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...George Anastasia, the Mob chronicler, is coming out with a book, Blood and Honor, about your 30 years as a gangster. This is the stuff that makes for great movies. Are any of the recent Mafia films accurate in their portrayal of what the life is like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crow Turns Stool Pigeon: NICHOLAS CARAMANDI | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...broad daylight, with a million people around. Restaurants, funeral homes, anywhere. Then it gets written up in the papers, and it puts fear in people. He loved that cowboy stuff. He had a big fan club. He used to get letters from black guys who wanted to join the Mob. We had a filing cabinet full of letters. There was so much killing. Things got so bad that they wanted us to go into % houses and shoot the whole family, the mother, the wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crow Turns Stool Pigeon: NICHOLAS CARAMANDI | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...Could I have come to you and said, "Hey, I'm not sure how the Mob works, but I'd like someone's legs broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crow Turns Stool Pigeon: NICHOLAS CARAMANDI | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...reason. There's no justice in court for certain people, so they come to us. Maybe somebody is bothering a guy's wife or daughter, or he wants to borrow money to go into business. I don't know how this country would survive without the Mob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crow Turns Stool Pigeon: NICHOLAS CARAMANDI | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...rains, 25 umbrellas open up. If you walk into a restaurant, they'll chase the person out of the best table and put you there. There's just so much glamour and respect and money. The nightclubs, the broads. Broads just die over you. It's unbelievable. In the Mob, you've got friends; you belong to an army, something that is so powerful. You're with the elite. Your word is law, you're like the judge and jury. Anything you say is final. You feel that you're so superior and that you're chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crow Turns Stool Pigeon: NICHOLAS CARAMANDI | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

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