Gene Borrello - Was this guy for real?

I've seen quite a few of his podcasts, read some articles about him and have heard OC guys on YouTube like Hootie Russo say he was the real deal and was about to get his button before he was arrested.

I can't help but see this guy as nothing more that a "common" hood. Street robberies and burglaries. Seems like he was legitimately a tough kid, but how OC was he? Was he just Ronnie G's lapdog or did he have real potential as a made gangster?......Anyone have any good info that's not recycled from podcasts?

I think he was more of what you say. Just a crazed, unbalanced kid who was a legend in his own mind. Dangerous, because he's an idiot, and unbalanced. NOT because he was 'tough' per se

He's like a buck forty, how tough could he be? He's like one of the clowns from the neighborhood who could never get clean and never get his act together

Crazy and tough are often confused

Pretty sure Borello is like 6’1 and 200 plus. And without people like him, how rich would Ronnie G be if he couldn’t collect his loan shark money and Ronnie G is a tough guy and a real gangster....according to the indictment him and Borello literally “beat the shit and piss outta people” and also that’s the way Vinny Asaro would conduct himself as well. Obviously we all know in the last 15 or so years the complexion of the life has changed and they want business guys and money guys but behind that to be able to get there money unless there just doing financial fraud or running call center rooms there gonna need muscle...

I don't believe he was close to being made...I think a few of these guys made a pact to boost each other up so hopefully they could profit more

6'1 200lbs? I don't know about back in the day but right now he's not towering over midget Alite and not really packing big caliber on those...guns.

From Gangland News

According to court records obtained by Gang Land, a ringleader of the group is Gene Borrello, a 30-year-old 6-foot-2inch, 200-pound former Howard Beach resident with numerous arrests and convictions for fraud, drugs and weapons charges in New York and Long Island since 2003.

Borrello is currently cooling his heels on Rikers Island, where he's been detained on burglary, and possession of weapons and burglars tools on a Queens arrest warrant. Borrello is also facing armed robbery charges lodged against him in Palm Beach Florida, where he was living last year and where he also is a suspect in home invasions.

In Queens, Borrello is charged with planning the armed robbery of a suspected drug dealer's home last June 5, and with supplying the guns that two co-conspirators had with them when they set out from Howard Beach to hit a residence in the upscale Five Towns area of Long Island, according to an arrest complaint by OCID detective Gerard McNally.

In mid-March of 2014, as the ring was moving into high gear, Borrello supplied a Howard Beach cohort, Frank Nunziata, also 30, with two loaded guns, a 9-millimeter pistol and a .22 caliber revolver, for use in the caper, McNally stated in the complaint. From his Florida base, Borrello later "sent him pictures of the target location" and gave Nunziata the layout of the house.

In late May, Borrello allegedly instructed Nunziatta to meet up with the third member of the plot, Borrello's brother, Frank Cipolla, 25, to give him the guns for safekeeping, and iron out the robbery plan. The plan was for Nunziata to drive, and supply Cipolla a towel-covered-crowbar to break the sliding glass back door. They would find a safe with drugs, guns and more than $100,000 in the bedroom. Each would get a third of the haul, McNally wrote.

Howard Beach COPUnbeknownst to the brothers Borrello and Cipolla, however, Nunziata began cooperating with detectives and the Queens DA's office following his arrest on drug and other charges a year earlier.

And at 11:44 PM on June 5, shortly after Nunziata pulled away from his home at 115th Avenue and Bridgeton Street, OCID detectives stopped his dark blue BMW, and pulled both men from the car. In the glove box, they found a loaded .22 caliber revolver. Also allegedly found in the car were plastic zip ties, a pair of crowbars, two screwdrivers, a ski-mask and a bandana.

Lmfao

Anyone who rats is not a tough guy. Was he a dangerous guy? Yes. He was also a nutcase. I know why Ronnie used him, but he never should have let him get so close. Isn't he still in Howard Beach? Don't be surprised if something bad happens to Gene. Not saying they'll kill him, but I can't see Ronnie G doing nothing

He comes off as so weasel that he seems small. Didn't he beg in court a few months ago and call his mother to plead openly for him to not go to jail--for a whopping 2 months? He's a crybaby playing a tough guy on youtube.

He doesn't come off as the "repentant" type either.

The middle pic in CNote's post is Murr from the show Impractical Jokers, not Borrello. LOL! Look it up.

Lol, my bad but I know you see the resemblance.

Good God that last pic I guess its a selfie that is one ugly dude.He just looks like a punk.Most guys around their early 20's or late teens begin to mature into manhood this guy will be a thug well into his sixties

He is mid to late 2000's version of a SHOOTER for the family.

Again these guys were a dime a dozen, they were crash dummies...

Most of em never yielded any power and or influence, they are well known on the streets, because they are sent out to do the dirty work for the guys with the power and influence.

Were regular Joe's afraid of him I am absolutely certain they were.

So you know who he wasnt targeting other crews that had active shooters in them.

Why because he knew better...

Where are those stories?

You have the stories to whereas he was battling with some other drug dealer and the guys girlfriend ran him over and almost killed him.

The best part about is these brain dead idiots are making fun of the guys with the money and the power and saying they are real-wide guys because they didn't get their hands dirty.

Talk about being so far behind in a race that you think you are WINNING.....

I couldn’t agree more

Seems like Gene was a pawn nothing more.