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COSA NOSTRA NEWS EXCLUSIVE   After reading  Michael "Mikie Scars" DiLeonardo's testimony , we wanted to know more about him. Mikie Scars, recently taken. Michael DiLeonardo knows Cosa Nostra, and we spent a week asking him questions. We thank Michael for generously spending his time answering them. Michael DiLeonardo's story certainly warrants a full-length book. When we asked Michael if he was working on getting his life story onto the page, he told us only that he's received many requests. "Mikie Scars" beat the Feds when he was tried in Georgia for extorting some $70 million from Georgia's Gold Club and $100,000 from the Manhattan-based high-end Scores strip club.

Nicola "Nick" Gentile  was a Sicilian Mafioso who traveled around the United States to witness many pivotal moments in the formation of the American Mafia. He knew firsthand many of men who established the foundation for Sicilian-based organized crime here. Nicola Gentile's memoir about the formation of the American Mafia is unavailable in English.... Born in the southern Sicilian community of Siculiana in 1884, he arrived in the U.S. at age 19. Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Missouri were his chief American home bases. He was a trusted confidant of New York Mafiosi from the early 1900s through the Castellammarese War, and was also called upon to mediate a dispute between the Morello-Lupo clan and boss of bosses Salvatore D'Aquila in the 1920s. He mediated disputes in Chicago and Los Angeles, even in New York City, the Mafia's capitol. Gentile briefly served in leadership roles for the Kansas City, Cleveland and Pittsburgh Mafia families. Pitts...