Cali’s parents immigrated to Brooklyn from Palermo, Italy, and he got his start in the mob by running a fruit store on 18th Avenue in Brooklyn called Arcobaleno, which means "rainbow" in Italian. The feds say it doubled as a front for criminal activities.
Arcobaleno Italiano was not a fruit store, it was an electronics store and also a video and music store. Cali's father owned it and Domenico Adamita was a partner of his in the business...at least i know he was at the beginning. Adamita and his brothers were huge heroin guys. Where Weiss came up with it being a fruit store is beyond me.
And the part where Cali supposedly said he "was under the radar". GTFOH, under the radar. He's had a bullseye on his back for years now. He is hardly under the radar and i doubt he ever said that. I would say Cali, Cefalu and John Gambino are all at the top of the feds list of Gambino guys to put away.
