Jimmy Calandra- funny guy but great podcast

I was listening to his latest podcast and I almost fell off my chair laughing. He tells his listeners the mob does’nt offer any pensions benefits or retirement accounts. You could of fooled me, i always thought the mob gave out pensions and health benefits once you were made and you also got 2 weeks paid vacation every year.

He's telling the truth about mob benefits, but actually that could apply to most companies out there.

whats the name of his podcast?

I think his story is very relatable with the younger generation. For young kids the mob looks cool from the outside but getting involved you see the true ugliness underneath and in Calandra’s case his childhood friends started killing each other

I actually like his podcast, he also seems like a nice guy. I just thought it was funny when he said the mon doesnt offer a pension.
Sammy Gravano mispronounces his name and calls him jimmy calandria of the bath beach boys. The bath beach boys. Lol
Jimmy has some great stories.

I would have loved to been in the room when his boy told him he shoved Spero.

Can only imagine what his response was.

Also, would ask him if he ever crossed paths with the 1 guy from the crew that DID get made?
If so, were they cool with each other?

. I think Calandra was in jail at the time but not 100 percent sure

if you think about it, he had a very short career. he went to prison at 23 years old for 5 years. got out of prison and only 8 months later he was arrested for the Staten Island murder among other things. that was the end of his career.

The BATH AVE BOYS, started out when they were teenagers, so not as short as you think ...

certainly not very long...

Two of them were made

Fabrizio and Calco

And Bath Beach is the neighborhood bath ave was in
Right next to bensonhurst

Finally, A Stool Pigeon Rat Fuck who tells the truth

calco was never made

Exactly. If he wasnt made he was never really "in" the mob. Just a street guy. Associate at most.

I stand corrected

I thought the Bonanno's made him.

I guess it was just the "HERDER" that was made

Yes he was an associate, they were all big drug dealers

He was on the level of an Alite he was a SHOOTER.

They were a big crew with a bunch of shooters that sold alot of drugs

Sounds like you might have crossed streets with some of them back in the day. Did they ever give you hard time, what kind of guys were they with civilians?Jimmy paints them as stone cold killers that made men feared, which might have been the case when Pitera was around but once he got locked up they went with Spero who wasn't with them like Pitera was and didn't back them up with BPB.

I like his podcast, but I do have an issue with the lecture on cooperation. He did 6 years straight (they're his crimes); he's indicted and arrested again not long after being paroled; for crimes he committed, prior, but not arrested. When made men are cooperating, you decide it's ok to cooperate. A' La' John Alite: these are your crimes; no one made you do it; you owe the time to the people and OC has nothing to do with your debt to society. More excuses to cooperate. He may not like my posts as I reminded him that while Joe Gambino may prepare tasty prison pasta, he also skipped bail with his brother leaving friends and families at the claws of bail bondmen seeking to confiscate their life savings. More concerning is the reference to the violence in the neighborhood. Yes, I'll believe the senseless killings that took place, but what about the hundreds of peer teenagers that did their homework, took up a trade or went to college? More excuses! Just say I'm a rat to save myself. I couldn't help but acknowledge certain tough guys, through reputation he noted, while reminding him that they had to outsource their wet work to the AB. The same men he references doing life did not mirror his decision of citing other cooperators and doing the same.

I agree. He makes it sound like it was the wild west and everyone was shooting, stabbing, and seliing drugs like some violent video game. I knew a few people from that area who were a little older than him and they never mention violence and crime. They did say the mob was around but “ they kept to themselves”. Everyone I knew from there mention hanging out, cruising 86th st, and playing baseball and street hockey.
According to Calandra, Bath Beach was more violent than Iraq.

Who had to outsource their wet work to the AB? And what do you mean by wet work? To be honest, it shouldn't be a surprise that mobsters would contract work in prison to prison gangs like the AB, the Mafia isn't a prison gang, they're clearly outnumbered. It only makes sense to turn to the ones who actually run prison. I don't care how tough a guy is nobody is any match for 15 guys stomping you into the ground. Most "fights" in prison aren't really fights at all, it's jumpings and stompings.

Billy Bright was murdered by the AB....

Vincent Pappa murdered by the AB. The mafia, like the HA, were shaken down. If you're a white man in prison and seeking protection you pay the AB. If you stand on your own in a group, you are still reporting to the AB via one of their puppet gangs. That means, when the whites jump, you jump, or else. You don't do rackets in the can unless you're pay off a white gang; and a piece of that makes its way to the Brand. I won't go through this again as I did with those mafia nostalgic posters and Black Hand. Twenty Brand members will shred a crime family: In and Out of Prison.

In the book about Pappa it did that Black inmates stabbed him on behalf of jewish gangster Herbie Sperling. Unless the Aryans became politically correct, I doubt they were the ones.

The AB murdered Pappa. As Jimmy Calandra noted in a response to me, the AB sat behind them - "strong". No way in hell you are a white man hiring blacks on the yard to kill another white. Wake up. Most all LCN's hits - Lucchese and Gambinos - executed by the AB, including Billy Bright. Not up for going back and forth on this as its hard to get this omnipotent view of the Italian mafia out of the minds of posters. Like every white man on the Lewisburg yard at that time, it's the AB; they controlled every racket and every gang that was doing anything.

I disagree, and go with all the reports and witness accounts from that time, also in the book on him his immediate family had looked into it and found no Aryan Brotherhood or White killers. The AB killing Papa all comes from the posters on internet forums over the years.

Papa's Game by Gregory Wallace is name of the book I mentioned.

Your book vs. a court verdict? Which one? Tattoo Blasko, AB made man, convicted of murder of Vincent Papa. Herbie, like all white men in Atlanta at that time, was directly, or Indirectly, under the control of the AB. Just like the The Order (racist murderers of Alan Berg) and most all white cliques. We can go on and on with this mafia "stuff"; most of it legend via the A&E channel.

AB made man lol, quit stealing Mafia terminology and applying it to other groups 😂

It is a term used by the AB and historically is an LCN term. But the term has been applied to AB and Eme to distinguish the woodpile, probates and actual members. It's a term that AB dropouts have used. Again, I'm not going down this path of misguided "mafia" power. They've been a relic for 30 or more years and everyone knows.

The "WILD WEST" is a pretty accurate description just in a controlled way for the most part, just guys that signed up for it were the guys that were left laying in the street.

What I think he means is that everyone that was in his circle was into something... At that age your circle is your whole world,.

Alot of guys were on the fringes, a lot of 9-5 's were into a little something extra to make some extra money.

The perception was that there was NOTHING WRONG with it.
As a matter of fact as CRAZY as it sounds the guy that wanted nothing to do with was looked down upon often.

The wise guys were looked upon as if they were celebrities.

So if everyone in your circle is into something, and your parents were on the fringe so alot of their friends were into something.. And all your friends and their families were into something...

It would be very easy to feel like everyone is involved....

You have to realize alot of first and 2nd generation Italians at that time.

What that has to do with him ratting I have no idea
Just giving you an accurate description

Of course there were ALOT of hard working honest Italian immigrants

For groups that consider themselves so much better than the Mafia, they sure like to steal their surnames for their nicknames and use their terminology.

I'm about the same age as JImmy. I grew up on Staten Island and worked for years in Bensonhurst. There was alot of dirt going on under the table but this was a very safe neighborhood for regular people. Everyone I knew was hard working, they cared about their neighborhood, kept their properties looking nice, and etc.

One thing I remember is everybody knew everybody else. Oh, and some of the best Pizza and Italian food in the WORLD.

The closest thing I ever saw to violence there was once I parked outside right in front of this cafe where the zips would all hang-out. I ran in the shop where I worked and when I came out 3 guys were standing next to my car with angry looks [ looked like wise-guys ]. "Who told you to park here?" I had no idea what the fuck these guys wanted to hear. Nobody 'told me' to park there its a public street. The way they surrounded me it seemed like they were getting ready to "gimme a bea'in", as they say there. One of the old guys I worked with came running running out, he got between us and yelled really loud "I TOLD HIM"...and they just kind of turned around and walked away. I never really understood what that was about.

Other than that...it was a great place to live compared to most of Brooklyn.

Exactly if you minded your business for the most part you were left alone.
Probably the safest neighborhood in America,

That's what bodies left in the street do..

Wakes everybody up...

If your a thief you learn real fast to go to a different neighborhoods to steal.

If you stepped out of line you would normally get a warning...
If you stepped out of line again, you would get a beaten

After that? Well....

It's not my boo, but what exactly is an AB "Made Man?" I can't find anything on this Tattoo Blasko you mention. I take th word of the book, since the family of papa had it looked into, eyewitnesses and officers looked into it in the prison, and it was a group of Black inmates. If you believe Aryans run that prison you have been fooled. Outside of a few in the southwestern part of the country, the AB in prison is miniscule. Plus Herbie Sperling was Jewish, no way the Aryans would work for him.

Hey Jace, can you explain the reason behind Vincent Papa's murder? And was he a made guy?

He was an associate and Sperling had a hatred for him. Different reasons are given, one is Sperling wanting to known as be the biggest drug kingpin in prison, another is he claimed that because Papa may have given information on the detectives who had ratted him out, it made Papa a rat, which is pretty dumb on Sperling's part, but he was known nut. Sperling once told the cops to go ahead and arrest his mother, that she could handle it.

Papa would never have been in that prison, or the general population if he was a rat. What has been forgotten is that he was working with NYPD cops and detectives to get and sell the heroin. The detectives were stealing it from the police evidence room and giving it to dealers like Papa to sell. When they were caught the cops started giving each other, and Papa, up.

Sperling got some Black inmates he was friends with to kill Papa. He was said to have paid them but how I can't recall. I am not just going by the Gregory Wallace book, although I recommend it to anyone who can still find it online. I read it a few years ago in a library over the period of a few days.

I should add that while Papa was not made, he had a partner named or nicknamed Virgil ( I can't recall the last name) who was listed as having gotten made in the mid 1980's after getting out of prison.

Made into the Luccheses?

Not sure, it may have been another family. NewYorkMafia might know.

Virgil Alesi w New Jersey

A made man in the AB is earning the Shamrock; like earning the Hand in the Eme.

Vincent Papa – Lucchese Family drug lieutenant and racketeer, Papa was killed inside the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, stabbed to death on July 26, 1977 by members of the Aryan Brotherhood on a contract taken out jointly by Lucchese leaders and Genovese Jewish narcotics enforcer Herbie Sperling, when they found out Papa had made a deal with then-U.S. Prosecutor and future New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, implicating dirty cops. The Lucchese’s representative in the notorious French Connection drug conspiracy, Papa subsequently masterminded the follow-up French Connection heroin heist from New York Police Property Clerk’s Office, where 400 kilos of uncut ‘H’ disappeared in 1971 from the office’s evidence room and reappeared on the streets. Sperling would eventually be charged for ordering Papa’s jailhouse slaying, but was acquitted at trial, where an AB named Theodore (Tattoo) Blasko was convicted for the actual murder. A fictionalized version of Papa was converted into actor Tony Lo Bianco’s “Sal Bocca” character in the smash-hit film made on the case (The French Connection), starring Gene Hackman that won the Oscar for best picture.

Calandra called out Alite and Mazza for being bullshitters. He said he never slapped Gene Gotti like Alite claims. He also said Alite is involved in a new show where he claims to have been a big heroin dealer in the early 80's with Ruggiero and them guys, which is false. He also spent time in prison with Mazza and claims he was never made.

But that's wrong. Wikipedia or Gorilla Convict site? First, was the character Tony LoBianco was portraying in the French Connection film was Patsy Fuca, not Vincent Papa, who was not even in the French Connection case. Whoever put that up had it wrong, so that's why you were misinformed. There were some AB guys convicted in several cases base on testimony of one of their members who wanted out of prison, but I don't think he named the Papa murder, and I looked for any indictments where this "Theodore (Tattoo) Blasko " is mentioned, His only mention is from a site called Gorilla Convict. No news reports or indictment mentions of him. Papa had nothing to do with the first French Connection case.

From the gangsterinc site, for what ever people think it's worth:



Herbie Sperling was indicted by a Grand Jury for the murder of Vincent Papa, but was acquitted for lack of evidence. The leader of the trio that attacked Vincent, a man known to the inmates as ‘Tattoo,’ was however convicted, and a further life sentence was added to the years he was already serving. He and another black inmate were sentenced to life for the killing of Papa on 26th October, 1979.



Since it says "Tattoo and "another Black inmate" that would indicate Tattoo was also Black. GangsterInc is a good site, but if anyone has anything showing this to be inaccurate, please do so.

Yes, in my opinion, there are a lot of contradictions; you provide no names. The names of those convicted Tattoo Blasko Californians Ronald Perrin and Daniel “DC” Cavanaugh both members of the Aryan Brotherhood.

There were three cases named the French Connection. The original one with Jean Jehan, Patsy Fuca, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso in 1962 resulting in the arrests of the Fucas and a seizure of 97lbs of heroin, the is the basis for the 1971 movie.
The second French Connection case is when Vincent Papa financed by Carmine Tramunti tried to bribe a US Army First Lt. into smuggling 500 lbs of heroin into the US, the Lieutenant reported the bribe to his superior leading to an investigation and resulting numerous arrests and drug seizures including a shrimp trawler with 800 kilos of heroin and conviction of Tramunti in 1974
The third case is when Papa got access to the evidence room where the 800 ki's was being kept by the NYPD and managed to swap it out for corn starch. This led to another investigation resulting in the arrests of several NYPD officers and Papa.

Alite all of a sudden becomes the smartest gangster..He's the only guy who didn't get caught on tape or even get arrested...Most mob guys lie and deny that they sold drugs, this clown's just the opposite, he wants people to believe he was dealing heroin...If he was a junk dealer, Gotti would never allow him to be so close to his son...And then his claim that he knew about the Castelanno hit in advance is laughable...Not only is he the smartest gangster, but he's even the most trusted..Its a joke !!

I used the first name you gave and found an internet story saying he is Black, as was the other man convicted with him the only sources for them being so much as charged with he crime are people talking on message boards. Do you have any news stories on it from a newspaper, or link to the court transcripts? I could not find a single news story on them killing Papa, and no indictments or convictions from legal sources. I'd like to see them so we can figure this out for certain. Thanks.

I found proof you love kids a little too much and you ignore it. You ignore anything you don’t agree with... I found proof you were purchasing boxes of kiddie porn from DB and Roy Demeo and also bought a video from Kenny Guarino where a 13 year old girl had to be hospitalized from being fucked , oh no wait that was the Undercover Agents in MI Porn who purchased the tape from mobsters...

You are going too far.

100%. I lived across the Verrazano but this is a really accurate description of South Brooklyn in the late 80s and 90s. A LOT of 9-5 guys (and women) had a little something to make money on the side. Usually minor and nobody cared or thought there was anything wrong with it. There was plenty of wiseguys and street guys but pretty much everybody was part of the ecosystem in some way. Same thing to a smaller degree in some SI neighborhoods. Small example… as crazy as it sounds my ex-girlfriend’s grandmother was the unstamped cigarette connect for about a dozen people I knew. Every week she’d take everyone’s order and we’d come see her the next day to pick up a carton or 2. To this day I don’t know where exactly where they were coming from but I promise you some of that money was being funneled to a made guy and then up the chain. Little old grandma fencing a few smokes to make an extra buck or 2. Although she used to tell stories about eating betting slips before the bulls could get to them in 60s so maybe she’s not the best example. But little things like that which seem completely normal when you are surrounded by it every day… for your whole life. It’s actually more weird to leave that environment for the first time and realize… people actually do go to stores to buy jewelry and having “a guy” who swings by occasionally to see if you are interested in his new stuff is actually not normal.

I like Calandra and his stories, some cool stuff. He totally destroyed JOHN ALITE and his hard to believe stories. No way was Alite involved with Angelo Ruggiero in the early 80's, that's bs.
Calandra tells it like it is. I guess he could only take so much of Alite's bs and finally said enough was enough.

It appears this punk rat blocked me as I can't respond to a post some quack wrote. If someone can post, it'd be great. Jimmy's a King Rat that won't except comments. He praises Joe Gambino's pasta. I asked, did you praise him when he jumped bail leaving friends and families on the hook for millions? He's full of excuses. All his crimes; all his choices; and yes, most all lived legitimate lives in his neighborhood and didn't need to carry a gun. Someone post on my behalf MarcusJuniusBrutus: you're a punk and pull down your YouTube space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlSIW3yqFdU&lc=UgzvFSp_ckgI5AU9uU54AaABAg.9OQEQuEwVUm9ORRxBt16M_

The Irritated Irishman
8 hours ago
First off you’re embarrassing yourself cause there were 2 Tito’s back then and yes one arrested and was out in 3 of 4 days after can’t remember? End up being the wrong Tito. The other got arrested then later on got whacked. Here’s what I’m going to tell ya’s. I don’t know Jimmy from way back but got to know him over the last 2 years through others and stayed in touch through text/emails. Have nothing but complete admiration for him. Now I’ll say this. Frankie Burke was like my big brother. Him and my older cousin Joey were inseparable! Frankie sometimes would stay at my Mother’s house in Jersey and him, myself and some buddies of mine from South Boston and couple guys from Queens would run a muck up the boardwalks. I’ve have a couple people tell me that they were told that Frankie and my cousin worked for other individuals and here’s what I’m saying! Frankie worked for himself as an “Independent Franchiser” mostly he did work through Lucchese guys and some work with Gambino guys with my cousin. I had 16 videos removed last year due to complaints and there was serious trouble starting but I explained all this. Again I can’t vet for any jail stories cause I was never in jail with any of these guys. Frankie and my cousin’s crew averaged around 8 years older than me and yes I knew Alite who’s 4 years older than me and I yes I do remember Alite being called the “Sheriff” and yes I have seen him beat the living hell outta a guy next to Aldo’s Pizza. Jimmy’s jail stories I believe in heart of hearts to be true cause he’s mentioned Boston guys like Chucky Flynn who I’ve mentioned multiple times in videos and no one would know that name or stories about him unless they were around him. As for the NJ guy people are talking about I do know there was a guy either in Cherry Hill or Vorhees where John had a big ass house and there was an issue. There was an issue with a kid way back a couple years younger than me who claimed to be a relative of John Riggi and him and I went at it and he got locked in a closet in a music store. That issue was handled through a guy named Tommy Ricciardi who was living in TomsRiver,NJ at the time and was a Lucchese guy. The kid ended up being family friends of guys in the DeValcante crew. By this time Frankie had already passed in June of 87’. I don’t know if that’s the story some guys are getting confused? I think lines get blurred and stories get crossed. I don’t know Chris who was a guy that later on was in Jimmy’s crew but I do know guys who knew him and don’t think he was tough or smart just cocky and arrogant. Jimmy would be the guy to tell that best, I would say. Problem is people feed off of these guys and push these guys to keep telling stories and everyone needs to realize that there are stories that can be told, won’t be told, can not be told (Unless On Your Death Bed) and can be told with a twist to them, either to protect certain individuals involved, legality reasons
or to keep us in suspense. Then there’s the Bull Shit which again I honestly feel Jimmy has nothing to gain by feeding any of us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlSIW3yqFdU&lc=UgzvFSp_ckgI5AU9uU54AaABAg.9OQEQuEwVUm9ORRxBt16M_

I've been blocked and can't post.

Embarrassing myself? I think it quite the other way around. You're rambling on about your relationships that I did not ask nor care. You're citing names of people whose homes I've been in, are in family weddings and I'll cease there - no bloating like the above. If there are two Tito Oritz', just say so, correct and close it out. It's DeCavalcante, not DeValcante; they're sole influence was Local 394 and some gambling in and around Peterstown (do you even know what that is - the Burg?). Tommy is a rat. The brothers/cousins screwed him by not taking the state deal; he was then convicted and brought into a room where the Caveman was sitting with Agents. He then flipped and tried to get the Irishman to go along. I'll stop; the Irishman is around still and straight. Again, I'll stop here. By the way, Tommy lived in Lakewood, not Toms River - got it! For all the snitches and rats on all of YouTube: you signed up for the ride and jumped off when the storm came. No one told you to chose the friends you selected to trust; no one forced you to do the crime; ignorance in perceived loyalty contradicts the history of mankind. Don't forget the thousands sitting in prison for life that acknowledged doing the crime and are doing the time. It's them vs. the citizens: their crimes, their time. Got to Hard Intentions website: 38 years straight. You know somebody that knows somebody: wow!. Respectfully (nix that, Politely), don't respond any longer to my posts.

Maybe it did post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlSIW3yqFdU&lc=UgzvFSp_ckgI5AU9uU54AaABAg.9OQEQuEwVUm9ORRxBt16M_

Yup: the punk is pulling down my posts. He couldn't do the time. Now he can't stand the commentary back citing his excuses.

It's a good podcast and pretty entertaining in that it gives you a perspective from the street. Anyone who grew up in a New York neighborhood knows what it's like to hit the pavement between you and where your buddies from the block lived. He's a little bit of a bullshitter though and I guess it's to draw a bigger audience, he wasn't as connected as he tries to play off. Mazza was made, Callandra says he wasn't because he was hittin' Linda Schiro and they wouldn't have made someone who was having an affair with a made man's wife(Scarpa). No one knew they were having an affair, let alone with Scarpa's blessings, it would have made Scarpa look like a cuckold and weak. Here's Mazza's account on being made.
https://www.vladtv.com/article/2683...in-colombo-mafia-grim-reaper-getting-hiv

Him and the other rats either pull down posts that are critical, or the shadowban you. I put up posts on another site, and told a friend about it. They couldn't see it, but I could. Check other youtube video comments section for that, it's one frequently on youtube.

The most galling about Jimmy - aside from being a Rat - is the root cause is the neighborhood he grew up. I've worked with dozens of Brooklynites and none cite this danger. It was confined to a very few that consciously made the decision to take a short cut to power and money. I posted to Sammy Bull's interview and requested he send to the Bath Avenue Story page.

Please send to the Bath Avenue Story page: Jimmy chose not to do his time. Now, he's blocking people (me) from posting to his stories. He recently blocked me from reminding, for example, Joe Gambino skipped bail and left friends and families potentially vulnerable to millions of dollars. Anyway, Jimmy has a million excuses: everyone else ratted, so I ratted; the neighborhood is the reason but yet the vast majority of men learned a trade or went to college. Please send this off to him and view the Hard Intentions channel. He did 38 years straight without excuses. Your debt is to society and the citizens; the Mob and your self-believing expectations of loyalty are an excuse. Thousands of men chose to serve out their terms: their crimes. As your former friend Tommy Reynolds stated regarding a co-defendant, paraphrasing: I don't care what name he goes under, a rat is a rat. Tommy is doing 50 years, for: HIS crimes.

Jimmy Calandra is snitch punk that now says Salvatore Avellino hinted at him to be a rat. (Sounds like Pennisi and the rattling dishes.). He's been in photographed with other snitches smiling and that stupid Wiser Guys show. Feel sorry for me. No, I'm sorry for your friends doing the time cause they chose to pay their debt to society (Tommy Reynolds for example). Like all snitches: he's the lowest of the low; pawning off his time to others and beholden to the FBI.

You want to do everyone a favor: post to him: I hear you couldn't take the jail time, now you can't take criticism. Shame on anyone who purchases these rats' merchandise. Go to Hard Intentions and purchase a real man's merchandise; great artist and did his time.

I just watched some of the Jimmy's Videos I have to say
He sounds really BURNT OUT...

Putting that aside

He is 1000% spot on with his stories, the names he naming etc.

That's the life I lived in BensonHURST

Yes he RATTED, I am not defending him or what he did...

But the few stories I heard are FACT...

Watching these videos reminds me when they were all released, the NY Post showed a hug fest between Alite and Calandra...

That all changed when money's involved...

I gotta give Alite credit...He'd normally be living in a welfare motel or in his sons apt. like a few years ago, but he's manipulated the media better then I ever could...

As a kid, in his 20's.. he claims he was doing heroin deals with captains in the family...That's laughable

Doing hits on orders from John Gotti when he was in his 20's...Again, laughable...I'm not denying he didn't hurt or kill people, but John Gotti wouldn't be having 20 year old's doing his hits...

I don't blame him...He's gotta make living like everyone else, and he's just telling the media what they wanna here

Larry Mazza is a bum...Has Linda Schiro ever said a bad word about him ?? And he talks about her like she was cheap trash...Without her he's a nobody still delivering groceries !!

When I first saw Calandra on tv like 10 years ago, I said why do they have him on ?? But, he much more believable

Franzese: The biggest con artist on line !!

Ya know who comes out looking the best ?? Sammy...The biggest killer of them all, and because he's not exaggerating what he was..if anything he's downplaying it all

Podcast Beefs have taken over Street Beefs as the new norm in the age of the internet. Underworld B-Listers are bickering like gangster rappers trying to get some street cred.
First Jimmy went off on Larry and Alite and called them out for being bullshitters.
Then, Larry responded this morning
Then Jimmy answered back this afternoon.
Tomorrow Alite is supposed to put in his 2 cents about Jimmy
Sammy is going to have to do a sit down with everybody so they cam work things out

Alite actually claimed in the last interview that he taught Gene Gotti "Cosa Nostra".

Does anyone here believe Jimmy Calandra when he says that he pushed Gene Gotti in prison?

From what Ive heard in the podcasts, John Alite says Jimmy Calandra "slapped" Gene Gotti. Calandra denies ever putting his hands on Gene only saying they had an argument and got into each other's faces.

Alite says he ordered Calandra to slap Gene, which he did, then cried hysterically and got himself put in the whole to avoid payback. Personally, the Calandra version sounds alot more believable.

I dont any of these guys personally, but Alite sounds more and more like a bullshitter. Especially now that he claims to have "taught gene cosa nostra"...[according to the commenters], Gene Gotti pled not guilty and did his time while Alite turned rat.

What Alite actually said in his book was that HE HIMSELF slapped Gene Gotti, which is complete bullshit and so is him saying he taught Gene Cosa Nostra. Alite was a teenager when Gene Gotti was made.....
Alite also said he killed a dozen people...Alite pled guilty to 4 murders,one of which he actually pulled the trigger...

He did make that claim, but I believe he clarified as remind Gene of the rules.

Alite is making a career of talking and that leads to embellishment. His testimony in Gotti Junior may have been comprised directly out of pure hatred. Overall, he has way more legitimacy than Calandra; did work; did Hard time in Hard prisons.

@DetroitPartnership-Does this guy, Gunnar Alan Lindbloom, who's hosting the podcast for Larry Mazza and Alite to respond to Calandra. He says he's out of Motor City and is connected there. Does his name ring a bell?

Alite was like 13 or 14 years old when Gene Gotti got inducted into the Gambino Family at age 30. Alite is full of shit

He's signing baseball bats while claiming he is the 90s version of Roy DeMeo. He kill r a few low level drug dealers. In his mind he is a modern day Queens version of Capone. Except Capone wasn't a rat bastard

If you go back to Jr's trial the jurors when interviewed stated that the reason they did not convict was because they did not believe his stories.

From day-1 he has been full of shit.

He is a real PITTY-PARTY
LMAO

Full of shit. All these guys found themselves a good racket now though. It’s unbelievable how gullible their audiences are. Jimmy Calandra at least seems like the most honest about things… transparent that he’s doing this to make $ to feed his family, don’t make himself out to be some criminal mastermind and seems like the only one who legitimately regrets messing his life up. Everybody else is in a pissing contest for who was the biggest toughest most connected mob guy.

As a tough guy and a killer John rat fuck Alite would win every time. I don't doubt that he embellishes his stories but they all do. I do know that Jimmy Calandra lied his ass off when he testified against Tony Spero, this is a fact. An innocent man died in prison. No tapes, no forensics, nothing. It was all lies

I agree Alite would climb up and down Calandra. What was Calandra's testimony?

Sammy Gravano just posted the murder of Alan Kaiser. It is a hell of a story and to hear him describe it is riveting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfbfSEIQuIQ

I'm John Alite, heroin dealer and killer for John Gotti...Comical !!

Yeah Gravano didn't mention that was the Kaiser kid in underboss.I have heard the family over the years and read things they have said about the murder never knew that was the incident.I think I read that whole thing was the basis for the biker scene in A Bronx Tale.

I despise every one of these rats, but those of you who believe Alite was a nobody who didn't know Sr. or never killed for him don't know much about the reality of the situation. That is actually more comical than Alite's embellishments

Alite didn't kill nobody for Gotti Sr., piece of shit.

Alite is such a bad fraud that even the other rats are onto his bull shit and calling him out for being a bull shit artist.


Alite killed for Sr. ???? first of all he would have had to disclose that in his 302's
And came clean with the feds and basically told on himself and whoever else was involved.

That never came up in the charges he plead to.

What a joke

See what is happening here he has an audience of people all over the word from butt fuck where ever
These people honestly dont know any better

They were actually never around any of this and don't know anything about LCN.
So they will believe anything and anyone

Anyone that has been around knows Alite is a FRAUD.

What was he doing around Zef? Danny Pagano? Joe Sclafani? Fat Andy? He was there until 2003. Who are you people? I'm no fan of this rat, but you guys sound like you've never been around anyone in that life

Wish i still had those beeper numbers.
LoL

I would beep Bath ave Boys and many of those guys weekly for blow in the 80s.

De[pending on who returned call first would set up the meet up, mostly on 18th Ave.
Sometimes it was best to get one guy or the other since some did not have the time to cut it and it would be really good blow.
Others would step on it like a door mat, it was still ok but not like that 80p stuff.

I’d take a few hits and head over to the Red door on McDonald ave or the joint over by New Utrecht HS
Whoa’s, Card games, play a number.

The Good Old DAYZ.

OH YEAH….would never think I would listen to Jimmy blabber on-line about neighborhood stories but dam,,, they are good.

He needs to make his own style ( not sammy’s) - and he will.

Good Stuff

Jimmy Kimmel is a total fag. Replace that piece of shit talk show with late night with Jimmy Calandra.

Jimmy C. has by far the best and believable style of any of this rat pack, just my two cents. I haven't seen any of his videos in a week cause I'm in Yellowstone this week but as of a week ago I was really enjoying his stories....just like us without as many murders and made guys and not the same outcome but I get a good feeling when Jimmy talks about the old days because it was pretty much the same thing then in Boston...just more irish..

Calandra VS Alite

Hand to hand? Alite seems like a tough guy, talks like a tough guy. That doesnt necessarily mean anything but I saw that he was involved in some boxing promotions. He says he trains and has a background in boxing. Looks like he's in shape. I wouldnt be surprised if he could back that big mouth of his up a little bit.

Calandra claims to train BJJ regularly. If true I'd give him the advantage over Alite because its tough to beat a BJJ guy. BUT he mispronounced Jiu jitsu several times. Anyone who has done BJJ knows how brutally taxing it is to practice. Its not like going out for a game of golf a couple of time a week. You are being moderately traumatized at every class until you toughen up. It seems unlikely that somebody who's gone through that process could mispronounce something so significant. Also Jimmy looks a little soft for a guy who is rolling regularly.

Im going to give the hand to hand to Alite.


On the streets/back in the day. I dont think there is any question that Alite moved in higher circles but I dont believe he was any where NEAR what he claims to have been. Dont forget Alite is a few years older than Jimmy so he was running with bigger dogs. Calandra was a kid. His crowd were tough street kids. To his credit he never claims anything more.

Street cred/back in the day...I'll call it a tie or a "no contest". Apples and oranges.


Podcast/story telling; To be honest here I cant listen to Alite. He's just unlikeable to me. He reminds me of some guys I knew in the old days, that bullshitting tough mouth type...it just turns me off. Also he has been exposed in some lies or at least challenged by multiple people.

Jimmy Calandra is more likeable. His stories are interesting but seem realistic. He also reminds me of guys I used to know but in a less annoying way.

For podcast/storytelling; Calandra

Alite's no friggin boxer lol...Just more bs...He ran out of a bar and hid in a sewer rather then fight like a man...Does that sound like a tough guy ??

I'll give him that he stays in shape, but he's 5 feet nothing..He'd get hammered by anybody that knows how to fight

John Alite and his body guard, get the facts

http://johnalitefacts.com/

Well we might find out as Calandra just challenged Alite to a "cage match" on his podcast...LOL!

I hope they fight and both die as a result. Two less lowlife rats

Lol...Well let the little midget respond and lets see how tough he is..If you're gonna talk the talk, back it up !!

To be fair , Alite is about 59 years old. Asking for a cage match or even a fight is absolutely ridiculous. It comes across as trashy and ignorant.

He can't throw a punch and has zero athletic ability.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwpHytzljME/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwpHun1lWm3/

Lol, he does look pretty goofy there.
Here's another where he looks a little better but he definitely needs to hit the treadmill and the heavy bag.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxr9CIhlPyj/?utm_medium=share_sheet

A heavy bag doesnt fight back.
Whether he beats Alite or Alite wins, its sleazy and so fuckin immature it isnt even funny.

Robbing drug addicts, drug dealers, stabbing people in bars because they looked like easy targets, committing home invasions, carrying pistals….
I dont know but isnt that evil and kind of a cowardly act? I think about my cousin who joined the marine corps right after 911 just so he can go and fight defending our country, He was shot at and 2 guys in his platoon were killed. Thats bravery, thats honor. Not some two bit spoiled brat walking around robbing weak people.

1000% correct Lenox

link doesn't work

He's now trolling these sites. He just shut down his Instagram and made private.

Lmfao, oh yeah he's trolling this thread because his names on it.
C'mon Jimmy, you gotta grow thick skin if you put your business on the net, just like the street bro. Now that covid's history you can start training seriously, it's good for your health and you get back to fighting shape.

I'm trying to contrast his brawling stories versus he slinging like my niece. He has one video out on his page where an old man confronts him about tape-recording in the old neighborhood. The old man has no idea who he is despite Calandra prodding him to remember. He was reduced to bringing up his mother's name. Then he brought up all the others - the old man remembered them, not him - but left out they're doing their time and he ratted his way out.

Update: John Alite just put out an open challenge on Twitter to Jr. Gotti to step in the ring. Alite has an open invite from Calandra to brawl the man dissing him but instead challenges someone he knows won't accept. Maybe I had it all wrong.

Alite is saying that Calandra is beneath him....Jr is more his level and they can do it for PPV

I dont care if Jr could kick the shit out of Alite blind folded, it would be fuckin ridiculous to engage in a fight at their ages. Alite is a fuckin idiot and so is Calandra. They act like two 14 year olds, its embarrassing.
Calandra and Alite are acting like joey buttafuoco and Jose Canseco. Say what you want about Jr Gotti but he isnt engaging in this childish, low IQ nonsense.

It makes more sense also. Alite and Gotti Jr are close in age and appear to be close in height and weight also. I'd watch that lol

I think JR has about 2 inches in height on Alite.

Hey Bernard Hopkins was champ of the world at what? 55? Tyson and Jones just fought, both in their 50's. I've met some old timers that would tear you limb from limb without breaking a sweat. I say let'em fight of they want to.

Also, short guys have been knocking tall guys out since man first started boxing so Alite being a little on the short side seems like a non-issue.

Have them all play Russian roulette with fully loaded guns. They'll all be winners.