Originally Posted By: ht2
Originally Posted By: FaticoWestIslip
Think about all the people who broke omerta and didn't get killed. ITs a joke. Joe Bonnano should have been whacked after that whole fake kidnapping fiasco. I guess starting int he late 70's early 80's the mob had bigger issues.

Like Luciano with his plan for a biopic movie deal in early 1960's. Near the end of his life, Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo wanted to write a book on the 1930's mob, covering Tammany Hall corruption. He asked permission but the Chin supposedly nixed the idea. That would have been an interesting book.


I read somewhere that Frank Costello was also talking to an author (Peter Maas?) about a proposed biography shortly before he died in '73. Omerta was a tenuous thing even among the old timers.

Last edited by Tony_Pro; 07/13/13 11:57 PM.

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