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Strip club king and mob rat Vincent Palermo up to his old tricks in Texas
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| Sept. 14, 2009
| Greg B. Smith
Posted on 09/14/2009 7:48:45 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
Palermo, with a new name, lives under a cloak created by the feds after testifying against the DeCavalcante clan, the Jersey-based Mafia family whose members believe they inspired "The Sopranos" TV show. Of course, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Before he admitted taking part in four murders, extortion and a host of crimes, Palermo operated Wiggles, a strip club in Forest Hills, Queens. The club was a kind of one-stop shop for drugs and prostitution, and then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani made it Public Enemy No. 1 in his drive to shut down sex clubs. Today, Palermo controls the Penthouse Club and All-Star Men's Club in Houston - strip joints city officials say are hotbeds of prostitution and drugs.
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To: AtlasStalled
hotbeds of prostitution
Business must be good if they’re having to hot bunk.
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posted on
09/14/2009 7:52:14 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: AtlasStalled
Uh....Isn’t there a “Hit Contract” out on him? Whoever was trying to find him may have it easier as a result of this public outing.
To: AtlasStalled
To: AtlasStalled
Doesn’t doing TV specials and interviews kind of defeat the purpose of the witness relocation program?
To: AtlasStalled
strip joints city officials say are hotbeds of prostitution and drugs.Did ACORN arrange financing?
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posted on
09/14/2009 8:02:01 AM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED. Barack OBORTION is a close second.)
To: AtlasStalled
“Hot Dogs” Battaligia and now this guy, the mafia seems to be doing quite well under Obama.
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posted on
09/14/2009 8:03:18 AM PDT
by
pepperdog
(As Israel goes, so goes America!)
To: AtlasStalled
I laughed out loud when I read the caption!
Vincent Palermo, now sporting a Vandyke beard, is in the federal witness protection program.
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posted on
09/14/2009 8:04:56 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
To: VRWCmember
HOUSTON - The guy named Vinny with the Vandyke and Brooklyn accent looked out of place in the leafy Texas neighborhood of gated mansions. That's because this Vinny was Vincent Palermo - onetime Mafia star turned FBI informant - a guy who managed to vanish from the world of scungilli and Sinatra to recreate himself 1,400 miles away in the land of BBQ and the Texas two-step.
Methinks Vinny will be sleeping with the fishes soon! LOL!
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posted on
09/14/2009 8:06:21 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
To: MikeWUSAF
Any wiseguy worth his salt is going to suspect this is a setup.
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posted on
09/14/2009 8:07:56 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: AtlasStalled
It’s a strange thing how many people (mostly men, I guess) seem to have a strange fascination...admiration, even, of mob bosses.
I guess it has something to do with how these people are portrayed as having power, being ruthless, etc.
I never watch movies or tv shows with mob figures as heroes just not my thing.
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posted on
09/14/2009 8:35:45 AM PDT
by
altura
To: AtlasStalled
His new name is Cabella. A quick
Google turns up Vinnie and his son and their political contributions to the GOP. His
home at
9105 Memorial Drive is worth well over $2 million. Vinnie Jr's
home in Katy is worth substantially less.
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posted on
09/14/2009 8:57:59 AM PDT
by
wysiwyg
(What parts of "right of the people" and "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?)
To: Disambiguator
Classic...you know...for $10 bucks I could make you a Baptist Minister.
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:37:54 AM PDT
by
willyd
(Reducing Taxes Reduces our Carbon Footprint)
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