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Re: Rare photos
[Re: Strax]
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03/30/18 01:19 AM
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MightyDR
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Vincent Rao Carmine Lombardozzi Vincent Rao John C. Montana Natale Evola Joe Bonanno Mike Miranda Vincent Rao
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Re: Rare photos
[Re: Strax]
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04/04/18 09:28 PM
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The_Rooster
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Oak, i heard you were actually white...??
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Re: Rare photos
[Re: OakAsFan]
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04/04/18 09:34 PM
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FrankValenti
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I see Rochester had a B-team. And a C-Team too, but that was about 5 years later. Frank Valenti being hauled away by Pittsburgh police into Allegheny County Jail after they handcuffed him to a table and beat the shit out of him in the interrogation room. They then woke him up with the smell of ammonia in an attempt to get him to confess to the murders of two small time numbers guys in the East Liberty neighborhood. The cops were almost as corrupt as the mob in those days, but Frank kept it gangster and beat the case...
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Re: Rare photos
[Re: Strax]
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04/14/18 02:26 PM
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Stubbs
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Legendary soccer star Diego Maradona from Argentina played for S.S.C. Napoli soccer team from 1984-1991. He seemed to party hard, doing lots of cocaine and mixing with Camorristi in the city. Here's photos with Diego and the Giuliano clan from the district of Forcella, Naples. Maradona (center) with the Giuliano brothers: I believe this is Maradona in the bottom, right: Maradona with Carmine Giuliano:
"It wasn't very good parsley to begin with, and then the cat went and peed on it." -Sicilian proverb
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Re: Biagio Adornetto - Philly mob turncoat
[Re: CarmellaSoprano]
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04/14/18 02:47 PM
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Stubbs
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Nobody's running a front for anything in Boise, Idaho... maybe some cattle rustling. Anyway, here's some info on this Biagio fella: December 30, 1992 – Biagio Adornetto was a made member of the John Stanfa crime family in Philadelphia. George Anastasia described him as a "pizza maker and wannabe wiseguy whose unwanted romantic pursuit of mob boss John Stanfa’s daughter nearly got him killed." Stanfa sent hitman Rosario Bellocchi, who was engaged to Sara Stanfa, to kill Adornetto. Bellocchi, armed with a shotgun, went to the restaurant where Adornetto worked. He aimed the gun in Adornetto’s face and pulled the trigger, but the gun didn’t fire and Adornetto fled the restaurant. Adornetto became the first member of the Stanfa crime family to cooperate with the FBI, Bellocchi soon followed. sourceAt the same making ceremony that Merlino and Mikey Chang got their buttons, John Stanfa also inducted a number of the Sicilians he had recruited. The likes of Biagio Adornetto, Rosario Bellocchi and Sergio Battaglia were going to be Stanfa’s frontline soldiers. He believed their pure Sicilian blood made them superior to those he already had around them.
Almost immediately, the Godfather began sending his new recruits on hits. Initially it looked like Stanfa’s plan for eventual European dominance over his American crime syndicate was off to a good start.
....The dispute centered around friction that developed between Adornetto and Bellocchi, involving the courting of Stanfa’s beautiful 24-year old daughter Sara. Both aspiring mobsters wanted to date her. When Sara chose Bellocchi over Adornetto, it set things off on a dangerous course. Adornetto resented the rejection and began displaying insolence to both Bellocchi, his rival in the game of love, and Stanfa, his boss. The disrespectful behavior got him marked for murder.
Everything came to a crescendo on December 30, 1992, when a masked and shotgun-toting Bellocchi staged a daring attack of Adornetto, while Adornetto worked his job as a pizza maker at the trendy and posh South Philly eatery, La Veranda. On a busy night from before the New Year, Bellocchi charged into the restaurant, approached his target in the open kitchen in the back overlooking the entire place, and pulled the trigger.
Nothing happened. Someone had put the wrong sized bullets in Bellocchi’s shotgun and it malfunctioned. Undeterred, his went out to his car, got his pistol and returned into the now hysteria-filled bistro and chased Adornetto around the dining room to the shock of a packed house of patrons, one of which was a state senator.
source. Stanfa really was a horrible boss, eh? Amazing Philly was able to rebound so much under Ligambi.
"It wasn't very good parsley to begin with, and then the cat went and peed on it." -Sicilian proverb
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Re: Biagio Adornetto - Philly mob turncoat
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04/16/18 12:12 PM
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Stubbs
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vinny oceans house wow. fuck . give me some new money. he must have really made a fortune with the hustler clubs. ita mansion in texas thous . i sure some baseball player or some spots dude picked it up. its weird vinny ocean was a brooklyn guy his brother and uncle were colombos i think. he probaly came back to the northeast. I'm sure once he flipped the feds let him keep a lot of his money. Pay some small fines, but keep most of his millions in exchange for testimony. Wikipedia says he filed for bankruptcy in 2013 though, so maybe he blew it all and that's why the house was sold?
"It wasn't very good parsley to begin with, and then the cat went and peed on it." -Sicilian proverb
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Re: Biagio Adornetto - Philly mob turncoat
[Re: Stubbs]
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04/16/18 03:10 PM
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Moe_Tilden
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vinny oceans house wow. fuck . give me some new money. he must have really made a fortune with the hustler clubs. ita mansion in texas thous . i sure some baseball player or some spots dude picked it up. its weird vinny ocean was a brooklyn guy his brother and uncle were colombos i think. he probaly came back to the northeast. I'm sure once he flipped the feds let him keep a lot of his money. Pay some small fines, but keep most of his millions in exchange for testimony. Wikipedia says he filed for bankruptcy in 2013 though, so maybe he blew it all and that's why the house was sold? Joe Massino and his wife made out like bandits as well. I guess the FBI have to let them keep a very hefty part of their illicit gains, as these people are hardly going to start breaking the habit of a lifetime and make an honest living once they're let off the hook.
I invoke my right under the 5th amendment of the United States constitution and decline to answer the question.
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Re: Rare photos
[Re: Moe_Tilden]
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04/19/18 09:55 AM
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CarmellaSoprano
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Adornetto looks like one of those greasy foreigners who hang around nightclubs here hitting on women half their age, the kind of guy you wouldn't want to leave a woman alone with. You hit the nail on the head. Also, rumor has it that he doesn't discriminate between men and women, hanging out at the local gay club, The Balcony.
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Re: Rare photos
[Re: Strax]
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04/20/18 10:28 AM
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Michael_Giovanni
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