Gaspipe: Incredibly smart, amazing earner, turned down being boss and basically influenced/controlled Amuso as underboss, carried out hits left and right, went on the lam for 2 years from the feds while also running the family/ordering hits AND coming into nyc to have dinner with his ruling panel, a lethal mobster through and through, gets screwed in the end by the feds after flipping, and regrets flipping to this day. This guy was a lethal/rich mobster.
Wild Bill Cutolo: charismatic, great earner, running/creating businesses left and right, i have read about how lots of people who ran shops didnt mind paying protection to him cause he was a classy guy and really loved his neighborhood, did lots of charity work, hitman for the colombo family and a heavy hitter during the colombo war, when him and his crew were swept up by the feds and jailed at the MDC he led a crew prayer through their separate cells and prayed for their release,beating trials, health, families, and for LCN. They eventually were acquitted of charges relating to the war. Had entire dinners with his crew almost every day at his club. Went to the sitdown with Allie Persico even though he suspected he wouldnt come back (confirmed by a close Bonanno Capo who he had lunch with), his remains are found years later and takes down the family administration as a final payback.
Gotti Sr - loved his style, media personality (even though that was his downfall) he was a calculating guy who literally loved his close friends dearly (hear it on wiretaps,) ordered hits on guys he suspected were rats or unloyal, and fought the feds tooth and nail, was defiant until the day he died.
Sonny Franzese - living legend of la cosa nostra,great earner, very famous/popular in his time, around during the persico and gallo wars/era, sentenced to 50 yrs for a crime he didnt commit, constantly violated parole to meet his buddies, stand up guy through and through, deadly hitman (killed over 10 guys from his own words picked up in wiretaps,) even at 90 plus years old he was still shaking down strip joints, both his sons flipped and hes still around.
Carmine Persico- the Snake is a lethal mob boss who since his side murdered Joe Gallo and days after Joe Colombo was shot has been the defacto boss of the family even in jail, Persico's name has been mentioned in dozens of murder-cases since then, as he has been in charge of the Colombos for over three decades. During his 50-year-membership with the Colombo crime family, he has survived three internal wars, his life sentence, and allegedly been shot more than 20 times. Persico is also only one of three defendants from the Mafia Commission Trial who received 100 years and is still alive.
