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Re: The Vario Regime of Canarsie Brooklyn
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07/31/20 03:13 PM
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Another interesting article, NYM. Thanks again.
An esteemed poster on these boards, Don Cardi, also gave a detailed account of just how big Vario was. Cardi said he was, in effect, the street boss of the Luccheses.
In "The Heist," co-author Ernest Volkman, says Vario supported the Lufthansa operation because he had been slipping in status since he was passed over for the Lucchese Donship. He needed a big score to regain status. Your opinion? I posted a review of that book here: http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=695638&Searchpage=1&Main=26269&Words=%2BLufthansa&Search=true#Post695638 Volkman often appeared in OC programs on cable. I thought he behaved like a jerk most of the time. But his book was pretty good.
I spent most of my formative years in East New York. As you said, the northern part of ENY was almost exclusively Italian and heavily mobbed up--Gambino as well as Lucchese territory. The southern part, closer to Jamaica Bay, was mixed Italian/Irish/Jewish. I lived in Canarsie for three years after marrying. Old Canarsie was exclusively Italian. Then they started building ticky-tack two-family houses from Flatlands Avenue to the pier. You could tell the ethnicity of residents in December. At first, one entire block, both sides of the street, would have either Christmas trees or Chanukah Menorahs. Later it'd be one side of the street for trees, the other side for candles. Finally, one story of a house would have a tree, the second story would have candles. Couldn't miss!
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: The Vario Regime of Canarsie Brooklyn
[Re: Turnbull]
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07/31/20 04:29 PM
07/31/20 04:29 PM
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NYMafia
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Hi Turnbull, Whatever Volkman wrote is total BS. That and $2.50 gets you on the subway! Lol.....He's a writer who's projecting opinions to fill up his book pages.
Paulie was a MAJOR figure in that crew. Always! He NEVER lost any status whatsoever.
He was involved with Lufthansa because his guys like Jimmy Burke, etc., were involved, otherwise Paulie is NOT involved in Lufthansa. Lol... They gave him a big envelope, and he in turn kicked up (traditional)
He was also NOT the street boss of the Lucchese's. In reality, there is NO such thing or Position. Especially back then.
You're either the BOSS, underboss (which is really the street boss for the boss himself if you think about it), or a capo, which is what Vario was.
But he was a TOP capo in that he virtually ran most of Brooklyn, and a good portion of LI. The only other capo to my knowledge at that time active in Brooklyn was Chris Ticker. And honestly, Furnari hadn't even been elevated to capo when Vario was at his peak. Christy Ticker was elevated a bit later.
So Paul Vario really was the man to see relative to the Brooklyn faction of the Lucchese crew understand?
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Re: The Vario Regime of Canarsie Brooklyn
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08/01/20 09:56 AM
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Vincenzo Rao was official Consigliere but was locked up. Macaluso became acting Consigliere for awhile, then from 1967 till Rao release, Vario became acting Consigliere, then became Carmine Tramunti lefthand man. Vario and Furnari were both out on the streets at the time when the family needed a Consigliere. Vario was the most powerful Capo in the Brooklyn faction but he stepped on a few toes and rubbed some people the wrong way. Ducks heard disturbing rumors some of which were true about Vario, so he put Furnari name forth and Christy Tic became Consigliere. Another thing was the Drug business and both Furnari and Vario crews were in it, but Furnari was more cautious where Tony Ducks was tipped off that the DEA knew that Joe Beck and Vario had financed a drug deal worth millions, they could not prove it in court, so Ducks went with Furnari since he was more under the radar and had more important connections to legitimate businesses, and Christy Tic had James Bishop and Frank Arnold.
"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green
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