My favorite: Anthony Cantalupo, president of a real estate company that "employed" Joe Columbo as a $20k/year "salesman," told a crime commission that his star "salesman" "...has the sincerest group of clients. They don't try to cheat him out of his commissions."
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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#1086473 03/27/2406:31 AM03/27/2406:31 AM
"When I sell liquor, they call it bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, they call it hospitality." - Alphonse (Scarface Al) Capone
“I’ve graduated from ten universities of hard knocks, and I’ve learned the definition of a ‘racketeer’ is anyone who attempts to accumulate wealth, power and prestige, at the expense of entrenched wealth, power and prestige. - The iconic...the one and only...Francesco Saverio (Frank Costello) Castiglia
"You know, if you have a barrel of apples and one of them is rotten, it has to be removed or it'll touch and ruin the rest of the apples." - Vito Genovese (in his prison cell with soldier Joe Valachi, subtly letting Valachi know he’s marked for death.)
“I’ve graduated from ten universities of hard knocks, and I’ve learned the government’s definition of a ‘racketeer’ is anyone who attempts to accumulate wealth, power and prestige, at the expense of entrenched wealth, power and prestige. - The iconic, one and only, Francesco (Frank Costello) Castiglia
"If you wouldn't have drunk it, I wouldn't have brought it in." - Moe Dalitz, explaining to Kefauver subcommittee why he was a rumrunner during Prohibition.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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#1086720 03/30/2408:47 AM03/30/2408:47 AM
"When you lose your money, you lose nothing. When you lose your health, you lose something. But when you lose your character, you lose everything." - Meyer Lansky
My favorite: Anthony Cantalupo, president of a real estate company that "employed" Joe Columbo as a $20k/year "salesman," told a crime commission that his star "salesman" "...has the sincerest group of clients. They don't try to cheat him out of his commissions."
Love this quote
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#1086774 04/01/2407:51 AM04/01/2407:51 AM
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"I hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary, a liar is after my reality." - gangster quote directed to some of the psychopaths who in turn talk to themselves and invent stuff just so they can get money through paywalls and YT views.
He who can never endure the bad will never see the good
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#1086848 04/02/2409:42 AM04/02/2409:42 AM