I must read the book then. Didn’t even know there was one!!
The guys i knew and grew up around were more the Goodfellas/Casino crowd than The Godfather crowd.
Actually, the Godfathers that did live very aloof or above the fray didn’t fare so well.
Like Castellano.
Gotti came from the slums and was one of them, the common gangster. Castellano didn’t earn his post. He inherited it.
Gotti also destroyed the mafia by being so in your face.
The one thing he loved the most he destroyed.
Good. Well, not completely, it still exists. Of that there is NO doubt.
I could have been making 100k on the piers at 20 years old. I’m 47 now.
My pop died when I was 15. My brother was 25. He made us promise to take no job offers from those that might offer us one.
I should have taken it lol.