Interesting Article on Frank LoCascio's Driver

Can't say I have ever heard of him, but this Albanian apparently was very close to the Locascio's driving for Frank and had Tore as his best man at his wedding. Sounds like he made a ton of money. http://www.villagevoice.com/news/the-mobs-multimillion-dollar-batter-6404868

All your years here and you've never heard of Zef, Nicky? That's a very old article. Today Zef is retired and living the good life like just about everyone else involved in that score.

Last year when Richie Martino was getting ready to come home, and everyone was speculating that he'd be in the administration and yada yada yada, who was the only guy here to say that he was gonna sit back and enjoy his millions, just like his compare?

Me, that's who!

That was a once in a generation score, and it set up half a dozen guys for life, even after the forfeitures. Fuck the street. With that money, Zef should buy an island and never wear a pair of shoes again for as long as he lives. He could survive that way, too. He's a very primal guy. Of course, someone would have to fly in a case of vodka every three days, but that's a story for another day .

haha PB, been out of the mob loop for a while, very selective in my readings Is it true that he was good friends with Tore and the Locascio family?

Edit: 'That was a once, score.'





As in, ever.


NS: Dockers or Eagles? Not that it matters, both doing well.

Yes. His brother, too. But he never got much press, so we'll leave him out of this discussion.

Sonny was a dockers fan, but I moved last year to Queenstown New Zealand!

New Zealand? You have no idea how happy that makes me, Nicky. I'll be in touch. But it's almost 4:00 am here, and I gotta get some sleep.

No worries mate as us Brits and kiwis would say!

Crows myself (enjoy)
Queenstown. Great little corner of the world.

'Long as you still speak properly

haha just no talk of the ashes please lol

Is this the Albanian that was involved in Parello's son's death?

No, he wasn't the shooter.

This guy is the shooter;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBIhlie2rJI

pay attention to this. Gotti - Locascio

who do you know more about and why?

Kind of off topic but many people always would talk about how the Albanians are going to overtake the Italians and push them out blah blah blah, seems to me that the number of Albanians working for the mob is far greater than the one crew that was dumb enough to go against them.

the feds took Rudaj down and then they were done. 1 indictment.
think about it.

Anyone know who the Genovese capo was that was complaining about the Albanians in the article?

victor mirdita was the guy who shot parello's kid

Yeah, he got off. But the kid who helped him beat the case disappeared. This was a cop's kid, too. But he was no fucking good. He perjured himself for money and disappeared. He hasn't been seen in twenty years.

Mirdita went on to become a career scumbag with a yellow sheet a mile long. He did a lot of state time on a weapons charge if I remember correctly, and a couple of his relatives were murdered in Albania. I'm sure that was just a coincidence, though .

must have been bad luck

Lool Sonny- I was on the 18th and I looked in the woods and saw two bikers having sex..how am I supposed to chip?!?

Zef Mustafa is mentioned in the book Blood Oath by George Fresolone. Fresolone was made guy in the North Jersey crew of the Philadelphia family who flipped. In the book Fresolone wrote that even though he knew lots of killers ever since he was a kid, Mustafa was the only guy he ever felt uncomfortable around, he wrote that he just sensed Mustafa was a killer the first time he met him.

that pos wore a wire to his induction ceromoney.

That's nonsense, Fleming. I don't doubt you, and I've never read the book, either. But there were Bronx guys a lot more physically intimidating than Zef. It was his reputation with a baseball bat that kept Frankie's shy book up to date .

I think it was patsy falcetti

PB, was Zef a heavy associate like Watts? Maybe I'm wrong but was it you that said them Rudaj guys were shook of Zef?

I don't know PB. I just thought it was interesting, I recognized Mustafa's name from the book. It is a really good book, it tells about how he recorded his making ceremony, and how there was a problem with the NY familes over one of the other guys who was made, and all the guys made almost got killed because of that. Mob guys don't often seem to admit to being afraid of anyone, so I thought it was a big deal that he admitted to being scared of this Zef guy.

No, in my opinion Watts was an associate in a class by himself.

But the Rudaj guys hit their peak after Frankie went away and Zef went away for his part in the phone card scam. But had their paths crossed earlier, I doubt they would have challenged him.

Don't take me wrong, Fleming. I grew up with Zef. His reputation was fearsome. But not in the same way as a guy who would beat you into a coma with his bare hands.

Let's just say that Zef wasn't shy with a baseball bat. Does that make him less fearsome? No. Does it make him a different kind of fearsome? Yes.

And at the end of the day, does it really matter? The guy had no qualms about putting a guy to sleep, so what's the difference?

Maybe I'm wrong I thought you said a few of the Bronx Rudaj guys who messed with Loscalzo were scared of Zef, maybe someone else said it

A lot of guys were scared of Zef, Tommy. And for good reason. It's something I may have posted and forgotten about. At his peak, he was a one-man wrecking crew. And more important than any of that, was that he was fiercely loyal to the LoCascios. To me, that's just as important as his tough guy rep. More important, to tell you the truth.

Yeah, was Frankie Loc liked by other families in the Bronx?

I never heard anyone with a bad word to say about Frankie or his brother, Joe. Poor bastard's doing life for sitting on the wrong couch and grunting the word yes a couple of times.

Im not a conspiracy theorist or whatever. And certainly not a mob apologist. 90% i knew would steal a quarter outta you pocket when you werent looking. But i 100% believe the feds doctored those tapes. meaning left some parts out that didnt fit the narrative. And its criminal that they wont release them now based on ongoing investigations.
Dont pour suryp on shit and tell me its pancakes
Whats right is right and in my eyes the good guys should be held to a higher standing.

I say it all the time. By all means, put them away. But play fair. The "Good Guys" MUST be held to a higher standard. But then the moralists come out of the woodwork and say that it's okay if it's the only way to get the "Bad Guys." Fucking hypocrites.

That, and the fact that they'd owe the LoCascio family millions of dollars in reparations. Christ, look at what these unjustly convicted rapists are getting paid in lieu of new DNA evidence.

If those tapes were ever released beginning to end, and remastered with today's audio equipment, there's no was Frankie doesn't get released. And to be perfectly honest, his biggest mistake was not telling Gotti to go fuck himself and asking for a separate trial. But Gotti was the boss and Frankie is CN to his core.

you are correct, the judge asking tommy g. why aren't you asking to get severed? no response from larossa, gotti says I'm not holding him..the judge severed him on his own or tommy may have gotten 20..to bad he never could get a new trial, he would walk.

capeci even said frank loc is only guilty of telling norman put more garlic in the meatballs

Thats Like Marty T in jersey i read a quote from him about one of his appeals that got denied where he said I knows its OC but what about the Constitution , which in all honestly but the FBI could care less about the Constitution most those OC agents in the 80s made a second retirement not turning in all the money in those raids