ya Artie ruffles has said that it was a personal challenge to take down the demeo crew. he also said many times that when he found roy's body he didn't feel at all bad for him which i agree with

Anyone ever see the biography channel bio of Roy Demo ??

Within the first five minutes the narrator in his ever calm denmeanor talks about Roy's Childhood. He goes on to say when Roy was like and other kids shanked him or pulled him pants down..not (It made me crack up and my girl thought I was nuts for laughing so hard."

Shows why he was such a nutcase.

yeah artie says in "war against the mafia" (utube) <----great doc very rare, when he saw roy in the trunk he was like this guy got what was coming to him, as he says "pretty good job" lol - I think roy got shot in patty testa's home or garage, and most likely by Joey and Anthony - who else could get roy to sit down and take his coat off?, I also read in his last days he was armed with a sawed off shotgun and was very paranoid, I dont believe for a second that roy went willingly to be killed, I think if he knew what was up he woulda took out who he could first, ya gotta remember he was a very dangerous man who set up countless people himself, check out Dark Visions on utube (dominick montiglio) it only has the first 11 mins but it's gonna be awesome... (sorry for the long post got a bit carried away lol).. Merry Xmas

I agree with the above post - No way would DeMeo have gone willingly like a lamb to the slaughter!
Joey and Anthony were the only two who could get Roy to drop his guard

Dominick Montiglio, yes 3 tour in Nam as a GB, he wasn't shy. Good to see you back gk.

his vietnam duties are questionable. its been said that he lied. but no one can really prove it because any kind of records have been sealed due to witnes protection. capeci said that he asked some of the guys that supposedly served with and no one remembered him.

I dunno, I watched that Dark Visions and Dom says when he was in Nam- what they did was "F*ck with the NVA" by shooting them at night with a sniper rifle with silencer - he also says "heros dont die for there country, they make the other motherf***er die for theres", I kinda believe he saw some action but who knows, and as the guy above says his records are sealed due to him going into the WPP - Al demeo says his father felt sorry for Dom as he had mental problems after coming back from Nam, and Nino never used Dom for anything important because of this - I noticed that in some of the old doc's when Dom is being interview and his face is blacked out he looks really shaky as if he aint quite right, maybe just because he's thinking back about Roy and them

Maybe Dom was shaking from alcohol withdraw? He claims to have been a big drinker. I don't buy his NAM stories, he might have been in the military, and actually served in NAM, but his stories stink.

I wonder what happened to the small players in DeMeo's crew like Ronald Ustica, Peter LaFroscia, Ronald Turekian, etc?

nino used dom to murder people and money. id say those are 2 pretty important things.

I was wonder if this is the Peter LaFroscia from the DeMeo crew, the ages seem to be a match..

http://www.mugshots.com/US-Counties/Florida/Broward-County-FL/Peter-Lafroscia/details/

Dominick rigged a hand grenade to some jerk off's car and was there when nino and roy shot someone dead, he also collected money from roy and took it to nino then paul, he's hardly a rising star lol, when your uncle's nino gaggi and big paul likes you .. why wouldnt he get made?, apparently nino was gonna "pass the torch" to him but I doubt it... you gotta show your a earner before anyone's gonna make you or even look at you...and what could dominick make money from ????? dope....that aint allowed lol

Thanks Gerry - I always wondered what LaFroscia looked like

is that definitely peter lafroscia, the age and charges etc look as if it is him...

I can't be 100% sure, but the age and charges seem to say it is. I remember posting a thread on Chris Rosenbergs wife at the time he was killed, she is a semi famous school teacher in NYC.

Not sure if anyone watches the show mobsters on bio but the episode of carmine " the snake" persico at the end there's a picture of anthony senter in a kitchen in prison.. It seems like its a very recent photo.. He still looks like he's 25.. Check it out

Dominic Montiglio has previously been exposed as a phoney, but not 100%. I believe he really did serve with the 173rd Abn Brigade although he could have been a REMF - rear echelon MF. He was not a Green Beret. Anyone with basic infantry training could have rigged up that grenade. One of the early photos in this thread show Joey Testa with another man on the left and someone suggested it may be Henry Borelli but I believe it is Senter.

If I am not mistaken, the Demeo book - Murder Machine- mentions that Joey Testa and the others went looking for some Puerto Ricans who caused trouble in their neighborhood and he (Testa) got stabbed. Now I'm wondering if the book mixed up Testa with Senter ??? or- is my memory failing me?

I know its been debated here forever, I was reading some old articles I cant remember if it was casso d'arco or fat pete. but when vic amuso started hiding out in 1989 he made pat testa joe testa and Anthony senter.pat testa was his liason with Brooklyn, joe and Anthony senter were fighting there rico trisl out on bail. they were inducted into the luchese family. senter and joe testa got life in june 1989 and I think there bail was revoked in early 1989. so it probably happened Christmas 1988 around when jr gotti and mickey scars got made. we know carlo profeta got made what about the rest of them guys ustica,rega Salvatore mangalino?

We all know nino was supervising the demeo crew, but really how powerful was nino gaggi at this point? Does anyone think he had a chance at an upper level position i.e consigliere or underboss because of his earning abilities and closeness to paul?

From what I understand Nino's crew was a very powerful street crew and Nino was closer to Delacroce and Big Pauli than other crew leaders because he was a good earner and Pauli was (understandably) afraid Nino and his people. Pauli (alledgely) pretended not to notice Nino's drug-dealing soldiers while he forbidded Gotti's people from doing the same.

I don't think that Nino was in line to be UB in any sense of the word, Thomas Bilotti got the nod after Dellacroce died and Paul was intent on making Tommy Gambino boss after him. Even if he wasn't arrested and died in jail there wasn't much room for advancement for Nino.

Wasn't Nino Gaggi in Big Pauls crew when Paul was a capo? Didn't Nino take over Pauls crew after Castellano was named the new boss?

If Paul ever tried to name Tommy Gambino as the next boss it would of been a disaster imo. Nobody really respected him and if you think the blue collar guys were pissed at Castellano you know they would of gone crazy with Tommy G being given the top slot. I doubt TG ever cracked an egg in his life.

Compared to Tommy Gambino, Big Paul was a stone cold gangster. lol

I'll see if I can dig-up more info on that. I know that Nino was brought in by Frank Scalise.

Yes. Gaggi took over Castellano´s old crew. Frank Scalise was dead by the time Gaggi was made.

http://books.google.com/books?id=2v-nBIJ...989&f=false

Not a photo but funny article talking about how they were doing coke in the courthouse bathrooms during their trial lol, hardcore until the end these two.

Thanks for the info.



I agree, Tommy was a capable white-collar criminal but would have never earned enough respect to last a week as boss. But he was Castellano's newphew, so Paul thought he owed it to Don Carlo to make Tommy boss someday. I think that making Bilotti UB after Dellacroce died was somehow supposed to help make that happen without the street-crews rebelling. It seems to be a bad plan aside from Bilotti's loyalty, from what I've heard Bilotti was incompetent.