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Have u ever met a mobster? #950756
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Feel free to share a story about meeting a member of organized crime. Me personally, ive never actually met a mobster. However ik someone who worked at a restaurant once owned by john gambino. And my father once met colombo soldier mike sessa at a wedding in the 1980’s. I was told that john gambino was nice and barely spoke any english at the time, and that mike sessa was very quite.

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Easyest way to answer your question would be for you to look up some of my old posts under The LaRocca Family in Pittsburgh.


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Originally Posted by Zero6245
Feel free to share a story about meeting a member of organized crime. Me personally, ive never actually met a mobster. However ik someone who worked at a restaurant once owned by john gambino. And my father once met colombo soldier mike sessa at a wedding in the 1980’s. I was told that john gambino was nice and barely spoke any english at the time, and that mike sessa was very quite.


I met John Gotti and oh boy was he handsome!

Re: Have u ever met a mobster? [Re: Zero6245] #950815
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About 1 month ago I shook hands with a made guy who came home after doing 27 years , knew him back in the late 70s early 80s. he went in in the 90s. came out a couple years ago. Told me his Parole Officer follows him all the time. I hope that I 'am not a "Associate " now !


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Re: Have u ever met a mobster? [Re: Zero6245] #950817
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I've met and seen quite a few over the years. I saw Sonny Franzese at a restaurant in Little Italy many, many years ago. He had a whole bunch of wiseguys and wannabes in tow. That actor who played Phil Leotardo on the Sopranos was with him.

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I know whole bunch of organized crime members in my country.


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Re: Have u ever met a mobster? [Re: Zero6245] #950819
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I know someone with the word "gangster" tattooed on his stomach. A distinctive mark that helped police identify him after he took off his top and assaulted a couple of strangers one night.

He probably wouldn't make the cut with the Genovese crime family.


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Originally Posted by Moe_Tilden
I know someone with the word "gangster" tattooed on his stomach. A distinctive mark that helped police identify him after he took off his top and assaulted a couple of strangers one night.

He probably wouldn't make the cut with the Genovese crime family.

Lol

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Originally Posted by ralphie_cifaretto
I've met and seen quite a few over the years. I saw Sonny Franzese at a restaurant in Little Italy many, many years ago. He had a whole bunch of wiseguys and wannabes in tow. That actor who played Phil Leotardo on the Sopranos was with him.


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Met one when i was a kid as an altar boy. I served a funeral mass for a relative of his. Back then when you served a funeral or a wedding or a funeral the family would give you some money(not much maybe 5 dollars each or 10 if you were lucky. This guy came to the back and thanked my friend and i personally and gave us 100 each. This was like 30 years ago so that was a lot. We were later told he was in the mafia and the way he dressed and spoke we knew he was.

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I met Turkish oc once apart from that when I was a kid I was involved with this or witnessed should I say - https://www.scotsman.com/news/dealer-is-told-to-pay-back-163-190k-1-1244012

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Look up old posts.....I wrote 1 a yr. or so ago about Tory Scafidi...lots of members here have but were not going 2 replay an old post sonny.


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Originally Posted by hoodlum
Look up old posts.....I wrote 1 a yr. or so ago about Tory Scafidi...lots of members here have but were not going 2 replay an old post sonny.

And I used 2 "just kinda know" some fellows but I'm def not going into that...


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Re: Have u ever met a mobster? [Re: Zero6245] #950919
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If you define mobster as "someone involved in crime on an above average organized scale", yeah I've met and known a couple. I think most who got any interest in this topic have. That being said I've come across way more lowlife petty scumbags than actual "mobsters".

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Originally Posted by TheKillingJoke
If you define mobster as "someone involved in crime on an above average organized scale", yeah I've met and known a couple. I think most who got any interest in this topic have. That being said I've come across way more lowlife petty scumbags than actual "mobsters".


Most of the local pubs here were full of 'penose' on anyday or you will see them at the amateur football clubs.


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In my media role (my job) I worked directly with Michael Franzese for a day. He was nice.

It seems to me that Italian gangsters - and their Catholicism? - makes them far nicer than many OC criminals and gangsters.

Some OC organizations are nothing more than animals or gorillas who only understand pain and violence. By comparison, the Italians seem to 'keep their cool' and fly beneath the radar or underneath the cover of darkness entirely.


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Originally Posted by Hollander
Originally Posted by TheKillingJoke
If you define mobster as "someone involved in crime on an above average organized scale", yeah I've met and known a couple. I think most who got any interest in this topic have. That being said I've come across way more lowlife petty scumbags than actual "mobsters".


Most of the local pubs here were full of 'penose' on anyday or you will see them at the amateur football clubs.


I live close to both the North Brabant and Limburg provinces. There's definitely a few faces from those places as well as from South Holland that settle down in my region from time to time. They're always on the move though.

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Originally Posted by night_timer
It seems to me that Italian gangsters - and their Catholicism? - makes them far nicer than many OC criminals and gangsters.

Some OC organizations are nothing more than animals or gorillas who only understand pain and violence. By comparison, the Italians seem to 'keep their cool' and fly beneath the radar or underneath the cover of darkness entirely.


That's just a thought. It isn't rare to come across a career criminal - regardless of ethnicity or background - that acts amicable. Many, especially the reasonably "successful" ones, are polite enough. Until you give them a reason not to be polite, which doesn't even mean that you disrespected them. If you can be useful in any way, but you don't allow your usefulness to be easily exploited, the perceived politeness can quickly make way for some less pleasant tendencies. Things like these only really happen when you're in too deep with them already; casual talk won't get this far.
Italian gangsters aren't any different from any other kind of gangsters and can turn savage as quick as the other.

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I Grew up in Gravesend, Lived in Bensonhurst and Canarsie..Business in Howard Beach and Ozone Park..Don't know anyone...LOL..

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I got flipped off by johnny chang does that count?lol

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Originally Posted by mikeyballs211
I got flipped off by johnny chang does that count?lol




"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
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Originally Posted by TheKillingJoke
Originally Posted by night_timer
It seems to me that Italian gangsters - and their Catholicism? - makes them far nicer than many OC criminals and gangsters.

Some OC organizations are nothing more than animals or gorillas who only understand pain and violence. By comparison, the Italians seem to 'keep their cool' and fly beneath the radar or underneath the cover of darkness entirely.


That's just a thought. It isn't rare to come across a career criminal - regardless of ethnicity or background - that acts amicable. Many, especially the reasonably "successful" ones, are polite enough. Until you give them a reason not to be polite, which doesn't even mean that you disrespected them. If you can be useful in any way, but you don't allow your usefulness to be easily exploited, the perceived politeness can quickly make way for some less pleasant tendencies. Things like these only really happen when you're in too deep with them already; casual talk won't get this far.
Italian gangsters aren't any different from any other kind of gangsters and can turn savage as quick as the other.


If you think an Irish Traveller is being friendly to you then they are probably scoping you out and seeing if/how they can scam you. I'm sure it's the same with other criminals. Always thinking about the next con.


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Originally Posted by mikeyballs211
I got flipped off by johnny chang does that count?lol


Whenever I'm watching the Philly related videos I'm struck by how easy it is to get footage of these guys standing around outside their haunts. It's like they have nothing better to do than stand around mean mugging people while all the other adults are at work. It's kind of sad in a way.


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Originally Posted by Moe_Tilden
Originally Posted by mikeyballs211
I got flipped off by johnny chang does that count?lol


Whenever I'm watching the Philly related videos I'm struck by how easy it is to get footage of these guys standing around outside their haunts. It's like they have nothing better to do than stand around mean mugging people while all the other adults are at work. It's kind of sad in a way.


They have no human class whatsoever

That's how they still let merlino be their boss

They look pretty much like a streetgang or biker gang

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Originally Posted by Moe_Tilden
Originally Posted by mikeyballs211
I got flipped off by johnny chang does that count?lol


Whenever I'm watching the Philly related videos I'm struck by how easy it is to get footage of these guys standing around outside their haunts. It's like they have nothing better to do than stand around mean mugging people while all the other adults are at work. It's kind of sad in a way.



What!!! The thread is about meeting mobsters, you jump in with biased opinion. Mugging people? I mean, they are in front of a club, and FBI is sipping away with cameras.
If you are on the street with a friend talking, and people were paid to take your picture every day, your picture would be taken. Have you ever met a mobster? No, you just wwant to vent and preach. It got tiresome long ago.

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I said MEAN MUGGING. Not mugging. Learn to read.

A bunch of overweight adult white men standing outside social clubs, cafes and restaurants glaring at passersby during the middle of the day, when they should be working, is kind of pathetic.

Do catch up.


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Originally Posted by Moe_Tilden
Originally Posted by TheKillingJoke
Originally Posted by night_timer
It seems to me that Italian gangsters - and their Catholicism? - makes them far nicer than many OC criminals and gangsters.

Some OC organizations are nothing more than animals or gorillas who only understand pain and violence. By comparison, the Italians seem to 'keep their cool' and fly beneath the radar or underneath the cover of darkness entirely.


That's just a thought. It isn't rare to come across a career criminal - regardless of ethnicity or background - that acts amicable. Many, especially the reasonably "successful" ones, are polite enough. Until you give them a reason not to be polite, which doesn't even mean that you disrespected them. If you can be useful in any way, but you don't allow your usefulness to be easily exploited, the perceived politeness can quickly make way for some less pleasant tendencies. Things like these only really happen when you're in too deep with them already; casual talk won't get this far.
Italian gangsters aren't any different from any other kind of gangsters and can turn savage as quick as the other.


If you think an Irish Traveller is being friendly to you then they are probably scoping you out and seeing if/how they can scam you. I'm sure it's the same with other criminals. Always thinking about the next con.


Irish Travellers run some of the most moronic scams in existence. A year ago I was at a gas station and there were two relatively young Irish guys in a van asking EVERYONE who stopped at the gas station for whatever money they had because they missed the boat and weren't able to pay for their trip back to Ireland and blablablabla. Most people aren't all that streetwise and they ended up giving them a bill of 5 euros or 10 euros. They were very friendly, in a pleading way, while asking for the money, but when someone gave them money, they just took it, turned around without a single "thank you" and immediately went on to the next person.
I told them to fuck off. Which they thankfully did without much of a problem.

These kind of low level petty scams are a nuisance to everybody. I'd say that the vast majority of higher echelon criminals are rarely a personal nuisance to the average civilian - exceptions do exist of course and when there are "conflicting business interests" it's best to play ball if you want to avoid a bad outcome. Though most people that are sucked dry by them are those that are, even in the slightest way, connected to "The Game" themselves. Now these aren't necessarily serious gangsters themselves. They can be regular businessmen that asked them for a favor in the past - everybody knows they don't do favors for free and this means that they'll stick to you like a glue and once you're into deep there's no way back. You have to be very careful about l how far you're willing to go with them; a sporadic greeting isn't a problem, but once you give them the impression you owe them something, it's often too late to rewind.

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A lot of their scams are pretty moronic but not all of them. Credit where it's due: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uk...lty-of-60-million-rhino-horn-thefts.html

I knew a guy who bought a state of the art TV from them in a car park outside a petrol station. After they all leave, he opens the box containing the TV and there's a massive hole in the middle of the screen.


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Originally Posted by Moe_Tilden
A lot of their scams are pretty moronic but not all of them. Credit where it's due: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uk...lty-of-60-million-rhino-horn-thefts.html

I knew a guy who bought a state of the art TV from them in a car park outside a petrol station. After they all leave, he opens the box containing the TV and there's a massive hole in the middle of the screen.


Yeah that theft was all over the news. Most of the time you hear about Travellers it's mostly some annoying home renovation scam.

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