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...elusive charm, I reached for the nearest concilliari: the On-line Mafia Guide. You could create a small (albeit criminally insane) nation from the number of mafia fans on the web. From "John Gotti's Homepage" to "Gangster Mansion," the devout are eager to share the legacy of "La Cosa Nostra," even with a confessed Irish girl from upstate...
...Gotti: Rise and Fall by Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain, as well as on FBI surveillance-tape transcripts and press accounts, Gotti the movie gives us the former Gambino crime-family boss as a Puzo-esque romantic, a faux plumbing-supply salesman who longs for the days when the Cosa Nostra had real structure, when family loyalty meant something, when the Mafia wasn't so enthusiastically in the business of mergers and acquisitions. "You got a worldwide crime syndicate now," the imprisoned don, played by Armand Assante, bemoans at the end of the film. "There's no rules, no parameters...
...does whack or clip or even scungilli. Based on the book 'Gotti: Rise and Fall' by Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain, Gotti the movie gives us the former Gambino crime-family boss as a Puzo-esque romantic, a faux plumbing-supply salesman who longs for the days when the Cosa Nostra had real structure, when family loyalty meant something, when the Mafia wasn't so enthusiastically in the business of mergers and acquisitions. "Gotti may have had different ideas about the Mob's purpose in life," says TIME's Ginia Bellafante, "but the filmmakers are so entranced by the sheer...
...does whack or clip or even scungilli. Based on the book 'Gotti: Rise and Fall' by Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain, Gotti the movie gives us the former Gambino crime-family boss as a Puzo-esque romantic, a faux plumbing-supply salesman who longs for the days when the Cosa Nostra had real structure, when family loyalty meant something, when the Mafia wasn't so enthusiastically in the business of mergers and acquisitions. "Gotti may have had different ideas about the Mob's purpose in life," says TIME's Ginia Bellafante, "but the filmmakers are so entranced by the sheer...
...cleanup was at best a bad error of judgment, given the evidence linking him and his father, who also held a top union job, to organized crime. Moreover, a number of events cast doubt on the integrity of the cleanup effort: in New York, Salvatore Lanza, identified with Cosa Nostra in the original complaint, was promoted to treasurer of the union's New York regional PAC. In California rank-and-filers who gave information to the Laborers' investigators were subsequently threatened by local union officials...