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Sinatra's Mafia connections.
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03/03/06 10:50 PM
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I've heard alot about Frank Sinatra and his connections with the mafia, i was wondering if anyone new what family/ies did he have connections with?
"We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking." - Goodfellas.
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Re: Sinatra's Mafia connections.
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03/04/06 12:30 AM
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The Ravenite Social Club
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Don Cardi  Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
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Re: Sinatra's Mafia connections.
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03/04/06 01:30 PM
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A fairly new book, "Sinatra-The Life," by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, goes into Sinatra's alleged Mob connections in some detail. Is it accurate? I dunno, but I did skim the stuff in the library last year and found it interesting. Was Sinatra "connected"? The impression I've gotten over the years (and it could be the wrong impression) was that Sinatra, like many entertainers of his era, was exposed to Mob figures because they were closely involved in running nightclubs and personal management firms. The difference was that Sinatra liked being associated with Mob types--and they liked him. Mutual admiration society: Sinatra felt that some of Sam Giancana's aura rubbed off on him; and Giancana, a glamor-monger (Phyllis McGuire of the McGuire Sisters was one of his flames), liked the idea that Sinatra liked him. Sinatra also fancied himself a tough guy (he was a damned good tough-guy actor in films); hence the famous photo with Gambino and company, etc. And the story about how Willie Moretti got him out of his contract with Tommy Dorsey--and that Sinatra sang at Moretti's daughter's wedding--has been circulating for so long that it might even be true. But does that make Sinatra a "bag man for the Mob," as Jerry Lewis charges in Summers' book? Probably not. I'm guessing that Sinatra was too busy, too bossy and too self-centered to be involved any more than superficially with the Mob. Fat Vinny Teresa (no doubt the model for Jabba the Hutt  ), in his book, "My Life in the Mob," calls Sinatra an ingrate who didn't return favors that mobsters did for him--he says Sinatra's involvement was a one-way street in Frank's favor.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: Sinatra's Mafia connections.
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03/04/06 08:48 PM
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I've read that Willie Moretti made Tommy Dorsey (Frank's agent back then) "an offer he couldn't refuse" in order to get Frank released from his obligations of the contract he had with Dorsey. Frank denied it all....
Get a dictionary. Find out what this "closure" thing is. If that's what he's going to hit us with, I want to be ready.
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Re: Sinatra's Mafia connections.
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04/05/06 08:34 PM
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I love Sinatra! Blue Eyes himself...connected, that's cool, I had a suspicion. I would read that book or just somehow find him and just ask him, but I doubt he would say anything.
"To announce that there should be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American people."-Theodore Roosevelt
"It's better to live one day as a lion, than a hundred as a sheep."-Benito Mussollini
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