street pulling up to the curbs in their big shiny Cadillacs, loafing around social clubs wearing pricey suits and sporting hundred-dollar haircuts and manicured fingernails. But the guys presented more than just a cold, distant image to watch; Mafia members interacted with the kids, joked around with them and showed them there were other ways to make it through life. The wiseguys doled out twenty-dollar bills like they were nothing. The wiseguys patted them on the back, told them they were "good kids," and maybe asked them to watch the cars
The following, which is admittedly sketchy in terms of detail (it is based on a quick encounter between wiseguys and goodguys in a parking lot at night), was cut from our series on Carmine Galante, which we're still finishing up. (After we publish the last remaining installment, we plan to republish the entire story as one single piece.) The Eternal Dance A t 9:30 in the evening of Tuesday, June 5, 1979, some five weeks before the murder of Carmine Galante, two undercover police officers in an unmarked Plymouth Valiant drove into the parking lot of the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream on Long Island. Green Acres Mall parking lot circa 1980 The purpose of the visit was to surveil one of Green Acres' restaurants, which was suspected of being a source of significant drug-dealing activity. The place also was known to belong to Bonanno wiseguy Gerlando (George from Canada) Sciascia, a made member of the Bonanno crime family and also a top member of the Sicilian faction. Sciascia, w
A New Jersey-based Bonanno crime family associate who was once a member of Nicky Santora’s crew—and who has a history of drug dealing—was indicted with another man for drug dealing. Richard Sinde is charged with conspiring, possessing, and intending to distribute cocaine. The associate—Richard (Richie) Sinde, 56, of Fort Lee, New Jersey—was indicted in September alongside Robert (Bobby) Ingrao, 74, of Lodi, New Jersey, according to the U.S. Attorney, Northern District of New York, Carla B. Freedman and Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, in a media release. Sinde and Ingrao were each charged with conspiring, possessing, and intending to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine. Sinde was arraigned on October 19 before United States Magistrate Judge Daniel J. Stewart and released with conditions. Ingrao was to be arraigned at a later date. If convicted, each man faces at least 10 years and up to life in prison, as well as at
These people aren't heroes. They work for the State, which to me is far worse than the Mafia. The Mafia hasn't committed any where near the atrocities the Government has.
ReplyDeleteI always think of the Enron era, the billions lost and lives destroyed. They're really no worse than the robber barons who stole fortunes and formed many of today's ruling dynasties.
DeleteI have to agree with Anonymous wholeheartedly on this here subject. What these united states of america has gotten away with,and with all the families they've hurt, in my book these "atrocities" should be called what in fact they are, crimes against humanities.
ReplyDeleteNobody likes to hear the truth
Deleteu and me cant leave the country without a passport yet the drugs flow smoothly across the boaders to help finance the CIA to overthrow other countries