Mickey DiLeonardo Is this guy related to the rat that Was in this family or are the surnames very similar. ? The young Persico's hung with a guy from the Gambino 's and they must of been kinda close , they traveled out of town together upstate and south to Florida .
The guy I am thinking of his name is Andrew and he flipped . But is this guy Mickey Di a cousin or brother ?
your thinking of andrew DiDonato he was a gambino soldier he was part of nicky corzezzo crew he flipped in the late 90s after being charged with drug dealing and his participation in these bank robberies. He wrote a book he said that he believed that nicky wanted him dead and danny curtia in the lucheses also wanted him dead and later the colambos.
Andrew said he was close with danny persico and very close with billy cutlo junior but he said he beefed with the colambos over some unpaid loan. He also claims (i dont have any idea if this true prob false) that him and mikey yannoti were told by nicky that he wanted them to kill junior gotti. He fell out with the lucheses as they believed he was the shooter in the robert arena hit (he had nothing to do with it) and the gambinos because he was not kicking up, robbery of a drug dealer and the murder of tough tony
He is not related with mikey DiLeonardro no connection
http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Mob-Street-Soldiers-Gambino/dp/1935396382 I got you my fault .I knew the name was something close or the same.
He was close to more then just Danny.And I am talking friends cos I have no clue if they were working when they were together out of town. Just know they traveled a little with Danny and a couple cousins and Andrew.
i dont know about any of the other guys all i know is from his book and from his interview with capeci.He tried to switch over to the colambos but nicky said no.
he said danny was known for being tight with his money so for a joke him and a group of guys spent thousands at some restuarnet and said danny would pay for it when danny found out he went nuts. He said whe he was in the can he became friendly with andy russo and he said he found teddy to be weird apparently he would do anything to get extra money like picking up litter andrew said he could not understand why he did when he was rich.
He was close with the cutlos but his story is that billy cutlo loaned him 10k but told his father wild bill that andrew took 20k for all i know andrew really did take 20k and lied either way after that he did not get on with the colambos as he did not pay the debt back eventually lenny DiMaria settled the problem and he also says it was lenny who warned him that nicky and mikey wanted him dead. Lenny was a well liked guy.
He testified against some colambo drug dealers thats all i can remember not surprised they tried to kill him reading his book he says he was not kicking up money, he told wild bill to go fuck himself, he and robert arena robbed some mobsters, he was a suspected shooter in the robert areana hit, he was too wild he shot some guy did 7 years for a petty reason and prob the biggest reason he and nicky hated each other 1990+ they hated each other
that book bothers me though because he says mike yannoti helped his family and everything then he goes and gets him 20 years
