It's not my boo, but what exactly is an AB "Made Man?" I can't find anything on this Tattoo Blasko you mention. I take th word of the book, since the family of papa had it looked into, eyewitnesses and officers looked into it in the prison, and it was a group of Black inmates. If you believe Aryans run that prison you have been fooled. Outside of a few in the southwestern part of the country, the AB in prison is miniscule. Plus Herbie Sperling was Jewish, no way the Aryans would work for him.

Hey Jace, can you explain the reason behind Vincent Papa's murder? And was he a made guy?

He was an associate and Sperling had a hatred for him. Different reasons are given, one is Sperling wanting to known as be the biggest drug kingpin in prison, another is he claimed that because Papa may have given information on the detectives who had ratted him out, it made Papa a rat, which is pretty dumb on Sperling's part, but he was known nut. Sperling once told the cops to go ahead and arrest his mother, that she could handle it.

Papa would never have been in that prison, or the general population if he was a rat. What has been forgotten is that he was working with NYPD cops and detectives to get and sell the heroin. The detectives were stealing it from the police evidence room and giving it to dealers like Papa to sell. When they were caught the cops started giving each other, and Papa, up.

Sperling got some Black inmates he was friends with to kill Papa. He was said to have paid them but how I can't recall. I am not just going by the Gregory Wallace book, although I recommend it to anyone who can still find it online. I read it a few years ago in a library over the period of a few days.

I should add that while Papa was not made, he had a partner named or nicknamed Virgil ( I can't recall the last name) who was listed as having gotten made in the mid 1980's after getting out of prison.

Made into the Luccheses?

Not sure, it may have been another family. NewYorkMafia might know.

Virgil Alesi w New Jersey

A made man in the AB is earning the Shamrock; like earning the Hand in the Eme.

Vincent Papa – Lucchese Family drug lieutenant and racketeer, Papa was killed inside the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, stabbed to death on July 26, 1977 by members of the Aryan Brotherhood on a contract taken out jointly by Lucchese leaders and Genovese Jewish narcotics enforcer Herbie Sperling, when they found out Papa had made a deal with then-U.S. Prosecutor and future New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, implicating dirty cops. The Lucchese’s representative in the notorious French Connection drug conspiracy, Papa subsequently masterminded the follow-up French Connection heroin heist from New York Police Property Clerk’s Office, where 400 kilos of uncut ‘H’ disappeared in 1971 from the office’s evidence room and reappeared on the streets. Sperling would eventually be charged for ordering Papa’s jailhouse slaying, but was acquitted at trial, where an AB named Theodore (Tattoo) Blasko was convicted for the actual murder. A fictionalized version of Papa was converted into actor Tony Lo Bianco’s “Sal Bocca” character in the smash-hit film made on the case (The French Connection), starring Gene Hackman that won the Oscar for best picture.

Calandra called out Alite and Mazza for being bullshitters. He said he never slapped Gene Gotti like Alite claims. He also said Alite is involved in a new show where he claims to have been a big heroin dealer in the early 80's with Ruggiero and them guys, which is false. He also spent time in prison with Mazza and claims he was never made.

But that's wrong. Wikipedia or Gorilla Convict site? First, was the character Tony LoBianco was portraying in the French Connection film was Patsy Fuca, not Vincent Papa, who was not even in the French Connection case. Whoever put that up had it wrong, so that's why you were misinformed. There were some AB guys convicted in several cases base on testimony of one of their members who wanted out of prison, but I don't think he named the Papa murder, and I looked for any indictments where this "Theodore (Tattoo) Blasko " is mentioned, His only mention is from a site called Gorilla Convict. No news reports or indictment mentions of him. Papa had nothing to do with the first French Connection case.

From the gangsterinc site, for what ever people think it's worth:



Herbie Sperling was indicted by a Grand Jury for the murder of Vincent Papa, but was acquitted for lack of evidence. The leader of the trio that attacked Vincent, a man known to the inmates as ‘Tattoo,’ was however convicted, and a further life sentence was added to the years he was already serving. He and another black inmate were sentenced to life for the killing of Papa on 26th October, 1979.



Since it says "Tattoo and "another Black inmate" that would indicate Tattoo was also Black. GangsterInc is a good site, but if anyone has anything showing this to be inaccurate, please do so.

Yes, in my opinion, there are a lot of contradictions; you provide no names. The names of those convicted Tattoo Blasko Californians Ronald Perrin and Daniel “DC” Cavanaugh both members of the Aryan Brotherhood.

There were three cases named the French Connection. The original one with Jean Jehan, Patsy Fuca, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso in 1962 resulting in the arrests of the Fucas and a seizure of 97lbs of heroin, the is the basis for the 1971 movie.
The second French Connection case is when Vincent Papa financed by Carmine Tramunti tried to bribe a US Army First Lt. into smuggling 500 lbs of heroin into the US, the Lieutenant reported the bribe to his superior leading to an investigation and resulting numerous arrests and drug seizures including a shrimp trawler with 800 kilos of heroin and conviction of Tramunti in 1974
The third case is when Papa got access to the evidence room where the 800 ki's was being kept by the NYPD and managed to swap it out for corn starch. This led to another investigation resulting in the arrests of several NYPD officers and Papa.

Alite all of a sudden becomes the smartest gangster..He's the only guy who didn't get caught on tape or even get arrested...Most mob guys lie and deny that they sold drugs, this clown's just the opposite, he wants people to believe he was dealing heroin...If he was a junk dealer, Gotti would never allow him to be so close to his son...And then his claim that he knew about the Castelanno hit in advance is laughable...Not only is he the smartest gangster, but he's even the most trusted..Its a joke !!

I used the first name you gave and found an internet story saying he is Black, as was the other man convicted with him the only sources for them being so much as charged with he crime are people talking on message boards. Do you have any news stories on it from a newspaper, or link to the court transcripts? I could not find a single news story on them killing Papa, and no indictments or convictions from legal sources. I'd like to see them so we can figure this out for certain. Thanks.

I found proof you love kids a little too much and you ignore it. You ignore anything you don’t agree with... I found proof you were purchasing boxes of kiddie porn from DB and Roy Demeo and also bought a video from Kenny Guarino where a 13 year old girl had to be hospitalized from being fucked , oh no wait that was the Undercover Agents in MI Porn who purchased the tape from mobsters...

You are going too far.

100%. I lived across the Verrazano but this is a really accurate description of South Brooklyn in the late 80s and 90s. A LOT of 9-5 guys (and women) had a little something to make money on the side. Usually minor and nobody cared or thought there was anything wrong with it. There was plenty of wiseguys and street guys but pretty much everybody was part of the ecosystem in some way. Same thing to a smaller degree in some SI neighborhoods. Small example… as crazy as it sounds my ex-girlfriend’s grandmother was the unstamped cigarette connect for about a dozen people I knew. Every week she’d take everyone’s order and we’d come see her the next day to pick up a carton or 2. To this day I don’t know where exactly where they were coming from but I promise you some of that money was being funneled to a made guy and then up the chain. Little old grandma fencing a few smokes to make an extra buck or 2. Although she used to tell stories about eating betting slips before the bulls could get to them in 60s so maybe she’s not the best example. But little things like that which seem completely normal when you are surrounded by it every day… for your whole life. It’s actually more weird to leave that environment for the first time and realize… people actually do go to stores to buy jewelry and having “a guy” who swings by occasionally to see if you are interested in his new stuff is actually not normal.

I like Calandra and his stories, some cool stuff. He totally destroyed JOHN ALITE and his hard to believe stories. No way was Alite involved with Angelo Ruggiero in the early 80's, that's bs.
Calandra tells it like it is. I guess he could only take so much of Alite's bs and finally said enough was enough.

It appears this punk rat blocked me as I can't respond to a post some quack wrote. If someone can post, it'd be great. Jimmy's a King Rat that won't except comments. He praises Joe Gambino's pasta. I asked, did you praise him when he jumped bail leaving friends and families on the hook for millions? He's full of excuses. All his crimes; all his choices; and yes, most all lived legitimate lives in his neighborhood and didn't need to carry a gun. Someone post on my behalf MarcusJuniusBrutus: you're a punk and pull down your YouTube space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlSIW3yqFdU&lc=UgzvFSp_ckgI5AU9uU54AaABAg.9OQEQuEwVUm9ORRxBt16M_

The Irritated Irishman
8 hours ago
First off you’re embarrassing yourself cause there were 2 Tito’s back then and yes one arrested and was out in 3 of 4 days after can’t remember? End up being the wrong Tito. The other got arrested then later on got whacked. Here’s what I’m going to tell ya’s. I don’t know Jimmy from way back but got to know him over the last 2 years through others and stayed in touch through text/emails. Have nothing but complete admiration for him. Now I’ll say this. Frankie Burke was like my big brother. Him and my older cousin Joey were inseparable! Frankie sometimes would stay at my Mother’s house in Jersey and him, myself and some buddies of mine from South Boston and couple guys from Queens would run a muck up the boardwalks. I’ve have a couple people tell me that they were told that Frankie and my cousin worked for other individuals and here’s what I’m saying! Frankie worked for himself as an “Independent Franchiser” mostly he did work through Lucchese guys and some work with Gambino guys with my cousin. I had 16 videos removed last year due to complaints and there was serious trouble starting but I explained all this. Again I can’t vet for any jail stories cause I was never in jail with any of these guys. Frankie and my cousin’s crew averaged around 8 years older than me and yes I knew Alite who’s 4 years older than me and I yes I do remember Alite being called the “Sheriff” and yes I have seen him beat the living hell outta a guy next to Aldo’s Pizza. Jimmy’s jail stories I believe in heart of hearts to be true cause he’s mentioned Boston guys like Chucky Flynn who I’ve mentioned multiple times in videos and no one would know that name or stories about him unless they were around him. As for the NJ guy people are talking about I do know there was a guy either in Cherry Hill or Vorhees where John had a big ass house and there was an issue. There was an issue with a kid way back a couple years younger than me who claimed to be a relative of John Riggi and him and I went at it and he got locked in a closet in a music store. That issue was handled through a guy named Tommy Ricciardi who was living in TomsRiver,NJ at the time and was a Lucchese guy. The kid ended up being family friends of guys in the DeValcante crew. By this time Frankie had already passed in June of 87’. I don’t know if that’s the story some guys are getting confused? I think lines get blurred and stories get crossed. I don’t know Chris who was a guy that later on was in Jimmy’s crew but I do know guys who knew him and don’t think he was tough or smart just cocky and arrogant. Jimmy would be the guy to tell that best, I would say. Problem is people feed off of these guys and push these guys to keep telling stories and everyone needs to realize that there are stories that can be told, won’t be told, can not be told (Unless On Your Death Bed) and can be told with a twist to them, either to protect certain individuals involved, legality reasons
or to keep us in suspense. Then there’s the Bull Shit which again I honestly feel Jimmy has nothing to gain by feeding any of us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlSIW3yqFdU&lc=UgzvFSp_ckgI5AU9uU54AaABAg.9OQEQuEwVUm9ORRxBt16M_

I've been blocked and can't post.

Embarrassing myself? I think it quite the other way around. You're rambling on about your relationships that I did not ask nor care. You're citing names of people whose homes I've been in, are in family weddings and I'll cease there - no bloating like the above. If there are two Tito Oritz', just say so, correct and close it out. It's DeCavalcante, not DeValcante; they're sole influence was Local 394 and some gambling in and around Peterstown (do you even know what that is - the Burg?). Tommy is a rat. The brothers/cousins screwed him by not taking the state deal; he was then convicted and brought into a room where the Caveman was sitting with Agents. He then flipped and tried to get the Irishman to go along. I'll stop; the Irishman is around still and straight. Again, I'll stop here. By the way, Tommy lived in Lakewood, not Toms River - got it! For all the snitches and rats on all of YouTube: you signed up for the ride and jumped off when the storm came. No one told you to chose the friends you selected to trust; no one forced you to do the crime; ignorance in perceived loyalty contradicts the history of mankind. Don't forget the thousands sitting in prison for life that acknowledged doing the crime and are doing the time. It's them vs. the citizens: their crimes, their time. Got to Hard Intentions website: 38 years straight. You know somebody that knows somebody: wow!. Respectfully (nix that, Politely), don't respond any longer to my posts.

Maybe it did post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlSIW3yqFdU&lc=UgzvFSp_ckgI5AU9uU54AaABAg.9OQEQuEwVUm9ORRxBt16M_

Yup: the punk is pulling down my posts. He couldn't do the time. Now he can't stand the commentary back citing his excuses.

It's a good podcast and pretty entertaining in that it gives you a perspective from the street. Anyone who grew up in a New York neighborhood knows what it's like to hit the pavement between you and where your buddies from the block lived. He's a little bit of a bullshitter though and I guess it's to draw a bigger audience, he wasn't as connected as he tries to play off. Mazza was made, Callandra says he wasn't because he was hittin' Linda Schiro and they wouldn't have made someone who was having an affair with a made man's wife(Scarpa). No one knew they were having an affair, let alone with Scarpa's blessings, it would have made Scarpa look like a cuckold and weak. Here's Mazza's account on being made.
https://www.vladtv.com/article/2683...in-colombo-mafia-grim-reaper-getting-hiv

Him and the other rats either pull down posts that are critical, or the shadowban you. I put up posts on another site, and told a friend about it. They couldn't see it, but I could. Check other youtube video comments section for that, it's one frequently on youtube.

The most galling about Jimmy - aside from being a Rat - is the root cause is the neighborhood he grew up. I've worked with dozens of Brooklynites and none cite this danger. It was confined to a very few that consciously made the decision to take a short cut to power and money. I posted to Sammy Bull's interview and requested he send to the Bath Avenue Story page.

Please send to the Bath Avenue Story page: Jimmy chose not to do his time. Now, he's blocking people (me) from posting to his stories. He recently blocked me from reminding, for example, Joe Gambino skipped bail and left friends and families potentially vulnerable to millions of dollars. Anyway, Jimmy has a million excuses: everyone else ratted, so I ratted; the neighborhood is the reason but yet the vast majority of men learned a trade or went to college. Please send this off to him and view the Hard Intentions channel. He did 38 years straight without excuses. Your debt is to society and the citizens; the Mob and your self-believing expectations of loyalty are an excuse. Thousands of men chose to serve out their terms: their crimes. As your former friend Tommy Reynolds stated regarding a co-defendant, paraphrasing: I don't care what name he goes under, a rat is a rat. Tommy is doing 50 years, for: HIS crimes.

Jimmy Calandra is snitch punk that now says Salvatore Avellino hinted at him to be a rat. (Sounds like Pennisi and the rattling dishes.). He's been in photographed with other snitches smiling and that stupid Wiser Guys show. Feel sorry for me. No, I'm sorry for your friends doing the time cause they chose to pay their debt to society (Tommy Reynolds for example). Like all snitches: he's the lowest of the low; pawning off his time to others and beholden to the FBI.

You want to do everyone a favor: post to him: I hear you couldn't take the jail time, now you can't take criticism. Shame on anyone who purchases these rats' merchandise. Go to Hard Intentions and purchase a real man's merchandise; great artist and did his time.

I just watched some of the Jimmy's Videos I have to say
He sounds really BURNT OUT...

Putting that aside

He is 1000% spot on with his stories, the names he naming etc.

That's the life I lived in BensonHURST

Yes he RATTED, I am not defending him or what he did...

But the few stories I heard are FACT...

Watching these videos reminds me when they were all released, the NY Post showed a hug fest between Alite and Calandra...

That all changed when money's involved...

I gotta give Alite credit...He'd normally be living in a welfare motel or in his sons apt. like a few years ago, but he's manipulated the media better then I ever could...

As a kid, in his 20's.. he claims he was doing heroin deals with captains in the family...That's laughable

Doing hits on orders from John Gotti when he was in his 20's...Again, laughable...I'm not denying he didn't hurt or kill people, but John Gotti wouldn't be having 20 year old's doing his hits...

I don't blame him...He's gotta make living like everyone else, and he's just telling the media what they wanna here

Larry Mazza is a bum...Has Linda Schiro ever said a bad word about him ?? And he talks about her like she was cheap trash...Without her he's a nobody still delivering groceries !!

When I first saw Calandra on tv like 10 years ago, I said why do they have him on ?? But, he much more believable

Franzese: The biggest con artist on line !!

Ya know who comes out looking the best ?? Sammy...The biggest killer of them all, and because he's not exaggerating what he was..if anything he's downplaying it all

Podcast Beefs have taken over Street Beefs as the new norm in the age of the internet. Underworld B-Listers are bickering like gangster rappers trying to get some street cred.
First Jimmy went off on Larry and Alite and called them out for being bullshitters.
Then, Larry responded this morning
Then Jimmy answered back this afternoon.
Tomorrow Alite is supposed to put in his 2 cents about Jimmy
Sammy is going to have to do a sit down with everybody so they cam work things out

Alite actually claimed in the last interview that he taught Gene Gotti "Cosa Nostra".