It's not against mafia protocol. It's amazing that people even buy into this shit. Carneglia's entire legal strategy was built around his beard. It was the dumbest defense since My Cousin Vinny.
people believe this because they said it in donnie brasco. for some reason this seems to be a large myth. ive also heard people bitching because billy bats had a moustache in goodfellas and they clearly stated that he was a made man from the gambinos. it very well could have been a capo's rule not to have a beard of facial hair in a certain crew. i would go as far as saying that perhaps one family may have banned facial hair. ive also heard theroys that made men perfer not to wear facial hair because of the moustache petes. again im not 100% sure about the facial hair rule but i honestly think people buy into it because of the donnie brasco movie.
