xXxDCxXx is correct. Neri was a former police ofiicer who answered a call on his beat one day and found a 12 year old girl and her mother badly sliced up from a pimp who used a razor on them. Neri tried apprehending this pimp but the pimp attmepted to stab Neri. So Neri cracked him across the head with his falshlight and knocked him cold. However Neri proceeded to crack this guy a second time and the guy died! Neri was brought up on criminal charges, found guilty and sentenced to prison. Neri's father in-law knew people connected with The Corleones and asked them for help. A judge reconsidered Neri's case and decided to suspend his sentence and release him. Once released Neri found out from his father in-law that an associate of his contacted the Corleones, so Neri went out to the Corleone Mall to personally thank Michael. Meanwhile Tom Hagen had gone over Neri's police records from when he was a cop up intil his trial and realized that Neri could be a real assest to The Corleones. Michael offered Neri work out in Las Vegas. After a couple of days Neri contacted Michael and respectfully told Michael that he would rather work in New York than in Las Vegas. Neri did so with such honesty and respect that Michael was impressed at Neri's sincerity of wanting to be a loyal soldier to The Corleones, so he put him under Clemenza and after some time Clemenza realized that this guy could be the next Luca Brasi for the Corleones. And the rest is history.


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