Are tthe Giannini crew still active?

It had guys like Paul Ragusa,Anthony Aiello and Vito Guzzo and it was controled by Baldo Amato.They were a farm team for the Bonnanos and Colombos.

What about the Tanglewood boys these guys were Luchase associated farm team.I read some stuff on them and these guys were mostly sons of mobsters but the gianni crew were probably more orginised and disciplined.

What other young gangs are there for each of the families and is each gang in a certain area kick up to the capo of that turf

I dont know any info on these guys above but in South Philly, the 10th and O (Oregon) gang is a mostly italian american gang mostly dealing with drugs and gambling. They often worked with the mob and against them. When Long John Martarano was murdered it was rumored that he was trying to work with the 10th and O gang again to take over Uncle Joe. They have gone to war with them and worked with them. They did the same with the Pagans. Actually, the former leader of the pagans, Steve Mondergine (wrong spellin), use to be an enforcer for Joey Merlinos crew as well. He was just locked up again last week. Google it. They found some weapons so they won't let him out on bail. The pagans, the mob and 10th and O have always either worked for or against each other. There are still a younger and older crew today. Not sure though how much activity they have with Uncle Joes crew. I dont think any.

I read some stuff about the Giannini crew, they are defunct now. Some went to prison, some of them flipped, some just left the life I guess. Anthony Aiello became a made member in the Bonnano family. He took part in the Randy Pizzolo hit ordered by Vinny Basciano, he might have been the actual trigger man. I think he took a plea and got a bunch of years for it.

Anthony Aiello got made really young and was being groomed by Amato maybe to be a capo one day but his rise was cut short and copped 30 year prison sentence.Even though ragusa and guzzo were more violant i guess older made guys saw something in aiello

Here is a pretty good article on the subject...


" Bonanno soldier Anthony "Ace" Aiello was born into a life of crime in 1976. He honed his wiseguy skills on the mean streets of Middle Village, Queens. So last month, when he suspected he was about to be hit with federal murder charges, Aiello knew exactly what to do.

He took a page from a lesson he learned from his old man when he was 8 and his father, Antonino, was a major heroin trafficker: He took off and never looked back.

Aiello, 28, is the object of an international manhunt by FBI agents looking to arrest him for the execution slaying of mob associate Randolph "Randy" Pizzolo, whose bullet-riddled body was found in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn on December 1.

Aiello's ability to avoid arrest was aided by a questionable strategic decision by the feds, one that tipped Aiello off that he was liable to be arrested and enabled him to flee, much the same way his father did two decades ago.

Aiello, who was released from federal prison in July 2001 after serving 39 months for a 1997 armed robbery, obviously had no desire to go back - especially for a murder charge that could mean life behind bars, or even the possibility of a death sentence.

He disappeared on January 28, sources say. That was a day after Bonanno boss Joseph Massino was identified as a turncoat, and capo Dominick Cicale and acting boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano were charged in a murder indictment with Pizzolo's murder.

Federal prosecutors did not seek to charge Aiello with murder until a week later, even though Basciano had identified Aiello as one of the killers during the same tape-recorded discussions with Massino in which he fingered Cicale, according to court papers.

By the time the FBI began looking to arrest him, Aiello was long gone. Last week, when the FBI could not develop any solid information regarding his whereabouts, federal prosecutors publicly proclaimed him to be a fugitive. His last known address was 69-34 66 Rd. in Middle Village.

According to an arrest warrant filed by FBI agent Jeffrey Sallet in Brooklyn Federal Court, Basciano reported to Massino on January 3 that he had given instructions "who to use" in the murder and that he believed "Dominick and Ace" had done the job.

Four days later, said the warrant, "Basciano reiterated his belief [to Massino] that the murder was carried out by 'Ace,' meaning Aiello."

In a taped conversation 13 months earlier with another informer, Basciano had praised Ace as a "tough kid" whom Basciano was schooling, the warrant said. Basciano also noted that Baldo Amato, a Sicilian-born Bonanno soldier, had known Aiello for "for eight or nine years" and had groomed him to be a wiseguy during the 1990s, when Ace was still in his teens.

"Anthony was a nice kid growing up, but he had punk tendencies," an old friend told Gang Land, recalling that young Aiello often hung out on the corner of 78th Avenue and 74th Street in Glendale, flexing his muscles and trying to impress girls at Junior High School 119. "He worked at Hot Bagels on Metropolitan Avenue for a while, but he ran with the punks in the Giannini crew and the Middle Village Boys."

At the time, the Giannini crew included dozens of wannabe wiseguys who were loosely connected to three crime families, according to court records. Amato owned the crew's base of operations, the Caffe Giannini in Ridgewood, and Aiello, like many Sicilian-born hoodlums and sons of Sicilian gangsters and drug dealers, gravitated to Amato.

Even though Aiello was a Middle Village Boy - each neighborhood had its own gang with distinct jackets - he was at ease on the Ridgewood Boys' turf. The Caffe Giannini was a couple of doors away from the Cafe Aiello, a restaurant that had doubled as his father's headquarters when he was trafficking in heroin during the early 1980s.

Antonino Aiello,a heavyset and muscular man, also owned four pizzerias around the city and was called commerciante, or businessman, by his heroin-dealing colleagues. He was a millionaire several times over. Agents had seen him meeting Bonanno capo Salvatore Catalano and other major heroin traffickers at the Cafe Aiello during the massive FBI-DEA Pizza Connection investigation, but for tactical reasons they opted not to nab Antonino in April 1984 when they rounded up Catalano and 30 others.

Seven months later, on November 14, 1984, when a task force of detectives and federal agents raided his Middle Village home, they seized nine rifles and handguns and $91,000, but not Antonino. He wasn't at his father's home either, where agents seized $900,000 and $30,000 in "buy money" that an undercover cop had used to purchase heroin at a Harlem pizzeria that he owned, Tony's Pizza Parlor. They arrested his father, Vito, who would serve eight months in prison for holding the cash and guns for his son.

Two years later, on November 16, 1986, cops and FBI agents nabbed Antonino, who had changed his name, lost weight, grown a beard, and dyed his hair, in Patchogue, L.I. They also arrested his wife, Elizabeth, who was later convicted of harboring a fugitive and sentenced to three years' probation.

Antonino was convicted in 1988 as a heroin kingpin. Today, at age 66, he is serving life plus 140 years at Marion Federal Penitentiary. Several appeals of his conviction and severe sentence have failed, and in a landmark 1990 ruling, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a forfeiture of more than $5 million in cash, jewelry, businesses, and properties.

At least he had those last two years of freedom.

Meanwhile, his son Anthony, who authorities say has much less money than his father had 20 years ago when he became a fugitive, has a long way to go before he can match his father's effort, let alone improve on it.

***

In another father-and-son affair, Gambino capo Salvatore "Tore" Locascio and five cohorts in a $700 million phone-sex and Internet-porn rip-off copped guilty pleas Monday that call for Tore to serve seven years in prison and his co-defendants to receive terms of two to 10 years.

The pleas were entered after the feds arranged for Tore to confer with his father, Frank, in a highly unusual telephone call to a prison hospital in Massachusetts where the elder Locascio is serving a life sentence on a disputed conviction for a 1990 murder that was authorized by John Gotti.

Next week, Frank Locascio's lawyer in his 1992 trial, Anthony Cardinale, is scheduled to testify at a hearing that he did less than his best for Locascio at trial because Gotti threatened to kill him if he didn't make Gotti his primary focus.

***

In another Gambino family affair, capo Vincent "Vinny Butch" Corrao, who took over his late father Joseph "Joe Butch" Corrao's rackets when he passed away in 2001, pleaded guilty last week to racketeering and related loan sharking and extortion charges.

As part of his plea bargain, Vincent, 38, will receive up to 63 months in prison to cover a potpourri of charges, including threats of violence he lodged against a gambler who had the temerity to insist that Corrao fork over $75,000 the gambler had won from Corrao.

Corrao's plea also covers shakedowns of a nightclub in Fort Lee and a restaurant in Brooklyn, as well as a beating he gave to a loanshark customer who fell behind on his payments to the gangster. "

By JERRY CAPECI

Anthony "Ace" Aiello's release date is May 6, 2031. He will be 54. Young enough to become boss and take over the New York underworld.

Who knows what the New York underworld will look like in 2031?

Just look at 1991 compared to 2011. In '91, you still had a few throwbacks to the golden age of the mob. Today, in 2011, not so much.

So by 2031?

Yeah, wiseguys will always be around, because people will always want to gamble and borrow money, but to predict what kind of shape American Cosa Nostra will be in by then is really going out on a limb.

The five families will be there. Joseph Corozzo III will be running The Gambinos, Alphonse Persico IV will be running the Colombos, Domenico Cutaia III will run the Lucheses, Andrew Gigante Jr. will be running The Genoveses and of course, Anthony "Ace" Aiello will run the Bonannos with Vinny Basciano Jr. as underboss.

Any chance you know whose gonna win the super bowl this year to? How bout tonights pick 6? lol

Alphonse Persico IV will be running the Colombos only after the fourth Colombo War takes place when Victor Orena III seeks revenge for the third Colombo War and botches a hit on Allie Persico IV. Alphonse Persico the jailed for life Colombo Boss, then tells his son Allie Persico IV to wipe out the upstart Orena faction...

You guys also seem to forget that Carmine Gotti Agnello will soon get in the life and be made by 2015 then by 2020 he will be a captain and the in 2031 he will make a powerplay and take out Joseph Corozzo III

Yes but Joseph Corozzo III has one ace up his sleeve...Sonny Franzese! Yes Sonny will be out in 2031, stronger than ever!, still the Colombo underboss! and he just so happens to owe Joseph Corozzo II a big favor. This is why Carmine Gotti Agnello won't stand a chance to make this powerplay and he, along with his crew will be executed on Christmas Eve 2031 in a hit that will resemble the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The aging Jerry Capeci will liken the bloodshed to a masterpiece and refer to it as "Sonny's Mona Lisa".

Sonny!!!!! Come back and save "This Things of Ours" from all the informants, even your son Michael is writing a new book on your release in 2031, what kind of son is that? time to take back La Cosa Nostra and the Colombo Family rename it the Franzese Crime Family...

the hit will take place on the boardwalk in jersey shore

Anthony aiello must really believe in the life.He was only 28 and sentenced to 30 years prison and didnt flip.He will probably never have a family and is going to be in his 50s when he gets out.Doesnt matter how good u have it inside jail still takes a toll on you he will look and feel much older than his age.Imagine how he felt knowing he did what the boss told him to do and then he got ratted on by the guy who gave him the order and he will basicly be his fathers age when he gets freedom

You know what? I don't think it will be so bad. 2031. 20 years from now. The equivalent of the current old school guys (1940 and further back I guess) will be those born around 1950's or 60's). These are still guys who grew up in and around a criminal syndicate that, whilst not as powerful as in its past, was still a far-reaching, powerful and cash-rich organization. And it still is today.
Of course, the new young guys, the new 'Italian-Americans' couldn't even tell you if Sicily is a fucking island or not, so my guess is that either LCN is gonna continue in its current form more or less (doing okay, not the glory days, but not reduced to little more than a street gang) or its gonna get so badly infested with rats, one-dimensional thugs and generally men of weak character that its gonna almost sink. Before picking itself up once more, perhaps learning its lessons somewhat.

I went to grade school with a bunch of the Giannini crew in Ridgewood. But I never knew Ace Aiello. Where and when was he finally caught?

Looking back, most of those guys had legit family businesses that they inherited and didn't need to get involved in crime.

Tabbita had Momma Mia Pizza. Ragusa had the bakery. They could have been legit but chose a life of crime.

I think Paul Ragusa's father was somehow involved in The Pizza Connection. I remember seeing surveillance photos of his dad, taken in Sicily.

Funny. I was just talking with someone on here about Ragusa. I didn't know this thread existed. I grew up in Ridgewood, Queens. Around the corner from Ragusa. We went to school together, until he got kicked out for good. He'd get a hold of me when I'd be by myself on the block, and him and a friend of his would beat me up. I remember one time, his friend held my arms behind my back, while Paulie punched my stomach over and over til I threw up. He was a real bad seed, beating up girls seemed to give him a lot of satisfaction. Or maybe it was just me he liked to beat up. He also popped me in the eye with an aluminum baseball bat once. I'll never forget it was my 10th birthday and I had a huge black eye/cheek. Eventually he moved onto bigger and better things to do with his time. That guy messed up a lot of my childhood in Ridgewood.
Wonder where he is today.

http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderSer...amp;x=0&y=0

Oh he's not out yet? For some reason I thought he was. I wish I could get a hold of this fucking guy today. I have a lot of unsettled stuff in my head cause of him, but I'll save that for the shrink. lol

Well, then send him an angry letter. Write it while you're on your mensies.

That'll show him .

Thats fucked up. If hes married he probably does the same stuff at home. Guys like that just enjoy violence.

I remember reading an article about a crew who were like a sort of street gang connected to one of the five families but i forgot now. one of them allegdly pushed his girlfriend down some stairs because she was pregnant, thats all i can remeber from it though. think it was during the 90s or something.

Looks like Carmela is safe for at least another 5 years. What kind of person beats up on girls like that?

Don't worry about Carmela. She can take care of herself .

I heard that!
I wonder if I can hire her as a bodyguard?!?
Maybe that inmate guy better watch out?!?

I did get my bit of revenge once. He was by himself, stopped me while i was on my way to the store, and grabbed my arm, took my money..the usual. So, when he turned around, I saw a big piece of wood in the street with a nail hanging out of it. I picked it up and drove that son of a bitch right into his arm. Then I ran.
My parents really didn't know what to do about him at the time. Pretty much my mom told me, 'learn to take care of yourself, or stay in the house'.

I think I recall hearing that when he finally turned himself in, it was because his sister was arrested for dealing heroin. The Feds threatened to charge the whole family if he didn't surrender. He's gotta be in close to 15 years now. I don't know what happened to his sister.

If I were him ! I would stay locked up . If he does get out and Carmela gets a chance at him I want a front row ticket !

Interesting to see Ragusa is getting out of jail in five years. He'll probably just go into some legit business like bakery or pizza.

Tabbita turning on them is amazing. He's a free man living in Florida.

Makes you wonder how long a stretch it takes to make these guys consider going legit? Say a guy does his time, keeps his mouth shut and gets out wanting to try and live right. Kinda like Tony B. in Sopranos... Didn't work well for him though,

Here's an interesting clip on Ragusa. Gotta love Dennis Farina's narration .

Thanks for the BOP and Most Wanted links. Interesting stuff.

My pleasure, Vinnie.

Welcome to the boards .

Wow, the narrator really butchered the pronunciation of Giannini.

This was the group i was talking about on my other post. except the girl got shot not pushed down the stairs.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/1996-07-...ring-indictment

"Among the crimes charged in the recent indictment is the 1993 shooting of Cynthia Hernandez who was 15, and six months pregnant by John Clemenza, 20 after she refused the alleged crew member's order to get an abortion. She lost the baby"

that will do the trick.
wouldnt he have gone to prison for statutory rape aswell.

Thank you. Glad I found this board.

Easy, Carmela... that's local Chicago guy, Dennis Farina!

My apologies. Most americans would pronounce it the same. This is the nickname for my husband that my mother-in-law calls him, so all I hear in my head is: "GIANNINI GIANNINI VIENI KA GIANNINI" *to be said in high pitch that you can't possibly imagine.*

How about bleeding ear drums?

"Gee - ah - nee - nee", right?

My father in law recently got his hearing checked and it was suggested he get a hearing aid. Too many years of the screaming. Smart guy doesn't want one. lol

VERY smart guy!

It's hard to type out, but the best I can do is: JA (Gia) Nay Nay. JA NayNay. lol Sounds right in my head, anyway. You don't really pronounce the "I" like most people pronounce it. Gia together is JA.

Ok, have a good night, again.

While I`ve got you on the line, so to speak...
I´ve seen the Italian surname Garofalo numerous times being spelled all kinds of different ways. Garafalo, Gorafola etc,etc.
I think all these variations (which I think are misspelled)stems actually from Garofalo. Or are there real italian surnames like Gorafola, Garafolo etc, etc.
Does anybody know this?

Funny you mention that, Hairy. I've seen that name spelled every which way. All I can say is, things happened at Ellis Island. In my own extended family, there are several modern spellings of the name my grandfather came here with.

I guess they are all different variations of Garofalo,
As you said "things happened at Ellis Island..."

i think they are all garofalo, in the states sometimes italian surname are spelled and written bad

Same happened with my great grandfather (my grandfather was one year old) when they arrived at Ellis Island. They changed a "C" to a "G" in the last name and that changed everything. I am told that the original last name is "Brocato" from Palermo and it was changed to "Brogato" during immigration. There is a big line of hair care/cosmetics named "Brocato"... Oh well, whatta you gonna do?
http://www.brocatohair.com/

I use Brocato hair products, and I get the Brocato hair treatment every couple months! I guess this means absolutely nothing. lol

Are they good products? My wife and daughter like to use them as well... I don't know much more about them other than that. I guess they like the stuff. They are pretty fussy about that glamour stuff.

I use all the Brocato hair stuff because I get the straightening treatment, so I have to maintain it with the products. I love their products that I've used so far.

I bet that Paulie Ragusa uses Brocato too. Ya know, when he's not locked up that is.

hey Skinny Vinny and Carmela, Paul Ragusa originally got around 14 years but now his realease date is in 2017 so he must of done stuff while he was locked up and that added extra time.

Carmela,Karma did get this guy in the end because it was his sisters son who actually snithched on him so he is in prison from the testimony from his own nephew.Growing up was he feared around the neighbourhood or was it that none stood up to him because people were scared of his dad?

Well, tiger, you have to figure, we were kids when he was bothering me. If I was 10, he must've been about 12. To me, he was just a bully, but I guess my parents knew about his dad, etc. I wasn't aware of any of that. But then I saw him and a few of his friends with these stupid ass jackets with some logo on the back, which I forget now what it was. But it was like his little gang he formed.

My dad is from Sicily, too, and I remember him going to talk to Paulie's dad at the bakery about him bothering me and after that, things cooled off. My dad said that Paulie's father said he was pretty sure it was because Paulie had a crush on me and it was probably normal behavior. I had a black eye at the time for fuck sake! But, also, at the time, my dad was a federal court clerk with the Southern District of NY, and had a high profile mafia case going on at the time, and I knew he didn't want to make trouble or bring attention to himself. Not sure. There was a lot I wasn't aware of at the time. But for me, Paulie was just a local bully. There was a lot of them back then, he was just worse than most. As he got older, I know he started causing a LOT of trouble and people WERE scared of him, but by then, i wasn't on his radar anymore. lol

LOL imagine once he gets out in 2017 u bump into him and he tells u he was doing all that because he liked u and while he was in prison he kept thinking about and now he wants to marry u lol

It'll be just like a Cinemax movie.

http://www.inmatephones.com/index.php?m=PCINDEX.HTM&t=ragusa.htm

is the guy u 2 are talking about?

That's him, yeah. Pizzaboy pulled up his release date somewhere in the thread earlier.

yeah just wanted to get a visual....of the fella

it seems that in the early to mid 90's there were a bunch of guys in there teens - 20's that were doing almost anything to get attention to the mob. But some the stuff they were doing was so hot and brought alot of heat .

Inmate Locator - Locate Federal inmates from 1982 to present
Name Register # Age-Race-Sex Release Date
Location
1. PAUL RAGUSA 00663-748 41-White-M 10-17-2017 MILAN FCI


http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderSer...amp;x=0&y=0

I've also seen my own last name going by a few spelling alterations with other people who have it.

One of the many other reasons I love this forum, more Italian-American life talk.

This happened with Canadian immigration too. Last year I learned my name "Casselli" was originally spelled with only one "S". No big deal but makes me curious if the misspelling of surnames was more common with Italains than with other nationalities.

Being from Ridgewood, I knew some of the Giannini Crew from elementary school. I never hung out with them but when you're the same age and go to school together you know each other.

There were several "gangs" in the Ridgewood area and they formed in late 1983. "Ridgewood", "Ridgewood Juniors", "Italian Playboys" and "Harman Boys" were the ones I remember.

In addition, there were two white trash gangs named "Madison Boys" and "The Madison Crew" that formed mainly for the purpose of breaking into stores and doing graffiti.

In 1984, Ridgewood Juniors were into break dancing and were really good because as we all know, behind blacks, Italians are the best dancers. At the same time, "Ridgewood" was into hanging out at "The Arena" on Fresh Pond and Metropolitan and some other places I don't remember.

Anthony Tabbita hung around Forest Ave with his little crew of the Nicolosi Brothers, some Yugos, and his nickname was "Gotti", while Ragusa and "Fabio" were on Fresh Pond. They all dropped out of school or got kicked out by 1987 or early 1988 and Fresh Pond was the center of their lives at that point.

People talked about them, and how their parents were mobbed up.

Being a guido was the "in" thing around working class Italian neighborhoods like Ridgewood and Middle Village. Having mob connections was not a bad thing. It kind of defined being an Italian-American in those neighborhoods, and it all coincided with the popularity of John Gotti, which IMO made things worse for young Italian males. They weren't seen as the bad guys until you had a problem with them.

So, Skinny Vinny, already you mentioned being from Ridgewood a few times. What elementary school did you go to? And you don't have to say what street you grew up on, but maybe you could say off what ave?

carmela,

I went to PS 71 and Grover Cleveland High School.

Hey skinny how were "guidos" back in the 80s?I dont think they r anything like today (situation or gotti boys)Because the 70s guidos were like travolta (Hairy chest gold chains leather jackets)And todays guidos r ed hardy shirts and completly hairless.So how were the 80s guidos like

I knew a couple of Italian guys from Jersey back in the 80's. For the most part it was dark colored Fila or Adidas track suits with the sleeves pulled up to mid forearm. They had the "wife beater" or "Dago T's" (Chicagoese) and gold necklace with the Malocchio Pendant, Italian Horn, and the Hunch Back Gobbo... also a crucifix. Their hair was combed back with a "pompadour" and hair sprayed. They had very clean white Addidas or Fila low cut sneakers and a lot of them were in to weight lifting/body building. They would lift weights outside their garages in the sun to get tanned - this was before tanning beds & sprays, etc... Remember, this was the big steroids era as well. I almost forgot - they all had Camaros or Firebirds and kept them so clean it was insane! However, I'm not from Jersey so this is just what I saw/learned from them guys I knew. Maybe somebody from The Garden State can give you a better picture?

Well the 80's guido had the John Travolta perfect hair and still liked to dance a lot. They still went to clubs like Arena on Fresh Pond, or Paled's for under 18.

By 1990, you weren't a guido if you didn't own at least 5 Sergio Tacchini sweat suits. At about the same time, guidos were getting into the weightlifting look, probably because they were now big into selling steroids. Nowadays they seem to be a mix of the classic guido with a touch of wigga. Don't forget the mandatory NY Yankee logo in red white and green on the car.

If you ask me, the Russians in Rego Park and Brooklyn are the guidos in NY. They dress guido and drive the souped up white Lexus with tinted windows.

The world needs fashonistas like Cesare Bonventre.

Aren't a lot of these guys still wearing the Fila Velour tracksuits and Sergio Tacchini? The Sopranos depicted it as so. Is that Blow Out hair actually popular with anyone else but Pauly D? LOL

You beat me to the post, Skinny. I'm very embarrassed to admit that I had a Tacchini in every color . I'm a little bit older than you (I'm 52), but those tracksuits were popular with neighborhood guys of all ages. It always astonished me that a company that made tennis clothes became so popular with guys who were more likely to swing an ax handle than a tennis racket.


The silk tracksuits on "The Sopranos" were Genelli. Paulie wore several of them. They still sell them at Vito's Men's Shop in Pelham Bay for people who are living in the past. Unfortunately, I've owned a few of those, too .

The kids on Jersey Shore are jerkoffs. Every last one of them. Male and female. Watch something else, Nicky .

Don't worry Pizzaboy I know they are jerkoff's! My house mate watches it that's how I know of it!I just realized those Gotti kid's are very similar to those Jersey Shore people. I'm thinking something of John Gotti and grave spinning...

LOL at bein' a guido. I live in Southern California, Orange County. I look Mexican (this being So Cal it's not surprising to be assumed Mexi and I've always identified with Mexican culture because of this, than and I love Mexican girls). My mom looks like Scarlett Johansson and my old man like an extra from American Me or background actor in True Lies. LOL! Well my old man looks like an older, Italian John Stamos or Armand Assante with very dark, brown eyes.

When I was an infant my mom was pushing me in a grocery cart at the local grocery store when an old New York retiree came up to hear and proclaimed, "Oh, my what a guido baby!". They story's always made me laugh. When I hit 9th grade I rocked faded blue jeans, or brown dickies, a wife beater (no one knows what the fuck a dago is in Cali) and an open track jacket. Barbell curls and Marlboro lights were my best friends. Yeah, I had a real bad guido phase. Often slicking back my thick curly hair that sure as hell no one did at my high school.

In Canada were called 'ginos'; just a tidbit of knowledge.

Oh, and my guido phase ended with the ending of 10th grade, you know when I discovered jogging and real fitness.

iTALIANS FROM ny ARE COMPLETLEY DIFFERENT FORM ITALIANS ON THE WEST COAST.The west coast italians try to intergrate more with white america but the NYi are more indivisualists.Its funny because look at the blacks the Ny and LA dress and talk and act the same for the most part but an Italian from NY is completley differant from an italian living in seatle for instance

That's because people from NY are obsessed with race and ethnicity. It's all NYC's working class has. Especially in the boroughs. No matter how much of a loser in life one is, you can display a foreign flag and feel better about yourself and be part of a peer group where no one can deny you membership to.

I laugh at the people with the Yankees logo in red, white and green. It's a glaring example of the ethnicity obsessed NY mindset.

Skinny Vinny is right to a T

I've heard about the 10th st. guys in South Philly before. Didn't know they are still around.

The Gianinni Crew

Vito Guzzo -- http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderSer...p;x=58&y=12

Paul Ragusa -- http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderSer...amp;x=0&y=0

Anthony Tabbita -- Lives in Deerfield Beach,Florida (Informant)

Anthony Sciacca -- Northhampton County Prison doing 2 years

Frank Burgio -- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1541353212

Fabio Bartolotta -- Lake Worth,Florida (Informant)

Giuseppe Sciulara -- Howard Beach,Brooklyn

Docket memo for Gianinni Crew: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/84699023/Inter-Office-Memo-to-Attorney

I wonder why Sciacca is in a county prison?

Frank Burgio? I remember him from Harman St as a little kid and I know he was a "Ridgewood Junior", but what actual crimes is he accused of taking part in?

Tabbita and Bartolotta must own pizzerias in Florida and I'd go to there businesses and try a slice. What else could they be doing for a living?

L'aroma del cafe is a cafe on Forest Ave in Ridgewood. The Tabbita family owned the entire block at one point. So I'm assuming this cafe has some connection to LCN. I go there sometimes and the coffee is excellent. During the week it's a bunch of middle-aged Italian men hanging out. Weekends you got Albanian kids with stupid haircuts and hand-me-down clothes.

btw- It should be "Caffe" in Italian, but whatever.

Frank Burgio must not be involved in aything anymore for him to have a facebook if thats the former giannini crew member not just some guy with the same name.Fabio Bartolotta is actually paul ragusa nephew so this guy snitched on his uncle.Vito Guzzo is another young guy who wasted his life hes been in jail for around 15 years so far and still has 17 more years left so lets see when hes in his mid 60s what his life will be like

"anymore"? I don't think Burgio ever was involved. There were many people who hung around Giannini Caffe who weren't involved in their crimes.

I wonder why Burgio is even listed with those other guys?

Carmela, double checked with Paulie.. he doesnt think about you.. it seems funny that after over 15 years you people have nothing better to do than post about this and after reading all the posts more than 3/4 of the stuff written is absolutely false..

Why the hell would he think about me anymore? We were kids. I don't write things that are false, and anything I said in here was completely true. The kid beat me up left and right when we were kids. And so what?

And now you can double check yourself, ok. And before you think about fucking with me, don't.

Well when i made this thread it was because i saw him in an episode of unsolved mysteries so even though this was 15 years ago the first time i heard about him was on said date.And what r u talking about 3/4 of the thing are false??The only person here that gave us info other than what was written in the papers is carmela.I dont know either of them but i would bet my life she is saying the truth because she actually gave us locations and dates of these incidents.So if Paulie is a friend of yours u can tell him to post here if they allow that in a fedaral prison LOL

you are crazy......

great first post

Please. He's another one. We're supposed to wonder who he's talking to and what the hell he's talking about. Like my signature says: the mother of idiots is always pregnant.

Same here... Not ellis island but same situation... Then our name was messed up again... This time when my grandfather was put in an orphanage.. I mean i can sympethize with the ppl who ran the orphanage i guess.. You try understanding a 4 yr old italian boy holding on to two little brothers who both lost their father... Im just amazed that nearly 80 yrs later we have enough research to show what our last name is.... And now u can even find family trees online that have my great grandfather and relatives still in genoa.. Amazing really.

Aah, a Northern Italian. I should have known .

Relax, Skin. You know I'm just funnin you .

Not to mention he married a woman from lombardy... But my mom has some sicilian in her so we can still be friends

Don't worry Skinny we are lucky tht we still have two Italian parents period at this point lol, I'm a mosaic of Southern Guineadom, half Neopolitan, Quarter Calabrese, Quarter Eastern Sicilian. Nola ,Altomonte, and Messina respectivly

Well, im a quarter german too. Not full blooded but im more italian than i look haha