All the mob families, the bigger ones anyway, profited from child pornography and child prostitution. Hell, the Gambino Crime Family made a child pornographer a capo (Robert Di Bernardo) and inducted another child pornographer into the family (Roy De Meo).
If any one of us worked under, or with, someone who was contributing to the circulation of child abuse, the lowest of the low, we would disavow them and report them to the authorities.
Yet NYMafia persists with the masturbatory tributes to people like John Gotti who left the children of his civilian neighbor without a father by having him killed in a manner befitting a Saw movie.
And that's not even the worst part. The worst part is he acts like guys like John Gotti are somehow better than guys like Anthony Casso.
Oh I see that Moe is starting in again on me. Lol... ok, round #2:
I do not "glorify" John Gotti. I personally think he was very bad for "the life", and many people both in and out of the underworld in general. That said, I don't try and glorify these fellas in general. But I do call a spade a spade. There are members who are decent, there are members who are the worst of the worst.
I do find certain bios I write very interesting and intriguing. I even find some of these guys to have been decent people. (remember I told you that I have had some friendships, etc). Yes, they broke laws. Yes, they schemed; bookmakers, numbers guys, shylocks, etc.
Some of the more violent of these type guys I do find repugnant. But that is like anything else in life. "There is good, not so good, bad, very bad, and then there is a point of no return." People that are so bad that there is no making excuses for them or their behavior. I believe Casso to be one of those guys.
You cannot compare a neighborhood bookie or numbers guy, to a serial killer like Casso. One brush does not paint a true picture on the canvas.
