Posted on 03/08/2019 10:57:09 AM PST by NRx
Carmine J. Persico, the unpredictable leader of the New York-based Colombo crime family who the authorities believe had a strong hand in the assassinations of the mob bosses Albert Anastasia and Joey Gallo, died a prisoner on Thursday in a hospital in Durham, N.C. He was 85. His lawyer, Benson Weintraub, confirmed the death, at Duke University Medical Center, but said he did not know the cause. Mr. Persico was serving a combined 139-year sentence at a nearby federal prison, in Butner, N.C. Mr. Weintraub had been representing Mr. Persico in litigation against the Bureau of Prisons. Mr. Persico contended that he had received inadequate medical career for an unspecified wound he had sustained. His condition “worsened critically and quickly” during the recent federal government shutdown, Mr. Weintraub said. Despite Mr. Persico’s stature as a Mafia leader, he spent most of his adult life under indictment or in prison. Although he came from a middle-class family, he began his criminal career as a teenage enforcer and hit man on the streets of South Brooklyn and his first arrest, at age 17, was for murder.
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The stereotype based on some history is they are ruthless, they are within the context of what they consider business. However their neighborhoods are safe, women can walk the streets at night etc. Money to the church and to help people. They love the title men of honor.
Your term multiple personality might fit.
“Time was the mob had their own CAIR-like agitprop organization”
South Chicago 6o+ years ago - “Sons Of Italy” took care of things...
Hmmm... If he wasn’t in prison these last many years, he would probably have been one of today’s demoncrats trying for the nomination for president...
“However their neighborhoods are safe, women can walk the streets at night etc. Money to the church and to help people.”
Definitely correct. Little Italy in NY comes to mind.
The mob guys seem so contradictory.
They were scumbags. Just look at how the mobsters who infected the music industry treated their own songwriters and artists. Didn’t pay them, stole their rights, murdered them...
Don meets the Don
Frank Sinatra is Surprised by Don Rickles on Johnny Carson’s Show
https://youtu.be/q5_V9RT8aR8?t=96
of course they were, just not 24-7. LOL Like Nancy Pelosi going to communion
very true.
North End of Boston was very safe. A relative lived there as a young woman and a girl friends father was involved with the mob.
One day my relatives apartment was broken into and a number of
items were stolen. Word got to her GFs father and in a couple days everything that was stolen was returned.
No idea what happened to the burglar.
But you never heard of muggings, robberies and so on in the North End.
Did you know Mike Frazese? Former Colombo mobster who got out. He spoke at our church about his life. Incredible story.
They had their own code, which they broke when it was convenient or necessary for business or personal honor.
They all mostly did the good citizen thing, they loved being respected.
And for us country bumpkins they had the COOLEST nicknames.
The Chin, Action Jackson, Bayonne Joe, Benny Eggs, Frankie Hot Dogs, Frankie the Wop.
Those names were classic.
I met one nicknamed ‘ Jimmy the Grip ‘.
Guy was enormous - and scary.
please don’t tell me about mafiosi I am sicilcian form the east coast.
Another scumbag goes to rot in hell.
My sister and her husband lived in Pozzouli, outside of Naples, for 15 years. In spite of what you read it was actually the Camorra that controlled southern Italy. She lived on what was known as a safe street. You could throw your wallet loaded with money out into the street, come back a day later and it would still be there. Leave that street and you could get your car broken into for an empty shopping bag left on the seat.
Yeah, cool nickname, but Action Jackson died ‘Buckwheats’. OUCH!
In spite of what you read..........
That’s presumptious of you.
One of my all time favorite comedies......Two videos after the one you posted, the first one being the pool hall video then the second one where he runs into the guy who owes him the $200, that jump punch knocking the guy out was hilarious......
Some 43 years ago I did the groundwork for a new business in a Northeast Ohio community along the Ohio River.The landlord was openly part of the "family" who ran the local numbers and prostitution rackets. Yet he also ran the local community chest that supported local youth activities, parks, churches, the local hospital and other charities. Of course part of the quid pro quo for the business lease was the expectations of donations to the community chest. Extortion it was, but of some benefit to the community.
[But on some level, there is that fascination. One of my all time favorite movies is The Godfather. I know it’s not like that in real life.]
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