Came across this article today written by Capeci just after Gotti went down, he was of the opinion at the time that Robert (Cabert) Bisaccia may become the new Gambino boss.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/capeci-capo-succeed-article-1.2161671

Nice article Nicky

thanks man

So everyone who could have taken the top spot was either too frail, too stupid, too old, too uninterested or some combination of the above.

Interesting article thanks

Tribute to Bisaccia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/nyregion/07towns.html?_r=0

Didn't know he inspired the "Funny how" scene in Goodfellas.

great story, bobby was a NJ and never would have been made boss, also he was a gambler with no control, after that he was a gem for the mob..made a great captain.very loyal to gotti. shame he did not take a deal.. the rest of the story about the other guys is on point for the most part, thanks for posting it

the ny times story is also great i had mentioned this is a past thread.wonder how bobby b let joe dente take him..anyone know?

As you said ,bobby was a degenerate gambler and could be very abusive and manipulative to his crew. He would not think twice of taking your daughters communion money to pay a debt. Boss? Never would of happened. He was feared, loved, respected, and resented all at once. Behind the scenes, not too many crew members were sad to see him go.

"My overall feeling about Bobby is this; he was a degenerate gambler who robbed all the guys under him. He is a ballsy guy, but a loudmouth bully who picks his spots. No one said it out loud, but when they gave him 40 years almost everyone, including his own crew said good
riddance."

Steve Lenehan

Interesting Q&A with Lenehan; lots of heavy hitters name dropped.

http://www.americanmafia.com/feature_articles_162.html

Many of his claims discredited below.

http://www.geocities.ws/stevenlenehan/12162005.html

The debate over whether Lenehan is "Picasso" on a certain mob forum is pretty hilarious - especially in light of what has went down on this site over the last couple days.

I came across that guy on google the other day. Who's Steve Lenehan? There was a cover of some shitty book I came across that stated he was the man Tony Soprano was based on. Lol.

Steve Lenehan is just another mob worshipper who never made anything of his life. Bisaccia was pretty much hated. His own crew didn't even like him, and isn't that kind of a pre-requisite for becoming boss? The Bergin Crew loved Gotti. It's way different.

he was a low level drug dealing associate in north jersey turned rat, now its rumored that he posts over on the real deal forum. ive never been a member of that forum but its pretty much been confirmed that he posts under the handle "Picasso" over there, apparently he tried to pass himself off as a made guy in the Genovese family lol.

That guy terrified people in the area

That section in NJ produced as many NJ wise guys then possibly anywhere else, and powerful guys

the 3 top families have a presence there

Gambling debts has resulted in them controlling several restaurants and garbage is still on lockdown . Gambling is probably as strong as it's ever been, even the Italian restaurants have sports games on at all times , lol

@Capeci thinking Bobby would get the top spot, 10 guys would have got it before him.

He's a complete fraud. Batman at RD ripped his act apart by doing incredibly in-depth research at his own expense to find out just who he was and where he was located.

He was a low-level stoolie who went into WITSEC and was promptly arrested in Central Florida for bilking elderly people out of their retirement money and Medicare benefits. He's sick in the head.

And yes, for years he posted as Picasso and claimed to be a made guy with the Westside. The fact that the guy is about as Italian as Kim Jong-un is what made it all the more laughable. Google his picture. He's as pasty-faced as an AIDS patient who's been living in the North Pole for forty years.


I'm just curious, Moe. What is this supposed to mean? Maybe I missed something. But I'm a little bit lost. Help me out here.

PB, don't even entertain Moe, 90% of the time he trolls, 10% serious.

Pesci was working all over the neighborhood, from Amici's to Mario's to the old Ann and Tony's (the real one). Joe D set up his movie production company out west, made Bobby Manna a partner, and they worked it out amicably through Hoboken and Rudy's crew. Plus, Larry Black was still alive at the time, and I know I don't have to go into detail with you there. Suffice it to say, that was a big plus for them.

They didn't get him for nothing, though. The Gambinos earned off him a little bit right up to the early '80s. Once Joe D had Pesci officially to himself, he eventually cut him loose. Joe D wasn't a greedy guy, as far as those guys go (as I'm sure you know). For a guy who got that far in that world, he was one of the most easygoing of them that I can remember.

Well, if he's referring to me and that asshole with his sleeper account (and we all know it was either Lieber and/or Mexican Heritage), an intelligent poster would take heed in the fact that he just got a thirty day suspension for running his mouth off about me.

God that interview is embarassing. Disappointed in Scott.

Is that the same Scott that runs gangsterreport and posts here?

Think you're wrong about Moe.

Trolling is stirring shit for shit's sake. Moe makes innocent jokes, some better than others agreed but at no posters expense, that I've seen.

Now granted his sense of humour may not be to your taste but to label him a troll is unwarranted, imo.

No thats scott burnstein. This is scott deische who is also an author who specializes on the tampa mafia, among other things, he also posts here from time to time.

I've offered him friendship. I even pm'd him after a misunderstanding while I still had my pm feature enabled, and he didn't even have the decency to reply to me, even though the pm said that it was read. And if his bringing up that fraud Lenehan/Picasso was a subtle dig at me, it didn't go unnoticed, and it won't be forgotten. I honestly hope I'm wrong because you seem to like the guy.

As an aside, I tried to return your email the other day and it bounced back at me. I got this (I obviously left out your email address for privacy reasons):

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.

Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:

Oh. Appreciate the heads up mate. I'll look into.
Cheers.

Wait a second wait second back up. You can't just skim over that like its nothing. Joe Pesci was an associate? That's pretty big no?

I've mentioned it here ten times over the years. He was on record with Joe Dente. But like I said, Joe was a decent guy and cut him loose once Pesci hit it big. And the way I understand it, no one ever tried to take a dime off Pesci afterwards. Joe Dente was a very well respected guy. From coast to coast. From New York to Chicago to L.A.

Great guy. Died real young back in the '90s. I don't think he even made it to sixty. He was enormous, though. You can't carry that kind of girth and lead a very long life. So much for every Westside guy living to a hundred.

I remember Joe Pesci used to have a house in the Seaside Heights NJ area...I would see him alot when i was down there for the summer as a youngster... He patronizes a restaurant in Livingston... Heard he has "Rabbit Ears" when it comes to tipping.

Just wanted to add that he's ONE of my favorite actors in the biz. He plays those roles to a T, like he's one of them. SHHH!

Joe D tried to put together a three picture deal with the gambino's after pesce's good fellows, the gambino's wanted to do only one picture.. seagal's wife kelly l, and pesce. the studio would not commit to 3 movies..so the deal fell through..joe dente was built like a square box as pizza says..ton of money .he did time with gotti way back