ButtonGuys and Mob Fireside Chat proudly present:

"Bad Times in Coney Island - The Violent Life and Death of Colombo Family Mobster Anthony (Fat Tony) Regina"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u43W5Qq8124

Well researched and informative.
Great production and narration.
Top-notch as usual.
Well done !!

Glad you enjoyed it so much, LP. Thank you. I'm sure that Lisa will be happy to hear your review too.

Thanks, Lou. Appreciate the kind words. I thought it was a very interesting story full of twists and turns. Glad you enjoyed it!

Really well done. Highly recommended!

Thanks for the shout out JimmyTT. We appreciate it.

Lisa did an especially good job with this video. At over 20 minutes in length, I think it ranks as a "mini-movie" production. It should be on Netflix. Lol.

Found time to watch this last night and all I can say is, another great job guys and thanks for all of the cool information. Just look at the number of views!!!! (take that you mob diggers' podcasts or whatever ) Cheers to both Lisa and TOG and keep up the good work!!!

Lol. You're a funny guy, you know that TD? Glad you enjoyed it.

Yeah, this video is a real home run. It hit over 15,000 views in one single day.

"We're moving up, Danny boy."

Lol. We certainly are buddy boy.

I’d say better than a lot of the junk on Netflix!

Nicely said Jimmy

Thank you Jimmy. Thats a real nice compliment...Grazie!

Thanks Jimmy Two Times. Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks TD!

Awesome job Lisa! You are a natural!

A very interesting video!

In your opinion, did Getch lie about Regina and Battista or was he truthful? I he lied, who do you think really committed the murder?

Thanks Jimmy Two Times. Appreciate the kind words once again.

I don't think Getch was being entirely truthful. And the entire thing was convoluted. Regina was driving....held the wheel with his left hand and the gun with his right. Battista was in the back seat behind Regina but nowhere could I find any information about him shooting, holding a gun, or anything - just that he was in the car- even in the very limited court documents. And Getch was able to describe all these details but not recognize the supposed third person in the car sitting in the passenger side.

He also said the car was tan then it was black. Louise Mangiamelli said the car was green but at some point Getch had supposedly told her to say the car was green and he would say the car was black. And the fact that the prosecution wouldn't put her on the stand. There were other contradictions in Getch's testimony as well. And I guess I don't understand why Regina would drive up alongside to shoot and not drive up so that the 3rd unidentified passenger could shoot and Regina could focus on driving the car not driving and shooting. What was the purpose of the third passenger?

Do I think Regina was in the car? Probably. But I'm not sure about Battista. He had several solid witnesses testify on his behalf whereas Regina only had his wife.

Who could have been in the car?? Scarpa? I'm kidding. I have no idea, but it's not totally out of the question.

During one of their appeals, an assistant DA said that he and the main prosecutor and a couple of others pressured Getch to inform and finger Regina and Battista...but the others denied that happened and the appeal was denied. And then you have Getch's mom which I guess considering she didn't come forward until 6 years after Getch was murdered is kind of fishy but maybe Getch really did tell her he lied and she really didn't want to come forward and was pressured to do so which is why it took so long. It's not inconceivable that "facts" were made up to fit an agenda...we've seen it with Barboza in Boston and even most recently with Frank Locascio and Gravano coming forward.

And at the time Valachi had just exposed Cosa Nostra and this was a perfect type of event to showcase the murderous tendencies of the "evil" Mafia even if the Gallo-Profaci war had been going on for some time by then. And there was a woman involved., too. Didn't matter if her husband was a gangster. So, it was a publicity boon for the government and wouldn't look good if they couldn't find someone to prosecute even if it wasn't the actual people who did it - and by that I mean Battista.

So, like I said, it's all very convoluted.

Getch had also said he first recognized Regina because he saw him in some wall of Rogues or book of Rogues that Larry Gallo had of Profaci enemies and then said he only saw him a couple of times on President street back when he (Regina) was on the Gallo side. So, there's just a lot of inconsistencies IMO. And again, no mention of Battista anywhere...like he just appeared out of nowhere.

I take that back about Regina's wife being the only one who testified on his behalf. There was a woman who also testified who had supposedly been having a phone conversation with Regina at the time of the shooting and they had pulled phone records that showed there was indeed a call at that time. But obviously, just because a call was made doesn't mean it was Regina talking to this woman. It could have been Regina's wife talking to her...but still....

It was a very high profile and interesting case that took center stage in the news back then. Thats for sure.