I bet those country club guys aren't too happy that a bonanno associate/soldier did some wild stuff like that in their neighborhood. You would think someone associated with a family would do the job as to not get caught.
And capeci is still calling this guy leader of the purple gang.
Yeah, like Ernie and QD would approve of a hit like that right around the corner from their homes. But comparing the Westside to the Bonannos is like comparing the Yankees to the Padres.
And that Meldish leading the Purple Gang crap is just the Feds hoping to piss off the old Harlem elders in hopes of getting them angry enough to start gossiping. It won't work.
When Joey Meldish whacked the kid in Frenchy's (which was a no-no because it's in Throggs Neck), he was so rattled by fear of the Westside that he ran to Florida for three years.
