Does anybody know if Frank Cullotta is repeated to current outfit capo Joseph"Joe Kong"Cullotta ?

Don't know...

Frank Calabrese Jr talked about Culotta being played by Frank Vincent in Casino in his book, Operation Family Secrets.

In Goodfellas, Assistant US Attorney Ed McDonald played himself. You can read about him here. He was considered as one of the best lawyers by many.



If you look closely, McDonald can be spotted in the end of the Nicky Scarfo's 1982 testimony.

Culotta is in the movie Casino. He is the one who shoots the guy while he was getting in his car in the snow towards the end of the movie. He also is the one who hunts down and kill the guy in Costa Rica. If my memory serves me right. He is acting what he did in real life. Talk about art imitating life.

Except that Culotta didn't have anything to do with the Spilotro brother's murders. In a few interviews he's talked about how didn't understand why they were beaten to death instead of just being shot.

I wonder what ever happened to the rest of the "Hole in the Wall Gang"? If you look at pics of the gang Culotta looks like one of the older members. Obviously those guys were just run of the mill criminals and not a part of LCN but it would still be interesting to see what they are doing today. They played a role in LCN history for sure.

Hollywood actor Alex Rocco was born Alexander F Petricone in Boston.Mass Petricone was known by the nickname “Bobo” in his early years as a hard fisted hood in the infamous Winter Hill Gang
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According to Vincent Teresa in “My Life in the Mafia,” it was Rocco whose girlfriend Charlestown mobster Georgie McLaughlin tried to pick up on Labor Day weekend 1961, setting off the bloody Irish Gang War.
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Rocco was arrested along with Winter Hill boss, Buddy McLean, as a suspect in the October 1961 murder of a gangster but was never charged.

.Petricone then bolted out of bullet riddled Boston and moved to Sunny California in 1962, and began using the name Alex Rocco. . He took acting classes and lost weight..

Rocco made his movie bones and scored the solid-gold role of Mobster,Moe Green, in the Godfather. The Winter Hill Mobs most famous felons watched the movie and rooted for Moe Green to whack out Michael Corleone. Alex Rocco also played in The Friends of Eddie Coyle strarring Robert Mitchum.
Alex was a bartender in a watering hole named the Raincheck room in Hollywood.

There is no such person as Joe "Kong" Cullotta. There is such a person as Joe "Kong" Calato. The CCC misspelled Calato's name years ago and it's been used since repeatedly.

Not a lot of people know this, but after Spilotro was killed, Joe Ferriola sent another guy to take his place and that person was Bobby Dominic. Despite the skim going away, the Outfit still had control of a lot of businesses in Vegas and Bobby stayed out there until at least the mid 1990s when Joey Cusumano and his brother Sam became the Outfit's main man in Vegas.

For those who live in Chicago and know the bar on Grand/Halstead "Richards," well that is owned by Bobby (who usually holds court in the back room) and there are pictures there of Bobby alongside Joe Cusumano.

Some of the Hole-In-The Wall Gang are active today...Peter Basille (who I believe is made in the Cicero crew) being the main one. He is the illegitimate son of Willie Messino and definitely not someone to fuck with.

Richards is a good place. After a while the late night crowd can get on your nerves pretty quickly though. Good place to stop in during the day. I'm not big on being surrounded by young people when I am out to have a good time.