2 Longtime New Orleans Made Guys

http://www.wafb.com/story/26000209/killer-ride-federal-sources-say-van-designed-to-kill?

This happened two months ago. Joe Gagliano was made back in 90 I believe, his dad was Frank Gagliano longtime NOLA Family member and eventual Underboss who died a few years back.

http://www.wafb.com/story/26000209/killer-ride-federal-sources-say-van-designed-to-kill

Oddly enough I know EXACTLY where that stop was made. That's Bucktown right?

Crazy enough after Isaac that is where we worked, from Carrollton Avenue all the way to Bonnabell, all North of Metairie Road.

So is that family finished or are they really that good at staying under the radar?

It's Old Metairie which is south of Bucktown. Wealthiest neighborhood in the state.

any word on who they were possibly out to kill?

As a family they are finished. There's still guys operating, just like in Tampa, Cleveland, Buffalo etc.

They haven't figured it out yet but they are still holding them without bond. I have no idea if the family is totally finished. My gut tells me 2 made guys rolling around in an assassination van means they are not totally done.

They haven't been a viable family for a long time. Handful of made guys left.

They are officially finished. There are a LARGE group of pretenders in Nola that book and move narcotics from the port, but there is no "viable" family. A lot of people pretend and wish there was a family, but that's about a far as it goes.

This isn't good, I heard that something was going on down their. People are lucky these two got caught up. Gag's doesn't play and has a few medals to wear. People aren't happy with the current leadership and it looks like it was tempurpudic time. I'm sure they aren't the only ones gearing for combat it looks like bodies are going to be left in the streets........

I'm gonna take this post as a drunken rambling message in an attempt to sound futile, sorry man.

How the fuck do you know they are finished? Like you have any fucking clue about their viability as an organized crime group or lack thereof. It is jackasses like this that spout off like they know something while knowing absolutely zero about what goes on behind closed doors or on the street that make 95% of posters on this site impossible to take seriously.

You are a freaking fool. Who was the last made guy clipped in NOLA? So according to you after all this peace (more like no family at all) they are ready to leave bodies in the streets? There is no doubt these two were going to pop somebody but we have NO IDEA who or what.

There isn't enough people down there to be "not happy with the leadership". You should take your trolling elsewhere.

Well there you have it. We can all move on. "Tommy Gambino" The Leading Voice/Authority on American organized crime (Which is quite a feat seeing as how he's in England) has decreed That the once powerful New Orleans mob "Is no longer a viable family" because they have only a "Handful of made guys left". It looks like we can put that debate to rest. No word on whether or not "Tommy Gambino"s definition of "Viable Family" matches yours.

YouKnowNothing-No, they are done, seeing as I am from Louisiana and live near Nola, I can tell you FOR A FACT they are done. And a buddy of mine, Who was an Intelligence Officer for the Army when I was an Infantry Officer, is now a FBI agent and has been stationed in BR/Nola for two years and they aren't even investigating "Italian OC" in the state of Louisiana because it is that insignificant, if even existant.

He's trolling. Everyone one of his posts repeat themselves with him telling people they don't know anything.

And LaLou don't you know, bodies are fixing to drop in NOLA!

Don't need to take his (or my) word for it. The FBI hasn't recognized a formally structured family there in decades. The last significant mob bust there was 20 years ago. Anyone who thinks there is still a family there is ignoring all the evidence because they hope there is still a family there.

You're definitely burkaburka. Trolling on an internet forum, how sad can you get?

Did you guys not hear the news Carlos Marcello is still alive and still in charge there.

Yea, they formally restructured for the past 20 years in the sewers of Nola, now they are out to take the city back in Blitzkrieg Fashion!

Carlos never died, he gets Chuck Norris to scare the grim reaper away! Nola Locals secret

With the NO crime family gone for ages, which kind of groups exactly represent "organized crime" in the city nowadays?
Or isn't there anything "organized" left and are the current local criminal organizations small groups of black dope dealers shooting each other to shreds?

Killing- Pre Katrina you had organized street gangs that were drug dealing and robbing people, etc, etc, but after the hurricane what happened was they evacuated the city and a lot of people in lower income areas were bused to neighboring cities like BR, Lafayette, and as far as Houston.

In my opinion it is now very disorganized. For instance, you have ten people that have been shot in the last month on Bourbon St, majority of which were tourists. Now of course street gangs are sitting on these corners selling dope because when tourists come down here they have the mentality that "it's the big easy, and anything goes, Mardi Gras every day!

Now the people that did these shootings weren't part of any OC group or highly sophisticated street gang like MS13 or some of the Chicago and NY street gangs. This is idiot #1 shooting at idiot #2 over a street corner that neither of them can afford to live on (The French Quarter is a very expensive place to "live" IE have a house and stay there 365 a year). So in a traditional turf sense, they are shooting over random street corners that happen to have the busiest bars that particular night of the week. The sad thing about all of this is some poor guy from Iowa who wanted to party ends up getting shot in his ass on Bourbon because people are fighting over which street corner they can sell dope on and not realizing its NOLA, people come down here to get wasted anyways so it doesn't matter where you stand, trust me they will find you if they want to get high!

And of course we run into this "Nola Family is still alive" by probably the biggest pretenders in the country. There are rumors that this pretend family made billions off of the rebuilding of Nola after Katrina. Problem with this argument is that anyone that you meet that claims "to be in the know" can not name one person involved in any of these financial scams. There are guys in NY getting busted all the time for crimes less than this and I refuse to believe there is something in the water down here that makes the Pretend Fairy Nola Family a million times smarter than NY.

I was reading about Telly hankton and his gang he seemed to be running a large scale enterprise well after katrina. http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/10/telly_hankton_network_targeted.html

Thats because there is no more leadership once a family gets so small and weak. Why would anyone kick up? What do they get in return?

What the heck did you just flipping say about me, you big meanie? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Tiny Tots Program, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on the girl's bathroom, and I have over 300 confirmed noogies. I am trained in Nerf warfare and I have the most gold stars in the entire kindergarten class. You are nothing to me but just another butthead. I will beat you the heck up with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth

durkadurka is history.

What is the mental motivation of the Internet troll?

I really don't understand. I just don't .

This thread took a turn for the shitter a while back. Interesting story at the start of it though. Sounds like some made guys got a hit list of some sort. I don't buy the big mob war breaking out down there, but with a friggin murder van rolling around, someone's gonna get turned into a pot of gumbo

What is the mental motivation of the Internet troll? Should be the new default rhetorical question .

If a tree falls in the woods, is a cookcounty there to accuse me of racism?

Thanks for the info LaLou!
I didn't know there were now also tourists being shot. I guess the statements that claim NO is entirely safe for visitors and that the high murder rate can only be attributed to drug dealers shooting each other can go down the drain as well

Call it what you want, it seems to me that at the very least a crew is still active in NOLA.

Lol, what the hell were those NOLA guys thinking? Who tools around in a "work car", let alone drives it to their house? That may be why only a crew is left.

Of course, that news report did not identify them as "made LCN guys" but referenced "crime families" from their prior busts. I am consistently amazed at the media fear to report someone as LCN. Just claim "allegedly" or something. How many LCN guys have sued newspapers for libel and won for false / incorrect reports of their LCN membership?

That van reminds me of the one used in the Miami Dadeland Mall shootings - believed to have been ordered by Griselda Blanco as part of the cocaine wars. I think the Miami van was reinforced with steel plates to provide armor.

Don't get me wrong Scorsese, there are still organized operations going on throughout the state, but in the big picture, guys like Telly are few and far between.

I believe Gagliano's father was the last "Official Underboss" before they got busted in the nineties with the Gambinos and Genovese in the gambling case. After that, it was done.


If you want to call a 70 year old driver and a 55 year old guy a "crew" that are probably independent operators, hey go Ape shit man, I'm not gonna argue with you.

Yep blacksheep they were definitely looking to clip someone but for all we know it could have been some street thug on the corner of Bourbon like LaLou said that didn't agree with them for all we know. But for people to claim bodies are fixing to drop because they are unhappy over the leadership is just dreaming.

LaLou knows more about NOLA than myself but I have spent a good bit of time down there over the past two years. Much like he said it is run by the blacks, mostly independents and some gang members but nothing large scale. Something he didn't mention though is that there is a lot of houses that have NEVER been rebuilt so that is another reason to prove no "family" made a ton of money rebuilding NOLA. There are still some spots that need to be rebuilt for someone to make money on.

Man if you take a wrong turn off of Bourbon you can EASILY end up in a bad spot. It has always been that way and yes tourists have been getting hurt, robbed, and shot down there for years. Anyone that tells you NOLA is perfectly safe for visitors obviously doesn't know the area.

I am not interested in a pissing match about whether they constitute a crew or not. I know very little about the NOLA LCN family other than what has been widely reported during the Marcello era. I think most posters on the board agree there is not an organized family left.

You have to wonder who ticked these guys off to build that van, and what they did to tick them off. It seems reasonable this has something to do with gambling or shylocking.
Do these guys have any known associates? How many known made guys are left down there?

DixieMafia,there are places down there that if you are white(not turning it into a race discussion,just the truth)and take a wrong turn you will not get a second chance.You will be robbed and killed.

I know what you mean. I just find it funny someone would believe ANY statement that NOLA and Bourbon St. is "perfectly safe" for any tourist. You keep all your shit in your front pockets and you don't roam off Bourbon at all. You will and can get pick pocketed then robbed if you turn up the wrong corner. Just a fact of life for any color, but yes it happens more to the white folks that don't know anything about NOLA in general.

Never really believed in any of those statements
I guess some people will do anything to promote tourism in their city

Richard Pena was another new orleans drug kingpin during the 90s, he ws moving a lot of cocaine into NO and i think he had some ties to the rap scene down there, they were trying to link master p to him at one point.

I been to new orleans plenty of times. When I went for Mardi gras I went to some ghetto neighborhood in Jefferson parish to get some weed and wound up with 2 guys smoking crack in my hotel room with guns on the table. I didn't really know how to make them leave so I smoked my weed and waited til they were done with their crack session and we parted ways. New orleans is a hell of a city, and I stress the hell part

Edit** THEY were smoking crack, not me. Just to make sure that's clear..

i bet i Can whip you.