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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

mob Busted Suitcase

Tony "Toothless Tony" Sposado started his non -stellar crime career as a whipping boy for a browbeating old-school mobster named Mike Marquese. Mike had Tony lugging coca-cola cases and vending machines off of vending trucks..Nothing criminal about that, if the trucks had belonged to Mike
Marquese but they didn't..

Sposado made crumbs from the capers ---while Marquese made a pretty penny using the stolen swag to stock-up his own vending business. Sposado's downfall came when he met up with a punch-drunk stew bum named Ronnie Rome.

Rome had been in the vending business with Boston's Angiulo mob, but he became a fence jumper when he flaked out on a mob hit.The two flat-tires became fast friends by putting in many nights of booze riddled banter in mob owned barrooms. Rome filled Tony's head with full-of-shit-stories and empty promises that Sposado sucked up like Monica Lewinsky

. Tony then quit on Mike Marquese for what he thought would be a big time vending venture with Ronnie Rome--but it went bust when Ronnie fleeced him like a turnpike sucker at a carnival.Tony started dealing drugs and he got busted and did a long stretch in the can. He came out a broke and useless, toothless, busted suitcase.

Another true Hollywood Story

Friars Club Gold mine For Mob

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In the sixties,the Beverly Hills Friars club was a cash cow for major-league wiseguy Johnny Roselli. Johnny, and his crew of card cheats, milked the joint for a bundle of bucks.

Years later.the club was still fullof fat-cat entertainers, and Hollywood celebrities , who loved to gamble on sports.
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BIG ACTORS like the late Walter Matthau, and Get Smart, star, Don Adams, wouldn’t think twice about betting ten grand on a football game.

Through the years, the Friars Club resident bookies have always gotten rich off the losers. In 1980 Bobby Craig was the in-house bookie…He was making money hand over fist..The greedy fuck didn’t want to share the wealth with Capo Mike “Rizzi” Rizzitello.

I pushed Bobby down a flight of stairs in the Friars Club, and then he coughed up the cash….Two grand a week rent.

Next was an ex Brooklyn copper named Al Lazaar. Al took over the bookie action at the Friars Club when Bobby Craig died.


We did a job on Al too. Mike Hammer actor Stacy Keach was taking action up there for a while. I went to Stacy’s wedding in Malibu so I gave him a pass for a present. Anthony Fiato aka "The Animal"

Me and My Shadow, Bugsy

Allen Smiley aka "Smiley The Russian"
1947

.First of all, and last of all, Allen Smiley was Bugsy Siegel’s friend. In a sense, he was Bugsy’s shadow. When you saw one, you usually saw the other The hitman that shot Bugsy Siegel saw them together too…
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Bugsy and Smiley were both seated on the same couch when the Slugger blasted Bugsy to smithereens..Smiley dove down on the floor, and he ended up with three bullet holes in his jacket sleeve
but none of them in him.

Bugsy had died , but his legend was alive and well in the person of Allen Smiley.

Fast Forward 30 years
I walked into the La Cierniga Bridge Club on Pico blvd with my shylock partner Puggy Zeichick..The place was a haven for big time Jewish bookies and gamblers. Even a few hoodlums were allowed in the joint. That would be us.

But on this particular day we are meeting Danny Wilson aka James Iannone. Danny was a made guy back when Pikes Peak was just a pebble. He was sitting at a table with a guy playing gin.


Like a goo-goo-eyed-groupie, Puggy says to me, ” Anthony , look, look, do you see the guy with Danny Wilson? That’s Al Smiley, Al was there with Bugsy Siegel when he got whacked” .

I already knew that about Al. I had heard it many times before Like the time I was in Schwab’s drug store on Sunset boulevard with my cousin Mario the actor. Smiley was sitting in a booth talking to the owner Leon Schwab

After Smiley left, Leon Schwab sees us and rushes over to the counter where we are sitting and says, ” Mario , did you see that guy I was talking to.”?. I stop Leon, I say, “ I bet you one of your famous coffee shakes that I know what you’re about to say.” Bingo, the boy won a shake.


Al Smiley wasn’t a gangster, or mobster, those labels are stamped on tough guys. His persona was more polished than rough. It made him a fabulous front man for the Mob. So “Organized Crime Figure” fits him better.



Al knew many of the Mob’s General’s . He was well connected with Mafia , maven, Frank Costello. He steered suckers with big bankrolls to Costello’s illegal gambling parlors for a percentage of their losses.

He was a first class felon.. On his rap sheet his repertoire of rackets included Ponzie schemes and trafficking in narcotics.

I knew Al, but not that well . He was old when I met him. His star had long since fallen, and mine was on the rise. He was always a big gambler and sometimes he went bust.


Although one day I ran into Al at the track when he was flush with cash . I knew he had just made a score with a scam artist associate of mine named Jack Fine.

Jack could sell holy water to a Vampire. They both probably sold some sucker the Brooklyn Bridge. That was the last time I saw Al .




Al Smiley died broke,but he ended his criminal career on a high note when he beat a racketeering beef with Mob boss, Dominic Brooklier and Capo, Pete Milano… .


Smiley lived in Bugsy’s shadow, but the shadow belonged to Al’s best friend.




By Anthony Fiato

Bugsy Siegels best weapon

We all know the Bugsy Siegel back story. How he got shot bla, ,bla.,bla, I brought up Bugsy's name on a show full of mob rocket scientists. There was Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno, Pete the Greek , Harry Hall, Blackie Gallo, and a few other college graduates, get my drift.? Well, I posed this question to them all,.. "What is it about guys like Bugsy Siegel and other gangsters that make so many woman like them?" .Fratianno put on his thinking cap, and mulled the question over for a while, then he came up with a real gem, " well, Bugsy was a good tipper, and most broads like that." Pete "The Greek" Diapoulas chimed in with , a broad likes a guy that doesn't have to wait for a table, I mean, the captain gives a mob guy the best table in the joint, and a broad is impressed.".Blackie the booster says, " gangsters dress sharp, they buy all high line suits off of boosters, all boosted from the best joints in Beverly Hills, and they spend, broads love a guy that dresses with class, and he spends his dough on them. . Harry "The Swindler" Hall nailed it when he said, " you know fellas , It was a well known fact that Bugsy had a big schlong , 'and broads love that".
Another True Hollywood Story.by Anthony Fiato

Mob Hitman shot blanks

Mafia Hitman Frank "Bomp" Bompensiero was prolific with a pistol and shotgun--- but he shot blanks in bed. Bompensiero bore the brunt of many mob jokes because he was impotent. Mobster, Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno told Mafia Mobster, Anthony "the Animal" Fiato, "Bomp clipped plenty of bums, and "Bomps" cock was just as dead as they were"

Hollywood and The Mob

Villa Capri

Patsy D'Amore's Villa Capri really rocked with Movie Stars as famous as Frank Sinatra and Robert Mitchum, and Mafia Mobster's, as Infamous as Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli. Sinatra was part owner of the Villa Capri

Patsy D' Amore was the Godfather of restaurants . He was also an amico of Boston Mob boss Jerry Angiulo .

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My family moved to Hollywood from the Little Italy section of Boston, called the North End .My father scored the job of head bartender in the Villa Capri through the Angiulo connection with Patsy

.It was in this restaurant that I met and hooked up with some of my mentors and cohorts
in the Mafia like Johnny Roselli, and "Dago Louie" Piscopo , and Mike Rizzitello..

Years later I moved in with Patsy's daughter. He must have turned over in his grave.

------- Anthony Fiato

Connolly convicted of second-degree murder

Connolly listened attentively to testimony earlier in the trial.
By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff

MIAMI -- Retired FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. was convicted today of second-degree murder for leaking information to long-time informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi that caused them to kill a potential witness against them 26 years ago.
The verdict, delivered by a Florida jury that deliberated for 13 hours following seven weeks of testimony, means that the 68-year-old Connolly could spend the rest of his life in prison.
It marks the complete fall from grace of the once-decorated agent who is already serving a 10-year prison term for his 2002 federal racketeering conviction for helping Bulger -- one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted -- evade capture and protecting him from prosecution for years.
Connolly stared, expressionless, unblinking, as the verdict of the six-woman, six-man jury was announced just before 4 p.m.
Prosecutors said the conviction of second-degree murder with a firearm carried a sentence of between 30 years to life in prison. But the defense team said that they believed that Judge Stanford Blake had discretion to give Connolly a shorter sentence, because the murder occurred before a change in sentencing guidelines. Sentencing was set for Dec. 4.Jurors declined to comment as they left the building.Fred Wyshak, a federal prosecutor from Boston who assisted in the state prosecution, said, "Unless we catch Whitey Bulger, this ends what is really a sad chapter in the history of law enforcement in Boston."He added that there was nothing happy about the case. "Hopefully, this will never happen again. That was the point of this investigation, making sure this never happens again.''
After jurors left the courtroom and the judge left the bench, Connolly huddled with his lawyers, held his sister Sally's hand and hugged his brother James, a retired DEA agent.He declined to talk, saying he'd been advised not to by his lawyers."I think the jury reached a verdict of guilty because of all the uncharged bad acts that were introduced,'' said defense attorney Manuel L. Casabielle. "Obviously, some of the mud did stick.''
While convicting Connolly on one count, the jury found him not guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in the 1982 slaying in south Florida of John B. Callahan, a gregarious 45-year-old accountant who worked at some of Boston's largest accounting firms but had a fatal habit of socializing with gangsters.
Jurors apparently believed the testimony of the 74-year-old Flemmi, who is now serving a life sentence for 10 murders and testified that it was a tip from his handler, Connolly, that sealed Callahan's fate.
Facing his former handler from the witness stand, Flemmi testified that Connolly warned him and Bulger that the FBI planned to question Callahan and advised that he "wouldn't hold up'' and would likely implicate the gangsters in the 1981 slaying of a legitimate businessman, World Jai Alai president Roger Wheeler.
Hitman-turned-government witness John Martorano testified that at the urging of Bulger and Flemmi, he lured Callahan to Florida and shot him in the head. Callahan's bullet-riddled body was found in the trunk of his car at Miami International Airport on Aug. 2, 1982.
Though Connolly was only charged with Callahan's murder, prosecutors were allowed to present additional evidence dating back to the 1970s in an effort to prove that Connolly was corrupt.
Flemmi testified that Connolly, who grew up in the same South Boston housing project as Bulger, took $235,000 in payoffs from him and Bulger, and routinely leaked them information -- including tips that prompted them to kill Callahan, and two FBI informants, one in 1976 and one in 1982.
After Connolly took a $25,000 kickback in 1983 that he knew came from drug proceeds, he joked, "Hey, I'm one of the gang."
The defense called 20 witnesses, including US District Senior Judge Edward F. Harrington, who testified that Connolly had a reputation in the Boston FBI office for his ability to turn some of Boston's most dangerous criminals -- including Bulger and Flemmi -- into informants. He credited Connolly with using those informants to help the FBI decimate the New England Mafia in the 1980s.
The government called 21 witnesses during the trial. Jurors were given a stark view of Boston's underworld, FBI corruption, and murder.
The government's key witnesses were: Flemmi, Martorano, who is free after serving just 12 years for 20 murders; gangster-turned-author Kevin Weeks, who served five years for assisting Bulger in five murders; and John Morris, a former FBI supervisor who wept on the stand and admitted taking $7,000 in bribes from Bulger and Flemmi and leaking them information.
Callahan's widow, Mary, said the verdict has brought some welcome closure to herself and her two children."I know who and why after 26 years,'' said Mary Callahan, adding that the trial brought answers to all of her questions aabout her husband's murder. "Bulger is the worst thing that ever happened to Boston."Connolly "was good at his job until he got touched by Whitey," Mary Callahan said. "He chose to do the wrong thing and he's going to pay for it. Unfortunately, so will his family."
Casabielle said he thought the verdict was probably a compromise by jurors, who found Connolly not guilty of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and not guilty of first-degree murder, and instead unanimously found Connolly guilty of just one lesser charge.
He said Connolly, like the rest of the defense team, was distraught over the verdict, but believes he has many good issues on appeal.
As for whether the verdict clearly meant that jurors believed the testimony of the government's killer witnesses, Flemmi and Martorano, Casabielle frowned and rolled his eyes.
"I don't know what to make of it,'' Casabielle said. "I would be very sad if people believed Martorano or Flemmi. "Their lack of moral standards is so crystal clear. I don't know how anyone could believe them.''
Miami-Dade Assistant State Attorney Michael Von Zamft, who prosecuted the case with Wyshak, said Connolly's second-degree murder conviction means that jurors understood that "there was a total disregard for human life if he's giving out that information."
After the courtroom was cleared and reporters and a few bystanders were still milling around outside, Connolly, dressed in a red prison jumpsuit, shackles and handcuffs, was led down the hallway at 4:38 p.m, heading back to the local jail.

Brady gets jailed with pal hop head

Scott Brady (real name Gerald Kenneth Tierney), and his pal Slattery were arrested at 8929 Hollywood Hills Road in a major LAPD raid in which four officers, acting on a tip that drug parties were being held at the home, recovered: the butt of a marijuana cigarette and, yes, a single joint.
Aside from the humorous situation of Sgt. Marty Brennan from the movie "He Walked by Night" being busted for drugs, there's a serious point here and not just the relatively minuscule amount of drugs, compared to today's arrests.

The district attorney's office dropped the case because it would reveal the identify of one of the narcotics details' "most reliable informants," "All I can say is a woman is the cause of it all," Slattery mourned, according to The Times. "You can't shake down every woman who comes into your place."

OK, here's how it went down. Promise not to laugh:

Brady "invited two girls up to blast some tea and get high," Sgt. John E. O'Grady said. (Right daddy-O. Let's throw on some hip platters and groove to Kerouac. He is a real gone cat).

Slattery said neither he nor Brady knew the women, but that one of them called and arranged for Brady to meet them in Hollywood.

Brady came home with a blonde and a Eurasian. When Slattery went into the kitchen, he found the blonde jiggling the shutters as if she were signaling police.

"They came in like the Russian army," Slattery said despite Brady's warning against "talking too much," The Times said.

Police rejected the men's allegations implicating the women. "The girls had nothing to do with the narcotics charge," O'Grady said. "They were brought there by Scott Brady from someplace in Hollywood. We released them after we were perfectly satisfied that they had nothing to do with the narcotics charge."

In December, however, an officer told prosecutors that to "disclose the identity of the two women would be to unmask one of his most reliable informants." The officer said he could not do that "in good conscience," The Times reported.

In other words, police got complaints that Brady and Slattery were throwing drug parties at the house. They had an informant contact the men, go to the home, get the men to smoke some dope and signal the police. The cops release the women and bust the men.

The rub is, my friend Mobster, Johnny Roselli had produced the movie "HE Walked By Night" and he had hand picked Scott Brady for the part . Johnny gave Brady the " brush off "
Another True Hollywood Story Anthony Fiato .

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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JAMES CAAN::Hollywood Star GETS REAL GODFATHER Goodfella HELP

In a scene that could have been lifted from the Godfather,
actor James Caan enlisted the help of a pal, Top Hollywood Mafia enforcer, Anthony (Tony The Animal)Fiato and crew to rescue his brother Ronnie from ransome seeking kidnappers. Ronnie Caan had been lured to a hotel room and held at gun point.The kidnappers called Jimmy Caan and demanded fifty thousand dollars. Jimmy made a meet to pay them, only the bad guys got surprised by Goodfella's with guns and ball bats, and they beat Ronnie Caans captors to a bloody pulp.

Another true Hollywood Story Anthony "The Animal" Fiato

Salvatore "Sleazy Sal" Esposito and Pal

Sal "Sleazy Sal" Esposito was a Harlem-to-Hollywood-transplant -- with two-bit ties to the mob. . He switched gears from porn purveyor-- to drug dealer-- when he partnered-up with low-leval smack supplier - 'Rhode Island Rocky".The pair of parasites sold strung-out junkies and hopheads a high-grade heroin called China white. Los Angeles Mafia mobster's,Mike (Mike Rizzi) Rizzitello and Anthony Fiato,"The Animal" constantly raked Sal and his pal over-the-coals for cash and left them pot-to-piss-in penniless

Sal Esposito is mentioned in Anthony Fiato's book ----"The Animal in Hollywood"

PIZZA FACE PUGGY

Puggy " Pizza face" Zeichick bankrolled a seven figure juice loan operation that was backed by Mafia, mobster, Anthony Fiato's mob muscle . Zeichick and Fiato incorporated all the top west coast Jewish bookies into their mighty crime syndicate.. Law enforcement and Mafiosi alike referred to Anthony Fiato and Puggy Zeichick as the Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky of Los Angeles.

mob mutt

Dino " The Dumbell' Dagastino was a mob mutt from Providence RI. He transplanted to tinsel town after Patriarca-crime family capo , Nick Bianco, spit in his ugy puss for robbing an old lady.

After hitting the streets of Hollywood , the low-life teamed up with another mob moron named John Dimattia. The two stooges dealt drugs and scammed bookies untill they took a fall in a mob bust in 1987 . Dino told a judge that he was forced into dealing by a Mafia maniac named Anthony "The Animal" Fiato.The judge called Dino an imbacile--and he told him in so many words to man up. Then he gave him 6 years. Dino left the coutroom crying like a bitch

Bully Boxer gets brained with Black Jack

Hollywood boxing legend Art Aragon was called the "Golden Boy" in the ring-- but the bevy of bookies operating on Hollywood boulavard considered "the Golden Boy" a solid gold welch'er. . When it came time for Aragon to pay up for his betting losses -- he gave the bet takers a beat down , and then stiffed them . All that changed when it came to the attention of well connected Hollywood racketeer, Joe "JS" Sica. . . Sica sent enforcer Anthony "the Animal " Fiato to bust up Aragon . A mean feat by any standard . While holding a gun on Art-- Fiato black jacked the punchy palooka and cracked his hard head wide open..... Aragons' welching ways and bullying days were finaly over

Another true Hollywood Story. Anthony Fiato

Mafia Maniac

Steve " two ton" Munichello was Mafia, mobster, Tony "the Animal" Fiato's bodyguard. Munichello was heard on an F.B. I. wiretap bragging how he wanted to pour gasoline over a Nun--- then light her on fire--and watch her burn to death ..

Movie actor was a real tough guy.

Robert Mitchum was a legitimate tough guy.. His macho mannerisms were a templet for Hoodlums everywhere ..They copied his swaggering walk, hell, others even smoked their cigarettes like him. .Mtchum's machismo didn't only extend to the silver screen, he became double-tough as a result of many bouts of barroom brawling. Mitchum regularly caught the Friday night fight card at the Olympic auditorium with his friend, mobster, Anthony "the Animal "Fiato . Mitchum and Anthony Fiato were both boxing buffs.. They would go toe-to-toe for hours calling each others favorite fighter a bum , or tomato can.. Fiato says Mitchum's love for boxing can best be described by this Quote from the movie"The Champion".. " Hell , I'm a sucker, I just cant help watching a couple of good boys in action"