Gambino Crime Family, John "Junior" Gotti

He's gone from the most-wanted list to the dean's list.
Mob scion John "Junior" Gotti racked up an impressive 3.5 grade point average while taking college classes behind bars, court papers reveal. The Gambino family heir excelled in courses from Kaplan's College for Professional Studies while doing five years at the Ray Brook federal prison for a 1999 racketeering conviction, his lawyers wrote.
Attorneys Charles Carnesi and John Meringolo cited the sterling report cards as part of new bid to get the reputed mobster -- who claims he quit the Mafia -- sprung on bail while he awaits his September racketeering retrial.
It wasn't clear what Junior's major was

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Nicky Bianco

Meet Nicholas Bianco aka “Nicky” aka “ Nicky B” Nicky Bianco was a Gallo Gang shooter before he became a member of the Patriarca Crime Family

Nicky was like Joey Gallo, he was a warrior..His ethos was.”I was born a man, I will die a man”. Unlike the flamboyant Crazy Joey, Nicky was low-key, and level headed.
In a finger snap, he would kill for Raymond “RayPat” Patriarca Sr. Raymond loved his composure, and courage, and he moved Nicky up the leader ladder to a spot in the Patriarca high command. Nicky was Raymond’s acting boss while he was in the slammer
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I knew Nicky and I will go into greater detail in my new book . But here is a tasty tidbit
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Nicky had a ton of heat on him from a beef he had in Providence.. He went west to Hollywood to hide out until things cooled off back home. Nicky stayed with a friend of mine. .While he was with my pal, he knifed a guy . I had occasion to meet with Nicky years later. . I mentioned this incident to Nicky,
and it knocked him for a loop. Anthony Fiato

Bonanno crime family, Carmine Galante Hit

Carmine "Lilo" Galante, a capo in the Bonanno family shown with a cigar in his mouth, was murdered in the backyard garden of Joe & Mary's Restaurant in Bushwick, Brooklyn on July 12, 1979. The hit was orchestrated by rival Philip "Rusty" Rastelli. Galente had been fighting for the top spot in the Crime Family

Colombo crime family, CARMINE SESSA Mob Rat

CARMINE SESSA—The one-time consigliere of the Colombo crime family surrendered to the FBI on the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1993, giving law enforcement an insider’s look at a raging internal family war that was dropping bodies all over Brooklyn.

Freed from prison after only seven years, Sessa delivered an extraordinary apologia during his 2000 sentencing, deriding the Mafia life he’d led and watched in theaters. “The movie ‘Goodfellas’ explains it well—meaning everybody gets killed by a bunch of animals or so-called friends.” In the witness protection program, he was later arrested for beating up his wife.

Pictured: Carmine Sessa, in black jacket.



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Rats! Mob informants

SALVATORE 'SAMMY THE BULL' GRAVANO—Underboss of the Gambino crime family, Gravano agreed to cooperate with police in October, 1991, becoming a key to the conviction six months later of his boss, John “Dapper Don” Gotti. He admitted to involvement in 19 murders, but served only 5 years due to his assistance in catching his former boss
After entering the witness protection program, Gravano moved to Phoenix, Arizona and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from this book, “Underboss.” He then started up an Ecstasy ring with his family, was caught, and will likely die in prison.

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'PROTECTION' | 'Sopranos' actor Vincent says 'groups should have a better sense of humor'

Actor Frank Vincent from the former HBO mobster hit "The Sopranos" thinks his fellow Italian-Americans need to lighten up. The same, in his opinion, goes for brewing giant MillerCoors.

Vincent found out that the Miller Lite “Protection” ad campaign in which he stars was being pulled because of complaints from the Italian-American community when he received a Google alert about Wednesday’s exclusive Sun-Times story. He said he had not heard from either MillerCoors or DraftFCB about the decision

The axed Miller Lite campaign features Vincent as a mafioso thug trying to strong-arm a young clerk in a convenience store in one TV spot and do the same to a bartender in a bar in two other TV commercials, as well as in a number of radio spots. Vincent’s character in the commercials embodies many of the stereotypical tough-guy traits familiar from countless mafia portrayals in film and television, though in the Miller Lite commercials Vincent’s performance comes off as more of a spoof.

On Wednesday afternoon, Vincent said he was “absolutely surprised” by Italian Americans’ strong objections to his portrayal and by MillerCoors’ decision to pull the campaign so quickly.
After complaining to MillerCoors about the ads, Lou Rago, founder of the Italian American Human Relations Foundation of Chicago and Anthony Baratta, the Chicago-based national chairperson for the Commission for Social Justice, on Tuesday threatened to organize a boycott of MillerCoors by Italian Americans. By Tuesday afternoon, MillerCoors agreed to pull the campaign immediately, which would mean all ads will be gone from the air within a week.

“I think both of these groups should have a better sense of humor,” said Vincent, who has played a number of mafia characters over the years. He said he didn’t hesitate at all in taking on the role in the Miller Lite “Protection” campaign.

“The humor is there in the commercials, and a lot of people were enjoying the work,” added Vincent, who also said MillerCoors and its ad agency DraftFCB/Chicago spent “a lot of money” on the television and radio ad campaign that was slated to run at least through the summer.

The “Protection” campaign was the first big Miller Lite campaign to come out of DraftFCB since MillerCoors handed the agency the major account two months ago. DraftFCB also handles advertising for the “competing” Coors Light brand.

Mickey Cohen

Mickey Cohen
birth place: Brownville, New York, USA

Mickey Cohen was Ben “Bugsy” Seigel’s darker half. While Bugsy dined with Hollywood’s royalty and bedded the stars, Mickey emptied their safes and broke their bones.

Mickey was a born hustler. His mother moved the family out of their Brooklyn slum to Los Angeles before Mickey was six years old. The Cohen’s ran a pharmacy and this being the time of Prohibition, Mickey’s brother ran one of the small gin-mills in the district. Mickey’s job was to deliver the moonshine.

Boxing became a practical passion for preteen Mickey, who often needed to defend his deliveries with his fists. At 15 he was a champion and,lying to his mother, he headed east to become a prize fighter.

In New York, Mickey met some of the city’s’ toughest crime bosses and, when he was beaten senseless in the ring and decided to change his career, there were plenty of outfits willing to hire his tough fists.

Mickey moved to Chicago, met Al Capone and worked for the Mafia’s gambling rackets. One day, walking down the street in his favourite camel hair coat, a mob hitman tried to assassinate Mickey. He survived unscathed, as did his coat, though the threat was enough for the ex-boxer to move back to LA to work with Bugsy.

Together, Mickey and Bugsy were an effective extension of the East Coast Syndicate on the West Coast. They changed organised crime in the West from a backwater operation into a multimillion dollar industry, that controlled narcotics, gambling, unions, and politics. After Bugsy was killed, Mickey was the mob's West muscle.

In 1961, Mickey was charged with tax evasion and sentenced to 15 years in Alcatraz. Two years into his sentence an inmate clobbered Mickey with a lead pipe, partially parallelizing the mobster. On his release in 1972, Mickey returned to live a quiet life with his old friends and follow the fights in LA.