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“ In the back, Sally! "                                               --(?) G etting sentenced to 20 years in prison on narcotics charges in 1962 was just about the worst possible thing that could happen to the ambitious Carmine Galante—short of, say, getting blasted in the face with shotguns while dining with amici stretti on the back patio of his favorite restaurant. 1980 Giuseppe Bono wedding: Phil Giaccone, Dom Trinchera, JB Indelicato, and Bruno Indelicato were major participants in Galante murders. Lilo spent most of the 1960s and almost half of the 1970s in various prisons. By the time he departed on parole, he was already “yesterday’s man,” as Adrian Humphreys and Lee Lamothe dubbed him in The Sixth Family: The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto , adding: “Internationally, the underworld had realigned in his (Galante...

A Staten Island-based Wells Fargo stockbroker allegedly fleeced a widow out of millions--and when found out, told her: “ Now you can get a job like everybody else ." Wells Fargo "allowed Leonard Kinsman into its adviser network in 2014 — despite the fact that Kinsman...had multiple past complaints from ex-clients and two stints at since-banned brokerages," the New York Post  reported . "Kinsman stands accused of squandering a $2.25 million insurance settlement awarded to Robin Fratto of Freehold, NJ, after her husband died unexpectedly in 2011.” Kinsman has what some would call a colorful past. He once worked at a small Wall Street brokerage house that was the centerpiece of what the Fed's called "the most ambitious scheme by organized crime to infiltrate Wall Street in decades." Kinsman, who reportedly still works at Wells Fargo, worked at Meyers Pollock Robbins, which was part of a 1997 Federal racketeering indictment that charg...

COSA NOSTRA NEWS EXCLUSIVE Anthony "Skutch" Lino, a longtime Avenue U habitué who frequented Nicky (Black) Grancio's "Mother Cabrini Educational Center" social club and lived in the apartment above it, died on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Skutch Lino, RIP.... Grancio, a Colombo capo, was  murdered in cold blood during the third Colombo war by Gregory Scarpa. One of the brothers of Eddie, Robert, Joseph and Frank, Anthony Lino was an associate with the Bonanno and Colombo crime families. What's up with his nickname? Well, it's like this: Skutch (rhymes with "butch") means "pest" and comes from the Italian word, "scocciare" (pron. skoh-CHA-reh), which means " to bother or annoy."   And that was Skutch, the "forgotten" Lino who lasted on the street much longer than say Eddie and Frankie. (Wikipedia and the Mafia Wiki sites don't know he existed). He is remembered for answering the d...

Frank Lino now calls the Mafia a sick world. Funny how he didn't realize it until after he was arrested for six mob hits. Frank Lino is off the hook. The former Bonanno capo, 76, was sentenced to time served for participating in six mob murders, along with racketeering crimes. He had already served eight years in prison after his 2003 arrest and was out on a million-dollar bail when he appeared today for sentencing. "Looking tanned, and wearing black-framed eyeglasses and a double-breasted suit, Lino sheepishly raised his hand when Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis glanced around the courtroom looking for him," The New York Daily News reported. “Oh, in the business suit,” Garaufis observed. Lino’s cooperation was described as being “extraordinary” in that he'd helped to bring down around two dozen Bonannos, including former family boss Joseph Massino who also has since joined Team America. Lino also revealed the burial locations of three slain gangsters, as pr...

I answered the phone this morning to:  "You didn't fucking tell me you were gonna write about Bobby!" No clue what he was talking about. "Bobby at the Post never lived in Knickerbocker Village. Sally killed him because he found out he was a cop." Ahhh.... okay, I knew.... I said, "I heard Vitale was a cop too." Sal Vitale ordered Perrino's murder. The skeletal remains weren't found until Vitale himself flipped. "Exactly. One cop killed the other. In the Mob. Take that shit down. I'm gonna tell you what really happened because you obviously don't know what the fuck happened." He started with:  "Baldo was scared shitless that night. You know how fucking hard it is to dig a hole in February?" Read this while you can. (This was solidly sourced, too, five years ago .... but I wouldn't have it any other way. And remember the truth is always stranger....) A Mafia associate/New York Post sup...