Inside the Last Great Mafia Empire Quotes

“Vinny was flying on Learjets all over the country to gamble. The fact is, Vinny Gorgeous was the mirror image of John Gotti. The two mob bosses were degenerate gamblers. Vinny even got himself barred from Atlantic City.”
― Dominick Cicale, Inside the Last Great Mafia Empire

“Everything was set to go in the beginning of February 2005. Michael would vanish off the face of the earth.”
― Dominick Cicale, Inside the Last Great Mafia Empire

“They killed my goombah,” Baldo Amato wept to Vitale, who had quickly arranged for a sit-down for the two at the Blue Bay Dinner on Frances Lewis Blvd., in Queens, New York.”
― Dominick Cicale, Inside the Last Great Mafia Empire

“Rizzuto carried out other orders issued from New York,” Cicale said. “Massino, for example, sent word to Vito to open a strip club in Canada. Massino and Vito would be 50-50 partners. Vito did as he was told.” Cicale believes the strip club episode was a test to see how Rizzuto responded.”
― Dominick Cicale, Inside the Last Great Mafia Empire

“That is the real reason why Galante was killed on Commission approval.”
― Dominick Cicale, Inside the Last Great Mafia Empire

“an NYPD lieutenant famously said: “The rest of them are copper; he is pure steel”—was”
― Dominick Cicale, Inside the Last Great Mafia Empire

“He once drove an ice pick through a man’s chest with such force it punched through the floor, requiring the use of a tire iron to pry the body free.”
― Dominick Cicale, Inside the Last Great Mafia Empire

“when Graziano swore on his “children’s eyes” that he was not indulging in narcotics and that Sciascia had merely witnessed side effects caused by a prescription stomach medication that Graziano was consuming, Massino decided to believe him.”
― Dominick Cicale, Inside the Last Great Mafia Empire