just seen the show posted.im taking a look now

very well done, only thing is they never ask about events of the mob. these guys could give some great info

Mangiavillano was involved in the plot to kill Gravano.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/15/nyregion/killing-gravano-is-hard-witness-explains-to-jury.html

I hope McDonald continues to interview people we haven't heard from yet for future shows. There's plenty to choose from.

Was this guy a made member?

That wedding was something out of the film my blue heaven!

he was in the plot to kill gravano, no he never got made.

This Mangiavillano must be the Fat Sal who sits unrecognizable in the shadows in that NatGeo series Inside the American Mob. He must feel more comfortable these days, since he's literally stepping out of the shadows.

same guy Billy,

Isn't Fat Sal a computer geek who would brake into bank and jewelry store alarm systems?

Hello Bean .., he is not a geek, that was somebody creating that. he was in the street his whole life, he had the guy who knew how to disarm the alarms..

I thought this was a good two-part doc.

Not venting, just stating the facts. All your words and only one sentence dealt with a rebuttal. And Scarpa was a rat, besides I don't have idols. Let's get back to the facts smart guy. The only real meaningful question in your drunken rant. The question, what does he have on Scarpa to rat on him. This is a 2 part answer. #1. Dejani mentioned some of the illegal things Scarpa was into and a general description of his loansharking operation. #2. Didn't matter if the Dr. knew jack shit about his illegal activities, the mere fact of you saying you're going to rat to the Feds on a wiseguy is enough to motivate them to whack you. Waiting for your response. Hope it is more intelligent than your last posts.

You offered not one bit of historical or factual statement in your post. Basically all you said (as with many of your posts)
is "My mouth is all over Bronx nut sack no matter what he says".

Speak for yourself and do your own research. Don't resign yourself to be a co-signing parrot for the rest of your days. Thank You!

You really don't know that much about Spero in his younger years do you? As a young man he was violent and a loose cannon and came very close to being whacked. Do you know anything about that?

i get it now your from mississippi ,do you know where bklyn is..? open a law book, you need to be a loanshark victim,was he? no he was not..next is being in the mafia is not a crime..fbi does need to be inform by a dr. that a guy is a criminal they know that already..greg killed him because he didn't like the taste of the guys dick..now when you want to learn something on this site, be sensible and stop trying to tell posters that live in that area ,what you know is wiki ..so i will not answer you, you have no clue and don't care to learn..now go watch good fellows .for the umpteen time..so start your punk ass insults I'm sure the board wants to hear them..

i just finished watching both episodes he had mikey scars and Russo who was involved in the colombo wars and instead of asking then questions about their crimes he asked them about their family and marriage.What a wasted opportunity

It was a doc about the wives and family and what the life meant to them, not about the men. I thought it was very good and showed the women in another way as for example mob wives.

It's good that he is asking these women aswell.It could be a disaster if he'd spoken to the Drita's and Karen gravanos of this world.

very true.

That was frigging bizarre. That guy involved in the Wall Street scam, there is no way he was made with the Gambino family? He came off as a real clown.

I know he was into robbing banks, I think the alarms is true too. I remember reading in one of the books he's originally from Argentina and after one of bids he got deported, he supposedly swam back into the US from Canada.

I was wrong, he used a jet ski to cross the Niagara River.

http://nypost.com/2012/06/21/plan-to-put-a-hit-on-bull/

on the spot.Gerry

Yeah i know it was about the wives but it would of been way more interesting if instead it was about the wives he just did a doco on the guys them selves the sad thing is its probably going to be 5 more years till a new doc comes along.

You live in New York, I live in Mississippi. That is a fact. Your reasoning for Scarpa killing Dr. Scholnick was because Greg Scarpa Sr sucked Scholnick's dick and didn't like the taste? Okay if you say so. I disagree. It really burns your ass a dumb redneck knows more than you do doesn't it? I never reference WIKI. Mainly FBI documents, witness documents, and people close to the source like oh I don't know, Scarpa Jr, Linda Schiro, Larry Mazza, Lyn DeVecchio, Tony Villano, Ed Mcdonald etc etc. Unless if course you were closer to the action than those guys. Anyways, my statement on the Scholnick murder is stated in these many posts, yours is Scarpa sucked the Drs dick, didn't like the taste so killed him. Working out excellent for me so far. Next case. Would you like to open the topic or should I?

His wife stood 100% by him though. At first I thought she was nothing but a golddigger, but she is a very loyal wife and loving mother, she did everything she could to try to keep the family together.

That part when Sir Trevor asked her how much money she asked Sal when she wanted to go shopping was pretty funny. Straight outta GoodFellas, à la Karen Hill lol

agree Billy

Romano was an associate of DiLeonardo. And his real-life demeanor is much more quiet and sly than on-camera in this documentary. In fact, I do not recall his eyes being blue the time that I encountered him. Perhaps he wears fake lenses.

See this discussion in earlier thread, where I mentioned seeing Romano, DiLeonardo, Alite at restaurant = http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthr...3452#Post903452

I would not be surprised if Sal were still somehow involved in massive frauds with mob-backing. Look at what his brother Mario is up to =
http://wealthgenerators.com/leadership/

Mario Romano making his sales pitch =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6W2UvarAgA

And the "flashier" sales pitch =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLvoMZkedyg

Romano is of course a very common surname. But it is worth noting that a certain Giuseppe Romano was a central figure in some of the earliest financial crimes of the American mafia, involving the printing of counterfeit dollars

Sal Romano mentions to Trevor McDonald that his father, Dominic Romano, was a "mafia accountant." In fact, his father seems to have raised all of his children to be financial swindlers.

Sal Romano was " . . . barred from the securities industry because of a mail fraud and conspiracy conviction in 1992, in which he and other members of his family -- including his brother, Dino Romano, father, Dominic Sr. and sister, Bianca Romano -- were charged with running a loan brokerage out of Willowbrook that scammed applicants across the country out of more than $1 million"

See http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2007/10/dad_accused_of_clocking_sons_f.html

Sal Romano is today about 49 or 50 years old. This means that in 1992 he was only 24 or 25 years old, and I would assume that he hatched the scheme at an even younger age

Good insight, Dom.

Enjoyed the second one too. Especially since it covered rats we don't often hear about. Thanks for the info on Romano dominic_calabrese.

Anthony Russo's daughter is hot.

I could watch her walk all day long.

That ass.....

I hate to see her go but love to watch her leave @ 37:19.