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WEBSep 27, 2024 · Last Of The Greek Crime Dons Of The US Passes Away. By Nick Christophers On May 4, 2024, Spyredon “Spiro, Sagafias” Velentzas passed away in the FCI Allenwood prison. He was the alleged boss of the Greek mob in New York. He may have been the most powerful within the Greek ethnic crime element ever.
Bath Avenue Crew Story: Kill One of Ours, We Kill Two of Yours
WEBNov 24, 2014 · Bath Avenue Crew Story: Kill One of Ours, We Kill Two of Yours. In the late 1980s/early 1990s, mobsters and associates were routinely murdered in all of New York's boroughs. George Conte, middle. In places like Bath Avenue, the remains of violent gangland hits were found in car trunks or slumped over steering wheels; they ripened in …
Larry Mazza On Greg Scarpa, The Colombo War, And Life After …
WEBAug 6, 2018 · Larry met Greg Scarpa through his wife. At the time, Mazza was a clean-cut 18 year old who worked at Danza’s supermarket in Bensonhurst. He attended John Jay College and wanted to become a firefighter like his father, who was an FDNY lieutenant. Someone in Larry's shoes would seem to be on thin ice with Greg Scarpa.
Remembering the 1972 Neapolitan Noodle "Mistaken Identity" …
WEBMar 31, 2018 · The mistaken identity slayings left two dead. And The Godfather was playing in New York theaters at the time. This past week marked The Godfather's 45th anniversary as an Academy Award triumph, cementing its status as one of the greatest films ever made. Released in 1972, it received 11 nominations and emerged with three Oscars.
Bath Avenue Crew Rose High, Fell Hard - Cosa Nostra News
WEBAug 18, 2014 · As the 1980s ticked by and crack started hitting the big city, making daily headlines, the ranks of the Bath Avenue Crew had grown and the members were no longer kids but men, well-steeped in the traditions of Cosa Nostra. Committing a wide range of crimes -- everything from robbing banks and home invasions to killing people.
Who Really Killed Tommy Two-Guns DeSimone? - Cosa Nostra News
WEBDec 28, 2015 · Agro, an interesting low-profile onetime Castellano loyalist, who in the 1980s admitted to an informant that he, Agro, had killed Tommy DeSimone. (Agro never mentioned Gotti, then a Queens-based capo.) Then on May 17, 2007, on the Howard Stern Show, Hill said that Gotti had personally killed DeSimone.
Tommy Karate Pitera's "Invisible" Prison Assault - Cosa Nostra News
WEBOct 5, 2015 · On August 11, 1996, the seemingly impossible happened at the high-security U.S. Penitentiary in Allenwood, Pennsylvania. Tommy Pitera, right, with Bonanno boss Spero. An inmate was "serious [ly] assaulted," yet an incident report suggests there was little physical evidence in terms of wounds. Some witnesses said they could see no wounds.
Getting Made By Anastasia In 1953: Anthony Ruggiano ... - Cosa …
WEBNov 9, 2019 · Fat Andy and Tony Lee. Before Anthony Ruggiano (Senior, aka Fat Andy) could get made in 1953, his name had to go around to the other New York families to solicit any possible objections. There were objections--two, actually--one of which required then-boss Albert Anastasia to win a sitdown with the Genovese family (or …
Hoodwinked: Restaurateur on Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Was a …
WEBAug 14, 2011 · The once-promising Bonanno crime family member who appeared in Kitchen Nightmares now calls himself a brokester. And the Bonanno crime family, with which he was once affiliated has disowned him. So has the rest of New York's Cosa Nostra, according to FBI documents and Peter Pasta himself. But before all that he appeared on an episode of Kitchen ...
Profile Of Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso, Luchese Underboss Who …
WEBDec 16, 2020 · After spending a month on a ventilator, Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso died of complications from COVID-19 on Tuesday, December 15, at age 78. The former Luchese underboss was first diagnosed with coronavirus on November 5 at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson. Casso was one of two inmates at …