Gambino Crime Boss Shot Dead

Wow, so it’s like the “Godfather” and “Goodfellas” times again? Will be get more good movies out of it?

Trump has ties to the mafia. Bet he had him silenced.

Does this mean that there is going to be some sort of a Mafia war between families and/or internal power struggle? These guys knocking each other off can't be all bad just as long as too many police resource are diverted.

I have this weird reoccurring fantasy that I am a vampire and that I prey exclusively on organized crime figures. I think I would enjoy that. I know it's fucked up.

Do you think this was a hit?

[quote]These guys knocking each other off can't be all bad

Ack! It's late, I'm tired. Let me rephrase this. "Guys bad. Killing each other off good."

R5 No Rose, it was a love tap.

I once witnessed a mob hit in New York City c. 1978 or 79. I was a kid, so I don't know who, or which family, etc. All I remember was thinking the body was like swiss cheese, because of the bullet holes. I thought it was cool, but my mom tried to usher me away pretty quickly.

R8, that's fucked up, your mother wasted a teaching moment.

R8 - I just looked up 1978 and 1979 in organized crime on Wikipedia and they were especially active and bloody years. The casualties and methods of assassination are listed. I'm curious if a name will jump out to you.

He was hot.

I dated Squishy Gambino in the 80's. Helleva guy

If it did, R10, I wouldn't say.

I also went to high school with a Genovese, of the Genovese crime family.

I might have already said too much.

The Italian Mob is back.

Whacked!

Reprisal hit?

The shooting wasn't the only recent mob assassination in New York. Sylvester Zottola, 71, reportedly of the Bonanno crime family, was gunned down at a McDonald's drive thru in the Bronx last October, according to WABC.

Lovely house on the outside. I wonder if we'll see it Real estalker or Curbed soon?

Wonder if this hit had any links to other Italian power playing from.abroad? Calabrian 'Ndrangheta?

The mob positions must not pay all that well. His home looked cookie cutter. And on Staten Island?

He didnt fallow the Rules! A Rat is a Rat!

Was Tramp's family involved?

I used to be his capo. He made me service him regularly.

R17, no, it was a Palermo related hit.

Now that's just disrespectful.

But funny, I don't care who you are.

The house is on Todt (pronounced Tote) Hill, the island's most exclusive neighborhood. Another mobster who was murdered outside Spark's Steak House in Manhattan, also lived there. At 402-feet, Todt Hill is the highest elevation along the coast between Maine and Florida.

Another return to the 1970s, I see. Cultural regression is fun!

Whitey Bulger also got hit in prison not too long ago. The mob seems to be pretty active lately.

Oh, Michael!

[quote]I have this weird reoccurring fantasy that I am a vampire and that I prey exclusively on organized crime figures. I think I would enjoy that. I know it's fucked up.

Can you give us a call asap? We're all out of ideas and could use some new ones. Even if vampires have already been done to death.

To the mattresses!

Where was Drita D'Avanzo last night? Hope she and Renee Graziano weren't giving blow jobs to other Gambino soldiers when this happened because they will have too much good material for their next reality show.

[quote]I dated Squishy Gambino in the 80's.

Just exactly which parts of him squished?

He got the Frank Leotardo special.

Is Jonny Alite still around?

I thought this nonsense had gone the way of the dodo.

It still happens, r34.

Lifetime Staten Islander here. I’m surprised this happened. With the exception of the idiot reality star Mob Wives, the mafia on Staten Island has mostly been nonexistent. Back in the 80’s when I was a kid, every other headline was a mob related bust or a body dumped in the woods that was a mob hit. Speaking of the idiot reality show Mob Wives, I love when one of these mafia goons gets arrested or killed and suddenly there’s a hysterical Renee Graziano going on about what a stand up guy he was or how it sso unfair the Feds are targeting them. Delusional idiots.

R36 Not sure I would say delusional. They know the deal. But they have to play it up to make everything look good. There is a lot of pressure for the women to stand up for the family (or families as the case may be). Idot? Sure, but she's alive so that's better than a dead idiot.

Seems to me a reality show called Mob Wives would be bad for actual mob figures. Is this another fake show like Amish Mafia, which was totally fake?

[quote]Oh, Michael!

That's my family, Kay. It's not me.

Do people on Staten Island generally know which areas are more populated by mob-affiliates or heavy hitters? I looked up Cali's house and others in the vicinity. Ir's valued at $1.3M. Imagine paying that kind of money to move in next door to a felon and sociopathic killer? Or worse, his tacky, shrieky wife.

You ain’t see nothin’, R8. You understand, nothin!

Capesce?

This was not the first mob hit since 19 eighty-whatever. My friend's mafia dad had a peculiar accident blocks from his home in western LI where he was found dead in his smashed car. Nobody in the family thought he died from what appeared to be a fender-bender. But there were no witnesses, and there was no autopsy.

Cali was lured out of the house by a staged car crash. The pickup rammed his SUV drawing him out of the house.

It's pretty damn bold to do the hit right in front of his house.

Thugs.

Good riddance to trash.

It seems it’s been a long time since we heard about an Italian mafia hit. It’s almost quaint.

I know a gal whose dad was a low-level mafioso from Queens. He just died in a nursing home.

Robin Quivers used to live on Todt Hill.

[quote]This was not the first mob hit since 19 eighty-whatever.

It was the first hit on a Mafia family boss since Paul Castellano got whacked in 1985.

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R47 is right. Plus, chances are we don’t know of many other generic mob hits because they’re not big enough to make the news.

Apparently being killed in front of your house, in front of your family, is a demonstration of scorn and disrespect, worthy of someone who had done something against gangster code.

The nephew/heir from the DM story:

[quote]He recently called President Trump to pardon his father Francesco, claiming fired FBI Director James Comey, who was responsible for taking down his father, treated his family unfairly.

To Live and Die in S. I.

Maybe Melissa Gilbert could get another Lifetime movie out of this

I would bet that blue pick up drove straight to a mafia controlled savage yard and right into a car crusher never to be seen again.

Maybe it was a random drive by shooting and squishing with a truck.

Gloria:I walked out with Dinsdale on many occasions and found him a charming and erudite companion. He was wont to introduce one to eminent celebrities, celebrated American singers, members of the aristocracy and other gang leaders,

Interviewer (off screen): How had he met them?

Gloria:Through his work for charities. He took a warm interest in Boys' Clubs, Sailors' Homes, Choristers' Associations and the Grenadier Guards.

Hillary is looking for some new territory. Now that she's not so busy.

No one claims it’s the first mob hit since the 1980s. It’s the first mob boss hit.

The “disrespect” angle may mean he broke a big rule, or it may mean whoever killed him was not in the mob.

Anyway, they shot Tony Soprano in front of his wife and kids. What are ya gonna do?

[quote] I have this weird reoccurring fantasy that I am a vampire and that I prey exclusively on organized crime figures.

Someone beat you to that idea. "Warren" was a defunct comic book company that specialized in non-comic book code stories heavy on gore and sex. You described the plot of one of their stories.

The police would summon the crime fighter and covered for the murders of the bat-man, but worried even in a large city like theirs, sooner of later they would have to run out of criminals.

I can't tell you offhand what book and issue it was but I'm certain I have it in a box down in the basement.

Was he dining at Sparks?

[quote]mafia controlled savage yard

Wondering why he would drive to a zoo.

When did they shoot Tony Soprano, r58?

Me, too, r4, for years. You’re not alone in your weirdness.

So you guys want to transform organized crime figures into the undead so they can roam the earth for eternity?

At the end, r61.

They didn’t shoot him.

At least we didn’t see it and the creator of the series himself said that’s not what happened.

Hey R36 - where’d you go to high school? Farrell here, but I’m older than you.

[quote] The “disrespect” angle may mean he broke a big rule, or it may mean whoever killed him was not in the mob.

Russians!

R40 that area is where doctors and executives live. A partner at my law firm lives on Todt Hill in a 3 million dollar house. It really is a lovely area, I don’t think mob bosses are the norm

I once interned at the US Attorney's and had a nice chit chat with a real mobster (you know, how's school going?)

[Quote]I once witnessed a mob hit in New York City c. 1978 or 79. I was a kid, so I don't know who, or which family, etc. All I remember was thinking the body was like swiss cheese, because of the bullet holes.

Did you drive past the crime scene on Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn? A mortician friend of mine buried a mob guy killed in 79 and he described the body as looking like swiss cheese from the bullet holes. They left the body in the car so that the story would make the papers. Swiss cheese and 79, I think I got your hit.

Didn't Gotti or Gambino or one of them have a gay son who owned a gay bar in the village at one point?

The one gay Gambino son went up into the other gay Gambino son's butt

Yum.

NY media saying it was Gotti’s brother who just got out of prison after 29 years and wants his brother’s old job.

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Alan Sepinwall [co-author]: When you said there was an end point, you don’t mean Tony at Holsten’s, you just meant, “I think I have two more years’ worth of stories left in me.”

Chase: Yes, I think I had that death scene around two years before the end… Tony was going to get called to a meeting with Johnny Sack in Manhattan, and he was going to go back through the Lincoln Tunnel for this meeting, and it was going to go black there and you never saw him again as he was heading back, the theory being that something bad happens to him at the meeting. But we didn’t do that.

Matt Zoller Seitz [co-author]: You realise, of course, that you just referred to that as a death scene.

[A long pause follows]

Chase: F*** you guys.

R70 he ain’t seen nuthin’ unnerstand? Nothin.

You guys tink you’ll be the first hole I ever dug? Eh?

R34, as a group these types lack the ability & skills to be adaptable. They're not a bright bunch. No attractive prized physical traits. They also are prone to view incestuous liasons differently than the rest of us. Leads to a faulty brain wiring and poor executive functioning abilities. You can't predict their flawed logical tendencies. They also are resistant to assimilation. Lost cause.

R68😂

As a lifetime New Yorker, I think this mob hit is absolutely delish and hope it brings back some of the street cred this city used to have before Disney arrived. An all out mob war would be divine.

[quote]An all out mob war would be divine.

For some reason I thought I’d live my whole life without ‘mob war’ and ‘divine’ in the same sentence. ‘Mob war’ and ‘great,’ or ‘fantastic,’ yes.

I love the Datalounge!

Are they sure it wasn't suicide?

The investigation is ongoing, R82, so you may be onto something.

R66 I went to Farrell too!

Anyways... it’s fun that this happened on SI! Back in the 70’s and 80’s, SI was mafioso central. It’s been quiet for so long (unless you count Renee Graziano in hysterics: “The Feds took my daaaaaaaad”), so a lot of people were interested to see that the mafia still has ties on the island!

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I was raised in a town where cousins of the Gambino family had illegal gambling, drug, and prostitution run from many a legit family business. YES, prostitution. There was a small neighborhood grill where mom, dad, and the kiddies would be eating downstairs, and a lady or two would be working upstairs. It's different today.....No girls, just meth!

I keep checking for updates on this story...It feels like a movie!

Does the mafia still own all the unions in NYC?

Me, too, R87. I'm so fascinated by the story. As morbid as it is, like R80 and R81 I'm kind of looking forward to see a so-called "mob war." As long as innocent bystanders aren't harmed, it would be sociopaths killing other sociopaths, right?

[quote] as a group these types lack the ability & skills to be adaptable. They're not a bright bunch. No attractive prized physical traits. They also are prone to view incestuous liasons differently than the rest of us. Leads to a faulty brain wiring and poor executive functioning abilities.

I was thinking of the familial and multi-generational nature of their criminal enterprises, and these folks would be perfect subjects for a study of criminality and sociopathy and the genetic transmission patterns across generations. Do psych testing batteries, the whole works including collecting DNA . Of course, this would never happen because they're closed off to outsiders, but they are a ready made subject pool for sociological, psychological and genetic research into the etiology of psychopathy and sociopathy.

Not good. I know Italian mobsters are sort of romanticized in classic films and such, but not nice people. They kneecapped my great uncle in Sicily because of a debt...

I guess he shoulda paid.

Who’s had this guy’s cannoli?

What song was playing in the truck that ran him over?

R91, yeah. Sorta his fault for even borrowing money and dealing with them in the first place. But the mob did impose taxes on all businesses then, an everybody pay up kind of deal. I never met him, btw -- that was in the 1920s. I have no clue if the mob still operates the same way in present day Sicily..

[quote] . But there were no witnesses, and there was no autopsy

A non witnessed death in NY has to be autopsied, especially if there's blood outside of the body involved.

Not necessarily, r96.

Indeed, Orthodox Jews will not permit an autopsy.

THE NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION of COUNTY CORONERS and MEDICAL EXAMINERS

The following types of death must be investigated by the Coroner or Medical Examiners Office regardless of the time period involved from the incident to the time of death if the person did not regain their health to a status equal to or better than their health at the time of the incident:

Accidental Deaths.

Falls, including hip fractures or other injury.

Any blunt force or mechanical injury.

Cuttings and stabbings.

Explosions.

Firearm injuries.

Asphyxiation by gagging or foreign substance, including food, in the airway; compression of the airway or chest, by hand, material or ligature; drowning; hanging; cyanide; exclusion of oxygen; carbon monoxide; and/or other gases causing suffocation.

[bold] Vehicular accidents including auto, bus, train, motorcycle, bicycle, watercraft, snowmobile, or aircraft, including driver, passenger, or related non-passenger, such as being struck by parts flying or thrown from a vehicle

Any unattended death at home or in a public or outdoor space. [/bold]

[quote]The following types of death must be [bold]investigated[/bold] by the Coroner or Medical Examiners Office

This does not necessarily mean conducting a full scale autopsy. If the ME is satisfied the death was not a homicide, he ‘investigated.’

Again, the Orthodox Jewish community forbids autopsies as a desecration of the body.

They may never be an arrest on this. Connie Francis's brother was gunned down by 2 mobsters back in the '80's in broad daylight in front of his house. There has never been any arrests in that case, despite his famous sister shining a spotlight.

Has anyone on this thread been to Sparks recently?

I doubt the family of a mafia guy found dead in a fender bender is going to get a court order to claim an autopsy can't be done on religious grounds.

Anyone found dead in a car - especially a fender bender - is going to be autopsied in downstate NY.

[quote] As a lifetime New Yorker, I think this mob hit is absolutely delish and hope it brings back some of the street cred this city used to have before Disney arrived. An all out mob war would be divine.

"Street cred." Grow the fuck up.

I think they're tremendous!

Just taking out the garbage on Staten Island...

Next!

I love you, R80!

My boys Vinnie and Rocco did it.

Why do mobsters always have such cool nicknames?

You think "No Thumbs" is cool? Howabout Johnny No Knees?

Very cool, R109!!

Uncle Vittorio had his head cut off after he turned state's evidence against Benny the Blade.

[quote]Cali's wife and child were in the home at the time, which sources say is a highly unusual circumstance in the lore of organized crime -- which, in its heyday, followed certain rules that kept targets from getting whacked in front of their families.

They’re saying the hitman was sending a message by going outside of established mob rules. (I think it’s fascinating that there is a form of etiquette for mob hits.)

Wow. A cold blooded, expertly planned, pin point assassination by a trained killer. Frightening to think that there’s men out there like this walking among us. The next time someone says “You watch too many movies,” think of Frank Cali.

[QUOTE]The cold-blooded killer who gunned down Gambino crime boss Frank (Franky Boy) Cali likely lured his victim outside with a fake car crash — then blew him away in front of his Staten Island home.

[QUOTE]Cali, 53, was having dinner with his family inside his Todt Hill house when a pick-up truck smashed into his silver Cadillac Escalade SUV around 9:15 p.m Wednesday — prompting the Gambino mobster to rush outside.

[QUOTE]Video surveillance shows Cali briefly talking to a man who jumped out the truck — until a muzzle flash and a barrage of shots sent the old-school wiseguy desperately scrambling for cover underneath his Cadillac.

[QUOTE]It was too late, however. The shooter pumped at least six 9mm bullets into the Sicilian-born made man — leaving him bloody and inert — before hopping back into the vehicle and speeding away. Cops combed surveillance footage of Staten Island’s bridges Thursday but found no trace of it leaving the borough. The truck likely had already been dumped at a demolition site.

[QUOTE]While Shea cautioned that the investigation is still preliminary, other early theories included a planned rubout by Cali’s underlings, a killer with a personal vendetta with the mobster, or even a classic mob hit by the new wave of Russian and Albanian wiseguys looking to muscle into the family business.

No one's talking -

A guy like Frank would smell it on you if he thought something was up. This killer was so good that he was able to hold a face-to-face discussion with the target right outside his home without giving himself away, then calmly pulled a pistol and unloaded six shots into Frank’s chest before he could even drop to the ground.

His wife and children will never be able to eat dinner again without thinking about that night.

[quote]Wow. A cold blooded, expertly planned, pin point assassination by a trained killer. Frightening to think that there’s men out there like this walking among us. The next time someone says “You watch too many movies,” think of Frank Cali.

It only happened a few days ago, ffs. The cops already have theories and a suspect with a motive. Like someone said upthread, as much as the mob has been romanticized by Hollywood, they're just glorified thugs, and not too bright.

Who’s the suspect?

Last I heard the NYPD was seriously looking at Gotti.

I’m wondering if all this talk about right outside of his house was a “message” or simply that he rarely left his house and that was the only way to lure him out. The media says he was very reclusive and most didn’t even know he was the boss of a mafia family.

I heard the funniest quote from the owner of the deli where he would get breakfast sandwiches. The reporter asked something like, “What did you think of him” or some such dumb thing. She said:

[quote]Whaddaya mean? He didn’t come in and say “I’m the boss of a mafia family,” he came in and said, “Can I have a bacon, egg and cheese.”

[quote]I doubt the family of a mafia guy found dead in a fender bender is going to get a court order to claim an autopsy can't be done on religious grounds.

It actually would work the opposite way. If the coroner insists on performing an autopsy, and the family is against it, the coroner would have to get a court order to conduct one. Not vice versa.

The local news just reported the police have video of Cali and the man talking in front of the car and then Cali turning away and the man shooting him. If Gene Gotti is involved, the case will get solved pretty quickly because all the Gotti men are basically dumb (think Donald Trump Jr's IQ, then take away another 30 points and you are in Gotti territory).

Quiet r103!

R80, I like how you think.

So his car was parked on the street? I mean, if it was parked in the driveway and someone crashed into it, wouldn't you pause just a tiny bit and wonder if it was a set up?

All this crap about “The Mafia would never kill a man in front of his house” is all bullshit. They killed Philly mob boss Angelo Bruno the same way as he was coming home one night. They don’t like to do stuff like that, but if it’s the only place where you’re vulnerable then they don’t really give a fuck. Depending on the importance and urgency of your impending demise, they’ll blow your brains out at your kid’s birthday party if they have to. They only have morals when it’s convenient for them (in other words they have no morals).

R125, so do you support my theory at R120?

That was my thinking after a while because the media kept referring to him as a recluse.

Yes, Cali was reclusive. A loner. He spent a lot of time at home with the family and tried to run things like a helicopter CEO. That’s a recipe for disaster. You’ve got to be on the streets. You’ve got to keep your guys in line. You can’t run a mafia family from behind the windows of your suburban mansion. It’s bad enough he was Sicilian. He must have had countless beefs and resentments festering internally. There might not be any revenge killings, contrary to all this gossip in the news from mob rats about “Ohh bodies gotta drop,” because many of his own guys are probably glad he’s dead. He wasn’t beloved like John Gotti. We like to clown John because he was so flashy and arrogant, but his guys adored him.

Very interesting r127.

Not all his guys.

They killers staged a car accident in front of his home - so he would come out. It worked.

How do they have video?

[QUOTE]Not all his guys.

Lol, Gravano turned rat to save his own ass from going to prison for the rest of his life. But believe me, before the indictments, if somebody murdered John Gotti outside his home like this, Sam Gravano would’ve been the first motherfucker out there killing anyone he thought was responsible. The streets would already be red.

True R132. Very true. Unless it was a sanctioned hit. I don’t think this was only because the commission could’ve sent for him and made him disappear without having a war. But if they were sending a message, they could do it this way, too.

I’ve read that’s why Gotti wanted to hit Castellano in Manhattan. It’s a public execution that, in their world, sends a message.

[quote]How do they have video?

CNN was there, Rose.

The family had a video that they refused to turn over to police strangely enough

[quote]I was thinking of the familial and multi-generational nature of their criminal enterprises, and these folks would be perfect subjects for a study of criminality and sociopathy and the genetic transmission patterns across generations.

Fuck you.

The video was turned over. He went outside after his SUV was hit, talked to the killer briefly, shook his hand, bent over to pick up his license plate which had been knocked off, and was shot six times in the chest, trying to take shelter under the vehicle.

The cops are talking to a 25-year-old "person of interest" but no charges so far.

God help us all if this was just some punk kid beefing over a broad. How does the boss of the Gambino Crime Family get killed over something like that? It might suck all of the juice out of the story. Fingers crossed that it’s mob related with more good old fashioned mafia violence to come.

I would think anyone in the Mob would stay strapped at all times.

If he had a gun on him he should've been able to get a few bullets in his assailant.

The cops have arrested the hitter and think the murder might have been personal instead of a sanctioned mob hit. The guy sounds like a real amateur; cops got a finger print from the license plate he was holding, plus what kind of a pro is going to ignore a surveillance camera.

[QUOTE]I would think anyone in the Mob would stay strapped at all times.

Bosses don’t walk around with guns on them. There hasn’t been a boss murdered in 34 years for a reason. You’re practically untouchable when you reach that level. That’s part of what makes their life fascinating. In the legit world, bosses need all kinds of security to protect themselves from the bad guys. Guys like Jeff Bezos and Jay-Z and Mark Zuckerberg and Jamie Dimon and LA Reid and Mark Cuban—round the clock bodyguards and armored SUVs. But in the mob the higher up you go, the less protection you need. The only men hunting you are the ones who bring warrants and handcuffs.

So, no fuckin’ mob war?

Class—who would like to point out the obvious flaw in r142’s analysis?

[QUOTE]So, no fuckin’ mob war?

The case isn’t solved yet. For all we know this guy’s fingerprint was on the license plate because he works at some garage in Staten Island to which Frank takes his Caddy for inspections. There’s still hope for mob fuckery.

R142

That's a crock of shit. Everybody in that kind of business is armed. If he was eating dinner with his family he probably took off his weapon. Bad decision to not stuff his gun in the back of his pants before running outside.

[QUOTE]Everybody in that kind of business is armed.

You know not of what you speak.

[quote] There’s still hope for mob fuckery.

This is why I love Datalounge. While reading all of this, one thing I found interesting is that Cali imported a lot of his soldiers from Sicily as he thought they're more loyal and less likely to turn if arrested. This must not sit well with the homegrown talent. Couple it with the helicopter godfathering and there might be some pissed off underlings.

In spite of what you want to believe, mob bosses do not routinely carry guns. Too easy to get pinched and do a mandatory minimum three years in New York. For the most part, bosses don’t take part in things that require having guns, that’s why they have underlings.

There may be a mob war yet. Again, they were immediately looking at Gotti. If Gotti hired this guy specifically because he WASN’T in the mob and therefore wouldn’t raise Cali’s hackles, you may just get your wish. The fact that they arrested the actual shooter can be just the tip of the iceberg.

Did the coroner provide sizemeat verificatia?

WHET Victoria Gotti and her gay sons?

[quote] It’s bad enough he was Sicilian. He must have had countless beefs and resentments festering internally.

This Sicilian THING that's been going on for 3,000 years---!

There’s video of the murder and the guy’s been charged.

R10 I recognize a few names from that list. I grew up in Brooklyn and went to school with some nephews and sons of mobsters, although most went to Catholic school (poor suckers).

Do you know if any of those kids managed to escape their families and that life, R154? Move away to college in another state and establish themselves with some semblance of normalcy -- normal jobs, no connections to crime.

Yes. Most of us did.

Sorry, I need to clarify: Most of us who grew up in that environment were not caught up in it and left. Most people who are "in the mob" are drug dealers, low level errand boys. They are enticed to quit school early with the promise of money and, if they don't have skills or any encouragement to go to school or learn a trade, go for it, only to learn that it's a shitty life. Dozens of guys were dead by high school. By now, guys I knew who flirted with that life are married, have kids, support school. Basically the guys who beat the shit out of me are posting videos of their kids' academic achievements on Facebook. I hate them but am happy for their families.

R155

The wife of the murdered man was the daughter of another made guy.

Did they tie the suspect to Gotti's brother yet? Or was it a non-mob related beef?

R153, why didn’t you scream out “BREAKING!!!” especially since we knew that 3 hours ago.

Might have been all over a goomah.

I can't wait for that whole generation to die.

R162, no particular generation has anything to do with it. The mob has been around for generations and as soon as one leaves, there are younger ones just waiting to take their place...

Less and less. Are you from a mob neighborhood?

Frank had to put this guy in his place and he just happens to run into his Caddy in the middle of the night? How did he not see it coming?

I've read that HS drop out rates among Italian Americans in NYC is comparable to blacks and Hispanics. It's so strange to see a group of whites lagging behind like that. Must say something about the culture.

They sure solved this fast. They are also sure it was personal and nothing to do with Mafia stuff. Uh huh.

R164, not at all. Different coast even. But I am of Sicilian heritage, and I've spent months in Sicily, where the mafia seems to show no interest in ever releasing their stranglehold..

How do they even distinguish between personal and mob-related? Two mobsters have a beef, it's both personal and professional.

No, R169.

You fucked with my girlfriend: personal.

You violated mob rules by dealing drugs: mob-related.

Wait, don't the Gambinos make most of their money from the illicit Oxy trade?

R171, there's a lot of hypocrisy about Mafia rules among Mafia members and associates.

[quote] there's a lot of hypocrisy about Mafia rules among Mafia members and associates.

This isn't even taking into account their proud 'Catholicism.'

They're a backward people.

There sure are a lot of experts in this thread. I feel blessed to reach such convincing, high-quality analysis!

I eat regularly at an Italian place here that’s owned by a guy who grew up in a mob family who wanted no part of it. He broke tradition and moved here and opened a small but successful restaurant.

Same experts you’d find on any anonymous message board I’m guessing. Some mob aficionados, some authors about mob life, some documentary watchers, some law enforcement, some attorneys and so on.

Kind of a cross-section.

But you believe you. That’s OK. I mean, learning isn’t for everyone.

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[quote]How do they even distinguish between personal and mob-related? Two mobsters have a beef, it's both personal and professional.

When the killer is not a mobster at all.

irrelevant video at r178.

Anthony Comello is not long for this world. There will be no trial.

Suspect, 24, in assassination of Gambino crime boss Frank Cali: Construction worker in custody for shooting dead the mobster 'because he was told he couldn't date one of his relatives'

Anthony Comello, 24, was arrested on Saturday from his Brick, New Jersey home

He's suspected of killing mob boss Francesco 'Franky Boy' Cali' on Wednesday

He's believed to have no mob-ties and has been described as 'a complete nut'

It's alleged Comello wanted to date one of the mob boss' relatives, but was told to back off by the kingpin

CCTV footage obtained by police showed Frank Cali shaking hands with his murderer before being shot dead

The 53-year-old can be seen heading outside on March 13, to investigate after a pick-up truck crashed into his parked Escalade

The pair engage in a conversation, but Cali turns his back on the man to place his crumpled license plate into the trunk of his car

As he does so, the suspect pulls out a 9mm pistol and fires at Cali 12 times

Cali scrambles desperately to hide under his car to shield himself from the hail of gunfire, but he is struck six times

Former Gambino hitman John Alite warned that retribution is inevitable and 'a couple guys are going to get killed now'

Do you think the prosecution will ask for low bail so he’s back on the street? He’s not eligible for protection since he’s not offering any information and is not a witness.

Suspect looks disheveled here.

R180 Are you new here? Everyone knows the DM links often lead to stupid video. Just go to the home page, the story is right there. No need to be a dick. some tidbits posted at r182

Wow, this guy had balls and was pretty stupid all at the same time.

Oh, he’s hot.

I’ll protect him.

He’s good-looking so he couldn’t have done it.

he lewks hawt here

I'm relieved it was a civilian who did this. A mob war is the last thing anyone needs. I'm sure said civilian is not relieved as he is not long for this world. What an idiot.

And right on time r188 comes in to support r187.

*sigh*

Maybe a DLer can hide him underneath his caftan? That's the only way the mob won't get to him.

Is there sizemeat verificatia of the suspect?

He looks mentally challenged in the mug shot.

What a senseless and pathetic demise for a Crime Boss. I like it.

Construction worker gunning a guy down over a romance. Try to be a little bit less of a stereotype, eh?

He looks a little like Tim Tebow in the DM preview picture.

The killers' entire extended family must be in fear for their lives right about now.

I thought sonething was off about this story. Mob hitmen don’t usually drive around in pickup trucks, do they?

What's the guy's life expectancy if he's released into the general population in prison?

More than six hours?

Has Jersey Shore Vinny issued a statement yet?

Yes, r199, but we’re still trying to decipher exactly what the hell he said.

Whaaaa? One article says killer came out of truck gun blazin, other says they shook hands?

[QUOTE]I thought sonething was off about this story. Mob hitmen don’t usually drive around in pickup trucks, do they?

That’s part of what would’ve made this such a legendary hit. Instead it’s just some punk mad over a girl? I can’t believe this. How does some trash like that think he has the right to touch a mob boss? He’s a dead man. He deserves to be skinned alive.

[quote]Mob hitmen don’t usually drive around in pickup trucks, do they?

No, usually the scoot out of a Yugo.

Welcome to the DL Drita @ r202

[quote] How does some trash like that think he has the right to touch a mob boss?

Amazing how people are so enamored of these glorified thugs. Nobody has any "right" to hurt anyone, including your beloved mafia men, who make it their business to hurt people every day.

I'm enjoying the fact Mr. Cali was taken out by some mental case outside the mob. It wasn't his business telling this dude he can't date a woman in his family. The woman can tell him herself. We don't know yet if she maybe even wanted to date this guy. Or if she didn't, if she pleaded with Uncle Frank (or whatever he was to her) not to make a scene about it. Fucking dumb macho pimp/drug dealer. Psh!

I have no sympathy for men like him and other mobsters/gangsters need to get over themselves. Any rando nutbag could take them out just like this.

But ya gotta admit he apparently was right about whatever reservations he had about his family member dating this nut.

^ Yes, and look where it got him.

Nutbag was not impressed by Don Cali.

Now we know what it would look like if you crossed Jay Leno with Tim Tebow. Not bad.

[quote] It wasn't his business telling this dude he can't date a woman in his family. The woman can tell him herself.

If some nutbag with a gun wanted to date me, I'd be very happy for an old mafia don to tell him to leave me alone so I wouldn't have to do it myself.

Well maybe the mafia doesn't have the "respect" they once did.

All they do is pimp and deal drugs anyway, in between bullying small businesses into giving them money and fighting with each other over this... Sicilian THING that's been going on for 3,000 years!!

So how do they decide who replaces Don Cali?

They wait until Election Day, Rose.

They start shooting each other, like in the movies.

[quote] Amazing how people are so enamored of these glorified thugs. Nobody has any "right" to hurt anyone, including your beloved mafia men, who make it their business to hurt people every day.

Exactly. I don't condone violence but these guys are scum -- they terrorize via fear, extortion, and intimidation. They're not the jolly, jovial wiseguys of TV. Along with the Catholic church, the scourge of Sicily.

Who eats dinner at 9:15?

Radio reports says cops have arrested a 24-year-old based on his fingerprints on Cali's license plate. This wasn't a mob hit. Cali objected to the guy dating the daughter of a friend.

Geez who kills his own brother. Shudder!

Oops, ok it was some nutjob, not the brother.

Well, there's that.

R36 were you born before the gangplank went up?

He looks retarded.

Cosa Nostra News reported through sources that Comello may have heard voices that night “to the extent that he ‘asked’ President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for permission to kill the Gambino acting boss.” Authorities have not confirmed that account.

Paul Castellano's killers wore Russian hats, signaling the takeover by the Russian mob.

^ If only all right wing Trumptards would target their violence on thugs like Cali, instead of going on a mass shooting rampage at a church or movie theater or elementary school.

[QUOTE]If some nutbag with a gun wanted to date me, I'd be very happy for an old mafia don to tell him to leave me alone so I wouldn't have to do it myself.

Exactly. Frank Cali was trying to protect this young lady from a known neighborhood scumbag. If anything he was too nice: a mob boss like John Gotti might’ve had this piece of shit executed if he didn’t think he got the message. Somebody probably should’ve put this little wannabe gangster out of his misery years ago. Frank Cali would still be here today, God rest his chivalrous soul.

Whew! Glad you showed up to tell us that r217. We had NO idea until you posted.

‘Course ya coulda just read the new posts, or scrolled up maybe just a touch, but nah, that’s OK.

I can’t believe some angry millennial twerp with a grudge was able to murder a mob boss in front of his home. What the hell is the world coming to? He couldn’t confront Frank man to man so he ambushed him in the middle of the night in his fucking pajamas. What a disgrace. No amount of protective custody will keep the mafia from getting to this pork chop. He might as well kill himself now cause he’s dead!

We have no idea yet, how Cali dealt with the nutbag, or if the woman even wanted him dealt with. I'll wait for that info before declaring a glorified thug, who most likely pimped out women as part of his income, to be "chivalrous."

How many of the Cali fanboys in this thread have a Scarface poster on their wall?

I hope they gouge this cafone’s eyes out! Justice for Frank Cali is coming, you motherless fuck!

People are as breathless to mention their ancestral connection to the mob as others are to mention the Cherokee princess in the family tree.

Why is that?

Is it acceptable to be Gay and a made man these days? Do you have to be very quiet about it, or does it depend on how much money you can make for the mob?

R233, no.

R223

Russians? I thought John Gotti took out Paul Castellano?

I've never understood why the Mob never killed Sammy the Bull.

He ratted out Gotti & others in the family. Sammy the Bull served his reduced time & now lives in Arizona.

I would've thought he'd have been murdered either while in prison or after his release.

^ Maybe they're not as competent as people like to believe.

It's rumored that Sammy did the other bosses a favor by ratting out Gotti. Gotti loved the spotlight and thought he was invincible. Guess not.

Besides, who else is in prison with these white adjacent mafia goons who take falls for their bosses? Mostly blacks and Hispanics, that's who, many of whom are in petty racial gangs themselves. Do you think they give a fuck about this Sicilian THING that's been going on for 3,000 years?!!

[quote]Sammy the Bull served his reduced time & now lives in Arizona.

Then he got arrested in Arizona and spent the next twenty years in prison. He was recently released.

Did he say Bad A Bing as he shot him?

[QUOTE]During the course of the investigation police scrubbed further back on the surveillance video timeline and saw Comello lurking on the porch outside Cali’s home earlier in the day, an official said Saturday.

[QUOTE]The official said investigators are considering the possibility that the man rang the door bell and was told to go away, leading him to back the pick up truck into Cali’s SUV.

This just gets more fucked up by the minute. The guy is lurking around a mob boss’ home in the daytime, comes back ringing the bell late at night and all he gets told is “Go away”? Wtf kind of shit is this? Why would Frank go out there without his gun? Why would he go out there AT ALL rather than call the goons up? It’s so preposterous. Was Frank so intent on not making headlines that he tried his damnest to make this kid go away quietly? Well look how the fuck that turned out.

did antony tink dat killing the girl's family friend would make the girl want him maw? gah forbid

"How does some trash like that think he has the right to touch a mob boss?"

Perhaps that should have been phrased "How does some trash like that think he can touch a mob boss and not die a horrific slow death by blowtorch and machete?".

This is almost like President Kennedy being killed by a nobody like Oswald. It just doesn’t make sense that greatnesss could be extinguished by insignificance.

r245 Nobodies from Buttfuck, USA don't have intelligence connections. And they don't get assassinated by shady nightclub owners.

This really could've happened to anyone. It just HAPPENED to happen to a mob boss.

[quote]Cosa Nostra News reported through sources that Comello may have heard voices that night “to the extent that he ‘asked’ President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for permission to kill the Gambino acting boss.” Authorities have not confirmed that account.

Any other sources claiming that? Or is Cosa Nostra just trying to drum up some liberal outrage on behalf of their fallen don?

Aren't most guido gangsters ultra conservative anyway?

One last thing, the Sicilian THING has only been going on for 2,000 years, not 3,000.

Was he in a sexual relationship with the young man?

Yes, where's the gay angle? Who's gay here? Why are we talking about this if it's not gay?

[quote]This is almost like President Kennedy being killed by a nobody like Oswald. It just doesn’t make sense that greatnesss could be extinguished by insignificance.

It happens all the time...

Yes, it does.

This is like the "Lot Lizard" thread, a chance to use the Datalounge to look into a world that I will never experience in real life.

I live in a small town in the unfashionable parts of California, what do I know about New York mobsters except what I hear second hand?

Fucking Frank Cali was so intent on not looking like a mob boss that he allowed some neckbearded millennial jerkoff to blow him away on the steps of his own home. With ONE phone call he could’ve assembled a Gambino hit squad that would’ve wiped this mook off the face of the earth but he didn’t want to draw any unwanted attention and add a murder charge to whatever indictment the feds were cooking up (there’s always one around the corner). His death is a result of the fear that authorities have put into modern mafiosi, combined with New York’s ridiculous gun laws that make citizens hesitant to exercise their right to bear firearms in defense of their lives.

The authorities sure are eager to establish that there are no mob motivations at play here.

[quote] One last thing, the Sicilian THING has only been going on for 2,000 years, not 3,000.

Cosa Nostra hasn't yet been going on for 300 years, let alone 3,000. But if by 'Sicilian Thing', that poster means petty, familial squabbles, feudalism, and blood vendettas, then OK, maybe 3,000 years is not too far off the mark.🤣

[QUOTE]The authorities sure are eager to establish that there are no mob motivations at play here.

I doubt there are, but this kid isn’t tough and he’s looking at spending the rest of his life in prison. If there’s anything else to this story, particularly concerning Cosa Nostra, they’ll get it out of him real quick. That’s what they’re in the process of doing right now, especially since he’s a marked man who could literally get killed at any moment. All five families want this guy dead immediately. The contract is out.

I’m going back to Cali ...

Man I don’t think so

Italian-Americans want to reestablish criminal control of NYC.

Actually r258 they’re circling the drain in that department. Too busy killing each other or ratting each other out — or doing ubertacky reality shows — to retake organized crime in nyc.

We never stopped, R258.

[quote]The authorities sure are eager to establish that there are no mob motivations at play here

To prevent NYers from wondering if there’s going to be an all-out mob war in the streets.

[quote]Fucking Frank Cali was so intent on not looking like a mob boss that he allowed some neckbearded millennial jerkoff to blow him away on the steps of his own home. With ONE phone call he could’ve assembled a Gambino hit squad that would’ve wiped this mook off the face of the earth but he didn’t want to draw any unwanted attention and add a murder charge to whatever indictment the feds were cooking up (there’s always one around the corner). His death is a result of the fear that authorities have put into modern mafiosi, combined with New York’s ridiculous gun laws that make citizens hesitant to exercise their right to bear firearms in defense of their lives.

Good. Except you sound like another NYer who's sorry that public safety has taken precedence over your "street cred" cache.

[QUOTE]Actually they’re circling the drain in that department. Too busy killing each other or ratting each other out — or doing ubertacky reality shows — to retake organized crime in nyc.

The mafia has suffered a tremendous brain drain thanks to the societal barriers of entry that were knocked down for Italian-Americans after they got accepted into “whitehood.” All the sharpest knives earn a legit living now. They go to college, they get steady jobs. You don’t need to be a mob boss to get a nice house in Staten Island anymore. The Carlo Gambinos of the world are in stocks and real estate, they’re running grocery stores, they’re doctors and psychiatrists and accountants, they’re in politics. The future of the American mafia is doomed with the shallow end of the gene pool.

[quote] Good. Except you sound like another NYer who's sorry that public safety has taken precedence over your "street cred" cache.

There are a lot of breathless experts in this thread, aren't there? Apparently all it takes is growing up in the Tri-State area and Italian American neighbors.

I’m always so amused by self-righteous Italians today who are just horrified that the stereotypical connection is always made to the mafia. But let’s face it. If your Italian family is from the tri-state area, somewhere in your family tree is a mob connection. An uncle who worked in a bar, a cousin who did construction, etc. To deny it is just ludicrous. Own your heritage! No one cares.

I like your take, r263.

[quote]One last thing, the Sicilian THING has only been going on for 2,000 years, not 3,000.

[quote]Cosa Nostra hasn't yet been going on for 300 years, let alone 3,000. But if by 'Sicilian Thing', that poster means petty, familial squabbles, feudalism, and blood vendettas, then OK, maybe 3,000 years is not too far off the mark.🤣

I believe the point was to remain true to Kay's famous line in The Godfather before getting smacked across the face by Michael, and that she was indeed talking about petty vendettas.

For every white collar success, R263, there are five more who work in construction and sanitation.

Vinny says he's concerned, R199.

"The authorities sure are eager to establish that there are no mob motivations at play here. "

I really wonder if this schmuck wasn't pressured into doing the murder by a "business rival", because one way to get under a boss's radar might be to send a genuine civilian to do the hit. Surely these guys can identify each other fairly well? People who belong to fringe groups can usually spot other members.

Still, fear of an all-out mob war... if NYC has become a playground for the rich, does the Mafia dare hold an all-out street war? It's not like the old days when they ruled the city, nowadays you piss off the wrong person and suddenly your territory is full of Blackwater Security vans.

Yes. Let's go back to these glory days.

I was a mob kid. My father was in tight. There was also my maternal grandfather who didn't get along very well with dad. I found out why at my grandfathers funeral. Seems dear old grandfather was a police officer for 20+ years. Also explains why he discouraged me from being police.

Tell us more, R271.

It looks like a Duck; it behaves like a Duck; and it quacks like a Duck. It's a Duck.

What an idiot.

I don't believe a so called "nobody" would rub out the Gambino boss. It's way too neat and I think there's more to this story than the cops are saying.

This is not helping New York Italian-American's poor reputation.

[quote] I don't believe a so called "nobody" would rub out the Gambino boss. It's way too neat and I think there's more to this story than the cops are saying.

You give the mob too much credit. And before you can say "all he had to do was make ONE PHONE CALL," it would be bang, bang, bang! before these half dozen wop gooombah guineas you believe will magically fly out of the woodwork (dressed in black of course) to defend their don.

The simplest explanation is usually the truth.

But because it's a beloved middleaged white Italian thug boss in NYC, people will refuse to believe a retard killed him so easily. The mafia's "rules" for exterminating each other don't mean shit to anyone outside the mafia, especially a nutbag retard.

That's a beautiful big tree in the front yard.

R278 It'll be interesting to see how long it takes someone to kill him. He's a murderer, who cares.

I fucking love the DL. When I posted this, I thought it would maybe be interesting to a handful of posters here and there if even that. Was I wrong. I love it, and I am learning so much! Yeah, I know...Mary!

I didn't know the Italian Mafia was still a thing anymore

r283 there is not one "Italian Mafia". The flashy, Italian American outfit everyone knows is based in the South. There are other groups who are much deadlier and still do quite a bit of business around the world.

The Calabrian branch have a powerful presence in Canada, and over the years they would only deal with certain American mafia leaders who had power, but lower profiles. The Don in Buffalo became very powerful as a result (a lot of cross border smuggling, which was much easier pre-911, that brought in a lot of money for the whole group, which made him influential).

R284, I'm not surprised to see Sicily being blood-red on that mafia map. Naples either. I have family in both regions -- so proud!

Poor Anthony is such a sfigato.

The Staten Island man accused in the ambush shooting death of a Mafia family boss said told cops he smoked pot before the killing and tried to float a self-defense theory, law enforcement sources said.

Anthony Comello, 24, told investigators that Gambino crime family boss Frank Cali came at him with a gun — forcing him to shoot.

Cops found no weapon on Cali — and are still trying to figure out what drove Comello to shoot the 53-year-old mob kingpin right outside his Todt Hill home.

Investigators are looking into the possibility the killing was by lovesick rage unrelated to mob business. Cali may have tried to prevent Comello from dating his niece, police sources said.

Obviously “suicide by mob” for the kid.

What a great defense! Anthony was forced to defend himself by shooting Cali 10 times after the mob boss turned his back and then tried to kill him with an invisible gun.

Suspect in Gambino Crime Boss Murder Showed Up to Court with ‘MAGA Forever’ Written On His Hand....does this mean Trump loses the Mafia vote in 2020?

R263 sounds like a mob groupie lol.

Meanwhile, no. The ginzo mob is dead because the feds finally figured a way to stop the hydra’s heads from growing back.

I won't post the link since it's Fox, but this story is the gift that keeps on giving. I don't want it to end!

The man accused in the brazen murder of the Gambino crime family's alleged boss reportedly once attempted to make a citizen’s arrest of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Comello showed up outside city halls to protest the de Blasio’s reign and tried to make a citizen’s arrest of him, the New York Post reported, citing police sources.

Geez -- even mob shootings aren't what they used to be...

Of course, he's a Trump loony.

Anthony Comello — who showed up for his first court appearance Monday with “MAGA forever” and references to the conservative QAnon movement scrawled on his hand — managed the Instagram account “realamericasvoice_” which is filled with anti-Democrat and pro-President Trump posts, said the pals, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“He had a secret Instagram. He used to post crazy things about politics and Trump and Democrats,” a source said.

Another post was of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence from Jan. 20 with the caption, “This has been the greatest and amazing two years in this great country (THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) for god, for country, for family @realdonaldtrump @vp you rocked the world. We the people are blessed for your SELFLESS PATH FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THANK YOU.”

Eugenics movement. Look it up

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Fucking thread got bogged down and now you’ve gotta turn off link previews to respond on iPhones.

A lot of people here sound like they're posting from 1978.

With surveillance cameras everywhere, everyone with a phone that's also a camera and recording device and the internet keeping records of everything, running organized crime has got to be more trouble than it's worth these days. Aren't these guys just basically drug dealers now?

Cali, along with several other Gambino Family All-Stars, has been buried in New Dorp’s Moravian Cemetery. Another notable family interred at Moravian are the Vanderbilts. Their Masoleum was a hang out spot when I was a teenager.

R9 she TRIED to usher him away. She didn't succeed.

r299 there's an old military saying, if the enemy's in range, so are you.

Organized Crime also have access to the same, and in some cases more advanced technology. You're also forgetting the role political corruption plays in their operations. Generally, OC can't exist without political, particularly local, corruption.

Still hard to believe Cali was wily enough to become a Gambino boss then gets whacked by a dim thug like Comello. Cali apparently didn't realize how astonishingly stupid Cornello is and let his guard down. Marone.

How long will they let that punk live?

AM I the only one who wants this kid beaten up? He looks scary

The fact this punk looks so smug after realizing who he killed tells you he is crazy. He will be tortured in prison

[quote]Still hard to believe Cali was wily enough to become a Gambino boss

Let’s not pretend you have to be a Rhodes Scholar to be a boss. Remember, Junior was a boss for a time.

He was wily enough to the old and somewhat predictable ways, not the new 'da fuk idiocy that young males revel in.

Am I the only one who wants this kid?

Yes, R309.

Never stick your dick in crazy.

Has the amateur hit man been murdered yet?

Life is so ironic

Comello's lawyer, Robert Gottlieb, says hate speech on the Internet made his client kill Cali. I know. But what are you going to do? Give the lawyer some kind of props for pulling nonsense out of his ass? Here's some of his incoherent word salad:

“Hate words matter ... We certainly are taking this very seriously, but at the end of the day, the truth and the reasons for whatever happened here will become so clear and will be shown to be directly related to the impact of the hate that people are bombarded with every day on the internet and elsewhere."

“When I raise the issue of the internet and the hate that’s on the internet, it wasn’t simply to raise potential defenses,” Gottlieb said. “We’re trying to get to the truth of what happened. Whatever happened happened. And that can be complicated, but there are certain signals that were picked up when he appeared in New Jersey.

“I don’t think I’m being cryptic, nor do I think what was on his hands was cryptic in any way,” Gottlieb said.

The late Jimmy Breslin would have loved this.

Yes that poor boy was so overwhelmed by hate on the internet that he had to go murder a bedrock of the criminal community, tsk tsk

Robert Gottlieb couldn’t get an innocent man off (Martin Tankleff).

He loses more cases than he wins.

[quote]If your Italian family is from the tri-state area, somewhere in your family tree is a mob connection.

You don't even have to be Italian. I grew up in north Jersey, a Dutch/German WASP, and even I had mob connections. I was a Good Humor/Pied Piper Ice Cream man as a summer job in New Jersey. And yes, Pied Piper Ice Cream, is total mafia. You heard it here first.

How do you make a get away if you are on Staten Island in a pickup truck? Wouldn't you need a boat?

Don't tell me the shooter is still alive!

Damn, the Mob must be losing its grip.

Well I'm Chinese on S.I. and the fortune cookie supplier for my restaurant is mob run.

None of that is true.

The mob doesn’t exist anymore.

Yes, he's still alive. Nobody but the eldergays care about this... Sicilian THING that's been going on for two thousand years!!!"

No goombah guineas have come out of the woodwork to kill him yet? No connected jailbird or sheriff deputy has smothered him in his cell or stabbed hom with a shank?

Anthony Comello is still a deplorable Trump-humping conspiracy theorist.

If Cali had warned the kid about staying away from the girl wouldn't he have recognized him? - (and therefore gone back inside) - Or did he do it by CandyGram?

r324 Comello denies he knows Cali's niece. The trial is going to be a circus.

I think the mob could resurface. Why? Because the biggest law enforcement agency in the U.S. is more focused on terrorism than they are on domestic crime. Perfect opportunity for the mob to re-assert itself.

The still-alive, mentally disabled shooter is due in court on June 1.