Chickie Chang looks like Lionel Ritchie in that pic

Ciancaglini, Stanfa, Unknown, Sindone, Simone, Bruno



Joseph Cammarano, Sr.



Dean Martin, Gregory DePalma, Richard Fusco

The guy john keys was Bruno's cousin I never understood why he got whacked. Did he sell out his own cousin or was he a threat to Phil testa.

Great pic of him ,he does not look like a gorilla in that one

Does anybody remember the story with Simone and the shoes?..I recall it had something to do with him and his wife. Forgot where I read it, maybe Gravano's book?

Could that unknown be Turchi?

Johnny Keyes told his wife that he promises 2 never die w/ his shoes on.. b4 execution, he asked sammy if he could take his shoes off,thus holding true 2 his wife ..a loyalty. Sammy respected this honor & called johnny a man's man.

That part of Gravanos book underboss along with the other killing he did with the Philly Mob was the best parts of the book.The other was the thing where Scarfo took out the Irish guy Frankie "steele."In Leonettis book he says the Simone thing was going on during his Scarfos and Merlino murder trial of Vincent Falcone.But Leonetti states on page 104 that it was for plotting against Phil Testa.That Testa was still alive and Simone was plotting against him.Gambino capo Nicky Russo was sending messages from Johnny Keys to Big Paul about Simone taking over the Philly-Atlantic City mob.Nicky Scarfo reports this to the Genovese and Bobby Manna takes it to Gigante.Next thing you know Manna tells Scarfo they are sending A Gambino soldier named Sammy Gravano to talk to them about it.He told Scarfo that this Gravano was "your kind of guy".Respected by all the famalies.I had always though that Johhny Keys was plotting against Scarfo not Testa

Not a prison photo, Pmac.


Kinda late on this response gentlemen,but that is exactly how it was done..thank u nj capo 4 bringing back memories..

From: Capitol Century




By contrast, Gravano remembers every detail of the hit on Simone. "Johnny Keys,'' as Simone was known, was a "real man's man,'' Gravano wrote.


Simone was murdered because after Bruno was rubbed out, he talked with Gambino family overseers about his prospects for taking over the Philly clan.



The national Mafia commission already had agreed that Philly's Nicodemo "Little Nicky'' Scarfo would succeed Bruno, a cousin of the Gambinos, and Scarfo told the group Simone would have to be removed for him to be sure the New York family wasn't plotting against him.

"I felt terrible that a man with such b — — had to be hit,'' Gravano wrote. "But this was Cosa Nostra. The boss of my family had ordered it. The entire commission had ordered it. There was nothing I could do.''

Simone was snatched from the Sky View Country Club at the airport in Washington Township and driven to Staten Island for his execution in September of 1980, five months before Stillitano was murdered.

On the way to his death, Simone, 69, knew what was coming and suffered a heart seizure. Gravano said he insisted on taking one of his heart pills so he could die like a mobster, by the gun.

When they got to the killing ground in a patch of Staten Island woods, Simone took his shoes off and told Gravano: "I'll walk out (of the van) on my own. Let me die like a man.''

Gravano said Simone "took a couple of steps away from the van. Without a word, he lowered his head, quiet and dignified. The shot immediately leveled him to the ground. He died instantly. He died without pain. He died Cosa Nostra.''