Your right that has to be Carmine Tramunti. Now I know better than to trust the New York Daily News Archive captions. Thank you.
Gribbs got 20 years just for saying "hello" to some f*** who was sneaking behind his back selling junk. I don't need that. Ain't gonna happen to me, you understand?
I've seen that scene hundreds of times and I never caught on it was Trumanti he was talking about.
It was the French Connection case that brought "Gribbs" Trumanti down, and that Paulie was referring to.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
