Posted on 04/03/2022 10:02:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A celebrity chef who once ruled the peaks of New York City's restaurant scene has admitted to being an active member of the Gambino crime family and committing shocking crimes at the height of his powers in the 1980s and 90s.
David Ruggerio, 59, who once ran the kitchens of top Manhattan restaurants La Caravelle, Maxim's and Le Chantilly, came clean with the shocking admission in an interview with Vanity Fair published on Thursday.
Ruggerio -- a former Food Network star who largely dropped out of sight after a 1998 arrest on credit card fraud charges -- admitted in the interview to a staggering range of mob crimes, including heroin dealing, truck hijackings, loan-sharking, bookmaking, extortion, and even participating in gangland murders.
As he lived a secret double life, few realized that he was actually blood related to the 'boss of bosses' Carlo Gambino -- though the FBI was not unaware of his ties, particularly after he hosted the 'Teflon Don' John Gotti's 50th birthday party in Maxim's luxurious dining room.
Now, though he refuses to speak about the crimes of any other living mafioso, Ruggerio is breaking the seal of omerta, the mob's code of silence, saying he regrets his life of crime.
'I wouldn't have wished my life on anyone. I hate to sleep. The nights are very long and filled with nightmares,' he told Vanity Fair. 'I didn't want to be a criminal. I want you to understand that. I loved being a chef.'
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Sympathy meter pegged at zero.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
I smell a new reality TV show in the making.
i wonder whats in the meat lockers of those restaurants?Avoid the hamburger at all costs.
His reality show will launch the new merger of the Crime and Food Channels.
Gangland Gourmet.
Episodes will feature him dealing with shakedowns by the salami guys, smuggling uninspected gabagoul from sicily, and the disposal of “old meat” through his cousin’s carting company.
He admitted to murder. I would expect him to be charged for it
Gangland Gourmet.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
They keep a huge tankful of eels in the Bronx , using them to dispose of dead bodies.
The eels go into Capitone Fritto!
Belisimo!
A tutti mangare.
The posers talk too much and the real badasses don’t hardly talk at all.
CC
A chef huh? Gives a creepier meaning to “That wasn’t chicken”.
His restaurant will be called: wait for it...
Mangia Merda e Morte
Chooches welcome.
LOL. No sh*t!
No statute of limitations on murder. The dude could easily be put up for those crimes he committed.
LOL, the special today is: “The Jimmy Hoffa Meatloaf”
“admitted in the interview to a staggering range of mob crimes, including heroin dealing, truck hijackings, loan-sharking, bookmaking, extortion, and even participating in gangland murders.”
...but NOT stealing elections, running up $30T in debt, and trying to ignite WW3 over a corrupted wasteland.
“Ok, that’s a confession, right? Arrest him, try him, execute him.”
NYC has a Soros DA and the federal government speaks for itself.
There is no statute of limitations on murder, neither from the feds nor the mafia.
If this were true, we'd be reading this clown's obit {or soon will be}.
So if he admits to killing people why hasn’t he been put in custody yet?
Well somebody doesn't know crap.
Both of my grandparents came from Sicily and my one uncle {born in Sicily} was a gangster that worked for the bent nose guys.
He was eligible by birth, but never was a 'made man'.
I doesn't happen because of birth, it's not royalty.
He had an accident in the swamps outside of New Orleans, and they never found his body.
And they stored it in #10 cans! Ahhh!
This would be a great TV series. ‘Celebrity Gangster Chef’ , with tie in cookbooks. The potential here is endless.
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