Compliments to my partner MafiaStudent for a nicely researched piece, and a real nicely written biography about another little known, but important, soldier of Brooklyn's old Joseph Profaci Family, turned Gallo Gang loyalist.
...Joseph (Joe Mags) Magnasco wasn’t just another wiseguy. Born into a legacy of street ties and mob bloodlines, he fought in a world war, rubbed shoulders with future mob royalty, and ultimately landed on the wrong side of a power shift that would prove fatal. Whether he was a soldier, a scapegoat, or just in the wrong place at the wrong time — Joe Mags lived fast, played hard, and died young. This is the story the headlines didn’t tell.
