Would Anthony casso be considered a rat? I say yes without a doubt. But unlike most rats, he's in prison for life. How much money was he making? Is it true he had a $500,000 pinky ring?

Yep, 100% a rat. He got hosed on both ends- fellow mobsters and the feds. His wife was extorted a lot of money from a mobster, as he knew that nobody would come to her aid. This continued until she dropped dead. Gas got screwed since his biggest crime as a government witness was telling the truth about Sammy Gravano and a crooked FBI agent.

As far as his money is concerned....his biography didn't give exact figures, but it was a lot. He specialized in drugs and he would bring them in via shrimp trawlers and ship them across the country in moving trucks. Guys like Sammy Gravano and Burt Kaplan were his wholesale customers.

He didn't even want to be a capo, let alone the boss, because he was making too much money and didn't want to be bogged down by settling disputes with other family members. He was content to report to the consigliere (Christy Tick) and be left alone to focus on his rackets.

He also made a lot off gasoline. He said that the money he made from gasoline was way more than anything else he had.

Personally I think casso might have been exaggerating his wealth to improve his mafia image. But idk for sure I'm just guessing like everyone else of course.

Have u seen his house?

No I've never seen it before. I'm guessing he owns a huge mansion?

Doesn't some politician own it now? I think a State Senator.

Is that the front if his house or the side of it? It looks unusual. But that's huge. That must've cost like 5 to 10 mil. Maybe more. I'm not good at estimating anyway.

Edit: Is it me or did the picture just change to a different view of the house?

Who had more money him or gravano

Here's the front of it. The previous picture looks like the back of the house on the water.

The front of it looks unusual. I wonder how many square feet his house was. Great pics G! And I looked it up and it says a senator does live in there and he's under investigation for bribery or something.

No idea but i think Gaspipe might of had more. But i'm just guessing on that, i really don't know. Sammy was a earner too though.

One crook after another.

Great info. And yeah I heard gravano's house was huge as well. Did anyone ever have a house bigger than Paul Castellano's?

Former mets pitcher John Franco owned it or tried to by the house. Casso killed the builder of the house when the builder wanted to get paid

I think Franco is from brooklyn so maybe he knew casso growing up or something. Interesting piece of info

Franco was tight with a bunch of bonanno guys

I never knew that. Anyone in particular?

Is Gaspipe ever gonna get a deal?

Who was the mobster?, some guy nicknamed "The bug" or something like that wasn't it?

I agree, Casso is a rat.

Say what you will about guys like Carmine Persico and Bruno Indelicato but they are 100% cosa nostra, they didn't rat.

Casso and Massino were both gangsters on the wrong side of the law until it didn't suit their purpose anymore and they flipped.
Same goes for Bill Cutolo's son, he was a gangster until his Poppa got killed and he knew he couldn't do anything about it so he ran to the law expecting help and protection when both he and his father had always operated on the other side of law and order

Franco? Really?....i didn't know that. Guess you really do learn something new everyday.

I read Franco grew up in Bensonhurst though so i'm sure he's most likely had contact with more then a few wiseguys.

Yeah my father used to hang out there all the time and he said that that was a hot spot for wiseguys

Is that the reason why he killed the builder? I figured that he would make up a phony excuse, even if it was BS.

I thought it was because he was having an affair with his wife or something like that?

Hey Giancarlo,

Do you know what neighborhood that is? I could have sworn I see a similar house from the Belt Parkway, around Mill Basin.

Mill Basin

Carmine Lonbardozzi had a huge mansion there as well. Both of them were loaded. Carmine wasn't involved with drugs though from what I know. He made tons of money. They find call him the italian meyer lansky for nothing.

ARe there any pics of cassos house from the inside i would love to see them this house looks strange

^I would love to see them as well. I doubt there are any pics on the web but hopefully there are. I'll try to find them for you.