The Chin is the most intriguing mafia figure in my mind and I'll tell you why. First of all he was able to fool the federal government for 30 years. If that isn't an achievement, then I don't know what is. Everybody thought he was crazy. We're talking respected psychiatrists, doctors, lawyers, FBI guys, NYPD guys, even the informants on the street thought he was really crazy. Here's a guy who lived almost his entire life with his mother in an apartment that wasn't much bigger than a shoebox. He's never clean shaven, looks like he doesn't shower, mumbles a lot to himself, seems lost and always has on a bathrobe. And while all this was going on, he was the biggest gangster in all of New York. Sitting on top of millions of dollars and controlling several major industries. This is also the same guy who shot Frank Costello. The same guy who went to trial with Vito Genovese.


"What is given, can be taken away. Everyone lies. Everyone dies." - Casey Anthony, in a poem, July 7, 2008