"Hey Frank! This one's for you! ~ Vincent (The Chin) Gigante

“Tell them I was arrested for carrying concealed ideas!” ~ "Machine-Gun" Jack McGurn

Lucchese soldier Eugenio (Gene) Giannini, talking with Joseph (Joe Cago) Valachi at the Lido Bar, shortly before Giannini is murdered, "Jesus, Joe, I had the creeps last night.

"What do you mean?" Valachi inquired.

Giannini, "I don't know. It's hard to explain. I feel like I'm going to be killed."

"What are you talking about?" Valachi quickly replied, dismissing that notion, "Why do you say a thing like that?"

Giannini, "It's just the way I feel."

To break the somber mood and throw Giannini off that conversation, Valachi called a girl over to the bar, introduced Giannini to her, and bought them a round of drinks. He whispered to Giannini to go with the girl, but Giannini said he was short on cash so Valachi handed him a $100 and said, "Go ahead and enjoy yourself, pal."

.....days later, the Pagano brothers and Fiore (Fury) Siano, under Valachi's direction, successfully carried out their contract and shot Giannini to death in East Harlem.

COSA NOSTRA…

The octopus is a sea animal with a soft body and eight arms called tentacles….Rows of round cups on the underside of each tentacle act much like a suction cup. These suckers can fasten tightly to any object, and may hold on even if the tentacle is cut off. If an octopus loses a tentacle, a new one grows in its place…

An octopus has two eyes and sees well. It has the most highly developed brain of all invertebrates….

Some kinds of octopuses inject a poison that paralyzes their prey…

The octopus can also squirt a black fluid forming a dark cloud that hides the animal so it can escape from sharks, whales, human beings and other enemies.

“You know what I’ll do? I’ll get a knife and cut out his tongue and we’ll mail it to his wife” ~ Giovanni (John) Stanfa

Be pretty funny if they used the guy's tongue to lick the envelope. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in THAT DNA lab!!

"You ain't supposed to be alive. You weren't supposed to walk away no more! Because I was making an example out of you for any other motherfucker that tried it on me again. You understand?" ~ Thomas (Tommy A) Agro

“The only one that can do what I do is me.” ~ Frank (The Prime Minister) Costello

“When I was a kid, I asked God for a bike, but I know he don’t work that way. So I stole a bike, and asked for his forgiveness.” ~ Francesco (Frank Costello) Castiglia

“Honest people have no ethics.” ~ NJ Boss Simone Rizzo (Sam the Plumber) DeCavalcante

“If the President of the United States, if he was smart, if he needs help, he’d come to us. I could do a favor for the president.” ~ Constantino (Big Paul) Castellano

“At the end of the day, we’re all gonna die in jail.” ~ Vincent (Vinnie Gorgeous) Basciano

“Goodfellas don’t sue goodfellas….goodfellas kill goodfellas!” ~ Capodecina, Salvatore J. (Sally Pro) Profaci

“I’ll swallow my blood before I swallow my pride.” ~ Alphonse (Scarface Al) Capone

Everything joe dogs got Tommy Agro saying on tape.

"Health to all Neapolitans.Death and Destruction to all Sicilians"- Alessandro Vollero: Camorra Member


"The walls have ears"

Camorrista vs. Mafiosi...


Infamous Joe Valachi once explained how old-time ‘Camorra’ leader, Alessandro Vollero, while they were both serving time in prison, warned him about the differences between he and Valachi (who were fellow Neapolitans,) and the Sicilians….

Valachi recounted, “Alexander told me, he expressed it this way. If you hang out with a Sicilian 20 years and you have some trouble with another Sicilian, this Sicilian that you hang out with for 20 years will turn on you.”

“The Mafia becomes a question every time an Italian raises his head.” ~ Governor Mario Cuomo

You repeatedly talk with yourself, I can only imagine what else you do with yourself

“You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy?” ~ Joseph (Joe Cago) Valachi

“You sons of bitches, I got a family!” ~ Johnny Dio addressing the media during the Kefauver Hearings.

“In my business, we don’t take notes.” ~ Johnny Roselli

“If tomorrow I go wrong, I would want to be hit so as not to bring harm to this thing of ours.” ~ Vito (Don Vitone) Genovese

“I may have my faults, but being wrong ain’t one of them!” ~ Jimmy Hoffa

“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.” ~ Alphonse "Scarface Al" Capone

“I’ve graduated from ten universities of hard knocks…And I've learned that the 'definition' of a racketeer is anyone who attempts to accumulate wealth, power and prestige, at the expense of entrenched wealth, power and prestige.” ~ Francesco S. (Frank Costello) Castiglia

A perfect proverb...


“L’omini all’àutu e li scecchi a la via.” ~ Men in high places and jackasses along the road recognize each other. – Sicilian Proverb

"We dont take no for an answer"
Pasquale Parrello-

"Hurting people, thats what this is all about, if your not capable of that you might as well stay the fuck home" Paul Geraci-

This one was so good, I just couldn't resist posting it up again. LOL

“L’omini all’àutu e li scecchi a la via.” ~ Men in high places and jackasses along the road recognize each other. – Sicilian Proverb