Part 2 https://sitdownnews.com/colombo-cuckoo-crazy-sal/ The Jokester As I’ve mentioned, Sal truly loved to make people laugh and always was up to something. One afternoon, he walked over to me in the yard to ask a question. I answered yet he kept asking me to repeat it, finally, I said, “What’s the…...
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Part 1 An associate by chance Silvio “Crazy Sal” Salome worked as a licensed electrician, acquiring side jobs to make ends meet. As fate would have it, one such job catapulted him into the belly of the Colombo crime family. Sometime in 1989, Crazy Sal received an electrical job from…...
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To get an understanding of fashion you must look back in time. Dictated by styles and traditions, men’s clothing has evolved along the way. Nevertheless, trendy looks inspired by past generations that presently remain. Among those trendsetters were the gangsters of American Cosa Nostra. The Roaring Twenties brought change to…...
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An Ordered Hit Participating in the 1999 murder of Gerlando “George from Canada” Sciascia, John “Johnny Joe” Spirito along with Patrick “Patty from the Bronx” DeFilippo admitted their guilt in the homicide. Sciascia, born in the province of Agrigento, Sicily immigrated to Canada in 1955. At the time of his…...