I thought that the informant Pennisi and his podcast partner La Vecchia were doing 30 minute podcasts for 30 days in a row?

What happened? They haven't posted up in days? and its only less than 2 weeks into the format

Yes they have. Yesterday they had his daughter on the show. Thursday’s show was about the mob and fireworks.

So why isn't is showing on his MBA site? The last podcast I saw was 5/17? It is labeled episode #40, "Who's the smartest mobster"

Where are you going to view his interviews? Have they formed another site?

I watch them on YouTube.

I like listening to him because he is a good stroyteller and he has some interesting stuff but 30 minutes is too long.

I prefer shorter podcasts like the one he did on the Lenny DiMaria shelving situation.

I dont know how to start a thread on here.

Anyhow Capeci, fired back at

Mob Penessi,
He tried to get him locked up or atleast cause him alot of stress.

Read this weeks column he reached out to Penessi's probation officer to ask why he is allowed to consort with felons.

If Penessi's didnt get permission for this he could be in trouble.

It happened to Borello and that guy from the Genovese case.

A little while back Penessi, ripped Capeci pretty bad and Capeci didnt respond until now.

This is what it has come down to in the LCN world
LOL

Yes, I saw that. And yes, this is what OC is become. An embarrassing public spectacle

Why are you listening to that garbage? This stuff is beneath us! Whenever I give these rats a listen, I need to shower. I can't handle that type of negativity. It makes you vomit and retch.

To be fair, once a guy flips, he's no longer a part of the LCN world. Pennisi is just another Average Joe Nobody.

I listened to it out of curiosity initially. I did the same with the other rat podcasts. But at the end of the day they're empty suits for me, lie through their teeth, and even run out of that BS after awhile and now are giving cooking shows, political advice, business advice, and critique movies. Like they are reliable authorities on any of that stuff..... its complete nonsense! Lol

It's actually unbelievable how gullible the masses are. The suckers eat it up!

Right haha so do you as you watch all of them.....Keep telling yourself your different or somehow not part of the masses as you have a website dedicated to wiseguys, and claim all these people you know from childhood that you were around but yet can’t even get background info(unless it came from google)on Buddy Luongo from anyone you supposedly know in the street or grew up with ...

With your fucking ridiculous hypothetical questions about “which Stone Cold Killer was the most honorable cause he only caused someone’s head to explode like a watermelon instead of chopping they’re limbs off” or “which of the Jeffery Dahmer(Mobsters) versions of Madoff had the best house”....

I dont understand the bashing of each other?

At days end for whatever the reasons are we all have like interests or atleast one American LCN,

We all bring a different dynamic to the boards come from different places and/or generations and can state our opinions based on our own life experiences.

Why cant everyone respect each others different opinion and accept the fact that opinions are personal and differ and that's ok.

Yeah well said BensonHURST. That childish tendency to start fights and drama whenever someone disagrees with what another poster wrote is just painful to watch. I thought we were all grownups here - who do have to ability to disagree and discuss in a more or less respectful manner - and not a bunch of teenage girls who claw at each other when a hot topic comes up.

This is directed at Big Louiebynochi:

First of all I have no reason to lie. If I watch them, I watch them. But I don't.

I watched Franzese once and that was enough for me (not even the whole show). I watched Gravano several times (2) and enjoyed it until I started seeing that he was bullshitting through his teeth to make himself look good and virtuous when we all know he's a piece of shit (so that was that). Alite and that other idiot Borello were simply unwatchable (I watched about 10 minutes and had to shut it off). And this Pennisi is now falling into the same category with his cooking show, business advice, interviewing other idiots who I think nothing of, etc.... so thats that!

And as far as having personal info on Luongo, or every other single subject I have ever work on? Lol, Ya kiddin with that one right?

Who in his right mind would ever imagine that any one person knows everybody, and everything about everybody? Louie, it begs me to ask the question, are you off your meds again? Vito Genovese himself wouldn't have known everybody. It's a silly statement and makes no sense.

I don't wanna argue with you, but that unprovoked attack against me was completely unwarranted.

If you enjoy watching these guys then do so. But personally it's not my thing.

I completely agree BH

Agreed

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You are correct however, a made member stays a made member until the day he dies regardless if he rats.

So Penessi, is still a made member of the Luchese Borgata.
According to LCN, rules.

I'm not so sure about that one Bensonhurst. Anyone else wants to chime in?

Only one way out.
"MORTA"

Once a guy is made, you are always made, for life, until the day you take your last breath!

A guy who turns rat is just considered a 'renegade' and is essentially 'shelved' for lack of a better word. Years ago most were killed, but because of WITSEC, etc., they can't get to them today.

But your button stays with you all your life. NOBODY can take that from you. You just become 'persona non grata' in that world.

Thats why in 'theory' at least, it's a very solemn and serious decision you make to join. and not one that should bee taken lightly, although way too many guys do in-fact take it lightly and thats why there are so many rats today. After a few years they decide they don't want that button anymore. By then it's too late because you're in!

An 'associate' who has been offered a button but turned it down (respectfully I must add), is generally in much better standing than some guy who did accept formal membership and then fucked it up.

I suppose you're right, and explains how Mafia supergrasses in Italy are allowed to return to the fold.

When you look at success stories like the West Side they groom their guys for many, many years and make them when they are older.

Look at Detroit, they will make a guy only if he has been around fornI think 15 years or do. They are probably the biggest American LCN story.
Those guys have accumulated huge fortunes and none of them NOT ONE DIED IN JAIL.

The large majority never step foot in a jail.

In one of his podcast, Gravano told about how even in an informants jail (La Tuna), Inmates who are made guys are still somehow following mafia protocol. Even amongts informants, the made guy status was still relevant.

He was explaining how he would eat with Phil Leonetti, Gino Milano and other mafia inmates. He said that when he was sent to La Tuna, he saw that Leonetti more or less presided over the table as he was the highest ranking inmate.

Thats very true BH

Egg noodles and ketchup.

To me, Pennisi falling back into the shadows a bit may be a telling sign of things to come on the horizon in the near future such as indictments and/or arrests..

Although I know you guys say he's still active with his podcast, I don't see it readily propped up front and center like it was. To me that means that somethings up.

What that something is? Well we're just gonna have to wait and see.

His podcast is everywhere what are you talking about? He’s about to be on Scott Burnstein show as well.... Also it’s no secret that any day now the Lucchese heriarchy will be arrested with him as one of the witnesses this has been known for over a year....

Pennisi strikes me as someone who didn't belong in that life, and was only made because he did a lot of time for killing someone over a girl as a teenager. He never had any rackets or money making skills, and violence isn't a sought after attribute in today's mafia.

On his podcast 'The MBA and the Buttonman" they have 40 episodes listed for listening. Episode #40 for posted up on May 17th, thats eight days ago. They said they were recording 30 for 30 (30 minutes for 30 days in a row). That is NOT the case.

Now I hear that they are out there with a podcast elsewhere on the internet. But what I'm saying is that on their specific show "MBA and the Buttonman" they are NOT releasing any shows. And Its been eight days already. So I ask Why??

And although, yes, we have all heard that there are more indictments coming down the pike at some point. But what I am saying now is that I suspect the time is nearing, and I'm conjecturing that maybe thats why their primary podcast has been quiet.

I don't think he would have been accepted in the past either. I don't think serving a lot of time is always an instant path to the mafia.