Also Vito Genovese is known as "Don Vitone" there. I think that's just a name Costello called him, if anybody else in his family did it, I'm sure they'd be ground fertilizer the next day.
Why, what's so offensive in the Don Vitone nickname to make him mad? Vito Cascio Ferro was called Don Vitazzu, many bosses named Giuseppe are called Don Peppino etc, it's not like Antonino "Ferocious dwarf" Imerti or Toto' "the short one" (u curtu) Riina (also known as "the beast").
Yes but nobody really called him Don Vitone, people just called him Don Vito. That was just something Costello called him semi-offensively when Vito was bitching about too many non-Italians being involved in CN. I always thought it was something like ciccio - ciccione; Vito - Vitone.. sort of like a diminutive or belittling form.
PB man, how's it going, you still in FL? Been like 3 weeks we haven't talked.
