Charlie Carneglia may not have been the most famous gangster in New York but he was very strange. The soup bone story is just one of many in the book Mob Killer which show how eccentric and cruel he could be. Alot of mobsters didn't like him because of his drinking and erratic unpredicatable nature. But with his brother being John and his reputation as a killer for the late John Gotti he was protected for longer than he might have been had he not had those allies.