Longtime Genovese capo Tough Tony or Tony Parkside as he was also known passed away a couple of days ago at the age of 82

R.I.P. Tony

I always heard he ran a perfect restaurant. Food, service, cleanliness. I was planning to eat there, I wonder if the quality of the food will hold up without him. I know it's a selfish thought, sorry about that, it was my first thought.
He left the mob life in the past, there were mobsters caught on tape recorded conversations talking about how he just wanted to run his restaurant and nothing else, I think it was Ciro Perrone and his crew on the recording.

He looked very healthy despite his age.

Whenever I heard of him ("Tough Tony") I pictured a different type of man, here is a short video of him receiving an award for his restaurant.

This will make you hungry


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGTAr0zUeaE

A short one, where he talks about what will happen when he goes. Kind of spooky watching it now after he died.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdtLTSy2wmY

A man's man. He was very close to Sonny Franzese. Unlike Sonny though, Tony never spent any real time in prison and died a millionaire many times over

Now here's a fella who lived a charmed life and didn't very little time if any...I'm not even sure he ever went to jail....

Gangsters, cops and politicians all liked him, that's why you know the italians and specifically, the Genovese family are heads and shoulders over these crews around the city...

Btw, he was a big pigeon guy and my father told me a story that when he was a kid, they didn't have much at that time, and he had pigeons and came one day and they were all gone..He said his grandmother killed the pigeons and made soup with them

Grandparents were ruthless back in those days lol. My grandfather had a duck that followed him around when he was a kid. One day he got home from school and the duck was nowhere to be found...until his mother served it up for dinner. Ruthless af.
When I'd have to live through a big time food crisis I feel like I'd rather go out and kill and eat some douchebag I don't like instead of a pet lol.

Yeah, he didn't tell me how she killed them, but I assume by strangulation somehow....Btw, I'd pass on the soup

What is also interesting is that they're saying he was serving as the official Genovese consigliere at the time of his death. If true, that is not surprising. He was also acting boss for a brief period of time

You have smart guys like him that show that they're honest restaurant owners who don't flaunt anything, and you got the rest of the city who want everyone to know they're half assed gangsters

He was fanatically cautious. They all believed he was retired when he wasn't. You just don't see this today

I remember when his son got stabbed.

Mafia-Tinged Dispute, but Fought in Court

By Sarah Kershaw
Feb. 6, 2002

On the surface, it appeared to be a brawl over a girl, a beef between neighborhood boys from opposite sides of the tracks that turned violent.

But there was a certain coincidental element to the stabbings outside a Queens nightclub on an evening in August 2000 that made it something more.

It so happened that among the boys from Whitestone and the crew from Howard Beach were two teenagers with some intriguing family connections: Anthony Federici, the son of Anthony Federici, who is known as Tough Tony, a reputed captain in the Genovese crime family, and Nicholas Gambino, who investigators say is a nephew of Giovanni Gambino, a reputed foot soldier in the Gambino crime family.

The two young men, now 20, were on opposing sides outside the nightclub, the Metropolis, that night, but prosecutors said that they had never met before the brawl and that the fighting had nothing to do with organized crime or family feuds.


Yesterday, Mr. Federici, who was stabbed in the abdomen during the brawl, testified against Mr. Gambino, who is on trial in State Supreme Court in Queens, facing charges of attempted murder in the stabbing of Mr. Federici and two others.

So it was that a tale of boyish bluster became something of a treatise on the Mafia in the 21st century. Since when do mobsters -- or, in this case, their relatives -- settle their disputes in court? Thus, a Queens courtroom looked yesterday like a casting call for ''West Side Story'' meets ''The Sopranos'' meets ''My Cousin Vinny,'' with a disorganized defense lawyer, a grouchy judge, mysterious observers and lots of reporters eager to witness a standoff between two Mafia families.

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As the reporters glanced around the room searching for notorious Mafia figures, stone-faced relatives and friends, some of them dressed in black leather jackets and whispering to one another, watched as Mr. Federici politely gave the jurors a matter-of-fact account of the brawl and his recovery from the stabbing wound.

On cross-examination, the defense lawyer, Rafael Scotto, who often fumbled through his papers, was repeatedly berated by the judge for asking irrelevant questions.

In truth, there was little courtroom drama yesterday, the sixth day of Mr. Gambino's trial, a proceeding that might have gone unnoticed if it were not for the apparent family ties. Mr. Gambino, who is free on $1 million bail, has denied being related to Giovanni Gambino, who investigators say is part of a Brooklyn-based Sicilian faction of the Gambino crime family.

Leukemia. Terrible disease.

Wow RAT move
How did he get away with that?
In that family….

You have your son testify
No street justice?

anthony federici what do we know???
-alleged to be consigliere at time of death...when roughly did he take the position??
-was a queens based capo for a long time. i guess when he no longer was capo as there are a few articles saying as much who took over as capo??
-was it victor colletti or anthony romanello??
-or neither?
-is it possible that the genovese and bellomo use a few different old timers as consigliere?
-over the years it has been dom cirillo,mario gigante,lawrence dentico,anthony federici who have been mentioned. maybe at some point all of them acted as senior advisors to younger admin members. or maybe none of them and the genovese don't use a consigliere position.

thoughts and answers?

I think his son and most fo the others were not involved in mob activities or part of mob life so testifying is natural. Tough Tony himself was badly involved anymore, he kept his son away form it. The fight was a bunch of drunk 20 year0olds in a brawl, with one guy pulling a knife and turning it into more than that.

If we believe the Ciro Perrone tapes, Federici wanted to be involved as little as necessary, If that was truly the case, he could not have been in a top position involving heavy activity. A consigliere is a busy position, maybe he handled a few members as a semi-active captain. He seemed to have spent up to 70 hours a week in that restaurant, that leaves little time for mafia activity. The feds saying he was consigliere may have been a wrong guess on their part, or a way to stir up talk in hope of finding out who was really in the spot.

He didn't want to be involved in anything trivial, but he was definitely heavily involved until his dying day. He never left the restaurant because he didn't have to. They all came to him

Makes sense they started and mastered the “FRONT BOSS” scenerio.
Also, changing the rotation on a ruling committee.

Rotating advisors would make sense
Keep the G guessing.

Makes surveillance much harder.

Even keeps lower end members and associates in the dark so they don’t have much useful information to trade up for a “GET OUT OF JAIL CARD”

Both families probably had a sitdown these beefs among neighborhood boys did happen once in a while.

He was also one of those guys into racing pigeons lol.

You have not seen that neighborhood. It is 99% Hispanic. Predominatley Mexicans, followed by Columbians, followed by other Latin American countries. I doubt they go to him for disputes, The only disputes he handlled of theirs was when a busboy and waiter in his place had a dispute.

I just read Gangland, interesting how Capeci calls him by the nickname "Tony Parkside." He uses it several times instead of Tough Tony, I wonder which he was more commonly used.

In recent years he was linked by the FBI to Gregorio Gigliotti 'ndrangheta was trafficking coke to Calabria and Toronto.

That turned out to be nothing but owning restaurants in the same area. Federici was there over 40 years with no problems, Gigliott had come fairly soon before the drug arrests. If there was any hint of a real tie they would have made it into a bigger case and Tony Parkside would be the star attraction for federal prosecutors.

In this video potential members of the Mafia's future Corona crew display their fight skills. Filmed near his restaurant and club.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV-VpwlTdEg