You can keep playing the geography card all you want. It's means nothing. How does being from NYC give you special insight into who was the boss back in the 1980's? Is it the air? The water? Do all NYC residents get quarterly updates on the inner workings of the Mafia?

By the way, I love how you just dodged Five Felonies' post.

And hiding behind the fact that you have no clue what your talking about besides the skewed information you provide as fact! If you lived in an area there are certainly issues you understand. You use it against people who are familier with a certain area! It's your crutch! You can't handle it. So all Pizza Boys opinions are bullshit!
Ivy your a "wanna be" that's what we would call you, you wanna be everything you aren't

You dont think they put a freeze on it after springfield? It would be easy to put guys on a 5 year probation period, I know that i just thinking but it just seems like alot to have only had 5 flip, im aware that everybody puts at 200+ so i wont make a big deal but the more people the more risk and im just bullshitting i know i probably wrong. Thanks for the info

Ivy as usual you skew everything! Rats sell stories!

Pizza Biy lives in the Bronx, you mentioned geography! We know names, streets etc.

Yeah true i wont try to argue with the feds. Do you think it one guy up top or a panel?

Yeah true i wont try to argue with the feds. Do you think it one guy up top or a panel?

How much did the Fazio's bring in? I know they with Barbato right?

Personsally I'm interested in Bellomo, Cirillo, Dentico, Muscarella, Benny Eggs, Barbato, etc. These are today's names. Let's talk about them, along with the other wiseguys still on the streets from the other four families.

Lol at Muscarella with the afro. So Barney's still active I assume but is cautious with who he interacts with

Wouldn't you be! He spent ten years in the can! He's got all his kids out of college! Plenty of money! A few good friends etc. He also got left a bad taste in his mouth when they killed his best friend (Ralph Coppola) and tried to fuck with his life! There was a lot of older guys envious of Barney, so when he went away they took there shots. Especially that midget Jimmy Ida! Little creep he was. Remember Barney was an East Harlem guy, everyone knows that's where all the real power was and all the best guys in the family came from!

Ida was supposedly pissed about Bellomo for taking the plea deal, one article even claiming he wanted Barney dead, but who else wanted to or actually took shots at Barney?

I'm still on the fence regarding whether he signed off on Ralph's murder or not.

But isn't it a rule in the family to take a plea deal now? And on another note Barney right now could become boss if he wanted to which in some respects he is. But in this day and age who the hell wants it?

"The Genovese family has probably been the most powerful La Cosa Nostra family of the last hundred years."
- Ask Andy, Gangland News (1996)

"I have always considered the Genovese Family to be the most powerful LCN family in the United States."
- Al D'Arco, Lucchese LCN family Acting Boss (1994)

"You keep hearing all this crap about Gotti being the boss of the bosses, but the Genovese have always been the country's most powerful family."
- Richard Ross, FBI (1990)

"The Genovese family is the most sophisticated, cautious, secretive, and powerful Cosa Nostra family in the United States."
- Phil Leonetti, Philadelphia LCN Underboss (1989)

this is getting old. what do you disagree with, what info to the contrary do you have to present? if you have inside info, either present it, or stop claiming to know something others don't. geography has nothing to do with mob info, except for the "ear to the street" that so many claim to have, and if you are not willing to share detailed info, just stop. i've said it before, but apparantly it bears repeating: we are all anoynomous here, so trying to discredit someone based soley on where they live is just silly. i live in nj, but guess what, i don't have a clue what the genovese family is up to, yet i could easily claim otherwise, very easy to do online.

EH, i enjoy some of your posts, but it seems lately that you seem more focused on discrediting other posters, rather than adding your own info. when ivy stopped posting here, the OC section of this forum took a nosedive, and thats a fact! rather than trying to dump on other people, i think we should all try and add useful info of our own, avoid rehashing old topics, and above all else, be NICE!

Amen.