I talked about this before I don't remember if pizza boy agreed or not butchie santorelli was a red wing and I thought started the tangle wood boys.
He didn't start them. His son was involved with them, and they got a lot of bullshit press when the Balancio kid got killed at the bar in Yonkers.
The Tanglewood Boys weren't a gang in the traditional sense anyway. They were all tough kids. Some of them VERY tough kids. But there weren't enough of them to be considered a real gang. And if it wasn't for a few of them having made guys for fathers, and that murder that they tried to frame Sally Bo's son for, no one outside of the area ever would have heard of them.
Two words: Jeanine Pirro. She was Hell-bent on making a name for herself (and to her credit, she did). But if it wasn't for her witch-hunt, most of you never would have heard of those kids.
