Originally Posted by Turnbull
Originally Posted by olivant

There's one other thing about this series. In the one about Massino, they stated that a capo spied a couple of FBI agents surveilling him, went after them, and murdered one agent and wounded another. That sounds preposterous. If it happened, the series did not comment on what happened to the capo. Has anyone heard of this?,

Another big fiction, Oli. In "King of the Godfathers" by Anthony DiStefano (one of the very few excellent Mob bios), the story comes out that the FBI agents were spotted and menaced, but not harmed. Massino was always courteous to FBI agents. In one incident recounted by DiStefano, Massino spotted a bug they planted in his social club, took it down, and presented it to an embarrassed agent.

Well, I did some research and, indeed, something like that did happen. However, it appears that they were NY detectives Vendetti and Burke who were shot, not FBI. There were a succession of trials and appeals eventually resulting in the Mafiosi being convicted. Apparently, Burke's rendition of what happened was suspect.

Last edited by olivant; 06/17/18 09:29 PM.
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