Louie "The Couch" Gelfuso

Louie "the Couch" Gelfuso was a Capo in the Milano Crime Family. He was nicknamed "Louie The Couch" by FBI agent's who were listening to the planted bug in his broken-down-dump he called an apartment.


Gelfuso was always laying down on his couch while he was watching soap opera's like an old scrub woman. He would talk to the soap show characters, and he would even cry at some of the sentimental scenes.

"Louie The Couch" damn near had the Feds pissing in their pants with laughter, when he said to a soap character -- who was claiming she was a virgin, " you fucki'n douche bag , your cherry is so far up your ass, you can use it for a tailgate".

Another True Hollywood Story Anthony "The Animal" Fiato

Feds throw connolly under the bus

Joe Pistone aka Donnie Brasco, was an FBI agent who worked undercover for six years as an associate of the Bonanno Crime Family. He also helped FBI agent.Zip Connoly with -Mob-informants, Whitey Bulger, and Stevie Flemmi.. Pistone had met and talked to Flemmi and Bulger at a social dinner with Connolly at another FBI agents home in a Boston suburb .

After Connolly was convicted of federal racketeering charges in 2002, Pistone wrote a glowing letter to the sentencing judge urging leniency for .John Connolly,saying, ” he should never have been singled out to take the hit for the admitted flawed policies of a government that benefited from his skills, courage and dedication . I thought that was a cool thing to do.

Pistone must have caught some flack from the feds because now Pistone came up with some lame excuse for not testifying for the defense at Zip’s Conspiracy to Murder trial.. Pistone claims he can’t, and won’t testify without wearing a disguise, which the judge won”t allow. This guy has had his puss shown on TV almost as much as Barack Obama. In my opinion, Pistone is keeping his big trap shut to stay golden with Uncle.Sam. I met Pistone doing a show in the late eighties We compared war stories about what it was like wearing a wire According to Pistone. his wire had malfunctioned many times, which made me wonder if he ever really put it on in dangerous situations, or did he just claim to his superiors that it didn’t work when the going got hairy and scary. I busted his balls about it for a few laughs.

I had flipped to informant and wore a wire on many of the Boston mob . . Something Flemmi and Bulger never really had to do, or they were to scared to do. Connolly’s goose is going to be cooked because of the raw deal he is getting from the deaf, dumb. and blind agents who have thown him under the bus. Pistone should believe his own glowing letter, and have the balls to testify for Zip Connolly . Man up Joe !!! .
Anthony “The Animal” Fiato

Los Angeles Crime Family Hoods get clock cleaned

Frank "Puggy" Sica was the hoodlum brother of big time Los Angeles racketeer, Joe "JS" Sica . Frank was a pint sized punk,with a big chip on his shoulder. He was nothing like his older brother, JS, who was well connected and respected by Mafia figures all over the country. Puggy Sica and Sal Di Giovanni were burglars in the Sica gang. They both got their clock cleaned by a bartender who first shot at them, and then beat the fuck out them both for punching and kicking a woman to the floor in a Hollywood gin mill.. The woman was Sal the Creep's girlfriend... Sal got beat so bad he looked like a racoon because he got two black eyes.. .Frank Sica had been arrested plenty of times, but my old lawyer Eddie "the Fixer" Gritz kept him out of the pokey.. .When I was an enforcer for JS, I hated seeing this little drunken fuck.... Anthony Fiato

..Another true Hollywood story

Anthony Fiato, aka "The Animal", made Murry "the K" DJ

Murray the K, was a famous and influential rock and roll impresario and disc jockey of the 1950's, '60's and '70's. During the early days of Beatle mania, he frequently referred to himself as "the Fifth Beatle, Murray loved to gamble on sports.

He lost a ton of bucks gambling... One weekend he lost over thirty grand betting on football to a bookie named John Di Mattia. Di Mattia was my partner, or with me, as we say in the Mob.. when Murray The "K" came up lame for the dough I took a ride with Di Mattia to Murray's Hollywood Hills home to make him pay, and to meet a guy who was a living legend.

.The "K" looked as skinny as a rail.. I guess it was from doing cocaine.. I had to slap him around. a bit to make myself very clear about how I was going to hurt him bad if we didn't get our money.. The poor prick was shaking like deputy Barney Fife. In the midst of all this ,the crazy fuck asks me if I want a line a coke. Then and there, I knew how we were going to get paid.. I came up with a plan to get the money.. The "K" was heavy into cocaine, so I made him set up a dealer friend of his to be ripped off .by two members of my crew, my brother Larry, and Stevie Munichello..

.I gave the K the money to buy the first ounce ,and a week later this dealer named Tony comes with a key and they stick this fuck up.. This mutt accuses the" K" , but he isn't sure. The K calls me and I tell him to make a meet with this dealer. . I meet this Tony guy, and he has a couple of friends with him, one was someone who knew me,a mug named Mike Lizst, who was a dealer friend of actor Jimmy Caan's Mike's eyes bugged out of his head when he saw me, and he tells this guy Tony I was a Mafia.heavyweigh.t The Tony guy wants to be my friend now, and he wound up working for me, and he set up his supplier for half of the score A few years later the "K" died of cancer.. I did like the skinny prick, and he was a great DJ, but a lousy gambler. .
Anthony "The Animal" Fiato. . ..Another True Hollywood Story.





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MAFIA KILLER LIVED LIKE A KING IN JAIL

Ronnie "The Pig" Casesso.

When I first met Ronnie Casesso he was in Walpole prison courtesy of the snitch Joe Barboza..... Casesso was a made guy in the Patriarca Crime Family who had gotten the death penalty for being one of the shooters in the murder of a minor hood named Teddy Deegan.. Ronnie "The Pig" caught a big break when his sentence was reduced to life in prison because the death penalty was repealed.

Casesso had the run of Walpole in those days. Here's how strong Casesso was. My friend Ronnie Rome was related to Casesso through marriage. He was also in the vending business with mob boss, Jerry Angiulo. Rome gets a call from Casesso.who tells him to bring a pin ball machine to Walpole for the warden as a gift. I decided to take a ride with Ronnie Rome. When we get there I expect to be frisked by the guards, but its not that way. Then I see Casesso really has the run of the place. He's in for murder, and not only is he not behind bars, he's not even inside the prison. He's lying on the grass working on his tan outside of the front gate. "The Pig" is acting more like the warden's brother-in-law, than a prisoner.
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We greet and I see how informed "The Pig" is. He is really happy to see Ronnie Rome. Rome tells him I was with Nicky Giso.( Nicky was a Patriarca made guy),but Casesso had already heard. He had better news sources than the Boston Globe. He offered us a drink. For a guy in prison,he was a gracious host.

We asked him how some of the guys from our neighborhood were doing. Casesso said," you just missed "The Bear", (Jimmy Flemmi, the brother of Stevie Flemmi)' he was just here getting a tan,''we are going to eat good tonight,'Chinese food, 'in a swell joint down the street".I couldn't believe it. "The Pig"
was living better than most guys on the outside. He laid woman in a motel down the road, and he even stayed overnight. He dropped in on the warden anytime he wanted anything. He was more free than the guards.

Everybody was afraid of "The Pig". They all knew he was Raymond Patriarca's buttonman.and he had killed plenty of times. When we were leaving he told us to watch out for "those people", meaning The Patriarca Crime Family, " they will use you". I laughed, and told Casseso to get my cell ready. Ronnie "The Pig" Casesso died in prison, but he lived like he was as free as a bird.

By Anthony Fiato,"The Animal"
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Barboza Hit

My mentor's in the Mafia always told me,” when it came to payback, no matter how long it takes,

Just like the “turtle”, we always get there”. Nothing illustrates this boast better than the

execution of Joe "The Animal" Barboza, courtesy of my good friend, and Mafia Cohort,. JR Russo--Anthony Fiato





In 1954 with the backing of New York crime lord Vito Genovese, Raymond Patriarca took control of

the New England mafia.. It became known as the Patriarca crime family. Possessing the same traits as his pal Vito; cunning and violence, Patriarca dominated the rackets in his territory with a vengeance from his headquarters in Providence R I . In a world where tough guys only listen to tougher guys, Patriarca was the undisputed boss. The most lucrative rackets were in Boston where Patriarca skipper, Gennaro “Jerry“. Angiulo, and his” North End” gang, locked down all the rackets in the Boston underworld. Anybody operating in numbers,. bookmaking,, loan sharking ,,and any other criminal racket that turned a buck had to go through Angiulo and pay for “permission” to operate. . Without “permission” you needed protection from Angiulo’s enforcers…All the men that kicked into Angiulo were referred to as "connected" guys, meaning they had the protection of the Patriarca family.. If you bothered a “connected” guy you were defying Raymond Patriarca and that was lethal.



For Joe Barboza killing came as easy as breathing. In the early sixties Dodge City atmosphere of the Boston underworld, when it came to murder, the thirty year old Portuguese hit man was the top slugger in the city.. Barboza and his pals Chico Amico and Nicky Femmia operated a leg breaking and gun- for-hire business out of East Boston. Always the thinker, Jerry Angiulo used Barboza to go into certain nightclubs throughout the Boston area and bust them up. The owners of these places were terrified, and immediately reached out to Angiulo to get rid of their Barboza problem. And, Angiulo did, for part ownership in the clubs.. .In the mob we call this create and alleviate.. Barboza so impressed Angiulo’s bosses Patriarca, and Henry Tomeleo, that they started using Barboza and his crew for all the hardcore enforcing that was bringing “heat” to Angiulo’s men.. In exchange Patriarca let Barboza operate in the rackets without paying tribute



The head of the “Winter hill” mob, Buddy McLean, was well liked by Patriarca..The baby faced Irish mobster's gang dominated all the Irish mobs. McLean brought big money deals from race fixing; to high jacking , to his pal Patriarca.. Patriarca made so much money from brokering these deals that he let McLean operate without the standard tribute .



McLean’s Winter Hill gang was the most powerful of all the Irish mobs . In the “South End,” the Harlem section of Boston, you had the Bennet brothers, a faction of the winter hill mob whose enforcers included Frank Salemme and the Flemmi brothers Stevie, and Vinny "The Bear" , who were all friendly with Joe Barboza-- and they were jockeying for a position with Patriarca ‘s most murderous Capo, Larry Bione. George McLaughlin broke away from Mclean and started a renegade faction of his own, and started a war in the Boston Underworld that included holding up the Italian mob’s card games, and shaking down their bookies..



This threw a monkey wrench into the Patriarca money machine so he gave Barboza and his crew marching orders to wipe out the McLaughlin gang under the tutelage of Bione. True to his rep, Barboza and company whacked out over twenty men to restore order for the Patriarca family.. Raymond avoided the heat but Barboza was hotter than a firecracker and he was being tailed by tons of law wherever he went. The cops busted an armed Barboza, and he was held on fifty grand bail.. Joe sent his crew of killers to shake down the Patriarca mob for bail money figuring he had it coming for all the” work” he had done for them. Raymond didn't take kindly to a hothead threatening him, so he had all of Barboza’s crew whacked out...

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Joe then turned rat, and with his treacherous testimony. he put Raymond and some of his capo’s in jail, some of them for life.. In spite of the hundred thousand dollar bounty Patriarca had put on his head, Barboza managed to elude Raymond’s vengeance for almost eight years, until his luck ran out on the streets of San Francisco. Acting on a tip, and some help from the L.A.Mob, my friend, and Patriarca soldier, JR Russo,.blasted Barboza to bits with a shotgun from the back of a white van, hitting him with five bullets while he was leaving an apartment.. Some say Barboza barked, “YOU FUCKERS”, then he died like a dog... JR was upped to the rank of Capo for the hit..... By Anthony Fiato .. .

MOB MOUTHPIECE

Hollywood Attorney, Eddie "The Fixer" Gritz was Mobster, Mickey Cohen's mouthpiece .Gritz greased the palm's of plenty of prosecutors and LAPD detectives. .Even Jack Dragna used Gritz when any member
of his mob got in a jam . A young Anthony Fiato saw how fast Gritz squashed a beef... Fiato heisted a liquor store and got caught cold by two cops with a bag of cash , and a gun in his hand.. Fiato's father reached out to a Mickey Cohen associate named Harry Diamond, who then got Gritz to give a pound of C-notes to the on-the-take Robbery-Homicide-detectives working the case.. .They dropped the case for lack of evidence

Another True Hollywood Story.

DIAL "M" FOR MURDER

In the mob the best time to whack out a guy is when he least's expects it . Like when he is putting coins in a phone slot in a phone booth If he could, Frankie Bompansiero would tell you this rings true.

Mobster Tommy Ricciardi came west to LA to collect a debt for the Providence Mob . Ricciardi needed to clear the collection with the LA mob so he reached out to Mobster, Jack Lo Cicero, who then made a meet with Capo, Mike Rizzitello..Eventually Rizzitello wound up using Tommy in a shakedown that turned out to be an FBI sting operation named Forex.

.Mobster, Frank Bompensiero had endorsed the Feds Forex scheme to L. A mob members and was branded a rat that had to be exterminated. ..Mobster Jimmy 'The Weasel" Fratianno knew Bomp's habit was to make his nightly calls from a phone booth near his home so he set "Bomp" up for a slugger to whack him out.

While standing in a phone booth , talking to his pal Jimmy Fratianno, Frankie Bomps was pumped full of lead from a 22 caliber automatic with a silencer attached to it. The gun was held in the hand of Hitman, Tommy Ricciardi--who sped away in a car driven by Mobster Jack LoCicero

GALLO GANG HITS HOLLYWOOD

Pete the Greek Diapoulas was Mobster, Joey Gallo's bodyguard . . Pete was sitting with "Crazy Joey" when he was shot to shreds in Umberto's Clam House. Years later the Greek was doing a show with Mafia Mobster's , Jimmy Fratianno ,and Anthony Fiato. . While sitting in the green room, Pete had Fratianno and Fiato busting-a-gut with a Gallo Gang story .. Seems.the gang was shaking down a restaurant up in the Bronx, and the stubborn owner wouldn't play ball with the bad guys from Brooklyn..".Crazy Joey" had the Greek get a dozen hamsters and dye them all black so they looked like rats.. Gallo sent three gang members into the joint during the dinner hour and turned the so-called rats loose in the place. Women screamed, and jumped up on the tables , waiters dropped their trays, others chocked on their food, the place was a mad house. .The next day the hump paid Joey to get rid of his rat problem.. .. When the Greek left to take a leak , Fratianno said to Fiato, " anyone who hires this fuck'en bum for a bodyguard , 'is committing suicide."..

Another true Hollywood Story. Anthony Fiato

Anthony Fiato aka "The Animal", Guido "The Bull" Penosi,

Although his Mob bosses were based in the Big Apple, Gambino-made-mobster, Guido "The Bull" Penosi preferred running his mob business from Mirabelle's restaurant, located on Hollywood's, Sunset Strip..

.. Penosi operated low-key and lone-wolf-like -- while he brokered big-league drug deals.extorted entertainers, and committed countless other crimes. FBI agent's accurately pegged Penosi as, "a man who got things done".

. The "Bull" was a cash-cow for his east coast Capo's, but he had never given as much as a crumb to the Los Angeles Crime Family-- until he cut Pete Milano's Street boss Anthony " The Animal " Fiato , in for a big piece of his "sky-is-the-limit" poker game located in a ritzy Sunset Strip high-rise .As Mafia boss Pete Milano was counting his end from the poker game an F.B.I.bug picked up Milano praising Fiato to capo Louie Gelfuso saying , " finally someone knows how to get things done the right way in this Family, Anthony is worth Ten men "