Truman Capote, the late, famous American novelist and playwright, once said, “Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.” A more than perfect observation of what took place in New York and various outlier areas of north-eastern America in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as a New York-based Mafia Family, which had gone through a massive upheaval in the 1960s tearing itself apart and trying to reassemble the fractured pieces, made the headlines again.

The lead players ended up in prison or dead, lives would be destroyed, families ruptured, and one very odd, weird event would stamp the seal on the final, third act, long after the play had closed.

Read the entire story detaling the rise and fall of men like Salvatore Catalano, Giuseppe Ganci, Baldo Amato, Cesare Bonventre, and Gaetano Badalamenti on Gangsters Inc. https://gangstersinc.org/blog/blood-and-money-when-they-fell-bringing-down-the-zips

Thanks, good to see Thom is still writing.

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He's got his own section at Gangsters Inc. titled Mob Corner: https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/thom-l-jones-mob-corner