Barone's claim of being in a gang called The Jets is ridiculous. There was no gang by that name, it was made up be the writer of the play West Side Story. and originally it was an Irish-Catholic gang battling Jews. Barone saying that shows he may have been nuts. Maybe the next rat will say the Warriors movie was based on him and his friends.
Thats actually not true Jace. During the late 1940s-1950s era there were plenty of local neighborhood street gangs typically made up of local Irish and/or Italian hoodlums (some of whom were later absorbed into LCN). I believe there was a Westside gang called The Jets, and obviously George Barone was affiliated with them.
