I have to pay a compliment to researcher Ed Valin. I just read an investigative story he wrote for his website that uncovered veteran NYC-based hoodlum Florio (Flo) Isabella as a longtime FBI confidential informant.

This was excellent work, Ed. I enjoyed the piece very much...Bravo!

Valin tries to paint everyone as an informant.

Florio Isabella did a lot of time, and had appeals turned down by the government, he does not sound like an informer.

Talking of informants, I'm just starting to read the Sicilian Ronsisvalles book.
First name mentioned is a Gambino capo called Giuseppe Mirabile.
I've never heard the name and nothing comes up on search.

Any info on this name? Guess it's circa 1980s /late 70s.

That name is unfamiliar to me as well. He was probably a Gambino "Zip" from the other side who was largely unknown in the USA. Ive heard of a Vito Mirabile, who was a Bonanno, but not Giuseppe.

Thanks NYMafia, I thought if anyone knows it would be you.
Did the cherry hill Gambinos have anything to do with the pizza connection guys or were they completely separate operations? Sicilian families?

"The Pizza Connection" case, and the indicted defendants who later stood trial in that case, were, almost to a man, Sicilian-born and affiliated with the Bonanno Family and their Sicilian-based affiliates. But there were a few others such as the DeCavalcante Family's Frank Polizzi and a few mafiosi from the midwest also involved.

But what I can also say with certainty is that many of those very same defendants operated from Brooklyn, along Knickerbocker Avenue, and metro NYC, and were on extremely friendly terms, if "compare," with their Sicilian-born Gambino Family counterparts from 18th Avenue in Brooklyn.

So I'd absolutely bet my bottom dollar that at one time or another, either here or back in Sicily, they cooperated, if not worked together, on occasion.