There's been some discussion over in the MOB MOVIES thread about tje movie Gotti and it's portrayal of the McBratney / Gotti / Galione connection. For those interested, here's the supposed real story of how Jimmy McBratney was implicated in the kidnapping of Don Carlo Gambino's nephew Manny Gambino.

According to William Hoffman & Eddie Maloney, co-authors of a book titled Tough Guy: The True Story of "Crazy" Eddie Maloney, Maloney met McBratney while both were incarcerated at Greenhaven State Prison in New York.

According to Maloney, he and McBratney became part of a kidnapping ring that was the brainchild of two other wiseguys from ......ironically ....... the Gambino Crime Family!

Now in this book, Eddie Maloney admits that in an effort to get a "pass" from the underworld for his kidnapping schemes, he decided to lay it all on McBratney. So in all likelyhood that is probably why the Gambino family sought revenge against McBratney for the kidnapping and murder of Manny Gambino.

According to the FBI, an agent by the name of Anthony Villano was heavily involved in the kidnapping / murder case of Manny Gambino. They claim that Agent Villano was tipped off that Manny Gambino, the son of Carlo’s brother Joseph, had been kidnapped. And McBratney is never mentioned in the FBI reports, never mentioned as being involved in the Manny Gambino kidnapping/murder. As a matter of fact, according to the FBI, Jimmy McBratney did not kidnap and murder the nephew of Carlo Gambino!