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Virgil Sollozzo
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09/19/05 05:05 AM
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What kind of mafioso is Virgil Sollozzo? With wich real-life mafioso can you compare this guy?
'This was just another Bronx tale.'
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Re: Virgil Sollozzo
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09/19/05 10:27 AM
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According to the novel, Sollozzo was a Sicilian, not an American. He was evidently a major drug wholesaler in Europe and the Middle East, seeking to establish a strong partnership for retail drug trafficking in the US. He was not a member of any Mafia family in the US--but presumably, if he had been successful, he would have become a power in the US Mafia. There is no direct analog to Sollozzo in US Mob history. The only connection I can make is with Cesare Bonventre and Sal Catalano, two Sicilians (called "zips") who were brought to the US to head a major heroin racket by Carmine Galante when he was the Bonanno Don. However, the "zips" became actual capos in the Bonanno family. Bonventre later made a bid to head the Bonannos but lost out in the war that was described in the book, "Donnie Brasco."
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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