Posted on 03/16/2019 2:34:42 PM PDT by SMGFan
The mafia didn’t kill Gambino boss Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali — a twentysomething Staten Island hothead with a personal beef did, police and sources said Saturday.
Anthony Comello, 24, a non-mobster who works odd construction jobs, was named as the suspect who blasted at least ten slugs into Cali, 53, on the street outside the boss’s brick mansion.
It was the first assassination of a New York City mob boss since an upstart John Gotti had Gambino boss Paul Castellano whacked outside Sparks Steak House in 1985. Investigators quickly feared a mob war in the making.
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I worked in pizzerias with them and grew up with some of them.
They’re animals, quite frankly.
They would laugh about kicking old men down a flight of stairs after robbing them.
One time four of them threw a bottle at my car while I was driving. We just happened to pass each other on the highway.
I CHASED them for 40 minutes and later found out that the only reason they were trying to get away was that one of the guys in the car wanted them to stop so he could shoot me.
Let my temper get the best of me that time.
Great story about Little Italy. You know it MUCH better than me.
And yeah, there were 20 of us in our little group in my neighborhood and we didn’t give a second though to gay guys if some passed us by on a night out.
Italians are given a bad rap for some things.
And “Pope..” was great but Charlie has him RIGHT where he wanted him at the end..or maybe not. Either way they were gonna be tracked down to Florida and killed I think...”
What I get a kick out of and it’s even in my own family, Italians become lawyers and doctors and CEOs and whatever and then they pack up and move to NJ or Connecticut and play make believe WASPs :)
They’ve got video. No pro would hit someone in front of his home with the cameras going. Now it is possible this guy may have been in to some shark for big money and someone who wanted Calli hit let Comello know all is forgiven if he does the job. If that is the case he has two pursuers. The Gambinos and those who hired him. Of course if it’s Gene Gotti, the pursuers are one and the same.
Yep. Go to Garden City, to Grimaldis on a Friday night and you will see the docs and lawyers and ad guys. Enjoying the pies and calzones but making sure their kids look nothing like a teen from Bensonhust and Middle Village.
I taught a year in Mahasset HS and one of the veteran guys, a paisan grew up in East New York, St. Ritas Parish asked me what I thought of the kids. I said the old money crowd, the Graces and others, their kids were great as were the Black kids from Spinney zHill project. But the kids I did not care for were the kids whose parents grew up on 4th Ave in Brooklyn and wanted no reminders that they had.
LOL!! I love that line!
It's gotta be real. I wonder where Puzo heard it?
What was the whole exchange? "How's Paulie?" "Oh, Paulie, you won't see him no more."
So Tony “TenShot” Comello isn’t in the mob?
Some of the great lines in The Godfather movies were ad libs: The Cannoli line, and Luca Brazi at the wedding, for example. Would not surprise me if that one was an add in as well.
I recommend Pay or Die! (1960), starring Ernest Borgnine.
It is a fact-based antidote to the glorification of the Sicilian Mafia.
It is about the NYPD detective who discovered the Black Hand in America, and fought it until he was assassinated in 1909.
Tough to find.
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