Alphonse Persico completed high school and was offered a place in law school. Instead, he chose to become a mobster. He's spent half his life in prison.

Tragic. Stupid. Waste.

That mugshot says "I have fucked up my life".

Grew up not too far from downtown Cleveland

Does anybody know anything about little allie boys daughter's alleged suicide?

lucky guess

why do alot of people call Jr a rat??

first rule .never admit to CN.. there are no degrees to ratting ..if you say that you are a rat..

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why does jr gotti get to keep his mansion, and all of his properties? while the feds go after poor Vinnie bascianos wife?

did jr make a deal with somebody?

Bc he didnt get convicted of anything...

Didn't Basciano put a contract out on a prosecutor or a judge or something? And he was tied to several murders.

Gotti has undoubtedly been directly involved in several murders and by all rights should be locked up, but as Dellacroce said, he hasn't been convicted of something.

If he didn't want his wife being "victimised" maybe he should have found another line of work.... or ratted like Massino.

Yh I was away for a while shouldn't let college work pile up but yeh Lilyhammer made me think of you guys and I came back XD

well Ally Boy just did not make the right choice by stayin in university, in the other hand junir Gotti is just not or was never ready for th mob life unlike Persico who is pure cosa nostra, but the thruth is Gotti Jr is free unless he screws up and Ally boy is in prison for life, dumb or no dumb .both are dumb in one way or another , but Jr Gotti is the most fortunate HES FREE

I don't remember whether there already was a thread about who the dumbest mobster is, but I think nobody (including Allie boy and Gotti Jr) could ever beat Rosario Borgio (put a bounty on every policeman's head after failing to bribe them) and Jack Licavoli (used stolen credit cards and exchanged price tags on pants in shops).

Allie Boy was too ruthless and eager for his own good. He was like his dad. Gotti was no punk, but he was no boss material either. Sorta like Nicky Scarfo JR.

edit: btw, neither were dumb, both were the opposite.

I remember reading somewhere he was one cheap s.o.b. but never knew how true it was.

Greg DePalma used to steal things like hats and gloves out of fancy department stores all the fucking time. And this as a captain .

he even robbed Leroy

this is the same greg depalma that had his picture taken with Sinatra and Gambino? the one with frattiano in it.

yes

Now that's pretty bad. Is it the criminal mind mentality of I'm taking it who's gonna stop me or was he just a real mootivan?

Yeah so? Massino stole like a piece of gum or something on the lam and got caught LOL

And you should steal someone else's jokes because yours are not funny

I can't get anything by you, buddy .

Do you remember the men's store in Cross County that was there for like forty years? Of course you do. There were a couple, but you know the one I mean. All the guys shopped there.

Anyway, the place had the same manager for practically the entire time the store was there. Italian American guy, but not a street guy at all. Wasn't a gambler, never took a nickel off a shy. But he grew up down Park Hill with a lot of guys (Nicky Vitulli and that crew). But he never got involved. A real square guy, but he knew who was who and what was what. In short, a NICE guy.

Greg had this poor soul so shit scared off his rep, that he'd walk in the store, put on a hat and a shirt, and walk the fuck out like it was nothing. And the poor bastard ended up paying for the shit half the time because he was too honest to play with the books (even though it was much easier back then).

That was Greg DePalma for you. But you know as well as I do that he NEVER would have pulled that crap at Vito's or Fox's. Getting shelved would have been the least of his problems .

poor guy ive worked in retail he should of just written it down as shoplifting when it was time to do inventory his boss wouldnt of said anything because stores actually expect some stock to go missing.He also should of talked to some of the other wisegys in the neighbourhood to look out for him

he bullied anyone he could, played his role to the hilt..did the same in restaurants..i wonder how many guys spit in his food or screwed with it and had a laugh on him..he was real close to mario g. and the west side guys. he almost ruined john a. defoe.

Yeah, to a degree. But he lost a big sitdown to Little Jimmy and Matty once. And Prisco couldn't stand him. But those were isolated incidents and three very heavy guys.

And you're right on point about how he behaved in restaurants. Like an animal. To fucking waiters and bartenders, too. Poor working people. Look how he acted in Dave's joints. Tony C, that junkie head waiter cocksucker was buried up his ass.

PB I'm gonna start stealing rats mafia books , they shouldn't get the money so everyone should just steal them

it was Paracetemol

I disagree I think Junior was sort of a punk and I think some other Gambinos felt like that too.

Junior Gotti is a brainless thug and lowlife piece of shit. He stabbed a kid to death in a petty bar fight. He started a fight with an off duty officer in a bar (backed up by his fellow knuckledraggers of course). There are plenty of stories about him starting fights in dive bars. There are plenty of stories about his infamous stupidity. He tried to assassinate Curtis Sliwa for God's sake!!!! Someone who actually contributes to society and tries to make the streets safer for normal people.

It's fair to say Gotti wouldn't have got made were it not for his father and if he did he had he probably would have got imprisoned within a year and probably ratted.

Now he can pretend he's a good John Q. Citizen because he has enough blood money not to be in the mob anymore and/or is too stupid and carries too much baggage.

This Persico cat is the polar opposite of Gotti in the sense that he was unlucky and Gotti was lucky, and that Persico was intelligent and Gotti was an imbecile.

It must eat him up inside that that little wimp Cutolo kid, whose own father was ashamed of him, ultimately, put him under.