Didn't know Peter DeFeo started off in Jersey. Interesting. I believe he was a captain in Little Italy and eventually forced into retirement by Chin or Bellomo.

There's a guy named Morelli in the Mean Streets documentary that's included in the DVD special features who talks about how Martin Scorsese was at his house all the time growing up, and that his father was in the mob. I'm thinking his father had to be Alex Morelli, who was in DeFeo's crew.

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea