The easiest clay to shape is an impressionable young mind. John Pennisi 1978 I remember pestering my mother about wanting to move in with my father. At the time, my nine year old mind believed the grass was greener on the other side. My parent’s marriage ended three years earlier,…...
Montreal Mafia Madness
You can’t reason with gang violence: you can’t talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it. Greg Boyle Canada’s Godfather From the mid-1970s until the early 1980s, Montreal endured a mafia war between Calabrian and Sicilian factions. Subsequently, the Rizzuto crime family emerged victorious and seized…...
Anthony “Lucky” Senter
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. Orson Wells Canarsie After arriving in the United States, the Sente family Americanized their name by changing it to Senter. They settled in Canarsie, Brooklyn, an area populated with fellow Italians. The Senter’s son, Anthony made fast friends with…...