How Did Vito Genovese's Painting Wind Up in a New Jersey Trattoria?
UPDATED "Do you see the devil in the tree picking his nails with his mouth trying to figure out which one he wants a rape?" This painting once graced the home of Vito Genovese. Since last night we've heard from additional folks about Trama's Trattoria, the New Jersey restaurant where the painting once owned by Vito Genovese hangs. Not all knew about the painting, but they certainly remember the food. " The Garganelli pasta is out of this world. Don Vito would certainly have approved," said one. (They prefer I identify them as "friends." You can figure out the rest. The fact is, they are friends.) The painting, of a group of fair maidens being spied on by a demon or something, once apparently hung in Genovese's mansion in the Atlantic Highlands. And I'm hoping someone reading this can shed more light on that painting.