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To: Cultural Jihad
The Feast of San Gennaro is a big deal in Little Italy in Manhattan, south of Greenwich Village, where it is celebrated in the streets every fall. Unfortunately Little Italy has been getting squeezed out by Chinatown in recent years, as Italians move to the suburbs, but it's still an impressive spectacle.
31 posted on 09/22/2001 6:44:36 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: Cicero
The Feast of San Gennaro ...

To me, it was better with the beer.
43 posted on 09/22/2001 6:56:10 PM PDT by eastsider
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Exerpt from interesting1999 RICO appeal:

On the Society's federal tax return as a tax-exempt organization, Louis Zacchia from Ida's crew was listed as "treasurer/director when necessary"; he was also identified as vice-president of the Society. His offices are sufficient to make the Society chargeable with his knowledge that cash revenue from the vendors was being diverted from the Society.

Further evidence was supplied by the testimony of D'Arco. He was asked whether he had learned that "organized crime controlled the Feast of San Gennaro." He replied that he had and that what he had learned was this: "They controlled the curb space and they ran the Feast. They had an association that was housed in a store, a store front, with the saint in it on Mulberry Street." He added: "The curb space along the whole length of Mulberry Street was rented. They rented it for stands and they collected money on that." D'Arco's testimony pointed directly to the Society of Saint Gennaro of Naples and the Suburbs as the association housed on Mulberry Street.

D'Arco then named individual members of the Genovese Family who had in turn "controlled" the Feast since the 1960s. He stated: "From 1988, when I became the captain, from that point forward, Jimmy Ida had control of that." When asked how he knew, he replied: "By talking with Jimmy and also with disputes that I had between Jimmy and Mickey Dimino [Michael Generoso] over our bread interests in the Feast."

112 posted on 09/22/2001 10:20:58 PM PDT by jo6pac
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The "Festa" in NYC is a big deal for the tourists, maybe. Also a big money maker for the scuzzbucket mafia. VAFFANCULO IL "COSA NOSTRA"---MAFIA SONO TUTTI SFACIM'!!!
181 posted on 09/26/2001 9:19:10 AM PDT by LN2Campy
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