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re: Your favorite Mafia true stories
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:40 am to BorrisMart
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:40 am to BorrisMart
Guys like Roy DeMeo and Scarpa were legit serial killers. I have heard Mike Franzese describe how Scarpa would light up and act excited when describing how he killed someone 
I also didn't know how powerful and respected Carlos Marcello was. All the NY families would come to him for advice. Mike Franzese has some great content on youtube.
I also didn't know how powerful and respected Carlos Marcello was. All the NY families would come to him for advice. Mike Franzese has some great content on youtube.
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Posted on 4/8/21 at 10:07 am to Tiger Ryno
Went to high school in New Orleans with CM’s grandson. This was the late 70’s and everything he wore was polyester print. Okay guy, but we hung in different circles.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 10:26 am to Tiger Ryno
Back in the day, Capone sent a few of his heavies down south to pinch Sylvester “Silver Dollar Sam” Corollo.
The boys from Chicago were met at the train station on Loyola Ave. and promptly sent back to Chitown with busted up knees and elbows.
True story...
The boys from Chicago were met at the train station on Loyola Ave. and promptly sent back to Chitown with busted up knees and elbows.
True story...
Posted on 4/8/21 at 10:34 am to Tiger Ryno
My great aunt, and uncle (Sam, and Mary) were both shot dead in their home for money owed to the mafia in Winnsboro, LA. on Halloween night 1949. News story can still be found on google.
This post was edited on 4/8/21 at 10:37 am
Posted on 4/8/21 at 10:42 am to BorrisMart
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Johnny Dio Story
This guy does some lesser known mob stories in short videos which are pretty good. Some here may like it, this one is about Johnny Dio (the guy in Goodfellas in prison who's cooking the steak and says "medium rare..ahh an aristocrat." I guess he had acid thrown on a reporter or union rep or someones face, gnarly guy.
Wiseguy, the book Goodfellas is based on, goes into more detail.
Dio was in prison for either a life sentence, or close enough to it, for acid-blinding a reporter named Victor Reisel.
His only hope of getting out was getting his conviction overturned. He also almost put a hit out on Henry Hill after a prison official's office, which doubled as Dio's defacto office, was discovered as a hiding place for drugs being smuggled into the prison. While it didn't add anything to his sentence, it kicked him out of the office and further limited Dio's activities while in the federal pen in Lewisberg, PA.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 10:48 am to Tiger Ryno
Supposedly the baws from NOLA ran a gambling and whore house at Morville south if Vidalia.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 11:18 am to deltaland
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The funny thing about the mafia guys is they were actually really nice to people “not involved” and acted like your typical upstanding citizen. Many were even respectful of law enforcement and understood they’re doing their job. The ethics they followed are pretty interesting especially when compared to inner city gangs of today and people like MS-13.
Mafia actually kept their neighborhoods safe and in order, and put a lot of people in business. I’d much rather the Govt left them alone and got rid of all the thugs and gangbangers in the inner cities
I’m sure there are many exceptions to that.
One story that comes to mind is the mafia guy whose kid ran out in the street and was struck and killed by a neighbor. He ended up having the neighbor murdered despite no fault on his part.
Overall the glorification of mafioso types is ridiculous.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 11:20 am to Havoc
John Gotti.
He wasn't the average mob guy that we were talking about
He wasn't the average mob guy that we were talking about
Posted on 4/8/21 at 11:27 am to Dissident Aggressor
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Sylvester “Silver Dollar Sam” Corollo
He lived down the street from my mom when she was a little kid when they lived in mid city for a bit.
My great uncle had horses, but was really small time compared to Corollo, but one night one of corollo’s jockeys threw a race at the fairgrounds - and they had to get him out quick
So my g-uncle brought him to my mom’s house (she was about 5) and he stayed there until a limo picked him up to bring him to the airport. No one would ever think to look for him there
Crazy. Also, everyone talks about Mosca’s - but Frank’s on Decatur is/was a known mafia hang out too
Posted on 4/8/21 at 11:32 am to GreenRockTiger
Isn’t there some truth or folklore about Pinettas on Perkins in BR being some mafia hideout back in the day or something? Anyone have any insight to the story whether it’s true or false or somewhat true?
Posted on 4/8/21 at 11:42 am to Jones
That’s right. Thought I would have remembered him being the guy. Doh.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 11:44 am to lsu777
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only story i personally have is my wife is second cousins with the Gaglino's, the ones that own Franks in the quarter. They treat us very well and are always very very nice.
We’ve probably met, lol.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 12:13 pm to touchdownjeebus
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We’ve probably met, lol.
maybe, We dont go down much like we used to though. Prolly facebook friends lol.
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Frank’s on Decatur is/was a known mafia hang out too
Franks was originally a deli that served sandwiches and was started by Frank Gaglino Sr before Jr took it over and turned it into a restruant that it is today.
It is where the FBI made the recordings for operation hardcrust where they got Gaglino, Carrolla and underlings on tape talking about the video poker skim that they all got convicted of in 95-96. Franks brother Joseph and a mobster out of Los Angles also got caught up in a blackjack scam that involved casino employees and invisible ink on the cards at mississippi coast casinos.
Joseph was the Gaglino that was arrested in the "assassin's van" in 2014 in nola and was involved in the biogensis clinic steroid scandal in florida but was never convicted in biogenesis case. He served 2 years for unregistered firearm in the van case
Posted on 4/8/21 at 12:13 pm to kjp811
We lived across the street from Carlos Mother in St Charles parish. Never had a problem with theft. We frequently went to Mosca's out side of Avondale where they only accepted cash. Lots of trouble for trying pass a credit card or check.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 12:14 pm to Dissident Aggressor
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Back in the day, Capone sent a few of his heavies down south to pinch Sylvester “Silver Dollar Sam” Corollo.
The boys from Chicago were met at the train station on Loyola Ave. and promptly sent back to Chitown with busted up knees and elbows.
True story...
close, Sam had cops on his payroll break their fingers because he wasnt going to take orders from Capone and would supply Capone with alcohol only if he decided too. At the time Sam supplied the north side gang.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 12:16 pm to lsu777
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close, Sam had cops on his payroll break their fingers because he wasnt going to take orders from Capone and would supply Capone with alcohol only if he decided too. At the time Sam supplied the north side gang.
y'all sound like a bunch of made baws
Posted on 4/8/21 at 12:27 pm to lsu777
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Frank Gaglino Sr
Gagliano?
Posted on 4/8/21 at 12:29 pm to Havoc
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Gagliano
Correct.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 12:54 pm to ronricks
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Roy DeMeo
The book Murder Machine needs to be a movie honestly. But recently Sammy Gravano did a story on Roy in his podcast and idk why but I find it hilarious, something about Roy suggesting they get a weigh bench in the social club so they could work out "and show the bosses what they could do" when they would meet there
. Also, the Commission Boss of Dallas, Joseph Civello, was a cousin of Marcello's I believe (from WBR Parish) and was essentially a de facto captain for him and Marcello would send him as his proxy to Commission meetings supposedly. Huey was tangled in with Frank Costello and Silver Dollar Sam and when LaGuardia went after the slot machines in NYC they made a deal to bring them all to Louisiana.
This post was edited on 4/8/21 at 12:55 pm
Posted on 4/8/21 at 12:59 pm to BorrisMart
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The book Murder Machine needs to be a movie honestly.
That book was excellent. I started it thinking it was going to be not as good because of the point of view it was in. I was wrong.
This story would make a perfect mob movie.
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Roy suggesting they get a weigh bench in the social club so they could work out "and show the bosses what they could do" when they would meet there .
They werent the smartest of individuals
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