It's very telling that he cut his teeth with the Pleasant Avenue guys, yet ended up with the Gambinos rather than the Luccheses or the Genoveses or even the Bonannos
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thats what threw me off when i read the book PB...how did he wind up with the Bino's?
Buckaloo and Sammy Black both hated him. No way he was getting next to the Westside. Fat Gigi didn't like him either, which probably ruled out the Luccheses.
That's why I said it was very telling that he ended up with the Gambinos. Pleasant Avenue was Genovese and, to a lesser extent, Lucchese dominated. The fact that he ended up with the Gambinos speaks volumes. And I'm not judging him, mind you. He's a serious guy with a lot of friends. But he just didn't fit in with either the Genovese or the Lucchese crews for whatever the reason.
