Originally Posted By: Turnbull
Originally Posted By: Crazy_Joe_Gallo
1) Was the "No facial hair rule" ever actually a rule in the Mafia or is that just a myth started by Donnie Brasco?

Selwyn Raab, in his authoritative "The Five Families," says it was a rule that applied to all the Five Families, long before the Brasco affair.


Makes me wonder that Philip Testa may have been whacked because he had a mustache. whistle And what about Frank Cali?

In the last decades you see mobsters growing a mustache more often, so I'm wondering how much this rule still applies. It seems that it's more a code of conduct or behaviour and that higher ranking mobsters can pretty much do what they like.


"It was between the brothers Kay -- I had nothing to do with it."