Any chance of digging up a photo of Billy Batts? Or whatever his name was? Seems to be some questions around his identity. There's gotta be something out there on him.
I question the picture online about him. Only thing I can find are articles of him getting arrested in early 60s with Carmine Galante.
A while back Nick Pilleggi was on the Adam Carolla podcast and they were discussing Goodfellas and Casino. He said that Billy Batts was his real name and that he was one of the only made guys that had a mustache and beard. He also said the famous Jimmy "Two Times" "I'm gonna get the papers, get the papers" guy's nickname was actually Johnny "Echoes" but they couldn't get the OK to use it or the family didn't want it used for whatever reason. Like how Jimmy Burke's family wanted to get paid, so they changed the name to Conway. Don't know why the guy's family would object to it, it's not like he was a main character or he was portrayed in a negative light or anything. I know the official movie poster for Goodfellas has a generic mob guy dead on it beneath Henry/Jimmy/Tommy, but the guy looks an awful lot like Jimmy "two times". Ha.
