the Gemini Twins, general info

Can anyone shed some light on Anthony Senter and Joey Testa? I'm intrigued by these guys, they were so ruthless and dangerous yet they were doing this stuff in their twenties! Were they made by the Lucchaese family? After DeMeo's death why did they move from the Gambino's? Did Nino Gaggi not think highly of them to keep them working for the family?
Anyone got any stories they know about them other than what is in murder machine? Thanks guys!

just like their mentor roy the were labeled uncontroable but good earners so you go to the family that their mentor passed up......

It is thought that when big Paul took out the contract on Roy Demeo he gave it to Gotti's crew. They couldnt whack him or didnt want to, I cant remember which one. Anyway, I guess Gotti's crew told Big Paul to reach out to Gaspipe because he had the twins in his back pocket and they could get close enough to Roy to whack him. Casso promised Testa that he would be straightened out with the Luchesse's if they killed Roy.

And so it goes that they whacked Roy at the Gemini and then became part of a crew in the Lucchesse Family.

This was all said by Casso himself I think or maybe Gravano, I cannot remember. But my point is that who the fuck knows. It seems that the majority of the wiseguys who have talked about LCN in a book or otherwise have taken credit for every fukin hit on the planet and they all lie so much they make Bill Clinton look like the freakin Pope.

I think when paul ordered demeo dead he tried to give it to gotti but gotti was scared shitless of demeo so nino gaggi took care of it along with joey and anthony. Since Joey and Anthony weren't made they could ask for their release from the gambinos which happened a lot toward the end of paul's reign. They fell in with casso and according to casso murdered a Russian gangster on his orders in 1986

Roy wasnt killed at the Gemini.
According to Gaspipe, Joey + Anthony killed him at Patty Testa's house (they were there for a meeting).
Gaspipe set the hit up and got the twins working for him in return

i still believe that gaggi had more to do with this that gaspipe wants to claim. i really don't know how much i believe him.

I guess they had similar temperments but they don't look like twins in appearance. A good nickname for two rough hombres though.

Just looked it up and they even have a lenghty wikipedia entry for the gemini twins. That's a legitimate duo.

the reason why they were called twins is because they were always together very close and thought alike. it has been said that joey would start a sentence and anthony would finish it.

Yeah, from what I've read about them they were very close, even in prison they played in a rock band together.

no to my knowledge they have been in seperate prisons. i think your thinking of carmine the snake persico playing drums. ive heard that he did this with anthony senter in budner nc. the snake had a band called Lompoc 4 with Joseph Russo.

Yeah I think Joey and Anthony have spent the last 20 years APART in seperate prisons.
But on the street they were the ultimate duo to have working for you.
No wonder people steered clear of DeMeo when he had those 2 around!

Does anyone reckon the Feds tried to flip the twins? There's now way however those two would of ever of flipped. To me their an example of why its not worth getting into "the life". They did a lot of bad shit, probs lived the high life for a few years but by the age of around 30 their in prison, and they won't be getting out.

I agree.
The Twins did DeMeo a favour by whacking him.
If he had lived he would not have been a free man by the time 1983 ended.
He would be rotting in jail with them.
DeMeo and Rosenberg are in hell looking up at Joey and Anthony laughing at them

I don't believe everything from Casso, but I think there is some truth to his take on the DeMeo murder, because he was so close to the twins and Patty Testa. When Casso got shot the first one to give him info on the shooters was Anthony Senter. Patty Testa became a made member of the Luchese and was very close friend of Vic Amuso, I think he was even a courier for Amuso when he was on the run. Patty Testa also got rid of Jimmy Hydells body for Casso too.

I remember seeing a picture in murder machine of them playing together but that's probably before they got locked up. Interesting that these different mob guys are playing in a band together. With Persico and Senter playing together, everybody probably applauded afer each of their songs out of fear more than anything.

I wonder who had the worst temperament?

I've asked this in the forum before and never got a solid response. Was Senter made with the Lucchese's? In Murder Machine it said he was only half Italian, but other's stated that in D'Arco's book he said he was made. Which is it?

hes on the charts as made...

Yes senter and testa were made into the lucheses after the demeo hit, Darco said he was at the ceremony.

makes sense

Did Casso just "inherit" all of DeMeo's rackets, or did those revert back to the Gambinos?

Not sure there was a whole lot to inherit, his auto theft operation was broken up by the feds and the westies were falling apart. Those were his 2 big money makers.

Singer had a no show union job until the feds put a end to it in like 01 02. But after the demeo hit jan83 to the twins went to jail summer 89 I think they were just hitmen but being that close to Vic and gas they must have earned. The luchese had a lot of young killers under Vic n gas. Like a small army all bk guys. Lil all said the twins were made at the same ceremony as his son in 88. There's a good pic of the twins with gas we never knew who there capo was my guess a bk guy maybe fat Pete cause lil all didn't say they were with him.

Its really strange gas had patty test a whacked. When gangland was still in the pepper frank lastasino family wrote to capeci to clear there air that there father had no role in patty tests murder and that the families are close and didn't want this to keep being printed I kinda believe cause the dad must have said yes then the kid got shot by the police in the cab on video.

Didn't Danny Marino take over as the Westies contact man after Demeo departed this life?
Demeo also had some porn intrests in Manhattan and New Jersey which were no doubt dished out to Danny and his men