Member or associate? Because the Pontes could buy and sell them all. Twice.
I have never heard about ANY Ponte but, please inform me.....Where they members? What was their primary source of greenbacks? Drugs?
And if he had the knack for for it, why no notoriety or ascension?
Angelo Ponte. Garbage and real estate. The guy and his family own half of Tribeca. He was twenty years ahead of the curve in that neighhorhood. He bought it all up when it was all steel warehouses. Look at it today.
As far as not ascending, as a rule the Westside doesn't usually make their big garbage earners. Too many anti-trust laws and licenses at risk. Angelo's brother Joe had his patch, though. He was one tough motherfucker. Angelo looks like a professor, but he's probably smarter.
