@NYMafia , you think he was the most notorious New York mobster at one point in time? Notorious in publicity/ papers I mean.
That photo of him with the scowl and the cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth is a classic.
Yes, dsd. I definitely think a solid case could be made for Dio having become the most notorious and highly-publicized mafioso from the mid-1950s well into the 1960s era.
Arguably, his most notorious moments came in the aftermath of the Victor Riesel acid-blinding on a New York street. Thereafter, the name Johnny Dioguardi became synonymous with gangsterism and labor racketeering all across America.
And him later being grilled before several U.S. Senate Committees only added to his mystique.
