Pizzaboy, I'm only going by what I heard from the locals in Astoria who'd been there for the last 2 decades or so, I honestly don't know much about it.. not as much as you seem to know, certainly.

From what I've been told, not much happened in his candy store. I'm not saying it was completely unrelated to the mob, it wasn't like the Ravenite or the Bergin social club, activity-wise. I might be wrong though, but anyways.

I've only stayed in NYC for a couple of weeks in an apt near the last metro stop in Astoria (Ditmars Blvd) and I was just under the impression that not much went on there historically, mob-wise. That's all.

Overblown? Probably so but did they hit made guy(s) or they didn't? Did they get away with it or they didn't? Goes to show the balls on these guys.
Thanks for the welcome.