Cosa Nostra News

See Manhattan skyline Kenny "Kenji" Gallo is back with a reissued updated version of  Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia , his story about serving as a Colombo crime family  associate. (He also had ties to the Luchese and Los Angeles crime families, when the latter still existed.) Seeing the dead-end nature of "the life" he was living, Gallo, an Asian-American, flipped, wore a wire and testified against all three crime families, which resulted in him writing and publishing what  easily is among the top must-reads  in the American-Mafia nonfiction genre. Kenji's story didn't end there, however. He still wore a wire, for years.

Danny Persico, nephew of sentenced-to-life Colombo crime family boss Carmine Persico, has died. This is based on a seemingly exclusive report by Kenji Gallo on his Breakshot Blog. Danny Persico wasn't a violent mobster despite his last name. While contacting sources, we learned Danny, in his early 50s, had been fighting colon cancer for around the past six years.