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"I told him that we knew. We found out exactly what he did (and) why he did it... " --Sammy The Bull on Louie Milito In one of the more (darkly) humorous installments in this otherwise grim series, Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano testifies about disarming and setting up Liborio (Louie) Milito to be killed by telling him the falsehood that “we were going to kill Johnny Gammarano, that was basically our plan.” Gambino mobster Louie Milito was decidedly unlucky. Why tell Milito that? For one thing, he would believe it ---  because he knew that John Gotti hated Johnny Gammarano . As Gravano said, “John was always talking, bad-mouthing Johnny Gammarano , talking about him, and Louie believed it right away, that he was going to be killed .” What got Louie in trouble in the first place was spectacularly bad timing. He apparently had cozied up to Tommy Bilotti and Paul Castellano at the worst possible moment -- right before John Gotti killed the both of them. (Milito himself miss...

Salvatore "Sal the Pizza Guy" Romano, the Gambino crime family's operative on Wall Street , has signed with Silicon Valley-based Fuse Literary Agency for representation as he prepares to publish his autobiographical memoir. Sal Romano and Paul Anka, in the old days.... Romano made millions of dollars for the Gambinos by way of stock fraud, first serving under the late John "Johnny G." Gammarano and later becoming a top earner for Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo, a capo in the Gambino crime family and who was at one time considered a possible successor to John Gotti as boss of the family.

COSA NOSTRA NEWS EXCLUSIVE John Gammarano died on July 22, 2017,  after suffering a long bout with a cancer-related illness, a source told Cosa Nostra News .  The source is in a solid position to have knowledge of Johnny G. Johnny G The Gambino mobster was buried on July 26. Gammarano's death was noted on ObitTree by Brooklyn's Scarpaci Funeral Home, as per the  website .

COSA NOSTRA NEWS EXCLUSIVE The next installment of our Michael DiLeonardo-Salvatore Romano saga .... The storefronts at 98-04 101st Avenue in Ozone Park, the former home base of the Gambino crime family. The  Corozzos were a faction of the Gambino crime family from Brooklyn's Canarsie. After John Gotti went down courtesy of Sammy the Bull, Peter Gotti was named boss. (Arnold "Zeke" Squitieri would be named acting boss in time). Jo Jo Corozzo was named consiglieri, and with that move it seemed that, for the first time in Mafia history, the power in the Gambino crime family was going to move to Canarsie. Jo Jo was in position to rise to the top. And if he needed a little firepower to help him up, he certainly had it in brother Nicky, who himself had certain aspirations. Corozzo was released from a halfway house last January after spending more than seven years in prison. Corozzo had been indicted back in 2008 as part of Operation Old Bridge...

Gambino crime family capo Mikie Scars and former associate Salvatore Romano, part two... See part one here ; part three here ... When Gambino mobster John Gammarano went to prison, Salvatore Romano, an associate on record with him, had concerns. Romano realized he needed to speak to Michael (Mikie Scars) DiLeonardo. Michael DiLeonardo and Sal Romano today. Ironically, the person who ultimately brought Romano and DiLeonardo together was Genovese mobster Louie Black. "Louie was with Genovese guys," DiLeonardo told us. "He started hanging around Johnny G. They were good friends." Nevertheless, Louie Black was around Michael first, for around 16 years. (Yes, a Genovese associate hung around with a Gambino member. The mob is not as formally organized as some believe. They don't wear ID badges with their name, rank and serial number, for instance.) There's lots of "lateral" relationships, and activities that can result. Johnn...

COSA NOSTRA NEWS EXCLUSIVE Salvatore Romano was an associate of the Gambino crime family who set up shop on Wall Street and became  one of the wealthiest mobsters  in organized crime's history. Music legend Paul Anka, who wrote  My Way  for Frank Sinatra; he rewrote the song as  Sal's Way  using the same melody but new lyrics. Anka sang Sal's Way at a premiere party for one of Romano's business ventures .  He was the consummate "mob earner" in his day; and this is the first of a series of stories I am writing involving him and Michael DiLeonardo. Picture The Wolf of Wall Street, only with the Mafia. In fact, Romano and Jordan Belfort did cross paths early in their careers, or rather their respective paths to infamy. There's more to Romano's story, however, than the show highlighted. The story includes a large list of notorious mobsters from the Gambino crime family -- as well as an infamous DeCavalcante capo known as the...