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...peel a Bonanno? Offer one a deal. That's how the government lured its top snitch: none other than Salvatore (Good-Looking Sal) Vitale, Massino's alleged underboss, closest friend--and brother-in-law. They grew up together. They worked together. J&S Cake, the social club that was headquarters for their rackets in the '70s and '80s, was named for them. What must Big Joey think of this fraternal betrayal? Perhaps his emotions echo those famous words from The Godfather: Part II: "I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart...
...times are no better for the Sopranos than for the rest of us. The Mob's economy is in a pinch, despite Tony's CEO-style fulminations that the Cosa Nostra is supposed to be "recession-proof since time immemorial!" New York City Mafia underboss Johnny Sack (Vincent Curatola) is undermining Tony with his own people, and the feds have planted a mole in the heart of the Soprano family. Tony is back in therapy, but so are his sister Janice (Aida Turturro) and daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler). Most perplexing for Tony, his marriage may be unraveling; Carmela...
...York’s bandit king,” strolling arrogantly into court in his $2,000 Brioni suits while throngs of cheering fans maneuvered to catch a glimpse. Gotti was even featured on the cover of Time magazine before longtime friend and Gambino family underboss Sammy “The Bull” Gravano made a deal in 1991 to help law enforcement finally put the Don away...
...This is what the underboss of the Dawood Ibrahim syndicate, or the "D-Company," told me in September of 1999. But life took him down the opposite path. Instead of dying for his country, he was sitting in a mansion in Karachi, a guest of the enemy country, unable to return to his birthplace, afraid of being liquidated at any moment by his hosts...
DIED. PETER MAAS, 72, writer who chronicled the lives of Mafia insiders; in New York City. He collaborated with such high-profile Mob informants as Joseph Valachi (The Valachi Papers, 1969), confidant to Vito Genovese, and Sammy (The Bull) Gravano (Underboss, 1997), whose testimony helped undo John Gotti. In between, Maas wrote the best-selling Serpico, about a steadfast New York City cop who exposed graft in the police ranks...