Originally Posted By: jonnynonos
I was reading about him yesterday. Sounds like a real sick bastard.

I read an interview with Philip Carlo where he said he tried to work with Pitera early on for the book but gave up for some reason, not sure if that mean he actually intervewed him for it or not. He did say, though, that he was actually frightened after it came out because Pitera and his whole family were pissed at him for digging up all this old stuff. He said the only reason he didn't really care that much was because he already had ALS.

Would be an interesting interview anyway.

It's interesting how in the mob you have some guys who are relatively normal and then guys like Pitera and a whole host of others who are almost serial killer types.


Tommy Karate got an advanced copy of the book and supposedly was not pleased. Carlo was a little worried and reached out to Chuck Zito who was/is a friend with top guys in the Bonanno's including Vinny Basciano and Bruno Indelicato.

Carlo writes about it here.

http://books.google.com/books?id=VVYYRbXzHSwC&pg=PT118