Lenny's back in Florida. Sonny's an old man. You do the math.

Some of these guys barely make it day to day. You have 2 of them driving Toyotas, one drives a Chevy Blazer, another is in a cheap style Benz, very basic.
Some have failing businesses which are barely open.

Salvatore locascio is about your age,right pizzaboy.?.he would be god a fit to take the top spot,at least i think so..but he's retired in florida for now

It's not you, pal. But I've posted this a hundred times. He's retired.

And yeah, he's exactly my age. Two months younger than I am, to be exact.

Good post, Carm. But you're still not Penske material .

That's a damm shame.he is the perfect age to run a crime family what was the best time for you guys to be a mafia member?was it the 50s,the 60s,the 70s,what?having in mind that the late 70s were far more fun than the 50s or 60s,for me it's john gotti's age,born around 1940..not to mind of the commision times or nothing else,just generaly speaking..pizzaboy i would like to hear your opinion?

I know, I know, but I had to omit names to protect the guilty. I suck.

So it's a damn shame that he won't die behind bars like his poor father is going to?

He has a wife and children who he adores, and he was willing to walk away from that miserable fucking life without giving up a single secret. That's the very definition of a man in my book.

Meh, I just figured you were watching TBS at this point in the day .

All right pizzaboy i didn't know you feel that way,i dont want anybody to die behind bars,i wish he never got involved with the mafia in the first place.

Every word out of my son's mouth is "fuck fuck fuck". Do you know what he asked me 5 minutes ago? "Where's my fucking cupcake?"

how sure are you about this?

he would not strike me as someone who would retire at his age....

As sure as the sun will come up tomorrow morning.

As thr guy said a stand up bronx guy.never rally understod whay most of the informants come from brooklyn,not to much from bronx.

Cefalu is still boss. Frank Cali is underboss. Rumor is that when Anthony Megale gets out, he will be the consiglieri. Don't know how accurate that is, but Megale is a key figured in the Gambino crime family.

I think megale will go bak to being a captain and running Connecticut , the Sicilians have been grooming Lorenzo mannino for an administration spot more than anyone else

That makes sense Dom.

Megale was acting underboss for Arnold squitieri , not sure how close megale is to cefalu and Cali

BOP has Megale out on 12/01/2014 and 61 years old.

He'll go back to Stamford, where he's comfortable, and where he's desperately needed. Every time he goes inside it's one fuck-up after another up there. And forget that he was born in Italy (although I'm sure that appeals to Cefalu). He came here as a small boy. He's as American as you and me. He's more comfortable at the bar on the golf course than he ever was in a social club. And in Fairfield County, half your gamblers are on the golf course.

Gambling is Tony's bread and butter. Always has been, always will be. They need him back in the game up there. I'm thinking he holds onto both stripes but stays in Connecticut. And with that, they'll more than likely make Dean when he comes home. But that's a few years down the road, and Dean has a few people who don't like him. So only time will tell on that one.

Dean?

Dean Depreta

Thx Dell.

PB, BOP has Dean Vincent Depreta in Danbury FCI and due for release on 8/8/2017. Did he get along with Megale?

Interesting article on DePreta's sentencing. Nicky Skins claimed Bridgeport was his?

"During a Jan. 30, 2010 meeting at Paramus, N.J., diner, Stefanelli told DePreta he would inform Gambino captain Jimmy Dellarata that he and DePreta would work together as a team, according to court documents. They would kick up a portion of the tax taken from bookies to both Dellarata and Mario Antonicelli, a ranking Gambino soldier. Dellarata was to get $1,000, court records indicate.

Stefanelli claimed "Bridgeport's mine," in the conversation, according to the documents. DePreta and Stefanelli also discussed other Gambino superiors including Louie Ricco, a soldier and Louis Fillippelli, a Gambino captain. During the conversation, DePreta said he was committed to the Gambino family.

"I believe in ... the whole thing, the whole thing. I'm looking out for the principles of the family," he was recorded as saying, according to court documents."

http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Gambino-associate-sentenced-to-71-months-4882995.php

To be perfectly honest, they've rarely been on the street at the same time. One goes in, the other comes out. And when Tony went in for his first Federal bid (I wanna say it was around the summer of 1990), Dean was little more than a kid. So Dean didn't come up under Tony, if that's what you mean.

Stamford's fucked up. There's no other way to say it. I used to be up there constantly for the union, so I'm pretty familiar with most of the players up there. Suffice it to say, things seem to run A LOT smoother when Tony's free. That's all I'm trying to say. He's a very sharp guy.

There were rumors all over these sites a few years ago that Dean may have been made. I posted right away that it was bullshit, and Cheech can attest to that. Then when he was indicted two years ago as a mere associate, everyone changed their tune. But no one wanted to tell me that I was right .

Like I said, he may get made one day. But like I also said, Stamford is just fucked up. And there's a very good reason that the Gambinos haven't made anyone up there in the past 25 years. For one thing, there's not enough up there where you need two made guys. For another thing, it's just fucked up up there. Gamblers have absolutely no problem threatening you with calling the FBI. They don't even say they're calling the cops. They say they're calling the FBI!

I like it up there because I've spent a lot of time there, both business and pleasure. My favorite public golf course in the tri-state area is in North Stamford. But generally speaking, it's a rat town.

So they won't call the FBI if Megale is up there? Or is it just that they respect him?

Tony is very aggressive. He doesn't care if you call the law. It's the reason he's so respected in that world. But unfortunately, it's also the reason he can't stay out of prison .

What do the current Gambino crew do to make money these days? And do they mainly just operate in nyc or do they have other areas they operate? Thanks.