Addendum to post #16
Here is comments supposedly coming from a once famous local (my city) woman that was mobbed up in both Milwaukee and Chicago. She was a gangster in her own right.
So, her words can show how ruthless the American mafia could be, as opposed to that image in The Godfather movie of them being the most respectful, loving, and moral men on earth that simply have an impressive "code of honor."
And I'm not beefing with the mob nor insinuating none of the members had "honor." Some were probably all around "good guys." Some were probably "animals." But their system of criminality and violence was not as benevolent or restricted to other criminals as some mafia movies would have you think.
(The Chicago mafia would hang men from meat hooks, torturing them for days, and they would also take blowtorches to the eyeballs of their own friends [fellow mafia men] while extracting info from them)
Full blog article: Daniel S Bridger's Trucking Blog: Milwaukee's Sally Papia - A life lived on the edge
Here is comments supposedly coming from a once famous local (my city) woman that was mobbed up in both Milwaukee and Chicago. She was a gangster in her own right.
So, her words can show how ruthless the American mafia could be, as opposed to that image in The Godfather movie of them being the most respectful, loving, and moral men on earth that simply have an impressive "code of honor."
And I'm not beefing with the mob nor insinuating none of the members had "honor." Some were probably all around "good guys." Some were probably "animals." But their system of criminality and violence was not as benevolent or restricted to other criminals as some mafia movies would have you think.
(The Chicago mafia would hang men from meat hooks, torturing them for days, and they would also take blowtorches to the eyeballs of their own friends [fellow mafia men] while extracting info from them)
Full blog article: Daniel S Bridger's Trucking Blog: Milwaukee's Sally Papia - A life lived on the edge
"Four or five years ago," she said, a member of Frank Balistrieri's
group was slapped in the face by a local businessman. The man who was
slapped informed Frank Balistrieri, she said.
"They took his whole company away from him (the man who did the
slapping)," she said. "And 96 stitches were taken across his face.
Today, the last I heard, (he) is a big, fat, sloppy bartender in
Nevada."
Sally knew, firsthand, what happened to people who bothered Frank
Balistrieri.
She named a widely known man in the Italian-American community. She
called him "a bookie and a gofer. Frank (Balistrieri) doesn't want to
do things, he has him do it."
But, she said, doing things for Frank made the man feel he was more
important than he was. He even mimicked Frank, holding his hand in his
pocket, the way Frank did, she said. Sally was along, she said, when
several of Frank's friends took the gofer to Chicago, knocked him
around, and decided to impress upon him his status in Frank's outfit.
"They peed all over him," she said.
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