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Billy Cutolo Jr. (And Family) Join MTV Reality Show "Families Of The Mafia"

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The Cutolo family (specifically, the family of Billy Cutolo, Wild Bill's son) will appear tonight on MTV's Families of the Mafia (see trailer below), which details the stories of "five notorious Mafia-tied families as they continue to navigate away from the underlying life of organized crime that still haunts them to this day." Billy Cutolo, Senior left, Junior Five because New York has Five Families? Though the members of the five families on this reality TV show — rather than continuing to profit off a criminal lifestyle invented by Sicilian bandits possibly in the 19th century —a re seeking to depart organized crime — presumably to join the world most of us inhabit, the one filled with legitimate, tax-paying suckers.   Cutolo—like former Gambino underboss Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano —is a legitimate former inhabitant of the world of organized crime in New York City  ( and from when it counted, in the heady, deadlier days of the 1980s and 1990s ).... Aside
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Wiseguy Joe Valet Gets Seven Years Plus In Prison (But Bonanno Boss Mikey Nose Didn't Shelve Him)

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Bonanno capo Joseph (Joe Valet) Sabella was slammed with double the amount of prison time his lawyer had sought: He was sentenced to seven years plus about three months in prison last Friday by U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein. Joe Sabella was promoted to capo during the time of the alleged crimes. In February, Joe Valet pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, among other crimes. Then, the wiseguys he was supposed to go to trial with — Joe Cammarano and Porky Zancocchio — won acquittals. But then those two, and two others, were shelved by Bonanno boss Mickey Nose Mancuso who took offense at how the trial defense strategy depicted the consiglieri position, as Gang Land News reported. What's it all mean for Joe Valet? The fck if I know.... But Gang Land noted last week that Sabella is "entitled to lots of second thoughts about the decision he made..." Sabella was involved in a large-scale illegal dumping racket, he assaulted both a vale
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Hoodwinked: Restaurateur on Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Was a Mobster

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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
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Ties Between Gambinos And Sicilian Cosa Nostra "Very Much Alive," Italian Police Say

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EXPANDED The relationship between Gambino wiseguys in New York and members of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra is healthier than ever, Italian investigators announced earlier this week following a series of raids in the Sicilian hinterland that netted 11 Mafia members, who allegedly had been working very closely with the New York-based Gambino family. A joint Italian-FBI operation in 2019 focused on the Inzerillos and the Gambinos. “The connection is very much alive — the New York Mafia still takes pride in its cultural roots in Sicily while ties to the US are a strong point for the Sicilians,” General Arturo Guarino, the Palermo Carabinieri commander, said. Members of the Gambino family and members of the Sicilian Inzerillo clan, which was nearly exterminated in the 1980s during a bloody Mafia war , have had longtime historical ties. This week's arrests centered on Mafia members based in the town of Torretta, which is outside Palermo . Italian police have not released much by way of detai
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