The Peraino Brothers

I was watching Nothing Personal on Investigation Discovery the other day. It's the show about contract killings hosted by Bobby Bacala from the Sopranos. Last season the had an episode on the murder of Larry "Champagne" Carrozza last season. This episode was on the Peraino brothers.

I was aware the Peraino's and their connection to the movie Deep Throat, and how eventually one brother put a hit on another brother. I didn't know that Joe the whale was shot by his son for sleeping with his sons mother in law, he survived. The father also survived the hit his brother put out on him, on the show they say he survived both hits because of all the extra fat he had on him, but son wasn't so lucky. This is the hit when the ex nun was killed by mistake, some informant tried to pin it on Tommy Shots last year. It was a good show, a lot of info I didn't know, some of the guest included Jerry Capeci, William Oldham (former NYC detective and author of the "Brotherhood" the book on Mafia Cops), and former Colombo Capo turned informant Salvatore Micciota, he was involved in the hit.

Wow. Interesting stuff. I'll have to check out the show.

Yeah, it was a great show. One of the guest described the Peraino's after their Deep Throat success as a white trash family hitting the lottery. They spent a lot of their money on guady shit and eating like pigs. Their family has long held historical ties to LCN though, their father, originally a man of honor from Sicily was a big time guy in Brooklyn during the 30's, and casulty of Castellammarese war

You can find a very interesting article dealing with the Peraino brothers featuring some new background info on "Big" Sal Miciotta here

http://cosa-nostra-news.blogspot.se/2012/03/deep-throat-hits-detailed-in-nothing.html#more

The article is from EVL´s blog

http://cosa-nostra-news.blogspot.se/

GerryLang, you are right. The Peraino brothers father, Giuseppe "The Clutching Hand", was a bigshot during the prohibition. He was killed in early 1930. A third son, Carmine, was killed some months later, supposedly for beating up his wife.

This article was published in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Oct 7, 1930:

""Clutcing Hand´s Son Assassinated As His Father Was"

"Police today began a hunt for two gunmen who killed 23-year old son of "the clutching hand" last night in front of 1857 85th street, in the Bath Beach section. He died in the same way his father met his end in the Red Hook district seven months ago.
Piraino, police said, was on his way from the subway to his home at 1436 77th street, when two men came from a driveway and opened fire. He fell dead with two bullets in the back of the head and two in his chest as the gunmen fled.
The body was identified by Detective McNally who said he had been called to Piriano's home a week ago after Mrs. Piralno's face had been slashed in a quarrel with her husband.
The father, Giuseppe Piraino, was killed last March after a conference with rival liquor racketeers, according to police.
The section in which the younger Piraino was shot down is what was once the stamping ground of Frankie Uale. Whetherr this killing was connected with gang troubles could not be determined by the police."

///This is how the killing was reported.
Some crime historians claim that Carmine was killed because of the incident with the battered wife.

Nice finds there, the Peraino family had its fair share of dysfunction.